About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1925)
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 15, 1925 r MAY SEYMOUR n [FOOT LOOSE .hf E>&/Xn2ICE- PUDTON FLAPPED "WE" ©NEA When May found herself back in Americus, Georgia a week later, it seemed to her for a moment that the last eighteen months of her life had been a bad dream. The world beyond the Central Railway Station seemed suddenly remote and unreal to her?. . . Had she ever really been away from home. . .Had she really ever known such people as Carlotta and Dan and Herbie Waterbury. They seemed like dim figures in a half-forgotten dream, now that she ■was back here where she belonged! When the taxicab drew up before She white house with green shutters where lived the young IJick Greg orys, and Gloria herself came out to welcome her, May knew sudden ly that she could never go away from Americus again. Why, it was home to her! And these friends of hers were all she bad to live for, now that everything else seemed to have turned to dust and ashes before her very eyes! “You lucky girl!” she said to Glo ria, when she had eaten a late sup per of chicken sandwiches and tea, and the two friends stood beside Dicky Junior’s little white bed in the big white nursery upstairs. “You lucky girl!” she said again, "“Don’t you know that this little white house, and the husband and •child who live here with you, are •the real joy of living?” She said it breathlessly as if she bad just made a great discovery. "But Gloria only laughed. . .the gentle happy laugh of a woman who lias found the glowing heart of life, itself. “Os course, I know it,” she an-, ■swered in a half-whisper so as not to waken the baby, “Marriage and -motherhood. . . that’s the highest happiness any woman can have May. That’s what we’re born for— we women.” Silently May nodded. Then she gave herself a nervous little shake .and ran a hand through her short gleaming hair. “I’m going to burst into tears in another minute,” she said pertly, “if we go on talking like a couple of Sunday school teachers! Come on downstairs, and we’ll ripple up a rag on the radio, eh, what?” But after all she did not go down stairs again. In the hall she stopped at the head of the long flight that led to the lower flooor, and put her “hand to her forehead. • “Fiendish headache. . . I’ve had it all day,” she explained to Gloria. ■“I forgot all about it in the excite ment of seeing you folks again. But it’s killing me, and I guess bed’s the best place to take it; Say good night to Dick for me, won’t you?. . . . .Oh, but I’m glad to be here with ■you! It’s like home to me. . . .your bouse!” And when she sank into the lav ender-scented bed with its soft pil lows and spotless sheets, a sense of peace poured itself into her soul like oil on troubled. waters. She slept like the baby in the nursery across the hall. For months she had not had a might’s sleep like this. In hotels the ■sound of doors closing, of tele phones ringing in nearby rooms, had broken her sleep. The rattle of trains had always kept her awake when she was traveling. Then, too, she had had her money to worry about, and her future to ponder over. But n#v that she had PALE, NERVOUS West Virginia Lady Says That • She Was in a Serious Condi tion, But Is Stronger After Taking Cardui. Huntington, W. Va.—"l was in a ■very weak and run-down condition —in fact, was in a serious condi tion,” says Mrs. Fannie C. Bloss, of 1964 Madison Avenue, this city. “In my left side the pain was wery severe. It would start in my fcack and sides. Part of the time I was in bed and when up I didn’t feel like doing anything or going anywhere. "Life wasn’t any pleasure. I was very pale. I was nervous and thin, and so tired all the time. "My druggist told me that Cardui •was a good tonic for women and I bought a couple of bottles. I took two bottles, then I noticed an im provement. I kept on and found it was helping me. I have taken nine bottles. I’m stronger now than I have been in a long time.” Cardui is made from mild-acting medicinal herbs with a gentle, tonic, strengthening effect upon certain female organs and upon the system la general. Sold everywhere. NC-163 SggpQC If r ilhr ilfi L- 1 1 I ■ Wt d'rrirA i niAKyXM J iI J Mill Ib-Ji b irst call for breakfast came the voice of GToruT reached the very rock-bottom of bad luck, what else was there to worry about?. . .Nothing, so far as May could see! • . .She would stay here with Dick and Gloria until she was rested and refreshed, and then she would look for a job. She had worked once. . .she could work agaip, even if she hated work! Her whole future, as she saw it was as plain as ABC. . . and just about as exciting. Winter sunlight slanting across her bed wakened her in the morn ing. And before she had time to stretch and yawn, there came a tap ping on the panels of the door. “First call for breakfast!” came the voice of Gloria in imitation of the siren-call of a dining-car waiter. She pushed the door open with her. foot and came in, bearing a large tray in both hands. “Orange juice, eggs, and potatoes hashed in cream.” she recited gaily, as she set it down on May’s bed and uncovered the steaming dishes, ‘Hot rolls and coffee!. . . Now, isn’t that as good a breakfast as you’d have in a hotel?” May groined. “It’s so much bet ter than quail on toast would be in NOTICE I pay highest cash price for Iron and Steel Scrap, Junk Autos, Old Tires and Tubes, Metals and Rags. T. L. DURHAM LEATHER BAGS! We have just received a large assortment of Under-Arm Leather Bags. On display. Prices from $2.50 to $6.00. Come in and see what we have. THOS. L. BELL, Inc. See Our Window Display. I LET US DO YOUR I I GINNING! I I IT WILL PAY I I YOU I I Farmers Cotton Oil CO. I Phone 92 I a lonely hotel room!” she answered. “My dear child, if you’d been tossed around the world as I’ve been for the last year or so, you’d have some idea of what ‘home’ means to me.” She unfolded her napkin and drained her glass of orange juicq before she went on: “I wish you’d seen the boarding house in Los Angeles that was my last stopping place!. . . .Dirty and old and smelly! And the meals! Oh Gloria, I wish you’d seen some of the meals!” She shuddered. "I thought Ulysses Forgan’s check never would come!” she cried. “I thought I’d have to stay in that horrible place forever!” She looked up at her friend and saw that her eyes had lost their griendly gleam. “Ulysses Forgan’s check?” Gloria repeated. “Why, how did you happen to be taking money from Ulysses Forgan?” May flushed. “I wasn’t taking money from him!”' she said, and two red spots of fiery indignation burned on her cheek-bones. “I simply asked him to lend me enough money to bring me home!” Gloria slowly shook her head. “I AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER still don’t understand why you bor rowed from him. Why couldn't you have asked Dick to send you mon ey?” she wanted to know. May shrugged her shoulders under the pink silk sleeves oGher bed jacket. “Oh, I don't know!” she said airily. “I just happened to think of Forgan!” “But you hardly know him!” “That’s true enough.” May admit ted, “But still. . . She dropped her eyes to her plate “But still. . , I know him well enough to have had U chance to. . . marry him!” I Gloria opened her big brown eyes | wide. “And you didn’t take him?” i she asked. May shook her head. “No. I liked j him too well,” she explained, “to hang myself around his neck like a mill-stone. • You know how people here treat me because of John's suicide!. . . .Like an outcast, don’t they?. . . And I couldn’t let Ulysses Forgan in on that!” “People don’t look upon you as an outcast,” Gloria contradicted. “Only the other day Lola Hough was, asking about you. All that talk about you has blown over. . .as talk always does! I’ll bet you anything you like that all your old friends would welcome you back here, if they knew you were here!” But May only laughed a little bit ter laugh. “I remember how Myra Gail welcomed me home the last time I met her on the street!” she said, “Refused to speak to me!” “Oh, well! Myra Gail’s such a snob that she never speaks decently to anybody, anyway,” Gloria said. “If she were presented at court, she’d.probably snub the king and tell the queen her crown was on crook ed.” “To get back to this Ulysses For gan matter," she went on after a minute of two, “How much did you borrow from him?” “Well,” Gloria knitted her brows. “You’ve got to borrow two hundred rpore from Dick, and pay Forgan. And you’ve got to do it today. It’s not decent for a woman to owe money to a man!” “Dick’s a man,”jjarred May. “Dick’s my husband, and I’m your friend. . .so that’s that!” said ■Gloria. She went out into the hall and called Dick from his breakfast “As soon as you get to the office, send a messenger boy out here with S2OO in cash, please,” she said, pre- HAND BAGS, SUIT CASES AND LEATHER POCKETBOOKS REPAIRED By N. R. Harris, Expert Workman Aluminum ware Free to Customers PHILLIPS CHAMPION SHOE AND HARNESS SHOP 11 1 E. 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It was still busy at three o’clock when he left the office to go to a business meeting a block away. “Doggone it!” he said, cramming his hat down over his eyes, and slip ping into his overcoat, “I don’t be lieve that phone’s really busy’. . . These telephone girls don’t know their business half the time!” But the telephone girl knew her business perfectly, as most tele phone girls dos And the Gregorys line was busy. For Gloria was calling up all of May’s old friqnds, including Myra Gail, to ask them to play bridge at a party she was giving for May “on next Thursday at two?’ To May’s surprise and to Gloria’s relief, all of them came, including Myra Gail. A little cold and cur ious they seemed at first. . .these women who had once been May's war mfriends. But as the afternoon wore on, and the lamps were lit to dispel the purple dusk of the' winter day, and tea made its appearance, they began to thaw and chatter in their natur al, light-hearted way. And May be gan to feel as if the cruel hands of Time had turned back two years, as if she were the careless, slangy May of the old days. . . the spoiled wife of the husband who adored her, the reckless woman who had let Jim Carewe lead her along the flower hung precipice of disaster. . . . How different she was now from that other May! How much more sober and quiet! ’ Life had tamed and taught her a thing or two, as it teaches us all a thing or 'two. . . “Now didn't it go beautifully?” cried Gloria delightedly when the door had closed upon the last guest “\ou see!. . . I told you people were ready to welcome you back to the fold, didn't I? And you see they were!.. . ” May didn’t answer, and she went on, with a knowing look in her clear eyes. “If we’d all just learn to meet people half way in this world, there wouldn’t be half the heart aches that there are. . .By the way, Dick and I are having ‘open house’ on Christmas Dayy. 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