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Deflation Hits the College
Few American institutions have been hit harder by
the depression than the educational system. And their j
woes are not only those which arise from a shortage ol
ready cash; they come from a dawning realization that
the American college or university has in too many cases,
been off on the wrong track during the past decade. The
depression has simply made the fact plain.
The editor of “The Chakon,” the official organ of
the Chi 1'hi fraternity, remarks that evidence of this is
to be found in the sadly deflated conditions of thousands
of college graduates today. Looking back at the past few
years, he indicts a whole college generation, in words
that are worth considering.
Recalling the thousands of young men who went to
college with no particular desire to get an education and
won their degrees without ever really opening their eyes
to the real problems of the day, he says:
“I doubt if a more superficially minded generation
ever came of age. It is indeed not at all unlikely that fu
ture historians will say that while the foundations of
western society is breaking up, the young men of Amer
ican universities were watching football games, going to
tea dances and aping the manners of a corrupt plutocracy.;
“From out of these universities, in my time at least,
came thousands of bachelor of arts and sciences who neith
knew nor cared what arts and sciences are, whose soli-,
tary aim was to link up with a business enterprise in
which a lot of money could be quickly made. They
brought nothing with them save manners, ’personality' and
acquisitive ambition.”
These men today, are in a sorry fix; and part of the
responsibility, at least, must be laid on the universities.
The universities, as this fraternity editor remarks, “dis
played a greater zeal for plant and equipment than for
learning, they paid coaches more than professors, they
built stadia instead of libraries, they sought endowments
rather than scholars . . . and made it very easy for young
men to pass through college, degree in hand, but with
minds that never even been required to think.”
Out of the depression, let us hope, there will come
a tightening up of the educational system, a return to first
principles and a discarding of false ideals so that a crit- j
icism as this can never he made again.
Snubbing Parole Violators
A weekly newspaper published by the inmates of;
the Elmira reformatory, in New York, is urging the in
mates to see to it that returned parole violators are given
a chilly reception from their fellow-prisoners.
“It is a feeling.” remarks this paper, “which has been
finding voice of late in remarks such as, ‘If they can't go
out and stay out, why don’t they stay in and let some
one go out who can stay out?”’
It would be a good thing all around if this attitude
should become general in all prisons and reformatories.
The released prisoner who violates the terms of his parole
nbt only harms himself and society; he chiefly harms his
fellow-prisoners by breaking down public confidence in
the parole system and thereby, making it harder for them
to get released. He hardly deserves much sympathy from
his fellows. I
The
Once Over
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ELMER TWITCHELL ON FEAR
“Afraid of Americas future!" ex
claimed Elmer Twite hell. “I should
say not! I don't know what its all
about except that we’re all on the
merry-go-round and they've taken
In the bra.* ring, but nobody can
tell me that Uncle Sam won't come
through.
• • •
“The old boy s gone through too
many tough fights to have become
a pushover. He survived British
troops, Benedict Arnold, Valley
Forge, Bunker Hill and the dark
days when the Mint was just a
place where bats laid eggs.
• • •
“He rame through when it was
Lee against Grant. North against
South and brother against brother.
He survived days when even scrip
was so bad we had to find a sub
stitute for it. He got over the boll
weevil, the Mississippi flood Blac!:
Friday, parrot fever. Carrie Nation,
the Harding administration and
prohibition.
• • •
“He survived submarine warfare,
Kaiser Wilhelm. Karl Rosner, $3
whiske. Radio Common, the White
Sox scandal, wood alcohol, Jimmy
Walker, futuristic furniture, ani
rnated moving cartoons. radio
crooning, cross-word puzzles and
the Ask Me Another craze.
• • •
“He ame through the 1931 bak
gammon epidemic, the marathon
waltz, the Florida boom Old Dr.
Coue. modernistic art. the Em ores
Eugenie hat epidemic and the Per
ils of Pauline series. He has lived
on despite the six day bicycle race,
New England weather. Alfalfa Bill
Murray. Huey Long and the jig
saw puzzle craze.
• • •
“He even survived near beer, the
Mae West drama. Texas Quinan's
wisecracks, the shore resort hot
dog. drug-store salad, the Stribling
Sharkey light; Senator Heflin’s
sjieeches, the dial telephone, meat
less days, heat less nights, motorlcss
Sundays, and the last session of
congress.
• • •
"Afraid Uncle Sam won’t come
through okay?” concluded Elmer.
"Why, say. a guy with his exper
ience couldn’t lose. Lissen. if any
thing c»uld haw killed him he
would have be -n dead years ago
from bathtub gin!”
Rank Mother Goose
This little- bank will open—
This i-ttle bank will not;
Thus little bank’s in a quandary' -
Voice of U. S.: ‘’So. what?”
Observation
After you’ve been in sunny Flor
ida
The rather home seems horna i
and horrida.
The Stirkup
Bandit -with gum—Come on
hand it over!
Victim—But. I haven’t any mnnev
Bandit Well, gimme an I. O. U.
until .the situation clears up.
Ima Dodo says that all her life
she saved up for a rainy day and
then found she had accumulated
nothing but holes in her rubbers.
The New Haven road has discon
tinued the Yankee Clipper on ac
count of hr financial uncertainly.
Probably ifraid that the publi
might, muspronounce it as the Yan
kee Scripper.
rmuT wmr
Tt Is to br hoi>od that in that new
deal the president will Rive *he
banks jacks or better so they can
open.
•'Well" said Improvident Ignat?,
who hHd never saved a nickel in his
life, as he sat on a parkbench today
and read about the banks, "Thais
what I always feared "
And then there Is the man who
had so far lost confidence in every
thing that he wanted to know if we
would give him two flve-dollar I.
O U.*s for a ten-dollar promise
T am eonfident I voire the reed,
of Industry in urging the necessity
of assuring a bottom level of wages
so as to avoid the continuous down
ward spiral of lower wages, lower
prices, lower purchasing power and
higher unemployment.
—Gov. Lehman of New York
Out Our Way.By Williams
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Daily Health
_ Talk _
The eyes are used constantly al
most from the moment of birin tc
the time of death, except for th*
hours spent In sleeping. Good eye
sight is necessary to an enjoyable
existence, and the handicap ol
blindness is one of the most serious
that can affect a human. Although
the human eye is one of the finest
instruments of which mankind ha*
any knowledge even a normal eye
has certain defects.
The visual field ol a human be
ing is not nearly as great as that
of many other species of living or
i ganisms. A bird or a fly has a much
wider r«nge of vision than does the
human being.
The mechanism of vision is com
plicated and difficult to understand,
except by those who have some
knowledge ol the construction ol
the wyc. The chief factors involved
in seeing are the optic nerve ana
| the cen in the brain for vision;
! the retina, which is the portion ol
the eye that acts to convey things
seen through the optic nerve; ’he
I lens, which is the focusing tissue
the muscles, which control the lens;
the iris, which makes the pupil and
which controls the amount of ligh.
entering the eye, and. of course the
associated fluid material, which is
necessary to the proper working of
the mechanism.
The eye is one of the most adapt
able of organs. The distinctness ol
vision varies with different parts ol
the retina. For example, as one goo;
j from a bright light into darkness
i the vision is, at first, very bad
but afte some minutes improve'
rapidly. The retina has the power
to adapt itself to correspond v.ith
variations in the intensity of illum
ination. The various parts of the
retina vary In this manner.
Because of the nature of the con
struction of the eye. there are sev
eral visual disturbances which do
not represent actual defects, but
are the result of the construction.
As one looks up at the blue skv or
as one looks suddenly at a white
ceiling, one notices a number of
minute specks that move in fron‘.
of the eye. These specks are the
blood corpuscles moving in the
smallest b’ood vessels of the retina.
As will be shown later such specks
constant!, seen may be signs of
changes In the fluid material of the
eye. If the heart beat is increased
by exercise, the corpuscles will move
faster anu the specks, which repre
sent the corpuscles, move faster.
Bright lights seen at night, as
for example street lamps, may ap
pear to be surrounded by areas of
color t colored rings, blue inside
and red on the outside. These are
due to the tissue of the lens and
of the cornea, which is the mem
brane over the eye These tis.'cs
are ordinarily not seen.
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I Quotations j
For the welfare of the people of
tiie state <Minnesota> it would b*
best to put the legislators in the
insane asylum.
—William Me Andrew, educator.
• 9m
Failures In the last congress have
been due to the lact that the de
termination of ixilicies has come
entirely from the speaker’s chair.
It will now come from the parly.
-Speaker Henrv T Ramey of the
House o* Representatives
• • •
We may as well determine right
here and now that we arc going to
wage relentless war until we abol
ish involuntary idleness as surely
as we abolished involuntary servi
tude.
—Sen Robert F Wagner of New
York.
• • •
Tins has been a terrible day. I
haven't had a single light.
-Sen. James couzens of Michigan.
• • •
You find men in congress not
physically fit to legislate, especially
in tlie senate, where there are a
lot of gray-haired old men
Rep John H Hoeppel of Calilor
nia.
• m •
The effort, to secure tariff con
cessions has become in essence an
effort to each nation to tran.'fr'f
unemployment to some other coun
try.
Henry Kittredge Norton. publlc4st.
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New York
_Letter
Forgotten Dollars
NEW YORK—ironically enough,
while millions of people are search
mg for cash to spend, the bamu
themselves are searching for peo
ple who are the rightful but tm
ki owuig owners of something like
a billion dollars.
All these forgotten dollars lie
ui dormant accounts. In nwst
cases the people who opened them
Lave died, and Uieix heirs have
never discovered tliat the mone^
exists. Meanwhile, the accounts
are carried forward year after
year, mterest is oomjiounded and
set aside, and the totals grow to
the benefit of nobody and to a
. great deal of inconvenience lor
the banks themselves.
Twelve states nave laws em
powering tiiem to seize dormant
accounts alter a certain number
of years and put the money in the
public treasury. This isn't true
ol New York, however, and the
forgotten deposits on the books o:
nanks here have grown to fantas
tic. proix>rtions. The old Seaman's
Savings on lower Wall Street, fo
ii.stance, lias hundreds of such ac
counts in the names of men wha
have gone down to the sea and
; never made port again.
And the Bank for Savings, es
tablished In 1819 and now the old
est such institution in town, has
r early two thousand dormant ac
cctints. One of these is as old as
the bank itself. One Adam—"a
black boy in the family of John
Mowatt of f^arl Street"—made a
$. initial deposit, added a few
cents to it from time to time, then
vanished. Another account that
was dormant tor a long time was
one opened for $15 in the name oi
vOhn S. Thorne soon after he was
torn, in 1819 The money, per
j haps a gift of an uncle or god
fether. must have been forgotten
because the account was untouch
ed when Thome died at a ripe old
age Fir-ally. though, his heirs
found the passbook, and since
have presented it for the credit in.
of interest, which totals to date
n ore than $2800
• • •
’leirs Rarely Found
Most of the forget ten deposit' !
: ever come to the attention of the
lightful heirs because tlie lusts are \
long and are obscurely published
once a year m the states wnere
trey are held.
State Bulletin of September 13
IS 32. lusted a depcMt m the bauik
for Savings in the names of James
K and Mary Hacdett. Nobody In
New York seenus to have noticed
or remarked upon lhat solitary
rttm. nor to have grasped an inn
ling of the drama there expressed.
For James Kcteikas Harnett, m
case you don't remember, was on?
of the grandest old Shakespeare n
actors of his tune. He made his
cebut ui the P.irk Theater in Phil
adelphia in 1892. soon branir
leading man of the New York Ly
ci um, troupeci all over the country
doing Hamlet and Macbeth, took
the latter production to Louden
iu d Parus, and twice was a guest
a: Buckingham Palace He was
the lirst to appear on the screen
for Famous Players, making "The
Prusoner ot Zenda* in 1812. In
jf.18. on Broadway, he put on a
p'.y called Out There'’ that net
ted $700,000 tor the Red Cross in
ti.ree weeks.
In spite of his accomplishments
and the honors that were heaped
oi hum when lie was active in the
tlieater. Haekett was in straieht
ci:od circumstances when he died 1
about three years ago He didn't
remember that he had money in
the Bank for Savings. And. an
patently, hus heirs don't know it
>et.
• • •
Art for Grew erics
Of all the New Yorkers who hav“
been finding themselves short of
rash, those least affected b> th ■
1 nliday were the seasoned barter
«rv beiongmg to the various mutual
e> changes whieh have been epera'
ii.g for months wit heart, so much
as a dune changing hands Down
or. Greenwich Avenue, in the
Village, hundreds have pledge 1
tletr services, their paintings and
their sculptures. In return for ne
crssilies Grocers, butchers, Latin
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Today’s Radio Features
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WEDNESDAY. MARCH 15 (Central and (eastern Standard Time)
(Note—AU programs to key end basic chains or group* thereof unless speci
fied; coast to coast (c to c) designation includes ail available stations.)
Programs subject to change. P M.
I By The Associated Press)
NBC WEAF NETWORK
BASIC—East: weaf (key) wcel wile
wiax wtag wesh wfl wilt wtbr wre wgy
when wcae wtatn wwj wsai; Midwest:
wrnaq wcfl ksd woe-who wow wdaf
NORTHWEST A CANADIAN — wtmj
wlba kslp webc wday kfyr ckgw cfcf
SOUTH — wrva wptf wwne wis wjax
wfla-wsun wiod warn wmc wsb wapl
wjdx wsmli k\oo wky wfaa what kpre
w>>al ktbs kthr
MOUNTAIN — koa kdyl kglr kchl
COAST—kgo kfl kew komo xhq kpo
keca kex kjr kga kfad ktar kgu
Cent. Eaet.
5:00— 6:00—Meyer Davie Orch.—to e
6:30— 6.30—Herding Sisters-also cat
5:45— 6:45— Andy, Jsrry, Eddie—to c
6:00— 7:00—Jacqueline Solomons
6:15— 7:15—Ray Knight, Hit Sketch
6:30— 7:30— Elvia Allman, Songstress
6:45— 7:45—The Goldbergs, "ketch
7:00— 8:00—Fannie Brice A Music
7:30— 8:3(6—Shadow Mystery Drama
8:00— 9:00—General Pershing. Drama
1:30— 9:30— Josef Lhevmne, Pianist
9:00—10:00—Cob Pipe Club—cat to cat
9:30—10:30—Carveth Wella—also cat
10:00—11:0(6— Nellie Revell’s Program
10:15—11:15—Vincent Lopez Orchestra
11:00—12:00 — Ralph Kirbery — basic:
The Goldberg*—repeat for coast
11:05—12:05—Chicago Dance Orchestra
11:30—12:30—Don Pedro'a Orchestra
CBS-WABC NETWORK
BASIC—East: wabc (key) wicc wade
woko wcao waab wnac wgr wkbw wkrc
whk ckok wdre wcau Wlp wjas wean
wfbl wspd wjsv: Midwest: wbbtn wgn
wfbm kmbe wcco ktnox wowo
EAST AND CANADIAN-wpg whp
wibw whec wlbx wfea wore efrb ckac
DIXIE—wgst wsfa wbre wqam wdod
srnox klra wrec wlac wdsu wtoc krld
wrr ktrh ktsa waco koma wdbo wodx
wbt wdae wblg whas wtar nrdbj wwva
wmhg wsjs
MIDWEST —whom wsbt wcah wmbd
wtaq wkbh kfab wi'-n ksej wibw kfb
wmt wnac wkbn wgl
MOUNTAIN—kvor klz koh kal
PACIFIC COAST — khj kotn kgb kfre
kot kfpy kvi
Cent.—East.
5:00— 8:00 -Mansfield Orche*.—also c
5:15— i;15—Mansfield Orchestra — c
to c; The Devil Bird—midwest only
6:30— 6:30— Gertrude Nlesen. Songs—
east. Sklppy—midwest only
6:45— 6:45—Just Plain Bill — east
only; Lone Wolf—midwest only
6:00— 7:00—Myrt and Marge—east.
Milligan and Mulligan —midwest
6*15— 7:15— Buck Rogers in 2433- :
eajt: Trams in# Orches.—Dixie
Cent. East.
6:30— 7:30—Travelers' Quartet -east;
Paul Tremaine Orchestra—Dixie;
Del Coons Orch.—midwest
6:45— 7:45—Boake Carter—basic. Be
tween the Bookends—west
7:00— 8:00— Whispering Jack Smith—
basic: Marine Band—Dixie, Moore
Orch. —west. Bobby Benson—oast
only. Del Coons Orch—midwest
7:15— 6:15—Singin' Sam —basic; Ma
rine Band -Dixie. Moore Or.—w
7:30— 8.30—Kate Smith, Songs—ba
sic. Dictators Orch. — Sew Eng
land. U. S. Marine Band—Dixie
7:45— 8:45—Abe Lyman Orch.—basic;
Dictators Orchestra—Dixie; Those
McCarty Girls—west
8:00— 9:00—Bing Crosby—cat to cst
8:15— 9:15—Romantic Bachelor—to e
8:30— 9:30—Burns and Allen—basic
9:00—10:00—Waring's Pennsylvanians
9:30—10:30—Edwin C. Hill—also coast
9:45—10:45—Four Eton Boys — east;
Myrt and Marge—repeat for west
10:00—11:00—Barlow Symphony—to c
10:30— 11:30—Isham Jones Or.—c to c
11:00—12:00—E Duchm Orches.— c to a
11:30—12:30—Ozzie Nelson Or.—c to c
12:00— 1:00—Dance Hour—wabc only
NBC-WJZ NETWORK
BASIC — East: wjx (key) wbx-wbxa
wbal wham kdka wgar wjr wlw wsyr
wmai; Midwest: wcky kyw kfkx wenr
wls kwk kwer koil wren wmaq kso
NORTHWEST A CANADIAN — wtmj
wiba kstp webc wdav kfyr ckgw cfcf
SOUTH — wrva wptf wwnc wls wjax
wfla-wsun wiod vim wmc wsb wapl
wjdx wsnib kcoo wky wfaa wbap kpre
woai ktbs kths
MOUNTAIN — koa kdrl kplr kjchl
PACIFIC COAST — kgn kfi kirw koroo
khq kpo keca kex kjr kt.vi ktar
Cent. East.
6:00— 1:00— Maud A Cousin BUI. Skit
5:15— 6:15—Freddie Martin Orchestra
5:30— 6:30—Th-ee X Sisters. Songs
5:45— 6:45—Lowell Thomas — east;
Orphan Annie—midwest only
6:00— 7:00—Amos 'n' Andy—east only
6:15— 7:15—To Bt Announced
6:30— 7:30—To Be Announced
7:00— 6:00—The Crime Club Mystery
7:30— 6:30—Harriet Lee's Leaders
7:45— 9:45—Country Doctor, Sketch
8:00— 6.00—Sherlock Holmes Adven.
8:30— 9:30—Downey A Novis—c to c
9:00—10:00—Griffiths Hollywood, Skit
9:15—10:15— Vic A Sade, Comedy Act
9:30—10:30—Music Magic of the Air
10:00—11:00—Martha A Hal—east only;
Amos *n- Andy—repeat for west
10:15—11:15—Three Queens A 3 Jacks
10:30—11:30— Master Sinqera Chorus
11:00—12:00—Ben Bernie’s "Irchestra
11:15—12:15- Sherlock Holmes—c rpt .
11:30—12:30—Mark Fisher's Orchestra
SENATOR WALSH
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d*ymen, landlords, dentists, doc -
ttrs and lawyers a.e COOpcratn
ai d are becoming art-conscious .as
lJ»ey acquire pastels, etchings ano
-.uon In trade.
And at i»t Nicholas Arena the
other night, 500 penniless fan:*
bought their way into a prize light
v ith oddments that raneed fro'\
overcoats to noodles, cameras to
New Testaments.
_Barbs _
Another handicap the liar suf
fers is that nobody will believe
Urn when he tells the trum.
• • •
Dispatches relate that an es
caped prisoner was recognized by
hi* smile. Perhaps it was beuuise
<
cauu ;i m nukiwi; g lumarii n
conspicuous.
• • •
The fewer clothes a man wears
i the healthier he is. declares a
I medic. Maybe that & what, brings
such a rosy flush to a man's face
i the moment lie tears his pants.
ItlCCin I1KRK TOT)AT
JANKT II11.1. mmd ROI.K CAR.
I.VI.K hare been encased almost
a year. They hare pat off their
mnrrlace hcraa.e Janet laaiata
they moat hare IVW in a aarlac*
account Aral. Janet la aeeretary
to BRI t'K II4MII.TO*. adrertIn
ins manaser of Kerry Home Mas
aaine. and Rolf la employed la aa
adrertiains offlee.
Janet, deeply in lore, la not
an.pieiooa when Rolf bes'na to
mahe emrnaen for not mmine to
aee her. One nlsht he hrenha an
rnsnsrmeat with her and MOIr
I,IK I.AMBKRT who llren aeroaa
the hall, fella Janet ahe haa aeen
him wllh another slrl. When
Janet naka ahont thin Rolf be—
romp ansry. deelarea their en
sasrmrnl la mennlnsleaa and that
If Jnnrt really wanted to marry
him ahe would have done an Ions
aso. They qnarrel and Janet In
miaerahle.
Mir learna that the slrl Wollle
now with Rolf la BITTY KK!t
1)4IX. nleee of a member of tbe
Arm for which he worka. Retty
ha. take, a Job In her ancle's
offlee.
Janet merta Rolf on the afreet
and hr trlla her he la aorry they
qnarrrlrd. Janet, miaonderatand
Ing. aaya ahe la ready fo marry
him ImmrdlaJrly. Aa aoon aa the
worda are on# ahe reallaea her
mlatakr. There la another qoarrel
and ahe aernaea Rolf of wanting
to marry BI-'.TTK KKNDAI.I. for
her money.
On a alree# ear one night Janet
area JKKh'RKV t.KttIT who haa
reeently mo»rd to the rooming
honae where ahe lltra. She talha
to him. likea him. A few Mehta
later Janet eomea home and meeta
Mollie who e*elaim«, “hou’re the
aery prraon been looking
for!”
now r;o on with tiif story
CHAPTER XIII
JANET mounted the top step.
"What’s the excitement?" she
asked.
Mollle's yellow hair lay In gleam
ing. newly marcelled waves. She
pulled the faded blue silk negligee
more closely about her and said.
"Come on into my room and I'll
tell you. Gee. I’m glad you got
here! I railed the office hut they
said you were out. I've been listen
ing for you for the last half
hour—”
Even before they were Inside the
room Janet bad a swift presenti
ment of what was to come. She
would have drawn back but that
seemed impossible. Mollie’s room,
reflecting the owner’s taste In
di%oration, always had a look of
disorder. There were dolls with In
sipid faces and wide, brightly col
ored tafTeta skirts lolling In chairs
and on the davenport. There were
ruffled and lace-trimmed boudoir
pillows in profusion, a clutter of
ash trays, candy boxes and maga
zines over the tables. Pictures
crowded the walls- some of them
hanging crookedly. Today the im
pression of confusion was increased
by dresser drawers pulled out, their
contents spilling over the edges.
There were garments draped on
chairs and on the floor. A bright
green silk frock was spread out on
the bed and a pair of green kid
slippers perched on top of the ra
dio.
Mollie shut the door behind her
and turned. There was a sort of
suppressed eagerness about her.
“Listen, honey," she began. "I
want you to do something for me.
Will your
“Let’s hear what It is."
“It’s Al, the boy friend." Mollie
went on rather irrelevantly. “I've
got a date with him. Not just an
ordinary date—”
“And you want to borrow some
thing? Why, of course!"
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rpilB other girl shook her head.
1 “No." she said. “It’s not that.
You see, A1 has a friend In town
for the pharmacists’ convention.
They're meeting here today and to
morrow. Al’s on the road, you
know." She named a company
manufacturing drugs and said that
was the firm he worked for. •'This
other fellow—Frank Mullins Is his
name—is from Spruce City. He’s
a customer of Al’s and an awfully
nice fellow. Well, when A1 found
out he was coming for the conven
tion he wanted to show Frank a
good time. So I called Helen
Kramer and the four of us were
going out together. Rut this morn
ing Helen fell down some steps and
sprained her ankle. Can’t get out
of a rhair for a week! So I tried
to get another girl but everyone I
knew was tied up with something
or other. Then I thought of you
and tried to telephone—**
Janet's premonition had been cor
rect MoIIle wanted her to take the
place of the Injured Helen. She
couldn’t do it of course. She’d
have to think of some excuse.
“I’m sorry.** she began, but be
fore she could finish Mollie was
rushing on.
“If you won’t I don’t know what
I’ll do!” she exclaimed. “A1 will
be terribly sore! He’s boon count
ing on this for a long time. It's
partly because he likes Frank and
partly because of business. He's—
well, I don’t know all about it but
they’ve been talking about some
sort of deal together. Oh, honey,
I know how you’ve been feeling
I'd have asked you first if I’d
thought you'd come. Rut couldn’t
you do it just to help me out?”
Janet shook her head. “I’d like
to help you," she said, "but yon
don't want me. I’d be a frost at
any party."
“No. you wouldn’t!*
“I’m sorry. Mollie—"
“Then the whole thing will have
to bo off!" the other girl ex
claimed. "Al will he mad and blame
me for IL He’ll say It was my
fault. Oh, Janet, have a heart!"
“But I can't Really. I—I don't
feel like going out.”
Mollie turned, her eyes suddenly
glowing. “You can’t fool me,” she
laid. “Listen, how long are you
going to keep on being a sap?
Spending all your days and nights
mourning over that two-timer who
let you down! Can’t you snap out
of it and show a little pride? Why
don’t you get wise to yourselfT'
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ET wise to herself? The words
cut across Janet’s conscious
ness like a whip. W’as that what
people were saying about her? She
had thought her loyalty to her love
for Rolf something beautiful, al
most sacred. She had clung to that
love, cherished it. Now Mollie was
calling him a “two-timer” who had
“let her down " Well, wasn’t It the
truth? She had been “let down”—
Jilted. Were other people besides
Mollie thinking the same thing?
Were they pitying her, perhaps
even laughing at her?
With one of those swift impulses
she could never account for Janet
made her decision. “All right
then." she said. “I'll got I haven’t
been ‘mourning* over anyone and
I'm not going to. Yea, of course
I'll go!"
“Darling!" Mollie wheeled and
put a hand on each of Janet's
shoulders. “I‘U do something for
you sometime. Honestly, 1 will!"
There was no time to waste.
Mollie explained that the men were
coming at 6:30. They would have
dinner and then go to see the show
| at the Liberty. After that they
would probably dance It was real
ly to be a gala evening. Al bad
planned everything. Now that the
difficulty had been cleared away
Moliie talked about it eagerly.
Frank Mullins was a regular prtnee
of a fellow. Good-looking, Ai said,
lie bad money, too. and liked to
spend it. Janet would be sure to
like him.
Moliie was still talking as Janet
hurried to her own room. It was
nearly six. Perhaps the fact that
there was so little time was partly
responsible for the flush In Janet’s
cheeks. Perhaps it was the lash ot
those unexpected words. "Mourn
i ing over a two-timer." was she?
She'd show Moliie Iatmbort! She'd
show the whole world!
She threw off her clothes and
slipped into a bathrobe. Ten mio
utes later she was back from a
quick tubbing, getting into fresh
underthings. stockings and slip
pers. There was only one dress in
Janet’s wardrobe that was in the
least "partifled”—a thin blue crepo
with a draped neckline and brief
sleeves. She had bought it late
lust summer at a sale price but it
was a flattering shade. Janet had
a little blue hat to go with it.
...
OIIK stood before the mirror and
^ with vigorous, aggressive dabs
added rouge to her cheeks. Oh.
yes, she’d show them how much
she cared for Rolf Carlyle! Some
thing Rolf had said came back to
her, “I like to have a good time
and you don’t care about that sort
of thing”
"But I’m going to have a good
time!” Janet assured herself firm
ly. “I’ll show Mollle!“
What Bhe really meant was "I'll
show Rolf!" but she didn’t say that.
She dashed on powder and touched
her eyelids with cream to make
them glisten. Then she made her
lips into a bright, crimson bow.
The tiny blue hat went on at a
Jaunty angle. Yes. the hat was be
com’ng. Janet was fluffing her
curls below the hat when there was
a knock at the door.
“Come In."
It was Mollie, a vision of gold
and brightest emerald.
“I’m ready,” Janet told her over
one shoulder. “Just as soon as 1
get my coat now—“ She disap
peared into the clothes closet and
was back with the coat It was the
shabby black coat she had worn
dally to the office for two years.
Mollie came into the room. Over
one arm was something black.
“Look,” she said. “I thought
maybe you’d like to wear my nnw
spring coat I bought it Saturday
but I think my old green one is
better with this green dress. It'll
he a little large but you can sort
of wrap It around you."
“Oh. Mollie—not your new coat’"
It was a smart black wool with
wide bands of fox on the collar
MoUie held It up so that Janet
could see it “Slip it on,” she In
structed. "I^t’s see how it fits."
The coat, lapped to one side and
held there, revealed Janet's slim
figure flatteringly. *Tt’» beautiful'"
she said, “but are you sure you j
don't want to wear It yourself?”
"Of course. I tried it and the -
green looks better. That's a cute
bat, Janet Honestly, you look
swelL Ob, I forgot my gloves!”
Sbo made a hasty trip across the
hall for tbe gloves. There was the
sound of tbe doorbell downstairs
while Janet waited. A voice on
the lower floor called, "Miss LAM
bert!”
“That’s them!" Mollie exclaimed
in half-smothered excitement j
“Come on!"
(To Be Ooottaacd)
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