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THE BORGER DAILY HERALD
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Wednesday, august 3, 192i.
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1927 bi NEA Service
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"I haven't any sex appeal." Vera, acknowledged bitterly
CHAPTER IX
"This is more than [ had bargained
for,'' Jerry'Macklyn grinned at Vera
Cameron and her aunt. Flora Cart-
wright, seated side by side on the liv-
ing room couch. "I've finished my
job 1 said I'd turn you into a beau-
ty, Miss Cameron, if the Peach Bloom
cosmetics were any good, and I've
done it. I don't know where you
got the idea that I could give you
any pointers on how to be fatal to
men, as Mi's. Cartwright puts it."
"Nonsense. Jerry Macklvn," Flo-
ra cut in gaily.
"in the first place," Jerry began
seriously, "every man likes a pretty
girl, the prettier the better. You're
more th'in pretty now. Vee-Vee: you
are beautiful. But just beauty alone
won't set you very far. You've got
to have charm and-—er—sex apv-
peal if you want to have men flut
teriiig around you."
"! —I haven't any sqn appeal,"]
Vera acknowledged bitterly.
"How do you know you haven't?"'
Jerry challenged her. "You haven't
given youc poor, little S. A a chance.'
You went around looking like an old j
maid settoll teacher with "Keep off:
the grasj" signs plastered ali over
you." ,
"I have certainly tried to keep,
niy business relationships on an im-
personal basis. Any girl who uses the
lure of sex to advance herself in an
office is beneath contempt," Vera
retorted angrily.
Flora Cartwright clapped lierj
smal hands and laughed deliciously. :
"Hear. hear!" Jerry roared, j
' Wait now, don't fly off the handle! •
You wanted to know walit kind of aj
girl a ma A falls in love with. I'll i
toll you -the kind of a sir! who nev-1
er in the world would pull a line
like that "
"Oh. I know what you're going to
say." Vera moaned. "You're going
to pull tlie ancient wheeze that men
don t like girls who have brains.
Beautiful but dumb'"
"That's just where you're wrong,"
Jerry tomiuuicled her triumphantly
Its 110 credit to a man if a dumb
Dora falls for him. He has an un-
easy suspicion thai she hasn't sense
enough to know what a prize she's
drawn What a man likes is a gir!
with beB-utj charm and brains e-
iiougli to I'oncenl the fact, that sh"
has more brains than he has. Your
one big trottbi' . Vee-Vee. is going to
be that you are so darned clevi i !
You make every man you work with
feel like an ignoramus, who ought'
to be fired so that you could havej
his joi>." '
"Did I make you feel that way?"
Vera demanded indignantly.
"Did you?" Jerry echoed. "Why,;
it's been all I could do to keep my-
self from running to tlie old man'
and siiynig, 'Canfield. I'm licked. I'm j
through. And I'm a dirty dog for,
holding down a job that rightfully
belongs to somebodk else. Make.
I Miss Cameron advertising manager,1
! Canfield. She knows more about ad
your heart: Every person in the; be to
world can teach you something; ev-l mature
ery person has at least a modicum I world!
or charm or lovableness ing the
ry?"
At any rate, here's my proposition-
take it or leave it! I'll beau you a-
round for throe weeks. We'll dine
together, go to theatres, dance, play
golf on Saturday afternoons and Sun-
days. And all the time I'll coach
you in the ways of a woman with a
man."
"Where do I come in, Jerry Mack-
lvn?" Flora demanded indignantly.
"I suppose that it was understood
that I was to be a member of the
charm >ichool, tco."
"Why not make it a foursome a-
bout half the lime? You and Peter,
Vee-Vee and I? The kid needs ex-
ample as well as direct Instruction,
and ( know of no more competent
graduate of the charm school than
Flora Cartwright!"
"Does it always have to be Pe-
ter and me. you and Vee-Vee?" Flo-
ra gave him a slow tantalizing smile
"Oh, we'll switch partners now
and then, so Vee-Vee can practice
on young Peter " Jerry assured her
innocently. "What do you say,
Vee-Vee?"
Before the girl could answer the
doorbell shrilled. Flora flew to an-
swer it, throwing a gay comment over
her shoulder: "I told Peter to stay
nway, but I knew be couldn't do it.
1 don't know what I'm going to
do with the poor infatuated infant
But it was not Peter. It was
the uniformed elevator boy. deliv-
ering au immense box of (lowers.
"l'eter is so extravagant," Flora
murmured, a pleaded smile playing
over her face. Then suddenly her
smile was wiped out; Jer blue eyes
turned to ice. "It's for you, Vera.
From Peter, I suppose. I think,
Jerry," she turned to the embar-
rassed young man, "that your time
could be spent lo belter advantage skin
In tea lib ing a passe middle-aged wo-
man how to hold her suitors. Vee-
Vee doesn't seem to bo in any ur-
gent ueed of instruction."
Flora flashed an April smile at
Jerry over Vee-Vee's shoulder. "I've
been so bored with poor, dear Pe-
ter. I'm glad he's at last taken
•no' for an answer
know, Jerry, what a
of us known he's wild about you and
that he's been rushing you like
mad. I saw you tit Smallwood's
and that the Manhusset Yiicht. Club
with him--."
"lm not engaged to Mr. Mack-
ly 11, Rosemary," Veo-eVe interrupt-
ed her rather sharply. "I have 110
strings on him at all. You can
spend Hie entire two weeks I'm
gone vamping him if you want to/
And -good luck to you!"
"Ob. thanks. Vee-Vee! 1 think
he's simply precious. Is lie a good
dancer?"
"Divine," Vee-Vee said curtly.
"But he's a dictator. It's till 1 can
do lo lake his letters when lie's
working at high tension. And he
has a most annoying habit of do-
ing most 01' dictating around four
o'clock, anil expert in«? every lellei
to be written before his secretary
leaves. I'm just warning you," she
worse She hud Just enough money
left to pay for two weeks In tile
Mlunetonka Hotel-. She had been
so frantically busy getting ready
for her sortie into the world of
idleness and fashion in search of
the man she had fallen in love
of ail plain, dowdy, freckled girl,
her eyes goncealed by horn-rimmed
spectacles, and, ill amazing con-
trast, 11 picture of Vera Cameron
after the miracle had been wrought
—a hrcqthtftkingly beautiful girl.
Jerry's cheerful voice boomed 011,
silence:
with, that she had not had time tojignoring her dismayed
be frightened before. Now that she I "And' here arc proofs on the booklet
was ready to go a black swarm of [that w ill be mailed to every
fours swooped down upon her.
squeezing al her heart. sending
prickles of goose-flesh all over her
body. What if "Schuyler" had
changed bis mind, was not at the
Minnetonka after all? What a tool
slie would have made of herself!
How Jerry Maeklyii Would laugh at
her if she came back, penniless and
defeated! And even If "Schuyler"
woman
| in tell social register, from New
' Vork to San Francisco, and dis-
tributed free by every retailer of
'Poach Bloom cosmetics. Wrote It
! myself, and if I do say so as
shouldn't, it's a wow! 'The Ugly
Duckling: A Modern Fairy Story'"
lie quoted with relish. "Tells the
' whole story of how a homely, un-
' attractive stenographer was turned
was
she have to suppose, for one insane
momcni, thai she could make him
desire her above all other women-
added chsubIIj , turning back toi women o: his own set, women ol
her desk so that Rosemary should J wealth, fashion and charm? And
nol hae a chance to futh'm tlie I weren't the chances pretty strong
expression in her green eyes. in favor of Ills already being mar-
"You can't scare me off." Ros.-jried? Me
mary laughed. "Goodbye. Vee-Vee ami most
at Minnetonka, what right did 1 into the prettiest girl in the United
must be at least thirty,
eligible moil are not al-
dcar. Have a good time but don't
hurry back."
When Rosemary had gone Vera
Cameron begun to open and
the drawers of her desk, her
a chaos of emotions. A11 Hour ago
she had been so happy in the real-
ization that the ISth of June hud
finally arrived. The goal for which
she had striven for six mad, tnir-
tvle-working weeks was just ahead.
tier reservation had been made for
a room and bath at the expensive
exclusive Minnetonka olliel. I'er
railroad and Pullman tickets were
snugly secure in her new lizard-
handbags. Two wardrobe i yours
were already packed and j of a
checked through to Luke Minui
lowed to reach thirty without being
trapped into marriage.
What a fool, what a fool she was!
clenched bands
gov
id. Into
smiling
tonka.
She whispered
"Schuyler!" But for
to evoke his image,
with fright
tiling she
name
t he
oner
She sat, cold
at the utiormily of the
had done. Intoxicated
close j-sho beat hei
mind ; against lie desk.
"Hello, there! All set to
Vee-Vee looked up. slartl
Jerry Macklyn's broadly
ruddy face.
"Nearly read) she replied, ris-
ing. "I'm glad you got back before
i left. Rosemary Fitch was in
she brought me a tlvq-pound box
of candy from Mr. Canfield—"
• Cot the old man "going too?"
Jerry chuckled. "This vamping of
in assuming the proportions
scandal. I've been to the
printer's got proofs on those
ads and the booklets. It looks
great better even that I'd hoped.
it failed ! You photograph !!!•
in a minute ftlian I do
I ,
vertising
iu a year.' "
"Why don't you?"
"Because, doggone you." Jerry
shouted at her, "when r get as far
as Canfi Id's ot'ice I run into little
Rosemary Fitch who flutters those
china-blue eyes at nie and looks up
at me as if she thinks I'm Apollo,
Lothario and Valentino all rolled in-
to one. My idlest swells so that my
vest liuttons pop off and i go back
to my office all primed up to show
the world what a great guy I am."
you haven't Rose-
secretary," Vera
of interest or charm
tor you, and it is up to you to dis
cover it. When you meet a man—a
woman, either, for that matter, but
we happen to be talking of men-
look at him with joyous expectancy,
look glad to meet him—"
"Shall 1 adopt this attitude toward
every man I meet?" Vee-Vee dimp-
liini. "1 should thinETAOlNSHRDL
led, widening her green eyes at him.
"I should think it might causc com-
plications—"
"It does," Flora
ed. "Remember,
been married four
tainlv does make
"I only want, to
me to associate with a clever,
man. a real man of the
We'll have great fun watch-
youngsters, won't we, Jer-
You don't 1 with her new beauty beaut;, made
relief it will' possible by Jerry Macklyn- — she had
pity
as
Jerry agreed, "grin-
'But the old mail
yo it
"What a
mary Fitch
snapped. |
"Yes. isn't it':
Ring broadly.
beaa me to her. and 01' course
are useful to have around. Now, lis-
ten. there's one thing that you don't
know but lhat you've got to learn
then you can forget everything else
I'll bet you can tell her what it. is,
Mrs Cartwright." Jerry turned to |
Flora, who was looking a little for-
lorn at being so persistently ignored.
"Call me Flora. Jerry." she bright-
ened instantly. "Of course I can. It
is the beauty creed: '1 believe tha.1 i tht
I am utterly beautiful and desira-
ble. I believe that no man can lool,
upon me without pleasure and with-
0111 desire.' "
Perfect!" Jerry applauded.
laughed and sigh-
darling. I have
times! But it cer-
life interesting!"
be married once,
and I want to stay married to him
forever," Vee-Vee said softly.
Jerry's bright blue eyes contract-
ed a little as if with pain, and the
ruddy rolod in his cheeks paled no-
ticeably. "Well, that's certainly de-
finite enough, my dear pupil." he
grinned ruefully. "What sort of
man is. he?"
"Well." Vee-Vee flushed.
say he is extremely handsoni'
let us
young
of mi
of his
Jerry Macklyn rumpled his In-
credible red hair with a distracted
hand, looked as If he were about
to run for Ills life: then a pair of
emerald eyes flashed a provocative,
challenging glance at him, an ador-
able mouth dimpled, and lie mut-
recklessly, niaguilicently. "shot her
bank roll" lo dress that beauty us
it deserved.
Well she drew a deep, quivering
brei'.th that betrayed her panic
it was done now. for belter or
a 111 i 11 ion dol-
jou're going to be famous from
Portland to Port land when these
ads of "The Peach Bloom Gill"
come out. Ziegfeld and the movie
producers will lie wiring
name
and to offer you
els—here, look!"
Jerry spread a series
proofs across the lop o
Two photographs stared
from each of the pages
us for you
staggering
if printer's
her desk,
up at her
a picture
States -the Poach Bloom Girl her-
self. That booklet alone will sell
millions of dollars worth of Peach
Bloom Cosmelics, or I'm a liar, or
a fool that doesn't know the llritl
principles of the advertising game.
Vera clenched her icy hands to
keep them from seizing upon the
sheets and tearing them to bits.
Then, made reckless by desperation,
she took a quick step toward Jerry
Macklyn, laid her hands on bin
shoulders, raised her pale lace, wllli
its tear-luminous green eyes and
implored hint:
"Jerry, don't humiliate me lllto
1 his! l'leuso, Jerry, I couldn't hear
I it to have my picture broadcast
for people to laugh at and joke
about—oh. can't you see how it
would humiliate nie'.1 I'd rather
die. Jerry "
i Jerry Macklyn reached for her
hands, held them in a grip thai hurt
her. lint, his face was grim and his
blue eyes were suddenly like cold
steel. "I'll tear up these ads -on
i one condition, Vera! "
Color flamed in her cheeks She
I struggled 10 ideas') her bandit. "And
iliat- is?'
"That you give up your trip to
Lake Minnetonka!"
(To lie Continued)
Will cVe-Vcc recognize what is ill
Jerry Mackl.wi's mind, mid give up
her trip lo Luke Minneloiiku? Heinl
lb)' next chuplcr. ,
Ror Results Advertise
tered
Lord!
for ?
weakly, "Great fun! Good
What have 1 let myself in
You forgot 10 say that I'd
conceited little wretch that
woman would want to murder,'
Vee snapped
"You get me all wrong."
protested. "I don't want "you
self-conscious and conceited
i old family," She was thinking
] name, "Schuyler."
"If he's all that,' Jerry frowned,
while Flora's blue eyes watched him
narrowly, "he's used to having girls
and women hurl themselves at his
head It will take very special tac-
tics-to land a big fish like that. Your
cue is to act indifferent, to concen-
trate 011 every other desirable man
in the hotel, so that you can speed-
ily show him that competition for
favor of Vee-Vee Cameron is of
the keenest, that it will lie no snide
job for him to horn in 011 even a
FcrSp of your much sought-after
lime. Listen, Vee-Vee. we can't get
! very far with these lessons in charm
CHAPTER X
It was Saturday, June IS. and
half past t waive o'clock Vera
Cameron was regarding with humor-
ous dismay the array of packages
which almost covered the flat top
of her desk when Rosemary Fitch
entered, carrying a large parcel.
"Hello. Vee-Vee! It won't lie
long now! Aren't you thrilled 10
tears at the thought of being away
from work uuiil after the Fourth?
time, in the memory of the oldest
Mere's a vacation gift from Mr.
Canfield, and my dear. It's the first
inhabitant, that Stephen M. Can
! field ever gave a girl a box of can-
dy 011 her departure tor a vijca-
! Hon. Five pounds! I'm staggering
under the load!"
• "Isn't he a dear?" Vee-Vee
laughed. "Everyone has been
marvelous to me. Just look!
j French perfume, a complete kit of;
Pencil Bloom Cosmetics with my
i initials in gold, from Mr. Benliam.j
1 you know: five boxes of candy,
three boxes of flowers, half a dozen
'of the new hooks oh, I never
be a . just sitting and talking things over,
''very I've got a better scheme than that.
Vee- You've got three more weeks to get
ready for your campaign, haven't
Jerry . you ? You'll need practice. Suppose
to be 1 you t,ake me 011 as a substitute sweet-
in 1 he I heart for three weeks—
usual meaning of the words. But I "Jerry, don't be an idiot!" Flora
I do want you to radiate beauty, to j cried sharply, with a warning flash
make every person you come in con of her blue eyes at Vera. "That'*
tact i'. itli realize your beamy be-J dangerous business and you know it."
cause von wear it like royal cloak i "Of course I do," Jerry Macklyn
And here's one otbe- rhing for yoi j admitted grimly. "Maybe I want
to tell yourself and believe with all I it. 10 be dangerous—for Vee-Vee
laughed, a
mean men,
1 of these
from girls?
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.dreamed people could be so sweet
i Kosemarj."
"People?" Rosemary
little maliciously. "You
don't ycu? •How mud
marvelous presents are
Not one. I'll bet my week's salary."
"You win!" Vee-Vee laughed.
"I, for one. am glad you're goins
awav, even if it Is for only two
weeks." Rosemary confessed. "And
gladder still lhat the old man is
being dragged 01T to Europe by his
daughters. I suppose Jerry—Mr
Macklyn—has told you that I'm to
be his secretary while you're away.
You can stay as long as you like,
Vee-Vee. Don't hurry back 011 my
account!"
Vera was startled by the pang of
jealousy that contracted her heart.
"He's a decent sort lo work for.
Rosemary, hilt I'm afraid you'll find
! it's a pretty heavy hot weather job
II never saw such a flen dfor work."
"You see in to have stood up
under it pretty well." ilosema'"
Fitch retorted. "As I've told you a
dozen limes. I never saw anything
like your transformation. Voe-Vc"
I'll never forget lhat first day that
you came down, with your lialr
In lilted and iu lhat gorgeous en-
semble suit Not a soul in ilie or-
ganization recognized you iteiucm
her how Ruth Hall thought vou
were Mr. Macklyn's new secret aiv
and told you all about Vera Catn-
| eron, I he girl who used lo work
for him? I thought I'd die, il was
j so funny!"
| "I remember,'' Vee-Vee m knowl-
ledged. her mouth tightening II
j wax—very funny. Will you thank
Mr Canafleld for me. Rosemary?
j I'm afraid I won't have lime to
| write him a note. I've sol a thou-
j sand things to do before inv train
j leaves tonight." she hinted, pray-
ing that jealous little Rosemary
j would leave,
"In Jerry-Mr. Macklyn -in"
Rose ma rj" dropped her voice lo n
j whisper an she glanced toward tin:
closed door of Jerry's private otfi •
"No, lie's at the printer's. But
It'nt expecting him back by one
o'clock. He wanted to see me lie
fore I left'.'' Vee-Vee answered,
busying herself at her desk.
"Where are you going on your
vacation, Vee-Vee?" Rosemary
asked.
"Thai's n secret." Vee-Vee smiled.
''I'm not telling anyone."
"The girls say you've been spend-
ing all your noon hours shopping,
and that Jerry has given you three
half days off, In addition to Satur-
day afternoons," Rosemary per-
sisted. "Vou must lie going lo
Newport or to Hollywood to get
Into the movies. I wouldn't blame
you a bit. You're the most stun-
ning thing I ever saw. with that
gorgeous copper-colored hair and
those green eyes. ILsteu, -eVe,
will you tell me one thing? Are
you engaged to Jerry Macklyn' All
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