Show helm lJ ce uit ui-t n 0 xa va nc THE STORY SO SO FAR Gloria Gordon Gorda beautiful flapper marrIes Dick Gregory struggling young Her lIer idea of marrIage is good times good clothes clothes' and arid no work or children DIck borrows his mothers mother's maid Maggie to teach leach Gloria to cook But she refuses to learn Dick has an attack of flu While hUe he is working at home with Miss 1 Briggs his secretary Gloria plans a house She asks ask Stanle Stanley Stan Stan- ley le Wayburn an actor with whom sho she was once In love to be one of ot the guests He accepts When hen Dick meets Wayburn he is instantly Jealous although the ac actor actor actor ac- ac tor devotes himself to Mr MI Mrs Gail Gall drinks too much and faints away while wile dancing dancIng- with Dr John Seymour whose wife wile May is Inlove Inlove in inlove love with Jim Carewe The party breaks up when Lola Hough scolds Bill Dill h her r husband for tor petting MaggIe Maggie Maggie Mag Mag- gie disgusted quits her Job and re returns returns returns re- re turns to Mother Gre Gregory ory Then Glory hires Swanson Swan- Swan son although D Dick ck tells her they cant can't afford a maid And she buys worth of clothes She is tr tryIng trying try try- Ing them on wh when n Dick comes home NOW GO GOON ON WITH TH THE E STORY Yell Well what have you ou been doing buying out the town he asked Glory smiled Hardly that dearest dearest dearest dear dear- est she said Just a dress or two Sh She came toward him swaying like a model In a style show Her lips were pursed up for a kiss sticky mout she said babyishly Dick kissed her with the utmost gr gravity Where did you get get all these clothes he asked From my generous husband I charged them to you Glory an an- Now dont don't be cross please I really needed a few things Dick frowned But you ou Just bought a new dress last week for your party he said the matter with it Oh that thing Glory answered her lips curling My Iy old dressmaker dressmaker dressmaker dress dress- maker made It It had no style I thought it was beautiful Dick said helplessly Downstairs Ranghild was striking the Chinese dinner gong You know Dick Glory said af after after aft aft- t er dinner as they sat before the wood fire in the living room a woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo I man needs more clothes than a man does Dick lowered his newspaper and looked at her How Itow much did you spend to today today today to- to day he asked Only a little bit over four hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred dollars Glory said But wait walt until you see all the lovely bargains I picked up she cried before he had time to an an- She ran rait upstairs and dressed herself in the new black velvet dress Then she she put put on the cream colored hat and dabbed mimosa I perfume behind her tears sears ars and under her chin Dont I look like a million million million-dol- lon dollars dol dol dollars lars she asked excitedly when she came down again You sure do Dick admitted But I want to show you somethIng something something some some- thing He took a a black leather book from his inside coat pocket Oh dont don't show me mo figures please Glory protested I dont don't understand them and they make my head feel all fuzzy InsIder inside These wont won't Dick said Look here I haven't in my checkIng checking checking check check- ing account I And Im I'm paying paying- for some telephone company stock that Im I'm going to give you for tor your birthday Oh dont don't I dont don't want it Give me an automobile Instead Gloria cried clasping her hands Ive Just got to have an automobile May and Myra and all the girls have one May 1 and Myra have rich husbands hus bus bands Dick answered Youve married a poor man and you'll have to get used to being a poorman's poor poorman's poorman's mans man's wife wile I Ill I'll 11 teach you to drive my roadster and you can use that to go to your bridge club and lunch parties Glory pouted I I dont don't want that old ark she said drearily I want a little closed car like the ne your mother has Give me me- time and Ill I'll be able to get things like that for you Dick replied In Sri another ten or fifteen years Ten or fifteen years Glory broke In Why In ten or fifteen years Ill I'll be an old woman I wont won't care about parties and beautiful clothes then Dick laughed at her be a very attractive woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man in your early thirties he said And you'll find that your taste for clothes will be Just as strong as It is now stronger perhaps In the meantime he lie went on looking at her gravely have to economize a little Now I want you to promise me that you'll never go downtown and run up bills on me again without asking me about It first Will wm you promise me that Glory Joked him straight In the eye Slowly she shook her head No she said clearly I wont won't make any such promise for I know Id I'd break it Im I'm going to have clothes I wont won't look like a a. frump trump Dont Don't you want me to be beas beas beas as well dressed as other women I cant can't say that Im I'm particularly crazy about having a horse clothes-horse for tor a wife Dick answered picking up his paper And theres there's Just one one- more thing I have to say I cant can't be worried d' d to death about bills bills' and expenses a at home and do anything like my best work downtown every day Glory smoothed down the down the folds of ot other her black v velvet dress diess thoughtfully Other men seem to buy their wives an occasional dress or two she remarked with cutting sarcasm And I dont don't notice notice- that they crack under the strain night Good I think Ill I'll g go t to bed Theres There's no use trying to sit up and talk talle to you when youre you're wound up for one of ot your sermons on op economy Jimmy Jim Jim- iny my but I wish I were still earning my 25 rt d week Then I w wouldn't be e Jawed to death every time I spend a penny She went upstairs but not to bed She sp sp-nt sp nt an hour brushing her hair hall polishing her nails cleaning her face carefully with cold cream and cold water putting her new clothes away in sachet powder Before Defore 10 the next morning May Seymour telephoned Glory Hello Lazy-bones Lazy she said In answer to Glorys Glory's sleepy Hello Ive been up for two hours May 1 went on proudly Bathed MahJongg Man Mah already Did you call me up to tell me you'd given your dog a bath Glory laughed I have something better to tell than that myself Ive I've got a lot of new clothes to show you Bought em yesterday Well Vell doll yourself up in some of them and well we'll go 0 downtown and around a bit May said Im blue as Indigo and I dont don't know why Found a gray grayhair hair In my brush for one thing this mornIng mornIng morning morn morn- morn morn- Ing Think of It h hair Ir at twenty-five twenty What do you suppose Ill I'll look at forty Just the way you do now Glory comforted h her r. r Brunets dont don't fade May And theres there's a lot of ot good hair hall dye on the he market when you really need It What time will you call can for me Oh about 12 12 May said and rang off ff Glory set about the serious business business business busi busi- ness of ot dressing She had Just finished by the time May honked the horn of her car outside the house at noon If anyone telephones for me when Im I'm gone please say Im I'm having having haying hav hay ing lunch at the Newhouse with Mrs Seymour Glory told Ranghild Rang- Rang bud hild who was cleaning silver In the he pantry She had a vague idea that Stan might take It Into his head to phone her Well will you kindly take a a. look at the Fifth Avenue kid May 1 ex exclaImed exclaimed ex ex- claimed as Glory opened the door of the automobile and stepped in the best looking hat I ever saw in my life Im glad you ou appreciate it Dick all but killed me for buying It it Glory sighed My 1 goodness to hear him talk you'd think Id I'd committed a murder Instead of buying myself a few clothes the way with all the themen themen themen men May sympathized as the car sped through the sunny streets Itell Itell I Itell tell you Glory a woman has to fight for everything she gets in inthis inthis inthis this world I Ive I've ye broken John of ot his everlasting dIng ding about bills though f Every time he razzed me for sp spending money I turned right round and spent some more Now hes he's afraid to open his mouth about bills May set her painted mouth In a straight firm line What does a girl get out of marriage but a few clothes and parties parties par par- ties and a houseful of furniture to keep dusted anyway she went vent on after a moment Nothing else at atall all aU But a mans man's marriage just doubles his Interest in life He still has his business and a home and wife on the side Whereas a girl gives up everything when she mar mar- ries Glory thought this over Surely May 1 hadn't given up everything when she married Dr John She certainly had not given up Jim Carewe Ca- Ca rewe lewe for tor instance They still w went want nt around together as they had before Mays May's marriage Dr John was wag a mystery to Glory Didn't he care if 11 his attractive young wife and Jim Carewe lunched tO together ether two or three times a week while he himself was making his calls Or did he care so much for May that he let her do as she pleased so long as she was content to be his wife Glory couldn't figure It out May parked her car outside an automobile salesroom After Atter the two girls had shopped and lunched they decided to go goback goback goback back to Glorys Glory's house to look at her new clothes clotes Glory Was was vaguely unhappy t or other she had had hada a wild hope that she would see Stanley Wayburn in the dining room where she and May had lunched When Then she had dressed that morning she had been dressing halt half unconsciously for Stans Stan's eyes And she had not seen him Look at that blue car there In Inthe Inthe inthe the window Glory May lay indicated a glossy little roadster in the window win viii- viii dow of the showroom across the sidewalk Glory looked The little littI car was wasa a beauty Its dark blue sides shone like satin Its trimmings were of polIshed polished pol pol- brass Just for the fun of ot It fets fet's go in inand inand inand and price It Glory said Impulsive impulsive- ly Iy They went In our new 1925 model said the natty young salesman opening the door of the car so that Glory could get Into It The ery very best buy on the market 1800 exactly I Glor Glory sat down behind the wheel The soft sott springy seats were covered with blue leather And on the da dash dah h was a tiny clock set in dark blue enamel This car drives as easy as a one-hoss one sha shay Its It's an ideal machIne machine machine ma ma- chine for a lady the salesman said turning to MayYou MayYou May You certainly should have that car Glory May said in her metallic metallic metal metal- lic voice Glory stepped out of ot the automobile J I That night she asked t to- to buy v I I 1 I if it for herI her I dont don't want any old telephone company tock stock she said pleadingly And Im I'm Just crazy crazy for this little bus Its It's the cutest thing in the world and it would keep your Glory so snug and warm these wintry days I could even go to market in It every mornIng mornIng morning morn- morn Ing and bring my vegetables and meats home in It That touch about the he market was an inspiration she knew For Dick loved the idea of her being a housewife housewife housewife house house- wife picking out her own strawberries and rump i roasts In the markets and bringing them homeI home I want that telephone stock for tor you but there is one way I Ican Ican Ican can buy you the automobile he said finally How Glory asked eagerly |