Show J BABES BABE'S MOTHER TELLS TALE OF BROKEN FAITH By Florabel Muir Es ES J I realize now the dol doi I worshipped worshipped wor- wor T Y shipped had feet of ot cIa clay That Is the commentary of Clara the year old war mother upon the thc man with whom she sho ho entered upon a shattered romance It suggested also her attitude toward towar life Ute in the midst oCher of oC her present perplexity and trouble She 10 lay Jay dangerously ill at the Id ideal Idral al Maternity hospital last night while she related tho the Incidents sho she alleged In the Intimacy with ith Capt Karl former Fort officer and nd prominent prom prom- mont In social circles Dont tell anyone my name will you ou she sho pleaded I am not a bad girl 1 I know It Is a disgrace to bring bringa a Jove Jovo child Into the world orId and I am willing to beat bear the penalty but m my father Cather and mother mother the the disgrace would woul kill 1111 them thorn My fy ry mother thinks I 1 could not do anything wrong Sho does docs not know this has happened and she must never nover know Father has had been wonderful I He lie stayed stared by me through It all and has hasI borno borne tho tire expense thou though h he could coul Ill I afford to without grumbling s or chidIng chiding chiding ing me in any my wa way Ho lie wants tants to kill my betra betrayer er At first he Insisted that we have havo him arrested and put In the tho penitentiary but then M-C M both realized realised that to do that we too mu must mut t bo ho dragged through tho the mire so o yo vo o de decided decided decided de- de I should come com out hero We e planned later to havo a CI private re ro revon von go Did I love him Well you OU know how love JO affairs sometimes start tart When a girl pirl Irl friend Introduced him I Idid Idid Idid did not caro care much about him He lie seemed like an ol old man man man-he he Is about 32 but ho he immediately imme Imme- years old od you ou know know but began beg to pay mo me attention and ho he has a wonderful personality His Ills uniform attracted me I thought It was as smart to go so with a man wearing captains captain's bars and ho was handsome You know all the girls were crazy about officers He lie told me ho loved me and I believed him I could see seo no reason why he ho should take the trouble to lie to me mc when he seemed to want to spend pend much so-much time In m my m company NI Night ht after night we wo would meet after aHer m my and go to a a. cato cafe to eat at He lie spent lots of mone money and al alwa's always always al- al ways was took me mo home In a taxi He lie said wo we 0 couldn't get Jet married until until un un- til the war was over because he lie had to send 15 ever every month to his moth moth- er or He lie remarked that t an arm army caplain captain cap- cap tam lain tain could hardly live livo and keep his corre correct t station In life on the amount ho he received for his services but that after acter the war var was over ho lie could make malte some oth other r ar arrangements i iI I I gave ave up going with any other men because Karl was Jealous If I spoke to a man while in his com company pan ho he would sa say How did you OU meet him One da day I J told him I was going out outto outto to the country club to play tennis and I he lie said Stay away from Cram those people I thc they wont won't do you ou an any good When I realized that I was as about to become a a. mother I pleaded with Karl to help elp me me At At first ho lie scoffed and said eald I was foolish and that It could riot not be true I persisted and h he lie finally sent mo me to a 3 physician who was a. a friend of his Ho lie wanted me to get et the tho right one and he wrote the tho doctor name namo and ad address adess ess for me on a a. piece of ot paper torn from a card This doctor lied to me me and said I was on only 1 suffering from anaemia and would beall bo be all right In a little while I was wag reassured I stopped nagging Karl and everything seemed ros rosy I learned that th the Twentieth Infantry was to bo be sent away from Salt I Lake I-ako alco and and this worried me mo I asked Karl Ithe It if he was leaving and ho Inu laughed hed and 3 said l No little little girl I am fortunately fortunate ono of the eighty eight men who will vm stay here My ly air castle down tho though h when I called up the fort a few fW d days 9 later Inter and they told me he ho was wa gone on I know knew then he ho had lied to me I was frantic I could not think what wh to do I wrote r Lc letters letter to Karl at Camp Funston Fun Fun- stan ston but ho he her Sever never answered them thom I 1 know lenow hr hI ho got Kot them thom because I r put a n return a address on on them and th thy they dI did not c corns 1 back Finally i j wrote to tho the adjutant general at Washington ton asking ask ask- I log ing t that t th the government help mo me to keep my condition secret end and to mat make mako o I Si- Si 5 give V me mc some money manu so BO I ne need d I not t tell li my father I heard nothing a from them and so I was forced to go goto goto goto to rny my father That That Is mj my star story etory I know kno now I Iwas Iwas Iwas was mad to think J Karl Farl arl could me lIe He had been In the army a Jong long time Ume and had as associated with Ith the best people There never was a time when wIlen ho made mado an effort to let mo me enter the society in which ho he moved moed I asked him to como come to our house and meet my nn fa father ther but he always had baa excuses One night ho was sas to come to my home homo for dinner carl and after atter I h had Jd cooked everything good I could think of or he called me up and he had to RO JO to toa toa a a. social affair given 11 b by his colonel I hate him him now I did not want to bring his child Into tho the world I J feared I would hate it It H. too but I Ido Ido ido do not Her little fingers havo have curled around my heart and arid It Jl nearly kills me mo to give her up I wish I could keep her heT but I know alio alie he would be bo disgraced If the tho world knew I wag wal hop her mother j I |