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Show THE BULLETIN 2 Gttf? (EaitM? j in tip ffltttitaro C McCUIIO 1 CO. Well Done! if Ascending Stars it Irresistible Invitation By Virginia Vale December Durlnf a bllcurd-wracke- d tvening. Tod Wilherapoon, veteraa western Kanaaa mail carrier, Jolna a If roup of men in the Star City hotel. He telle them of hla beat Christmas ol little "P'llke" Gabel. who got hit name from dreaming and from fala habit of Baying "Wi play like." Tod often Ukea "P'like" home from school with him on his rural mall route, and learns to love the little lad. THE STOKT THE WNU SHVtCI SYNOPSIS Continued Old Mrs. Gabel came here from Kentucky with P'like and her own boy, Tobe. P'like was an orphan foundlin' and no relation to her at all Wasn't the same breed of cats aa the Gabeli, neither, for he was made of better stuff, primarily. But she was a wonderful woman lomewaya, built big and tout out of real pioneer timber that stands up strong. They were awfully poor, never took even a paper 'cept what Vd run Into their mail box for 'em once In awhile, after 1 found 'em out I don't think Mrs. Gabel ever read anything much except her old Bible, and that was part readin' and part Just hearsay with her. She tended her little ranch, and took care of the stock and crops, what she had of both, and kept house, never buy in anything hardly, but livln on what she could produce on the place. It was a lonely life out on that little ranch, hid back among the hills from the trail, out of Bight of anybody's bouse. Never a neighbor's light in a winder at night to tell her they was other human bein's like herself not so far away. Tobe, her boy, must have been over thirty then, in years, mind you. but really not a day older'n little P'like. The neighbors out that way told me that Tobe'a older brother was lost in the Kentucky mountains just before Tobe was born, and Grandma Gabel grieved so for him they never did find him, and his father died from exposure huntin' for him that when Tobe came he Just stayed a little boy in mind, happy and good, and willin' to do anything he was told. But he never growed up. They say there was something wrong about fastening a gate, Just the other way 'round, that let the lost child out some way, and he wandered off. Somebody up in the mountains, where most of 'em can't read a signboard, if there was any there to read, saw the little fellow, and out of ignorance, started him home the wrong way and he perished. Tobe has that mark, too; does everything backwards. I found that out when he put up a mail box, number 83, to please little P'like, because all the other chilTobe marked it dren had mail-boxeSC.. Instead of 33. s. They tell me. too, the neighbors do. that little Tully. as the Gabels call him, was found where tome-bod- y that didn't want him bad left him mebby Just a tiny cub. I don't know the p'ticulara of that but anyway, when he was found, Grandma Gabel Just took him to her heart in place of her own boy lost about a quarter of a century before. It was then she picked up and left Kentucky for good and all, and came to Kansas to forget But you don't forget that way, gentlemen. You can't move away and leave your memories In the old house with the r, broken and the cracked fruit jars. And Grandma Gabel'a heart stayed back in the mountains. And she is ever thirJcin' of their purple tops, and the little grassy coves in the Blue Ridges. But little P'like was the happiest kid on the upper Smoky the day that box was put up. though, as I say. they never had any mail that I didn't put into it myself for them. But that youngster never missed a day lookin' into it Seemed like he was always longin' to get a letter from somewhere. And he'd get and all excited, if he found an old circular, or something like that in it though he wasn't fooled by it at alL He was too blamed quick for that But he could "p'like" it was something for bis grandma from Kentucky, because he knew she loved the old Blue Grass country so. And when you think of the dry treeless little ranch hid back in the Smoky Hill valley, you can't wonder. School was heaven to little P'like. and he licked up learnin something wonderful. Seemed like I could Just see his mind growin' every day. It was like watchin' a vine on a trellis, the knowin' way he had of reach-iout and catchin' on higher up like. He was Just a little deserted foundlin' of a woodscalf, picked up in the Kentucky mountains, outside of the protection of the State Game Laws, and worth nothin' at all. it it hadn't seemed to a noor, ignorant heart-brokewoman he might sort of take the place of her own boy lost so many years before And I knew pretty soon because ui rural mail carriers learns to look right through house walls on our route and know what's inside of cm knew he was, ali unknowin'. be ginnin" to be a real light bearer into step-ladde- big-eye- d n -- 1 that lonely little home on the ranch after week, from Christmas to lost sight of in the upper Smoky Christmas, to make anything for lithills. He took every single thing he tle Tully and never a cent to spend learned in the achoolhouse along buyin' him anything. You can't make with him. And it wasn't only Just holidays much of anything without his little First Reader, and the num- them two necessities time or monbers. It was clean finger nails, and ey, or both. And after P'like startbowin' his head to say the Lord's ed to school Tobe took to wanderin' Prayer, and the most amaiin off that fall, and his mother had to scraps of information from listen-i- go huntin' for him through the canto the older classes recitin', all yon, and do all her work and her openin' a new world to his big bright time was double fulL But bow that old woman did love eyes and dreamin' soul music, though she didn't sing any teacher out in District 33 Hard work bears down herself. THE farthest one on my route, it on the singin' spirit if you add heavy was was a strange girl that nobody to it the memory of lost child and knew anything about You rememthe hopelessness of a living one. And ber, Abram, she come In here that little P'like, who could warble like a fall one evenin' when the train was never told her a word about bird, and next left mornin' late, early the at school he was the phonograph for that school settlement; and aa odd that way, always had more infar as I know Star City never did side of him than he'd let on about see her again. But teachers of any I found out later why he didn't But kind was so scarce In 1917 on actell her. She Just loved to hear him e count of Red Cross, and to her at her work, and he'd e clerks in Wash- singin' pay for before her and go clear stand up ington 'specially teachers worth a a song for her. But he kept through darn for a district like that one up it all to himself that he was learn-Ion the Smoky Hill, that they was a new one to spring on her only too glad to get anybody willin' soul Christmas morning to come to them. Nobody knew how his gift you see, such aa it was, long that war would hang on. The but his best And he'd picked out real smart ones was declarin' it the song he loved best "My Old couldn't end under ten years. Kentucky Home." His eyes would So when this girl wearln cne of Just shine like the stars reflected on these sorority pint, and carryin' a the still Smoky waters when he'd diplomy from some college, sort of tell me about It And 'round in the dropped in from nowhere and of- - deepest part of the canyon, where and blank reports to be filled out by teachers every month. And yet I could see she waa starv-Ifor something, If It wasn't a letter. That's why I stopped every day, bopin' I could help her find it Little P'like seen It too. That was what his eyes was for to sec with. He used to watch her open her mail n to find out If it made her glad at all. Appeared like he was Just atarv-l-n' to see her smile once. And he seemed to know by a child's instinct it hadn't It got on hla mind terribly. For a girl that never did smile, day in and day out it was queer how those children did love that teacher. And especially P'like, who worshiped her from the first day. She had put something so new and sweet into his poor dry little child-lif- e over at the Gabel ranch. "When things I want don't want me," he confided to me one afternoon, "why I Just p'like they do come anyhow. I wish I had a phonograph for my grandma." He said it so wistful like "But I haven't and I can't ever get one, and I'm never going to tell her there Is one." "Why mebby you can get one when you grow up, a big man, and you will help her to have a lot of things." I suggested to him, seeing clearly now why the little cub hadn't mentioned the phonograph at home. "Won't I be like Tobe, and have to be looked after, too?" he asked wonder ingly. It hadn't ever occurred to him he could get above the kind of life he'd always known. "Why, no, little boy, you won't ever be like Tone. You'll grow up and know a lot and be strong, and do a lot and be a good boy and love a lot too. And you'll take care of Grandma then, because she won't be as strong as she is now." As I went on encouragln' him, you should have seen his eyes shine, and the new light in his round face. "I'm going to do it and I'll p'like I'm doing it every day. But now " The longin' of the hour came back sorrowfully for a minute only, "I know what I'll do now. When I sing 'My Old Kentucky Home for Grandma Christmas morning. I'm going to p'like I have a phonograph all my own. P'like I'm it playing the song for Grandma, instead of singing it to her while she fries flap-Jacfor Tobe and me for our breakfast She does that every Christmas morning for us. It's our Christmas gift" She came In here one evening when the train was late. "But I want something else." he fered to teach their school. District the walls run up awfully high, he'd went on, the tears filling his big 33 took her as God'a providence have me stop still, and hear him eyes, "something that don't want without a murmur. Her name was sing it through. And he'd act out me." Ruth Ravenstow. She had big dark the way he was going to stand up "Whafs that?" I asked. "I want to p'like my teacher's eyes, and about the prettiest hair I before his grandma, Christmas ever see. But her face was white morning, and do It and her never nappy, but I Just can't because she as chalk. Never a bit of color In dreamin' he knew the song she loved Isn't" her cheeks, and never a smile on her so welL Oh, boy! the joy that little "Well, Just pretend she Is, play lips, even when she was talkin' to critter did get out of the surprise like it anyhow," I suggested. the children that Just adored her. he was plannin' seemed strange P'like only shook bis head, and Just a hard, white face, with no even to me who sees such a lot of shut his lips up tight in the stubborn more show of feelln' in it than a the inside of the life out on the way he had sometimes. But I knew marble woman. There wasn't no lonely rural ways us routers fol- he'd told the truth. And I knew, warmth of life about her, and yet lows. too, it waa the first time in his little she had that strange sort of what dream life he hadn't been able to you call magnetism, that draws ev- THAT fall I got closer to my folks imagine he had what he wanted. ever before, owin' of course Folks in District S3 waa puzzled, erybody in spite of themselves. The schoolhouse they had then--It's to the war; and closer to Grandma too. They had tried every way to do just a pile of earth now was an Gabel through little P'like; and clos- their best for their teacher. They old soddy built back in the late er to Miss Ravenstow. She had be- was so grateful to her for atayin' seventies or early eighties warm gun to watch for me, too, but with there, and them eleven kids, all in winter, of course, as the soddies the saddest face I ever see in all learnin' so fast But they couldn't always was; and big enough, too. my life. Never any expectation in do a thing for her. 'Long toward for they was only eleven children it nor the merest line as If she the holidays, though, they began to in District 33. P'like'a mailbox was thought I'd stopped to give her any feel it more, and wonder if there the same number, the only figures mail, though I'd got the habit of wasn't some way to show their feel-ln'he knew when it was put up. He'd stoppin' a minute every single day, and to make her more at home read them on the old toddy door even if I did know she wasn't lookin' among 'em. But they never seemed the mornin' he started to school, and for a letter. Except for such mail to get a bit nearer to her at all like every other anip of learnin' as comes to any teacher, nothin' Might as well go out in the Star they stayed with him, and he used ever come to her that fall No post- City cemetery and expect the lambs to get off them. God's mercy was in it too, mark but Star City was ever on cut on babies' grave-stone- s but that comes later. Just a little anything in her box; not a maga- and gambol about as to move that sod school house and less'n a dozen zine, nor newspaper, nor nothin' but white-face- d girl In the school house children, but Miss Ravenstow was local ads from them that get the up there on the Smoky. an angel of light to them eleven County Superintendent's directory, (TO BE CONTINUED) kids that winter. You can't begin to know how poor they were, and how few things there was in their hard, barren lives to give them pleasure. Miss Ruth had a little phonograph, the kind you can put VIENNA. "Strudl" and Vienna university, show that these into a bat box, and a stack of the "Schmatm," the famous Austrian Illyrians possessed an elaborate sweetest song records you ever pastries known to every visitor of script too. heard, all by real singers, the country, were prominent in the As these runes strongly resemble Mebby she never did smile, but she diet of the population In the Austhe Etruscan script of the Sixth and refined had good taste, dainty trian Alps in the second millennium to the tips of her pretty white fin- B. C, excavations on the site of a and Seventh centuries B. C, it is considered possible that the latter gers. And she give them children prehistoric copper mine near the best things they'd ever know. in the Salzburg district has obtained it from the Illyrians, and Lord, how those hungry youngsters revealed. that the entire culture ate that music. Just never got The Illyrians, ancient forbearers in northern and central Italy may enough of It But it seemed to me of the present Alpine population, had have been largely Influenced by the that little P'like got the most of all a surprisingly high standard of livAlpine population. of 'em out of it Especially one ing, it was discovered by finds made That Alpine Illyrians migrated to record "My Old Kentucky Home" on the spot the Balkans in prehistoric times, sung by a good rich baritone They raised cattle, sheep, pigs, where they established a distinct voice, full and sweet and goats, grew wheat and rye, had 'Way back in October P'like earthen and bronze tools culture, Is considered ss an establworked out a plan to do bis Christ- wooden, which ihow a very high craftsman- ished fact mas shopping early, but he never The ancient mine and, close to It told me about it till nearly Christ- ship. and the chemical miners' large settlement were inspecMicroscope litmas. He was a the situated at an altitude of 5.500 feet tle tyke if there ever was one, and tion of the vessels revealed that near Kitzbuchel, when he shut his lips in front ol Illyrians lived on about the same on the Kelch-Alp- e his tongue it was like one of them diet as the present mountain popu- yhich is a popular Alpine skiing lation. abaUme shells rlosin' up. res'wt Aside from dairy products and You see. there's never any Santy The mine, which has been exploita large Claus up that valley, 'specially in meat they consumed ed tor about 13 centuries, was exof District 33 rhev do what they ran amount pastry. for their children, even in the Iran Numerous wooden sticks covered tremely rich, as one single gallery, years, but it never is much at best with runes, unearthed by a staff of according to expert mining engiAnd C.i and ma Unlirl hadn't nn lim 20 scientists, working under the neers, yielded 200.000 tons of raw out of her hard days' work, Keck leadership of Dr. Pillion! of the copper in the course of 600 years. n' high-grad- any-grad- n' s, Famous Austrian Pastries Known to Ancients Kitz-buehe- L pre-Rom- close-mouthe- Star list ' people who insisted all Marlene Dietrich needed to restore her to favor was one good picture have been proved right. 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Inquire about low round trip fares. S Toss bouquets at Greta Garbo, not merely for her performance in "Ninotchka," but for being so quiet about bringing her family to this country; they flew from New York to California, and she's bought a home out in the country for them. $ It doesn't seem possible, but Jane Withers bas started her sixth year on the Twentieth Century-Fo- x lot She's being with Gene Autrey in "Shootin' High." HOTEL BEN LOMOND A piece of wedding cake reached this desk the ether day. In a little box bearing the name of one ef New York'a smartest caterers. The enclosed card read "Mr. and Mrs. Barry Davis," and In one corner, "At Home, CBS 12:15 P. M., EST" "When a Girl Marries." Who could resist a radio program that has se attractive aa announcement? The polls show that from 10 to million people In the United Suites tune in on the Ford Sunday Evening Hour each week; others in Canada are tuned to American station to catch it, and recently seven stations In Mexico were linked to the broadcast network. 13 d ODDS AND ENDS Then Dorothy Lmnumr sings over the air lAe hot a violinist playing so near to her that hit bom grazes her ear . . . Ilonm Mas-sewho with Nelson Eddy in "Balalaika," if following his example and going on a concert lour: the starts the first of the year . . . "The Ihmto. keeper's Daughter'' im't half so bad as Joan Bennett's protests would make it appear. tlitleascd by Western Newspaper Union.) d IM Rosas 1M Bathe tl.N to I4.N M-Fsmily Essms for 4 persoas Air Coated Laanse aad Lobby Grill Room . . Coffee Shop . . Tap Bssm Haw of Rstaiy Klwsnls EzonKlvss "21-- 3 KxrfcllMrr Optima Chamber of Comamce aad Ad Clnb Hotel Ben Lomond Cams as ran are T. E. Ntsgsrald. Mtr WNU Week Ne. J9S1 BALT LAKK |