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Oshawa Daily Times, 23 Aug 1927, p. 10

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BEGIN neto KITTY PROCTOR, a pro. fessional demonstrator, whom Jerry calls in, agrees to make Vera over, Vera's ememld eyes cause Jerry to remember an uncaptioned Sunday supple. ment picture he has in his and he asks Kitty to use the picture as a model, At the end of three weeks, Vera and Jerry go to Flora's TERENNY - | Bl haven't?" Jerry challenged her. "You haven't given your poor lite tle 5. A. a chance. You went around looking like an old wet school teacher with "Keep off the grass' signs plastered all over you," "I have certainly tried to kee my business relationships on impersonal basis. Any girl wh uses the lure of sex to advance herself in an office is beneath com- tempt," Vera retorted angrily, Flora Cartwight clapped her small hands and laughed deli- clously, "Hear, Jerry roared. "Wait now, don't fly off the handle! You wanted to know what kind of a girl a man falls in love with, I'll tell you--the kind of girl who never in the world world pull a line like that." "Oh, I know what you're going to say," Vera moaned, "You're going to 'pull the anetlent wheeze that men don't like girls who have brains, Beautiful and dumb!" "Lhat's just where you're wrong," Jerry contradicted her triumphantly, "It's no credit to a man if a dumb Dora falls for him. He has an uneasy suspicion that she hasn't sense enough to know what a prize she's drawn, What a man likes is a girl with heautv. charm and brains enough to com- hear!" apartment, Vera tells them she is going to Minnetonka in June, Just before they ve. tire, Flora agrees to teach Vera what she knows about charm and appeal if Vera will keep "hands off" of Jerry, whom Flora likes, Vera though wunaccountably is not enthusiastic about her aunt's infatuation for Jerry, J NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ! CHAPTER IX "This is more than I had bar- gained for," Jerry Macklyn grin- ned at Vera Cameron and her aunt, Flora Cartwright, seated side bv side on the living room couch, "I've finished my job, I said I'd turn you into a beauty, Miss Cam- eron, if the Peach Bloom cosmet- ics were any good, and I've done it, 1 don't know where you got the idea that I could give you any pointers on how to be fatal to men, as Mrs, Cartwright puts it." 'Nonsense, Jerry Macklyn!"" Flora cut in gaily, "In the first place," Jerry be- gan seriopsly, "every man likes a pretty girl, the prettier the better, You're more than pretty now, Vee- Vee; you're beautiful, But just beauty alone won't get you very far, You've got to have charm and--er--sek appeal if you want to have men fluttering around you," "I--I haven't any sex appeal," Vera acknowledged bitterly, do you know you JIN [ARAN WORM POWDERS Ma Buzz went to the country, Hooray home of flies snd mos- pu spray clears yo x | Jw, pend ola plod ingpiond Fatal to mankind, insects but harmless to ill pot stain. Get Flit today, Dinvibutod iv Conade by Prod J. Whisiow @ Co, Limited, Toronto L J emium Coal SOLVAY--COKE The best fuel Produets that it is pr BLL iy AB io General Motors Wood DIX oe 262 Best Wood Value in this City ONS 540} AB fuel ordess weighed on City Scales i duced. 1 ES ceal the fact that she has more brains than he has. Your one big trouble, Vee-Vee, is going ta be that you are so darned clever! You make every man you work with feel like an ignoramus, who ught to be fired so that you could ave his job." "Did I make you feel that way?" Vera demanded indignantly. "Did you?" Jerry echoed. 'Why it's been all I could do to keep myself from running to old man Canfield and saying, Canfield, I'm licked. I'm through. And Im a dirty dog for holding down a job that rightfully belongs to some- body else, Make 'Miss Cameron advertising manager, Canfield. She knows more about advertising ip a minute than I do in a year," "Why don't yout" "Because, doggone youn," Jerry shouted at her, "when I get as far as Canfield's office I run into little Rosemary Fitch who flutters those china-blue eyes at me and looks up at me as if she thinks I'm Apollo, Lothario and Valentino all rolled into one, My chest swells 80 that my vest buttons pop off and I go back to my office all primed up to show the world what a great guy I am." "What a. pity you haven't Rose- mary Fitch as a secretary," Vera snapped, "Yes, Isn't it?" Jerry agreed, grinning broadly, "But the old man beat me to her, and of course you are useful to have around. Now, listen, there's one thing that you don't know but that you've got to learn and then you can for- get everything else. I'll bet you can tell her what that is, Mrs. Cartwright," . Jerry turned to Flora, who was looking a little forlorn at being so persistently ig- nored, "Call me Flora, bringhtened instantly, "Of course I can, It is the beauty creed: 'I believe that I am utterly beauti- ful and utterly desirable, I bes lieve that no man can look upon me without pleasure and without desire.' "Perfect!" Jerry applauded, "You forgot to say that I'd be a conceited little wretch that every woman would want to murder, Vee-Vee snapped. "You get me all wrong," Jerry protested, 'I don't want you to be self-conscious and conceited in the usual meaning of those words. But I do want . you to radiate beauty, to make every person you come in contact with realize your beauty because you wear it like a royal cloak, And here's one other thing for you to tell your- self--and believe with all your heart: Every person in the world can teach you something; every person has at least a modicum of interest or charm or lovable- ness for you, and it is up to you to discover it. When you meet a man--a woman, either, for that matter, but we happen to be talk- ing or men--Ilook at him with joy- ous expectancy, look glad to meet him--" : "Shall I adopt this attitude to- ward every man [I meet?" Vee- Vee dimpled, widening her green eyes at him, "I should think it might cause complications--"' "It does," Flora laughed and sighed. "Remember, darling, I have been married four times! But it certainly does make life interesting!" "I only want to be married once, and I want to stay married to him forever," Vee-Vee said softly. Jerry's bright blue eyes con- tracted a little as if with pain, and the ruddy color in his cheeks paled noticeably. "Well, that's certainly definite enough, my dear pupil," he grinned ruefully. "What sort of a man is he?" "Well," Vee-Vee flushed, *let us say he is extremely handsome, young and rich, socially promi- nent, of an old family." She was thinking of his name, "Schuyler." "It he's all that," Jerry frowned, while Flora's blue eyes watched him narrowly, "he's used to hay- ing girls and women hurl them- selves at his head. It will take very special tactics to land a big fish like that. Your cue is to act indifferent, to concentrate on every other desirable man in the hotel, 80 that you can speedily show him that competition for the favor of Vee-Vee Cameron is of the keen est, that it will be no snide job for him to horn in on even a scrap of your much sought-after time. Listen, Vee-Vee, we can't get very far with these lessons charm Jerry," she It; I TT Extra Month Holi Pi i TIMES, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1927 ... Separat 4 the charm school tham Flora Cart- wright!" "Does it always have to be-- Peter and me, you and Vee-Vee?" Flora gave him a slow, tantalizing smile, "Oh, we'll switch partners now and then, so Vee-Vee can prac- tice on young Peter," Jerry as- sured her innocently, "What do you say, Vee-Vee?" Before the girl could answer the doorbell shrilled, Flora flew to answer it, throwing a gay com- ment over her shoulder: "I told Peter to stay away, but 1 knew he couldn't dot it. 1 don't know what I'm going to do with the poor, in- fatuated infant!" But it was not Peter. It was the uniformed elevator boy, de- livering an immense box of flow- ers, "Peter is so extravagant," Flora murmured, a pleased smile play- ing over her face, Then suddenly her smile was wiped out, her blue eyes turned to ice. "It's for you, Vera, From Peter, I suppose, I think, Jerry," she turned to the embarrassed young man, "that your time could be spent to better advantage In teaching a passe middle-aged woman how to hold her suitors. Vee-Vee doesn't seem to be in any urgent need of in- struftion." Flora flashed an April smile at Jerry over Vee-Vee's shoulder. "I've been so bored with poor, dear Peter, I'm glad he's at last taken 'no' for an answer. You don't know, Jerry, what a relief it will be to me to associate with a clever, mature man, a real man of the world! We'll have great fun watching the youngsters, won't we, Jerry?" Jerry Macklyn rumpled his in- credible red hair with a distracted hand, looked as if he were about to run for his life; then a pair of emerald eyes flashed a provocative, challenging glance at him, an adorable mouth dimpled, and he muttered weakly, 'Great fun! Good Lord! What have I let my- self in for?" (To Be Continued) Jerry Macklyn makes an un. usual request of Vee-Vee in the next chapter, just as she is about to start for Minnetonka, Teacher: "Tommy, is it true your mother has diphtheria?" Tommy: *Yes, miss." "But don't you know you mustn't come to school? You might get the disease from your mother and then give it to the whole class." "No, ma'am it's only my step- mother.4n' she neyer gives me nothing." -- "Fred sald he talked to your hro- ther until he was blup in the face." "Oh, no; just around one eye." : fad a ch ci ool Pupils While school days for collegiate and public school children of Osh- awa will begin on Tuesday, Sep- tember 6, the pupils attending St. Gregory's separate school will have anywhere from three weeks to a month's more holidays as the Parish School, which is being prac- tically rebuilt, will not be ready until late in September. Rev. Father Bench of St. Greg- ory's Church states that every ef- fort has been made to find ac- commodation for the pupils, but those efforts have not been suc- cessful, It was therefore decided to postpone the opening of the school until the building is com- pleted. Under the terms of the contract for the new St, Michael's School called for its completion on Labor Day or earlier. Circumstances have made it impossible for the bulld- ers to meet that condition, it is stated, The new Separate School and Parish Hall will contain twelve class rooms, an auditorium with accommodation for 600, and other departments, The estimated cost is $60,000, A new facade on Simcoe Street North will be the most striking Adds pleasure to your meals~ With crisp cool nourishment 'Whole wheat with milk esd fruit change in the school's appearance. The former street front architecture; English Tudor of the was new school front will be modern- ized Gothie, featuring a limestone proportions, Indiana monumental street fronting building will be height, The combined room and parish splendid in The the in entrance section of two stories school assembly auditorium will be_on the second floor, Rev. Fr. Bench states. A stage with dress- ing rooms will be installed. Por Your PHONE 22 Pri wees Thompson's Drug Store 10 Rimcoe Bt, 8, We Deliver Bargains Wednesday Morning That Thrifty Buyers Will Soon Snap up All Wool Cover Blankets each $7.45 Ladies' New Felt Hats $2.90 Pure Thread Silk Hose 79¢ Glass Towels 1he Girl's Fancy Sweaters White Crinkle Bed Spreads $1.49 She OSHAWA, LIMITED I bought. How do you spend your money? F YOU were considering the purchase of stocks and bonds, you'd do a lot of studying before you ac- tually parted with your money! You'd want to know about the company--its policy--its past record, . . , . 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