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THURSDAY, OCTOBER HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. ·

1994.

THE ASIA COY.

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ANNOUNCE

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BEACH CLUB GIRL

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

BYINIA RIVER, Highest with in Larch

By MABEL, MẹELLIOTT

and her love, it was a cruel blow.) with her bargain of the day. She'd USA us a lifeguard had been a roman go over to New York and see if there anything sho nech, fashionable New York suburb, disikese enough figure, invested with all wasn't something 1JOOTH NATUURN. Due to Sylvia's wall the glamour of the out-of-doors, could.do.

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Hurt and rockies, Froots Breepin pienilona f RUBA LUNIX wing

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instructor, 25e anke har le marry him, but

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slau gol, Boots is sked to rowly from windswept blue sea and yoliow sand. I only who didn't meet anyone laus as a bakery-truck helper-ho from homot That was the fear which shuddered at the thought. But aho plagued her most of the time. Would ad put her hand to the plough now; they cut her, turn away their eyes? there was no' turning' back.

1 She put on her last year's fall tward, still smart. She had pressed Sometinies, in the dead of night, it herself, (How easy it had been she thought of ber mother and her in the old days to telephone the tailor tears fell thick and fast. She never to come around!) She darned her ibt Russ see her cry. It made him gloves. angry. He hated, he said, "squaling On the street. her spielts lifted. women." But usually he was kind, re was so bright and blue a day:

When Mr. Roburn returns from a try. sut of town Bocis dreads her mother's lors in about her wildrawal from the club. Joota uues to New York on a shopping trip $0.35 and on the truth carnunters Tuan who begs

her to marry the next day. Hise agroCE. „35 Run Hoes to spend the right with his family,

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They are married and Ituan takes hi 70 ride

to his brother's apartment. It aina thoroughly unimaginative way the alr had a sort of tonic in it. She cheap and sordid Flare and Bore's brother To this girl who had been babled and lifted her chin and stepped along- .17 and his wife, GLORIA, aen disapooletag. petted all her life the experience of with animation. She left the menn 1.30

living as a member of this household street with. Its secasional pallid tree was a devastating and maturing one behind her. Alend,. In the dazzling The old life, seen from this vantage clearness of the distant horizon, she As the days molted into weeks seemed now unbelievably soft and could aco the city's towers and spires. Boots' realization of what she had pay. What had sho done with her New York! She wasn't terrifled by done, the seriousness of the step she time, her money? Why, even her old it, its vastness and indifference, be- LONDON SERVICE had Lakon that August morning scanty allowance now seemed prod-cause she had known it all her life almost overwhelmed her. She would igal have died rather than admit that her "We've got to get out of this place. as a friendly place to which one want on happy Jaunts to theatre and shops marriage to Ruis bad been a mi. We've simply got to," she murmured and restauranta. Of course it was take: but there It was. Nature, for one warm morning in late Septem not the same now. She was one of

in the lat. her own purposes, had thrown a voll bor. She was alone

A vast army, struggling for a foot- of glamour over this

4 Gloria had left the house particular young

fow hold. She stared out of the window In Moonlit nights, scent of roses moments before, on in the hedges, the spell of physical periodical "shopping" orgies. Gloria as the train rushed over the bridge, Harness had blinded her to bls was perfectly happy strolling down her hands clenched in her monded imperfections. Now, quite suddenly, Manhattan's Fourteenth street, star- she saw him with clear eyes. He was ing at the wax mannequins in the herself. I simply must."

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She and the newspaper want ad browned, he had excellent teeth and swallowing a double-deckor sandwich an agreeable smile, Boyond that, at a crowded soda fountain counter column in her purse. keyand the lavemaking which and Lou and Gloria never managed to be the agencies first. Experience? nlready begun to pall a little there Have a penny. The installment collec- No, she hadn't any. But weren't was simply nothing no bond between tor was a familiar figure at the door there some things which didn't re- thent. They spoke different lan- of the flat. But Gloria came homie quire experience? guages..

from these expeditions triumphant In her spoils n velvet hat "Just like the

The woman behind the desk shook uptown shops," a alcozy pink silk her head pleasantly but firmly. The vest, a pair of gloves which would woods, she said to Boots, were full shrink hopelessly in the first washing, of college girls willing to do anything. Bargains were Gloria's very breath of Had she tried the department stores! life. Her bureau drawere overflowed She had heard it was possible to get with lace trimmed nightgowns with in over at Lacy's. "Personally," she frayed seams. There were half 4 Bald, towering her volee, the only handle clerical work-high-class stuff, you might say you had a year of college, They like that. They won't investigate."

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She was not the first girl to come alive to this difference after marriage. But she was young and the lesson was a bitter one. Hier stole accep- tance of the situation spoke volumes for her growing maturity. Although she celebrated her 10th birthday early in September she was years older dozen shoddy pairs of high-heeled or felt it-in experience and wisdom. shoes tumbling nhout in gray curls you understand. But Lacy's-woll, When she passed young girls on the, of dust on the floor of her clothes street she glanced at them curiously. closet.

"Was I really that stupid and un- seeing last year?" she often said to herself.

Lacy's was 10 blocks away. Ten long city blecks of crowds, of traffic lights, of milling taxis. Boots walked them briskly, impelled by youth and a forvent hope and ambition.

"I can't live this way, I won't," Boots told herself, seiting her ps stubbornly. This was the day Russ After that black afternoon when had gone over to. Jersey to see some she had received from her parents a vague man "about a job." Boots had strupped and neally addressed trunk rather lost faith in there nebulous and a brief, cold note advising her Jobs. After she had hung the frayed

The personnel department of Lacy's. that her father did not wish to hear towel beside the cracked dishpan she You made out a long form, peppered from her again the had had no further sprend the morning paper out on the by half a hundred questions, most of word from Larchneck. She seldan drainboard, open at the "help wanted" them sounding quite irrelevant. You went over to New York now. She pages. Girl wanted girl wanted fled this. A serious young woman hand no money to spend and Gloria, oh, there were 20 jobs open but with a deep valce talked to you about discovering that Boots had a real she was eligible for none of them. talent for housework, Wis leaving

"Steno. college grad: dep't, store." the aims and ideals of the big storo more and more for her to do tu thie "Steno: same coll. operate slide and you went away, buoyed up by a new hopo. Maybe this time next [-shabby flat.

rule."

week you would be behind one of "Switchbd. apr. mult, exp.”

those busy counters. Lace or books "Alert, cable woman, over 27: or chintzes. Part time at $2.00, a executive ability."

day. Four days of that. Boots thought cesintically, would be almost $12. Sylvin Rivers paid $12 for her sports shoes, but what did that Fas still signify7

When questioned about their plans Runs usually mumbled something vague about starting for Florida à 1st Inter. Boots had learned now that the car which he had driven about the village that summer Wha not

She opened her purse, the dark blue really his. It had been taken back kidekin envelope she had heught so by

the company because of defaulted casually last spring. It payments. How they were to get to Florida she had no least iden but for a long time she trusted in Iluss to keep his word, against her better judgment and indeed her eommon

sense.

smart looking but the chango puree was limp; she shook out its contents. Thirty cents. The quarter Russ had given her yesterday. The nickel she had saved. Russ had been shame faced but blustering about it.

Stick with me, d, and you'il wear diamends," he had sald. He remembered hearing his father any that to his mother.

The one thing she refused to do was to go to her parents for help. Russ had a little fou now and then. Once he was requisitioned as a helper

Thirty cents. Five cents for sub- on a bakery wagon, working for the firm Lou drove for, and Boots' checks way fare to the city, Five cents

bnek. She could have lunch at somej famed scarlet as she heard the news." It seemed perfectly reasonable to all counter. Maybe the basement of the store. She'd je IL Sho the family to Gloria, Lou, and to dime Russ himself that he should do this wouldn't wait around till Russ came: sort of work. To Boots, in her pride home, Gloria came dawdling In

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"My dear, wherever did you drop

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