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PAGE TWELVE ie BEGIN HERE TODAY VERA CAMERON is promot- ed to tie position of assistant to the new advertising manager of Peach Bloom Cosmetics, The first day she is in his of fica her boss, JERRY MACK- LYN hits upon the brilliant scheme of transtorming the plain looking Vva, with the aid of the company cosmetics, into a beauty, He proposes to photos graph her and to use her pice tures in the company advertis. ing, Vera is furious anl faves his office, resolved to resign. On her way down to lunch she sees a man in the elevator with whom she falls instantly in love, She overhears a conversation and learns his name is SOHUY- LER and that he is to spend the latter part of June at Lak: Min- netonka, Vera, suddenly obses- sed with the desive to be beau titul in timg for the Minnetonka in June, goes back to Jerry and tells him she has reconsidered, she submits reluctantly to Jer- ry's examination of her long braids of uninteresting hair, her mouth, her classic nose, and her freckles, He orders her to ve- move her glasses and she tells him she can see without them but fears eye-strain, He is elat. ed to learn she has sea-green eyes, In her ecstacy at the thought of becoming beautiful, Vera forgets the price she must pay until Jerry reminds her that they will visit the photographer ~..for the first picture at once, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER V "Well, what do you think, Miss Proctor? Am I crazy or can we make a howling beauty of this girl?' Jerry Macklyn demanded, his eyes darting from the embarrassed Vera to the cool, professionally pretty demons- trator of Peach Bloom Cosmetics, Miss Kitty Proctor cocked her boyish-bobbed heaa and surveyed Vera criticaly from head to toe with calculating but friendly black eyes, cunningly enlarged and brightened by Peach Bloom Star Lash. "Sure!" It will take a lot of work, but it can be done, I'd start right in with a course of facials PEN COPYRIGHT 1927 bf NEA Service \ first, using our Peach Bloom Skin Food and 1'each Bloom Bleach, to get rid of those freckles, you knawr, and to tone mp the skin, Her hair would have of be. bobbed, of course--"" «Oh! Vera wailed, her hands fly- ing to her Jong braids, as if to de- fend them wngainst vandals, "I'm' not th, bobb\ed-hair type--" "Oh, shut up! You don't know what type you are!" Jerry Macklyn interrupted her with brutal rude- ness, alleviated v.'ith one of his wide, grins, "Go on, Mi'ss Proctor, Shoot the works!" "And the color of Mer hair is ter- rible"" Miss Kitty Proctor continned, rihhling at a highly manicured fore- finger reflectively. 'We've got #, swell line of hair tint--"' "I won' have dyed hair!™ Vera cried passionately, *I--' "Will you shut up? Remembe fF, I'm your boss!" Jerry Macklyn com\- manded her sternly. "Wait a mink ute, Miss Proctor! Got something ti} show you! Found it in Stafford's' desk--"" He yanked open a drawer, rum- maged among a great stack of pie- tures and newspaper clippings, ut- tered an exclamation of triumph, and called Miss Proctor to his side, Vera saw that their heads. were bent over a clipping from the pages of a Sunday supplement, the kind that is printed on heavy glazed pa- per in four colors, and that special- izes In the reproduction of painted portraits of society women and of old masters, "There you are, Miss Proctor! There's your modal! Can we do it? Lord!" Jerry breathed reverently, "Look out or you'll he falling in love with a picture," Kitty Proctor giggled, Wonder who she is? Staf- ford cut off the caption." "One of those imported movie stars, I suppose," Jerry mused. "But I'll tell the world she's the slickest article I ever looked at! Green eyes too! That's what made me re- member the picture." "Aren't you going to let me see?" Vere demanded icily. "Your curiosity amazes me, I might even say it pains me," Jerry laughed, taking out his pocketbook dnrie Qustin li " SATURDAY, AUGUST 13,£1927 THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1927 CESS and depositing the pleture tenderly and reverently in one of its folds. "I know just the man to give her ignoring Vera as if she did not ex-| 1st. "With that picture to go by,| he can give her a permanent and a| bob that will make her look like' that girl's twin sister, Now, Mr. Macklyn, how are we going to work "Wa stunt? She's going to need a lot of work done on her, and 1 sup- pus she'll be busy durmg the day." "I should say she will!" Jerry agreed, "We're going to be snowed under with work, This is just one of my bright ideas, and I'm burst- ine with a million others. You're not going to put her out of com- wission, temporarily, while you work on her, are you?" he asked anxiously, "By the way, Miss Proe- tor, this whole thing is to be kept a dead secret until I'm ready to sub- mit my series to Canfield." 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Grape Nuts ..........17¢ pkg. | Post Toasties ......2 for 21c 55¢ jefPoscs Bran ............12¢ pkg, severe enieeeeeeont SOF 25 sas Catsup Quarts X7€ Botte 4% ! "TASTY" 0) Fruit Bread 14¢ Joas _ "BREAD ~ © kt Have you tried our Keen's Mustard 2.0%. one -13¢ tin 8oz. 49 tin The Mustard Puts the Taste Food that bob," Kitty Proctor told him, | confessed. "She'd tease the life out sidered, drawing her plucked brows into a thoughtful frown, "We'll lot the permanent and the bob go till the very last thing, so the bunch here won't get wise. Where do you live, Miss Cameron?" she whirled upon Vera, "With my aunt, at Seventy-ninth and Riverside Drive, But I don't want her to know a thing about it until I'm--I'm made ovep," Vera of me. Oh, I think the whole thing is silly and impnractical--" "Don't think so darned much," Jerry Macklyn frowned at her, "What were you going to suggest, Miss Proctor?" ; "Well, 1 don't know how it would strike Miss Cameron, but my gli friend, who has heen paying half the apartment rent, is in the hospi- tal with appendicitis, and I don't like to let her pay. She'll ba away for three or four weeks, and I was just thinking that if Miss Cameron would like to hide out while she's getting her treatments I could let her have my gir! friend's room and 1 could give her the treatments my- self. I've got a lot of beauty parlor equipment in my place." "How long would it take? Vera asked weakly, "Well, Kitty Proctor considered, "those freckles aren't going to come off in one night, and your hands and nails and skin need a lot of work. I should say it could be done in three weeks, if you put yourself absolutely in my hands. Of course you'd go right on working during the day, and about all anyone would notice would be that your complexion was clearing up. At the end of that time you could get your permanent and your bob, and be all ready to step out as a new person. You'll he new all right, I can guarantee that, And if I de- cide to peel your face--" 'Peel it?" Vera quavered, "Oh, it doesn't hurt, and it's much quicker than the bleach pack. You'd have to stay in the house for three days. but I guess Mr. Macklyn could manage without you from Friday night to Tuesday morning." "All right," Vera gasped and took the plunge. "I'll do it. [I'll move to your apartment tonight, if that's convenient for you. I'll have to see my aunt first--"" When Kitty Proctor had scribbl- ed her address upon a sheet of Peach Bloom Company stationery, she thrust out a friendly hand and gripped Vera's cold fingers cordial- ly. "Don't you worry, honey. It's go- ing to he great fun. You're not go- ing to jail, you know. And remem- her this--a million girls and wom- en in these good old United States would he glad to pay a thousand dollars for what you're going to get free, gratis, for nothing." But when Jerry Macklyn jammed his hat on his head and told her briskly that it was time for them to hustle over to the photographer who was to make the first picture of the series, Vera Cameron real- ized with sickening thoroughness that her "beautification" was not to be "free, gratis, for nothing." She woudld pay and pay and pay, In soul-searing humiliation every time her pictured face stared up at her from the glossy pages of a maga- zine, *I must be erazy," she moaned to herself, after the photographer had made half a dozen pictures of her bespectacled, freckled, unpowdered, braid-crowned head. "If anyone had told me yesterday that I would consent to let my face be used to advertise cosmetics 1 would have been arrested later for assault and battery." When Vera and Jerry left the photographer's studio, she turned to him anxiously. "Mr. Macklyn when do you plan to--to run this pew series of--advertisements?" She had to drag out the words and her tongue felt burnt with them "Oh, not before fall. Why? Anxious to see yourself in print?" be chuckled. "Anxious!" She echoed "Irn be so ashamed that [I'll probably commit suicide when they do come out." "Say, wait a minate!" Jerry Macklyn laid a hand on her arm, and halted her in the lobby of the Fifth Avenue building, "If you really don't want your pictures to be used. why are you going through with this stunt. It's not too late you know, to back out--" "J can't back out!" Vera 171d him desperately. "Tuerg's a reason--- but I can't tell you--"" "Take off those windowpanes." Jerry ordered her zruffy. "I want to see what your eves look like when you ery. Here'" And regard less of passersby who eyed them curiously, he reached up and yanked off her spectacles for the second time that memorable day. Vera's green eyes shimmered at him behind a masnifying jiens of tears. "Whew!" Jerry Macklva whis- tled, whipping out a handkerchief and mopping his suddenly damp brow. "I know mow Why You wore those goggles! You had a decent, womanly pity for poor susceptible males." "Are you susceptible?" Vera sur- prised herself by asking. "Did vou ever see a red-headed Irishman who wasn't?" Jerry re- torted: "But say, youug woman. why didn't you tell me the truth in the first place--that you were in love with another chap that yom wanted to hook with the fatal beau- ty I promised you?" "Why should I have told won that. even if it had been true?" Vera demanded. "Why? You ask me whv'" Jerry oroaned 'with mock Ditterness "Here I get all set to turn you into my own ideal of feminine beauty and you floor me with the news that it's all for seweone else. Is that mnice--now I ask you?" "I thought i* was all for the Taneh Rinaw Cosmetics Company," Vera laughed. place," Jerry urged her glumly, Vera's heart wus wickedly light when she took her seat before her desk again, Automatically she ad- justed her spectacles after Jerry had slammed the door upon him: self in his private office, and begam to type fast and furiously on the last of the letters that her new boss had managed to dictate between the more exciting events of that extra- ordinary day. Outwardly she was the same girl who had entered the offices of the Peach Bloom Company that morn- ing. But the extent to which she had changed inwardly could have been accurately guaged by a mind reader. For Vera Cameron was say- ing to herself, while her mouth dimpled and her green eyes spar- kled behind her yellow-tinted spec- tacles: "Let him take all the silly pie- tures he wants to! I'll vamp him into not running them! It will be good practice. I'll need It if I'm going to be ready for Schuyler by the middle of June. Schuyler-- dear!" (To Be Continued) Vera decides to take a few lessons from her aunt in the art of capti- vating men, She has her first one in the next chapter, SCARBORO GOLFER QUALIFIES FOR JR. WESTERN HONORS Chicago, Aug. 16,--Alex, Carrick, of Scarhoro, Ont., qualified today for the Western junior amateur golf cham- pionship over the well-trapped Indian Hill course. Tomorrow the thirty-two who qualified will start three days of match play to decide the title, Car- rick had a score of B81, going out in 40 and coming back in 41, Gordon Taylor, York Downs, failed to get into the championship fight. With twelve others he scored an 82, which was the qualifying figure, In Davidson & Samells "For Better Shoe Values" Fine "Shits: x 91,00 Reg, $2.50 to $3.00 C. 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