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"There's somethin' I'd rather
ypu'd do. 'Twould help an awful
lot tf you would do it," Ivy ur
gently added.
"What is it?"
Eve asked tjie question with
out suspicion. Her mln,d was cen
tered on the girl's condition —
surely a serious one for a danc
er. Ivy's next words startled her.
"It's my job," she muttered.
"I'm goln' to lose It; that's all."
"Oh!" I'm sorry!"
"Yep. Jike said he didn' wana
be hard on me but he couldn't
be left In the lurch again. So the
iiex' time I didn't come or send
a substitoot, it would be the air
for mine.' '
" I see"
Eve saw with a clearness that
made her wince. Evidently Miss
Davenport expected a great deal
from her fellow beings. She
would not have been surprised
if this stranger In her room,
having put her to bed and eased
her pain, now announced her In
tention of substituting for her at
the cabaret and at once departed
to do so. She hersejf had al
ready shown that she was a
friend In need. Probably her as
sociates were the kind that did
that sort of thing ; . . But Jake's
To dance at Jake'sf Eve felt
that she Jiad a definite limita
tions and that one of them had
been reached.
"You oughtn't to talk," she
restlessly pointed out.
"If you'd go up there and re
port to Jake, you could bluff
your way through the dances,"
Ivy hurried on. "You'd go fine
The other girls 'd help you." if
you tol' 'em what it meant. The
fellas would too. They're all my
frien's. They'd see you weren't
put up against it, 'cause they'd
know you was trying to help me.'
"But good heavens, I can't —"
Eve became conscious of her
tone and checked her words, ap
palled This girl had come to her
days ago offering her a job - be
cause she believed her to be
down and out. Now it was clear
ly up to her to recipocate. The
demand was a wild one, of
course hut she was the last hu
man being who should fail any-
Hamllton —of the swfit willing
ness with which he had come to
one in trouble. She thought of
her help in her crisis. She could
never repay him, but here was a
kindness he had shown her. This
chance to pass on the mercy and
bread and butter. As for herself
she could stand Jake's for one
girl's job was at stake, her very
night, whatever possibilities
Jake's might hold.
She leaned over the bed. iu
which Ivy lay fn exhaustion of
extreme pain.
"Tell me what you want me
to do." she said kindly, "and I'll
try to do it. What bluff must I
make?' '
She was rewarded by the look
in the other girl's face as she
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struggled to her elbow.
"There's nothing to it," she
said eagerly. "Even if you can't
dance all the dances —an' I'm
bettin' you can—it'll help If you
just go there and tell Jake how
t'is, an' offer to take my place
Talk to him first, then go to the
dresin' room. Ask for Queenle
Morris. She's Jake's head host
ess. She's my pal too, an' the
best of the lot. She'll do the rest"
"I understand. But . . . you're
quite sure Jake's place is all
right?"
The girl in the bed was spent
by the effort of talking as much
as she had done, but she rallied
to this question.
"I'll tell tfhe world it is," she
brought out. "Don't you get no
idee of white-slave stuff. There's
nothin' like it at Jake's. Straight
business on the level, good eats,
good a prellty good crowd
—an' Jimmy Murphy on the spot
to throw out rough ones. It ain't
a club. 'Most anyone can get, in
but they can't stay in 'less the'y
behave. The get
three dollars for the night and
a* five-cent card fer every dance
they give visitors .besides their
tips. You'll get that to-night, of
course. All I'm worrying about
is to hold my place for the win
ter. See what I mean?"
Eve could not lielp wondei-ing
how on a few dollars a night
! Miss Davenport's income ran in
to apartments, silk lingerie, ov- 1
erstuffed furniture, and painted
beds.'As if the sick girl had read
the thought she hurried on: j
"You'll knock down six or
eight dollars a night without
tryin'. I make ten or twelve. J
Any guy that's a real guy'll slip'
you a dollar or two for dancin'j
wit lihim a lot, 'specailly if he
lands on your feet most of the
time. An' there's supper, too.-
Say—" she asked the question
with sudden anxiety—"you got
anything to wear?"
Eve looked at her blankly.
"No. I didn't bring an even
ing dress."
"Then take one of mine, any
you like. Yon an tne's about the
same size. But hurry. That clo
set . . . see?"
Eve huried. and selected the
least flamboyant of Mis» Daven
port's several dancing gowns—
a fairly simple creation in white
and silver.
"The slippers to match is on
the top shelf."
* Eve found the slippers with
out difficulty. Evidently Miss
Davenport-had a sense of order.
They were a trifle large, but,
like the gown, they passed mus
ter. Ivy. blue-white around the
moutli approved the result and
Eve also received from the long
mirror in the living rtfom the as
surance that it was not bad.
, "I only got one evening wrap"
Ivy confessed, "but it goes with
most everything," R did.
"Do I have to dance with eve
ry one that asks me?" Eve in
quired, when she was ready to
leave.
Ivy looked at her with a flick
er in her pain filled eyes.
"Say havn't you never been in
a cabaret?" As Eve did not? reply
she answered the question:
'"Course you got to dance with
'em if you want to make a hit.
The big features Is the program
dances, but the men i 9 there to
have a good time, an" you got
ta help. If they ain't perfect
gentlemen you tip the wink to
Jimmy and he gives 'em the air.
But its like I told you," she add
ed more faintly. "You do what I
said. If you can't dance or don't
wanta, they'll help you out.
They're my frien's," she weakly
continued.
Within the next hour, when
she had reached Jake's, Eve dis
covered that Miss Davenport bad
not overrated hei popularity.
Jake was In the fastness of
his private offive, a 'small parti
tioned retreat off the main room.
Eve's modest request to see him
combined with the mention of
Miss Davenport's name, procur
ed an immediate audience with
lilrn.
He was dressed in immaculate
evening clothes and his brilliant
!ned hair clung to his head like
thick black paste. He turned up
on her the unwinking gaze of
two remote black eves and wait
ed for what she had to say.
"I've come to substitute for
Miss Davenport." Eve explained.
"S'matter 'ith her?"
"She's sick.'
"Againeh?"
The personal charm as set
forth by Miss Davenport, was es
caping Eve thus far.
"'S'ure name?" he ended.
"Berson.'" Eve had decided to
accept Miss Davenport's version.
"S'ure address?"
"The same as her's."
"Know howt' dance?"
"Miss Davenport says I do. I
can't do solo work, but I think
I can get along in the other dan
ces."
"S'ope so. Awright. Report t*
s' Morris." *
Eve followed to Its end the
narrow passage he had indicat
ed, guided by tile sound of
voices. The door of a room at
the right was yawning sligl&ly,
and at a glance through the op
ening suggested ,that there was
her destination. Half a dozen
girls in evening gowns occupied
its limited space, space lending
themselves to various occupation
holding a-hand glass and tourii
ing up an already striking facial
One, in the only easy chair sat
color scheme. A second was
ginning of a run in the t/bp of
down on a knee, sewing the bo
fluffed her bobbed hair before a
one of her stockings. A third
full-length mirror, and the re
maining three, were smoking
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and resting. Eve tapped the door
panel and waited on the thres
hold. No one answered, so she
pushed the door wide.
"Pardon. Where shall I find
the head hostess—Miss Morris?"
sh.e asked.
The girl who was jewing the
stocking run raised her eyes
from the absorbing task.
"Right here," she said bru
squely. Her manner implied that
she could endure "runs" but not
Irterruptions.
"Miss Davenport told me S®
come to you," Eve explained.
"She's sick.' '
"Again!" Miss Morris's excla
mation held more sympathy than
Jake's, and she added briskly,
"Gawd! the poor kid!""
"I'm substituting- for her,"
Eve continued with a smile. "At
least, I'm t/ylng to."
The information interested all
the girls. Miss Morris nodded.
"Fine." 'she said heartily,
"stick around till I finish this
damned thipg. and I'll put you
wise to you gotta do."
Eve entered the crowded
room. One of the smokers spoke
languidly.
"W'at's eatin'. Ivy?" she want
ed to know. "Same ol't'ing?' '
She was a tall girl with green
eyes, a superb figure, regular
features, and red hair cut) as
closely as Jakes. She had a loko
of distinctin, a voice as harsh
and shrill as a Russian's, and
her acceiit was the one heard in
New York's lowest East Side
slums.
"Yes. She says she's had such
attacks before."
They're the things she ain't got
"I'll tell the woild «ehe has.
nothin' else but. I'm wondering
how long Jake'll stand for it."
the tall girl drawled.
"Don't strain your mind tryin"
.to think, Maizie. But if you real
stand for it as long as Ivy can
ly wanta know, I'll say
dance better tha nthe best of us.
You ain't feeling up to Ivy's ac
robatic waltz yourself, are .you?"
Miss Morris. Queenie, having
Eve decided that she liked
thus suppressed Maizie. and also
conquered the run, now felt up
to other duties. She rose, shook
out her skirt, cast a critical
glance at the reflection of her
legs in the long mirror, and turn
ed -to the new-comer, prepared
to give her undivided attention
"Set down," she Invited.
"Here Stealla, don't be a pig!"
She siezed the legs of the girl
called Stella, a tired looking and
plain faced young person who
was lying full length on the
room's one couch and swung
them to the floor. Stella retriev
ed the cigarette dislodged from
her lips by tihe briskness of this
maneuver, and gloomily huddled
in the couch's top corner. Miss
Morris pressed the visitor into
part of the vacated space and
fitted herself into what was left.
"Whati's your label?" she said.
"Berson."
"New in the business?"
"Yes."
"I thought 60." Miss Morris
had the air of one adjusting her
shoulders to a burden. "Well
things don't light up here till
the theater crowd blows in," she
resumed, "and that ain't for ten
or fifteen minutes yet."
(Continued Next Week)
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"THE HACK BONK'
The center-pole of the human
"circus-tent" flippantly speaking,
a column of vertebrae set one
upon another, and bound togeth
er by the toughest and most dur
able tissue known.
Its outstanding puposes are
first to provide a very secure
housing for that most important
major bundle of nerves called
the spinal cord; it is a housing
which is almost invulnerable a
gainst outside influence, and
only the most violent force can
break its continuity. Second, it
must permit motion necessary
for almost every phase of hu
man aetivity, which respect it
is certainly a marvel of divine
construction'. It is built to stand
a hundred yearß of active service
—a thing no human contrivance
can do. 1
I believe the human lumbar
spine is the most powerful ani
mal structure of which we have
knowledge.
And yet, there are individuals
who suppose that the segments
called vertebrae sItTT about and
become "luxated" as easily as
would a string of spools. the
plaything of a of the
seamstress. And, I have mqt peo
ple who Honestly believed that
all diseases of men and women
are caused by the spinal verte
brae slipping from their hard
and-fast moorings; and that' all
such ailments can b4 put-to rout
by the proper replacement of the
"sliped" vertebrae!
And. I know a good many peo
ple who won't believe anything
of the kind—being one myself;
I wouldn't want my vertebrae
skidded around, even if such a
thing were possible; in tact, a
great Creator fashioned man so
as to keep that very thing from
being done.
Nevertheless, there is good in
everything—including a sock in
the spine. A sudden Impact a
gainst the locality of a nerve
trunk is a valuable stimulant in
certain conditions; I have seen
good done that way. hence do
not condemn the intelligent use
Leyden-jar spark—in fact any
of the short-arm jolt, or the
thing used with capable under
standing.
HIGH SPOTS IN
BAILEY'S LIFE
Raleigh, .June 11. —High
spot si 1 nthe career of Josiah
Wlllaim Bailey, Raleigh at
torney and Democratic nomin
ee as Uinted States Senator:
Bor nat Warrenton, N. C.
56 years ago. son o fDr. C. T.
Bailey, editor Bibical Record
er.
Graduated from Wake For
est College.
Editor Biblicel Recorder,
succeeding his father, from
1898 to 1907.
Made first political speech
in 1898.
Was leader In State figbt
for prohibition.
Presidential elector-at*
large in 1908.
Led fight for Senator Sim
mons in 1912 against Gover
nor W. W. Kitchen and Chief
Justice Walter Clark.
Led fight for Woodrow Wil
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State Collector Internal Rev
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Married Miss Edtih Pou of
Raleigh.
In 1924 he was defeated
for Governor by A. W. Mc-
Lean.
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Alfred E. Smith.
June 7, 1930, nominated
United Sattes Senator.
260 OF EACH 1000
COMPLETE SCHOOL
Raleigh. June 11.—Of every
1,000 pupils entering the public
schools of the nation for the
first time, only 260 are finally
graduated from high school, ac
cording to a study of survival
rates made by the office of Edu
cation, Washington, D. C., and
recently issue din a bulletin.
Making allowance for dupli
cation, the bulletin says, it is
now estimated that of an origin
al 1,000 entering the'public
schools for the first time, 855
reach the seventh grade, 610 the
first year of high school, 438
reach the second year, 321 reach
the third year, 268 reach the
fourth year, and 260 finally
graduated from high school.
The study did not embace sur
vival rates by years beyond high
school but pointed out that a
conservative estimate for the
year would indicate that 160 ot
the original 1,000 entered col
lege and 50 graduated. The av
erage length ot public school life
is just a little beyond the com
pletion of the first year of high
school, the study reveals.
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THURSDAY JUNE 13, 1930
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I "I spent mo«t of
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, very nervous, and the least
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1 a broom. At times I would
' have bad headaches, which
i would hurt me until I could
i hardly see.
i "Someone asked me why I
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, in weight about ten pounds.
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