anaheim-gazette 1931-01-15

Third Installment Maggie Johnson, whose father is a letter carrier, is the domestic drugs of the humble home where her mother does little except bemoan the fact that she has "seen better days" and her sister Liz, who works in a beauty shop, lies abed late. Maggie has to get the family breakfast before she starts out to her Job in the Five-and-Ten-Cent Store. There's a new boy at the Five-and-Ten, Joe Grant. He tells Maggie that he has been assigned to work as her helper in the stock room. He seems rather dumb, but Maggie helps him through his first day at the store and shares her lunch with him in a cubbyhole of a place that belongs to a mattress factory next door to the Five-and-Ten. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "Oh, sure I do! I read it in a paper," she said, beginning on her own milk and talking through, or around, the straws. "You have to eat iron and starch and—and fosters," she said, somewhat uncertain of the last word. "Iron and starch—and what?" he asked, fishing for the extraordinary word. But she would not be baited. "All sorts of things," she said evasively. "These sandwiches are tuna fish and egg—they're always the ones that are left. We never get the chicken or ham ones, but we don't care, do we?" she ended a little anxiously. "I don't!" Joe said, ravenous. "How'd you happen to find this place?" he asked, approving of it. "I was after some ideals in our basement," she said. "An' I seen this winder. Ain't nice in here?" "You were after some what?" he interrupted. "Some ideals. Some of them little—well, sorter prayers they have all coloured up on cards." Maggie explained. "Like 'No man is useless while he has a friend,' an' To carn a little, to spend a little less,' an' There's so much read in the magazine," she was staring at him, faintly suspicious. "Joe," she began after a moment, "is this you first job?" "What makes you think it isn't?" he parried. "Because—becauz fellers of nineteen don't usually begin on what you're doin', stockroom work," said Maggie, "especially when they talk like you do." "I worked on a farm awhile," Joe said. "And I travelled with a circus and worked in a bicycle shop," he added imaginatively. Maggie was satisfied. She reverted to a more interesting topic. My mother says that all that newspaper stuff about budgets and systems and all that is the bunk," she offered. My sister has to keep her hands white because she demonstrates a beauty cream, and my mother don't get round much. But my mother don't like Liz to use make-up—and she won't let me cut my hair—she says it ain't lddylike for girls to bob their hair." Father living? Joe asked. She hesitated. My father's a—a wonderful man. Yes, he's living. What's his profess—what's he do? Joe asked. He—he's a travelin' man," somehow she wanted Joo to admire Pop. "And my mother's—fleshy," said Maggie delicately. Well, I'll tell you one thing," said Joe, as they began to gather up the signs of their feast and prepare to return upstairs to the store. "I'll tell you one thing—I wouldn't like your sister." Oh, Joe, why not! "I don't know. I just know that. And here's another thing, that budget and system an deficiency talk is all true." urday nights! "I live down the island," Joo said, thinking of the hard job left, of the sort of home to visit was probably going. "You fine chance to lead the ideal girl Johnson!" Joe said with laugh. He turned abruptly and deserted block westward, gliding him to be sure he had the home-going tide from there. And in the second block, he short at a handsome roadside before a row of unpretended Joo got into it, fished a his pocket, and swam from The engine purred, the big o smoothly away from the city parks and the factory district the scattered lights of the huntsurbs, and so came to the splendid great walls and gates ingdule, home of the richest fashionable men and women particular part of the world. In between certain magnificence of stone and brick went Joo car, and to the side door of one most imposing of all the there. An elderly butler, without question the dirty stock boy of the Mack, ventured as to lay an eager, welcoming his arm. Mr. Joseph—sir! I'm glad you back safely, sir. What he coughed delicately—"what's little unpleasantness yesterday ing, sir, and your every remarks to me, sir, on the your parents'—ahem!—attitude then your not returning last-to-day, either for luncheon or I'm all right, Allen, and a brick to be on the job to I am late because I got a job..." "The way to begin livin' the ideal life 1—to begin," she read slowly. terest in you." "A How old are you?" Joe countered. "Are you thirteen?" Thirteen!" she echoed, affronted. "I've been workin' four years. I'll be eighteen my next birthday. I was seventeen last Valentine's Day!" And suddenly both were embarrassed, and they stopped talking, in some confusion of spirit. "But when I first wont to work," Maggie resumed. "I was awful little. I opened a door an checked unbroillas. You'd wonder they let me in at all. Three dollars a week they paid me." "Pretty tough!" Joe commented sympathetically. "Oh, I've had my share!" she resueded. "We ought to have something green with this," said Maggie again, extending toward him a fresh supply of the broken biscuits. "Where'd you get all this diet stuff?" Joe asked, diverted. "Oh," she flashed carelessly, "these ideals. Some of them little—well, sorter prayers they have all coloured up on cards." Maggie explained. "Like 'No man is useless while he has a friend,' an 'To earn a little, to spend a little less,' an 'There’s so much good in the worst of us,'" she went on. But at such lightning speed that Joe could not make a beginning or an end to what she said. He burst out laughing. "You laugh like you were much older than you are," said Maggie, struck with some sudden suspicion. "I'm almost twenty." Joe said. "Why—how old did you think I was?" I thought you was a kid," Maggie said franly. "That's," she ended innocently, "that's why I sorter took an in- a small clutching hand on his arm. "Certainly!" She seemed to droop. "My mother’d never do it, though! She hates managing." Well, because your mother wouldn't do it, Maggie," he said unpleasantly, "doesn't make it less true, does it?" "No," she said sadly, briefly. And Joe suddenly felt ashamed of himself. He gave her a steady hand as they scrambled back through the two windows, and over the bales and boxes in their own basement, just in time to hear the gong emit its sharp double ring. But once again in the roar and rush of the store upstairs, he noted that she did not quite restore him to the familiar footing upon which he had been before. At ten o’clock two old women, armed with pails and mops, made their appearance far at the back of the store, and purchasers began to take on slightly apologetic note. Then suddenly a long strick and stock boy of the Mack, ventured as to lay an eager, welcoming his arm. Mr. Joseph—sir! I'm glad you back safely, sir. What he coughed delicately; what little unpleasantness yesterday, sir, and your—your every remarks to me, sir, on the day your parents’—hem!—attitude then your not returning last day, either for luncheon or dinner; or a brick to be on the job to be my late because I got a job." You mean you really are Mr. Joo? "I mean I really am." “You're not going back to sir?" Not on your life! "Why, but look here, sir," put older man, distressed. "you never meant a word he said morning, nor your mother, elen." Joe interrupted, sliding arms into the dressing gown held ready behind him, "can a secret?" Anything you told me in our sir—he began reluctantly. Well, then listen. I've gone in the Mack Merrill Department—the Eighth Street one." A job in the Mack Merrill sir? The butler was actually in the office, sir? In the office nothing! In Carting wall papers and ink ing brushes and earrings and place. I'm going to show me that he can't stand me up in and throw mud at me! He me a thief, and a liar— Mr. Joseph, sir, he never o’that—I didn’t hear that,” the old butler interrupted. Hear him! Everybody in the borhood heard him! No, sir, got away with it,” said Joey you run along, Allen, and k and tell'em I'm all right home! The message was unobtrusive rled to a handsome middle-sister who was playing bridge with other men in the library. Trated into a luxurious dress where a beautiful and woman was making up her tween a dinner dance and a dance woman merely raised brows at the news. And in a little while she moved flight of wide, palm-decorated that lay between her suite and appeared, expectantly, in his Continued Next Week "But when I first wont to work," Maggie resumed, "I was awful little. I opened a door an checked unbrobias. You'd wonder they let me in at all. Three dollars a week they paid me." "Pretty tough!" Joe commented sympathetically. "Oh, I've had my share!" she resounded. "We ought to have something green with this," said Maggie again, extending toward him a fresh supply of the broken biscuits. "Where'd you get all this diet stuff?" Joe asked, diverted. "Oh," she flashed carelessly, "the evenih' papers has it, always, a health column." "But you don't believe all you see in the papers!" Joe teased. "I do some things," Maggie countered uncertainly, after a moment's thought. "And do you do all the things the papers say to do?" Joe asked. "I'm doin' one now," she answered, moving only her lips. "I'm relaxin', Relax ten minutes after meals, if you're thin. Stand if you're fat. Exercises every mornin'—" "We have twelve minutes," Joe said, glancing at his wrist. "And do you believe all the ideal cards, too?" he pursued. "How do you mean?" she asked. "Well, don't they all have rules for life on them?" Joe suggested. "Lest we forget,' and I am the captain of my soul,' and all that?" "Was you readin' them today?" she asked, surprised. "No. But I know that kind of stuff!" "Let us then be up an doin'," Maggie was murmuring, as if she heard the words for the first time. "Laugh, an' the world laughs with you.'" "Oh, gosh, it makes me sick at my stomach!" Joe said faintly, between a laugh and a groan. Maggie laughed, puzzled but sympathetic. "It sorter doesn't mean anything," she conceded. "But the 'Si sezzes' are funny," she submitted doubtfully. "The whats?" "The Si sezzes'—we call them that," she elucidated. "They all begin, 'Si seez'." "Bunk!" Joe commented disgustedly. He gave her a steadying hand as they scrambled back through the two windows, and over the bales and boxes in their own basement, just in time to hear the gong emit its sharp double ring. But once again in the roar and rush of the store upstairs; he noted that she did not quite restore him to the familiar footing upon which he had been before. At ten o'clock two old women, armed with pals and mops, made their appearance far at the back of the store, and purchasers began to take on a slightly apologetic note. Then, suddenly, a gong struck, and a hundred saleswomen were jamming through the black back passage, past the enormous service elevator into the wet street. Joe, stooping toward a heap of rubbish that was advancing steadily ahead of a charwoman's wide broom, picked something up and cut through the crowd to follow the codden little coated figure that was Maggie Johnson. "Here," he said, handing her a bent card. "I just found this. It was thrown out. Since you believe everything the newspapers tell you, how's this?" "The way to begin livin' the ideal life is—to begin," she read slowly. And she looked up blankly. "Begin what?' she asked. "That's all there is. It don't finish it." "It's all bunk," he said, trying to laugh. "Well, I don't know, Joe!" she answered, with a flash of animation crossing her pale, dirty little face. "What you said to-night made me kinder wonder. I've been doing all these things about eatin', and exercise, and washin'," she said eagerly. "but I guess this thinkin' is just as important. I've been handlin' them ideals, and crawlin' over them, and hearin' about them for three years, an't-day's the first time I ever really looked at one! I guess you're tired, Joe," she added, concernedly, as they walked toward the corner together. "Next week won't be so hard. An' I guess it felt pretty good to get that pay envelope to-day, didn't it?" she asked encouragingly. "Sure, it did," Joe answered briefly. "Do you go up?" the girl asked. "I live on Goat Hill over there—my father waits for me at the corner, Sat- And in a little while she may flight of wide, palm-decorate that lay between her suite and appeared, expectantly, in his Continued Next Week The Way of Life By BRUCE BARTON KILLING WITH KINDNESS Recently a young couple vected to the ordeal of a fair church wedding, and started on their honeymoon. They were a nice boy and only idea was to find a job at tom of some good business could carve out a career for She had dreams of making a living keeping him happily, listening evening to the story of his ventures, and helping him buy and enthusiasm to be a real. They had only one draw rather six draw-backs; two wealthy parents and two very aunts. While they were away they had an inspiration. They looked secretly in the most expensive city and picked out a swiment. They employed the priced interior decorator, and erous orders at the leading stores. When the couple came back they were met by all four pairs the two dating old maids. limousine they were whisked apartment. The lights were on. The older people waited for the exclamations of would greet the splendid lay. Too astonished to say any poor little rich children got them. Then suddenly the bride face with her hands and a flood of tears. The older people thought they were tears of joy. In clumsy they began to comfort her, that what they had given her ing in comparison with would like to do. Being a well bred young bride did not disillusion some conventional ANAHEIM GAZETTE live down the island," Joe said. The ideal life—oh, my God!" he thinking of the hard job she had of the sort of home to which she probably going. "You've got a chance to lead the ideal life, Mag-Johnson!" Joe said with a bitter turn. abruptly and walked a ted block westward, glancing behind him to be sure he had escaped home-going tide from the Mack. In the second block, he stopped at a handsome roadster, parked on a row of unpretentious homes. He got into it, dashed a key from socket, and sailed from the street. Engine purred, the big car moved thily away from the city, passed parks and the factory district and scattered lights of the humbler suburb and so came to the splendid trees the great walls and gates of Elm-lee, home of the richest and most notable men and women of that secular part of the world. between certain magnificent posts one and brick went Joe and his hand to the side door of one of the imposing of all the mansions. An elderly butler, admitting out question the dirty and weary boy of the Mack, ventured so far lay an eager, welcoming hand on arm. Joseph—sir! I'm glad to see back safely, sir. What with—oughed delicately—"what with the unpleasantness yesterday morning, and your—your every emphatic works to me, sir, on the subject of parents'—ahem!—attitude, and your not returning last night or day, either for luncheon or dinner." I am all right, Allen, and you were trick to be on the job to let me in. Note because I got a job. thanks and held herself under control until they had gone. She could not tell them—and they would not have understood—that they had done the cruisest thing imaginable; that they had destroyed her dream and robbed her of one of life's sweetest pleasures. They had tried to be so very kind, and they succeeded only in taking from her the joyful right of every girl to fix up her own little home for herself. Most of us run no danger of hurting our children in the same degree. We are, fortunately, too poor to rob them very much. Yet all parents need to be on guard a bit in this prosperous land. Let us have the good sense not to kill with kindness. Let us give our kids a chance to enjoy the same grand pleasures which we enjoyed—the pleasure of selecting their own mates, making their own homes, and fighting their way up by themselves. NOTICE TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE ANAHEIM UNION WATER COMPANY Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Anaheim Union Water Company will be held at the office of the Company at Anaheim, Orange County, California, on the 31st day of January, 1931, at the hours of 10 o'clock a.m. of said day, for the purpose of electing Directors to serve for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting. By order of the Board of Directors. L. J. SHERIDAN, Socy. 1-15-3t NOTICE INVITING SEALED BIDS FOR THE PURCHASE OF SERVICE STATION EQUIPMENT IN THE MATTER OF ACQUISITION AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 2 OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM Notice is hereby given by the City Council of the City of Anaheim that sealed bids will be received at the office of the City Clerk of said City, up to 8 o'clock P.M. of Tuesday, January 27, 1931, for the purchase of the following service station equipment now stored at the City Power House: 2 Boyle-Dayton Aero Pump Gasoline Dispensers. 2 Gasoline Storage Tanks, 3 feet-10 inches x 11 feet-6 inches. 1 Century Electric Motor, 1 H.P. 1 U.S.Air Compressor, No. 158, with gauge. 1 Air Receiver 16 inches x 60 inches. 2 Enameled Iron Lavatories. 2 Porcelain Toilet Bowls and Tanks. 1 Lot Conduit and Fittings. 1 Lot Pipe and Fittings. 1 Lot Lumber. Bids will be received for separate items, and each bid must be accompanied by cash or a certified or cashier's check, payable to City of Anaheim, in an amount not less than ten percent of such bid. The cash or check of each successful bidder shall become the property of the City of Anaheim if such bidder fails to complete the purchase, in cash, within fifteen days from the acceptance of his bid. All bids must be on forms furnished by the City Manager. The City Council of said City reserves the right to reject any or all bids. FOR THE PURCHASE OF SERVICE STATION EQUIPMENT IN THE MATTER OF ACQUISITION AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 2 OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM WHEN FOOD SOURS ABOUT two hours after eating many people suffer from sour stomachs. They call it indigestion. It means that the stomach nerves have been over-stimulated. There is excess acid. The way to correct it is with an alkali, which neutralizes many times its volume in acid. 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CAMPBELL, Resident Director 251 No. Lemon St., Anaheim, Calif. Office Hourst: 9 to 12-2 to 5 Telephone 4529 DR. W. W. ADAMS OSTEOPATH 401 Bunk of America Bldg., Anaheim Dated January 6, 1931. EDWARD D. MERRITT, City Clock. 1-8-3t NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF ANAHEIM BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Anaheim Building & Loan Association will be held at the office of the Association at 187 West Center Street in the City of Anaheim, California, on Monday, the 19th day of January, 1931, at the hour of 7:30 p.m. of said day for the purpose of the election of a Board of Directors for the ensuing year and the transaction of such business as may properly come before such meeting. By order of the Board of Directors of the Anaheim Building & Loan Association. FORREST F. FOWLER, Secy. Date January 2, 1931. Westinghouse Radio FEARN— Super-Hetrodnye No Harmonics —118 S. L. A. St., Anaheim Phone 8111 DR. G. W. 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