THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1932,
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With a bullet-■batterød leg, a boy soldier of China is shown abore na a ricksha brought him to a hospital in Shanghai,
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COMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE KING'S.
IT'S LOADED WITH YOUTH-BEAUTY, LAFFS/
Efficiency Eddle-he cuts buttons of vents to save time buttoning. He cuts corners off desks so visitors won't sit down. He makes larges holes in smaller doughnuts! Never have you gazed upon such an extravaganza of beauty, scenic wonders and laughs! With songs you'll hum for months) •
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The dime-a-dance
girl
CHAPTER 1 (Continued
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CLAYTON
Among classified ndvertises tenis, ringed in pencil. was
this is Friday," offered Molty.
She has half forgotten by now that the money had been dissipat d by her fault, Ellen war will But not
call for dancing instructors. Shefing who should forget it. knew Dreamland.
She had pass Myra
ed it often on her way to work.
"TH go to Mr. Farnham and ex-
And, although she had never been plain." she said, her lips straight.
- inside, she knew that "dancing her eyes atern. instructor" was a polite name forent down on
a giri hired to dance with
13 t the
"We just have to everything till money again. But
attached men at a small payment thing's sure Ellen entit for each dance-a taxi dancer, They did, in fact, call those girls Laxi-dancers.
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two full time jobs."
"Ta not surè--* Ellen busan. stopped her. "Mike could make "'s all wrong," Myra feréély
dead as you could daring all! much selling papers after |
"The best part of it." her mother continued breathlessly, "is that you might meet really nice man that way. can't imagine why evening." girls as pretty as my two haven't flocks of rich men trying to marry them. When I was young it was certainly different."
burst out in alarmed taste. "He's "Mike can' do that," Molly carrying double school work now,! You know what your father would)
Ellen was uncomfortable as are bave sall." was always uncomfortable when her mother talked that way, Myra was frankly angry.
Beat
"New York isn't treland," she
said flatly.
"Rich men may grow
Delegates to the world disarmament conference in session at Geneva,
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"I might have said something that things are so hard for you, about Ben's working in a cheap But I still think that at Dream- dance hall, tuo!”
land you might--"
Ellen checked her, "Don't be
It was an old difficulty. Molly's)
en bushes there, I don't know, partiality for her only son, She, so romantic so early in the morn- -
was pathetically anxious that he ing, darling,"
"It was at a dance, too," she concluded triumphantly.
* *
she begged and
Dur
"When you get through school you'll make us all rich, won't you, son?" she asked.
Then troubles will be over."
She really belleved this. Mike, wriggling with pleasure, bursting with pride, believed it, too. But
President Giuseppe Motta... four times Switzerland's Chief Executive.
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But rich men in New York marry should miss nothing because of his wished again that Molly under- rich girls. They don't meet any father's death, pathetically anxious stood things better. other kind. If you're thinking that Ellen might meet John that he should have what other Molly reached out and tousled Astorbilt at Dreamland, Mother, it boys had. To that end she was her son's curly head. Just shows you don't know such willing to make any sacrifice. She places. The only result of Ellen's saw no reason why her daughters trying to work at night as weil should not do the same. as all day would be that she would break down her health. And then Before Myra's indignation could where would we be?"
|force a real quarrel, Mike himself Molly Rossiter smiled mysteri-clamorously interrupted. He was ously and. with characteristic wildly eager for the freedom of as Elien looked down at her 12- optimism, overlonked all draw the corner news-stand and for the year-old brother she thought the backs.
chance to earn his own money, time when they would all be rich "You can't tell how such things But Ellen entered a irm denial was, a long way of. · will happen," she remarked, still and his protests died. He knew Myra and Ellen were fonder of smiling. "I met your father in he could not get around! Elen. each other than sisters usually the most unexpected way. If weShe looked sharply at him
eyes,are. They were proud of their both hadn't happened to be at the heavy with fatigue.
friendship and glad to be together. "Did you go to bed at nine last Both of them worked a great deal same place that one night we'd never have met at nil.
night?" she demanded. Mike and harder than most girls and be his mother exchanged a guilty cause of their mother's childish look.
irresponsibility they had early Ellen laughed, "Don't try to "He was in bal" said Molly been forced to take up the burden She felt she could not bear to marry me off so soon," she piend-hastily.
of keeping the family together. aso Ellen start in the way that ed. After all." she added, "I'm She and Mike shared the same)
she had started; to see Ellen loso only 20. I might be touring bedroom. Ellen knew then that Myra at 26 had all the maturity [the freshness of her love as sho Europe with my husband by the Mike had persunded his mother to that Molly would lack at 66. That waited for an impossible $35 a
leave the lights burning while he morning after breakfast she dress week to climb to a possible $50. | "I was married at 17. And studied. But she was too tired to ed quieldly so she could walk the She feared what Molly had In-
"Oh. don't fuss 80, Myra." Myra here"
bring that up. She folded her three blocks to the subway with nocently hoped for that Ellen Ellen was silent A moment and "Yes, I've been engaged to Bert napkin, tucked it into the heavy Ellen. All her indignation spill-would meet someone at Dream then said casually, "Tom Shan- over since I was 17-nine years." silver ring left over from better out out again as the two linked land. But she tried to hide that wenberger nåked me to marry him Myra conceded bitterly. "And days, and rose from the table. arms and walked along Pine | four.
last night." perhaps by the time I'm 70 we'll I go at noon to see about street, cruelly shabby in the hot "It makes mo furious," Myra have enough money so that he getting that job," she announced summer sunshine She felt began forcely, her blue eyes binz- and I can hobble to the altar." in n tone that settled the matter. fierce, burning, helpless rage that |ing, "that you should have to take The very blackness of the "I dance well enough there her young sister should miss so this job, work yourself to denth picturo she drew was frresistibly shouldn't be any trouble. There's many of the pleasant thinge of just bucange—” funny. All three of them burst ne uso arguing, Myra," she said life. She felt also a fear that "Roo!" Ellen scoffed. "I'm not out laughing. For a moment they to her sister. "There's a limit to Ellen at 20 would step into the an old Indy. It might be a lot of were like children and Molly cutting expenses. We've reached same blind alloy she herself had fun, you never can tell. It would Rosaiter was the youngest of the it. We can't ent down any more stopped into at 17.
he grand if you didn't have to three.
without giving up eating entirely Nine years before she had work nights at the library and wo When Ellon succeeded in drag-and the rent must be paid. I can fallen in love with Bert Armstead, could both go." ging Miko from the bathroom and carry both jobs, until we catch She stil! loved him. But his job "It's not fair at all." Myra per- his book, when they were all seat-up."
at the library where they both aisted unhappily. "Not fair that
time I'm 21."
ed at broakfast, the subject arono "I know that was the thing to worked was almost as poorly paid you should miss so many of the again. Where was the $60 for de," said Molly in deep satisfac-as hers. And Myra had seen the things other girls have. Theatre rent coming from?
tion. But a moment Inter she add-first rapture of love wear away parties and clothes and dances,
"It was due last Tuesday and od wistfully, "I'm sorry, Ellen, in nine years of endless waiting. dinners at the right places.”
Jeddu Krishnamurti, the Hindu student, who har nounced theosophy, saying that since growing to maturity. he has "drifted away" from the idea that he is "the Voice of
-the Great Teacher."
"You didn't, Ellen! You didn't!"
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