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Show THE HELPER JOURNAL, HELPER, UTAH IPolish Corridor MM C. By FRANCES PARKINSON IV ... "I was only thinking I came here, the night of the dance In Ha instead, to pick some flowers to wear to the party. Mummer had taken the sweet-peaI was saving and put them on Aunt Sarah's grave. They were all I had." "You poor child I" "So Pupper suggested the rosebush. I got all hot and dusty," hurrying, and then I pricked my fingers . , . there weren't enough roses anyway. George followed me down herfi, and asked me why I didn't mix them with some of those flowers growing In the meadow." "I noticed them at the dance, of course. " "Do you know what they're called "Certainly I do Queen Anne's Lace by Jove!" How quickly he had sensed the Bymbollsm which had eluded George entirely She caught her breath. "It grows where the soil Is very poor. The farmers think It's Just a weed an awful pest" "Because they can't see how beautiful It Is. Anne Anne my 3 r ... 1 darling!" His arms had tightened about her like bands of steel. He bent and laid his face against her hair, then suddenly, with a little cry, his Hps brushed across her cheek, seeking her mouth, and found it already upturned to the hard, hot kisses which he pressed down on It They clung to each other, two clean, passionate young creatures, fused In the white flame of their first great ... desire. Neal was the first to recover himself. He drew away from Anne gently, with a caress that he might have given to a child. Then he took her face between his two hands. "Look at me, Anne." "I am looking." "I didn't mean that this should happen not for a long time yet Not because I didn't love you " "I know you love me " "But because didn't want to hurt I or even startle you " "You haven't I love you. It would have killed me, not being sure." She thought he was going to take her In his arms again, and kiss her until It hurt as he had before. Instead, he knelt down in the long grass, and bowed his bead. "Anne," he said, so softly that she could hardly hear him, "Anne, yon are a queen a queen in disguise, a fairy KEYEL WNU Service changeling perhaps, but a. queen just the same. Will you help me earn the lace for you to wear?" little over a month later, Anne and Neal were married. He did not allow their sudden betrothal to Interfere with his plans. The following morning he started off In pursuit of his wealthy client Four days later he returned, with the report of complete success In his venture. "That means five hundred dollars to me to us ," he told Anne, "and we'll need It You mustn't think of me as some kind of a fairy prince, even If you are a queen." "I don't," said Anne, flushing. "You do, tool You know you do. Bless you ! But I'm not I'4 be willing to bet that George Hildreth's got twice as much salted away as I have, this very minute. Sure you don't want to change your mind?" "Neal I wish you wouldn't." He saw that her love was so strange to her still, so sacred, that she could not Jest about It "All right, dear, I won't But we must talk over the practical lde of things. Because I want to marry you right away." "Yes. That's what I want too." "Anne, I wish you wouldn't" he A mocked lightly. "You have no Idea how hard It Is for me to behave when to me like that But we ought to straighten out a few Important details first, as I Bald.-- . . I've got a good practice, for a fellow my age, and It's growing. I'm And I've earning a fair Income. saved something. Not an awful lot. We can begin clear, with something ahead and something behind us. But we've got to begin small. I thought I'd try and rent a little place we could live In tills winter, and we could look around together, after we were married, for something better. I'd like to buy or build a little house for our very own, right away. It's poor economy, In the long run, to pay rent" "Yes, I see that And I'll get ready, too. Clothes and linen. Of course I can't have much. But I'd rather spend It on my trousseau than anything I can think of." "Well, that's settled then. Now where would you like to go for our honeymoon?" "Anywhere, with you." "What would you sny to Washingyou-spea- . ton?" "Oh, Neal, how did you guess) I've longed and longed" I put that on, too, though It looks strange with my percale - Disappointed because of her Inability, due to the selfishness of her dress. I suppose you've seen it. It's family, to put finishing touches to her costume for a dance, Anne Chamber- beautiful, too, but of course I like lain la Irritated by the stolidity by her - escort, George Hlldreth. A visitor the I wajs very much ring best In the community, Neal Conrad, young- lawyer, is to be the "sensation" mother should , that your Is surprised is Conrad Anne's Jealous. suitor, of the evening-- and Hlldreth. vaguely impressed by Anne's fresh young beauty, and readily perceives her fine give me a present It was awfully Mrs. Griffin, kind of her. character. He Invites her to accompany him and his hostess, on a picnic the following Sunday. Anne accepts, though aware she Is be"I've chosen the sample for a and buys suitable savings ing "unconventional." She dipsoldinto her scanty r, Invitation I like best, and Mr. and wedding friend an Goldenburg. "finery" for the trip from I'm sending you a list of my day for Anne. The picnic is a friends' names. I shouldn't have birth at least to be drawn into known I ought to do this if you time. I don't believe I've told you There hadn't told me about I'm tremendously Interasted In pol- them." litnever a in the has been wedding stood He and got up suddenly, Even more than In law. I'm itics. have can we tle but church here, a member of the city council In with his hands on the back of his ours there, if you wish. Mr. Hains, HInsboro now. Perhaps some day I chair, facing them. our would be pleased to minister, alsaid "Iook he here," abruptly, can go further." brother have Arthur take part your most violently. "I've had a long "Oh, Neal t I'm sure you can." in the ceremony. to I'm and I'm tired. drive, going be President you "Anyone can "I think the little flat will be wonbed. But I'll tell you this much, know," he said teaslngly. I love mission furniture and derful. suband then we won't discuss the "You could." brass beds. continue usual I'll my again. ject be can I mayor. "Well, perhaps "What do you think? Mr. and But we'll have a look at the White subscription to this household Just House anyhow. Maybe It won't ap- as long as you're decent to Anne. Mrs. Goldenburg have I Invited me to a second longer. It may not New York with them Mr. Goldenpeal to you, and that would settle Not takes a trip every year at this It" he laughed. Then, changing the be very aristocratic to bargain, but burg to notice that none of the rest of time I buy his fall stock, and he's we "Another thing subject abruptly, to seem to I to want and going help me make my money go work, you Is on economize mustn't your ring." want to go hungry. a long way In getting my trousseau. "Honestly, I don't need an en- don't believe you We're leaving Monday, so send your gagement ring. I shouldn't mind a You better think it over." There was no hint of this battle, next letter to me at the Waldorf AsLet me hold your however, or of his own victory, when toria hotel, New York city. I think "Nonsense. I we'll be gone a whole week. hand a while, so I can measure your he wrote Anne. Next true. believe can't It's " simply "Dearest sweetheart darling finger." to getting engaged to you, it's the Neal's second visit was even brief- It began. "I can't find any name lovely most wonderful thing that ever haper than his first But In the course of It he had a long talk with his enough and loving enough to tell pened to me. "George feels terribly. He hardly whom you how I feel about you. prospective parents-in-law- , "I miss you so terribly that I'm looks at me when I meet him, and he found stunned but acquiescent and then Insisted in announcing the doing everything I can to shorten he won't speak to me at all. But awengagement In the Wallacetown our separation. I've found a little Roy and his mother have been kind. fully us. home his for It's burned all small thus Just very Bugle. Having "I wish I could write letters like bridges behind him, he departed to a living room, bedroom, bathroom tell his father and mother of his and kitchen, but we could manage yours. Of course I can't But Just In that for this winter, couldn't we? the same, you know how much I Impending plunge Into matrimony. The furniture's rather awful mis- love you, and that I'm wishing ail He had adroitly contrived to avoid the same things that you are wishmuch discussion of the Conrads with sion oak in the living room and a and counting the days, too. Anne. He knew, all too well, how brass bed, and so on, but I don't ing, a heartful of love. "With If mind don't you bitterly they were bound to oppose "ANNE." "I've been to a stationer's, and the match, but he hoped, as far as to After invitation the go to New him to to send asked samsome this knowledge you possible, keep from her. Mrs. Conrad came from ples of wedding Invitations. I York was extended by Mrs. Goldone of the oldest families In the thought perhaps It would be easier enburg Anne lay awake all night, country, and she never forgot It or for me to attend to that than you. trembling with excitement; and allowed anyone else to forget it. All Write me which you like best, and when they were actually on their humanity, to her, was divided Into a list of your friends whom you way, they all three put their heads two classes those who were "re- fwant to invite, and I'll have the together and made a list of her fined" and those who were not Her cards addressed and sent out from household needs. "Oh, Mr. Goldenburg, I'll never be husband's standards were much like here. to buy all that with three hunable "Do of his can sense think and a her own, you you manage quite equal to hers, though, church wedding? And is there a dred dollars you know that's all I like herself, he depended largely on church parlor or something of the have left." . . . "Yes, you vill, my An' I'm goln' to the past to establish his claim to sort In which we could have a re- tear, you'll see. distinction. He had never made ception aferwards? Of course my speak to some of my pizness frents One In de caterln pizmuch headway In his profession as family and some of my friends will apout you. he'll send ness, you up a nice little to come want had an architect. I little snd realize how very They up, money, but they contrived to keep little room there Is In your house? lunch by express, one florist, ve'll up appearances In a way that was But do Just as you think best I've talk to him apout de decorations for almost uncanny. Their eldest son, asked Roy to be my best man. I de church." The visit to New York was one Arthur, an unmarried clergyman, think that's only fair, considering and their widowed daughter, Har- that he Introduced us. My brother of rapture from the beginning to the riet, lived with them, as well as Arthur would like to assist In the end of the five days that it lasted. Neal. By pooling their resources. marriage ceremony, and I should Anne had never been in a hotel beIn this way, their Income went much like to have him, If that would be fore had never seen an elevator, a or twin beds; further than it otherwise would agreeable to your own minister and menu card, a bell-boAnd of course I want she had never ridden In a subway, have done. Harriet had very pro- to you. nounced views, all Neal's decision George Hlldreth to be one of the or attended a play In a theater. She made mental notes of everything, of character without his charm. Her ushers. husband had committed suicide by "I want you to have your ring to gleaning fresh bits of knowledge How Jumping from a sixth story window wear right away, so I'm going to from each new experience. while they were on their honeymoon. forego the Joy of putting it on my- - much this trip was doing to prepare her for the still more wonderful Neal burst in upon his family, one to Washington with Neal! He kissed .his mother and sister dutiwas not going to find her Ignorant, fully, but without enthusiasm, and told them. Immediately, of the fat after all, of all the niceties of life which he knew, as she had feared. fee which he had captured In the course of his vacation. Then he told The Goldenburgs had lost a daughthe rest of his story. ter, Rachel, who would have been "I knew you'd think that was Just Anne's Ige If she had lived. Mrs. Goldenburg finally confided this good news. But I've got some that's to Anne, her beady eyes brimming, better yet. I'm going to be marher plump hands twitching; and ried." Anne In turn confided it to Neal There was a moment of ominous, when after a three weeks' absence horrified silence. Then a simulhe returned to West Hamstead, and taneous exclamation. stood amazed at all that had been "Married! To whom?" "A girl named Anne Chamberlain. accomplished while he was gone. "So they're doing all this for me She lives in a little place called in her memory I Just think of It" West Hamstead." "I believe they're doing it partly "My son are you really telling as in her memory, but largely because this In earnest?" "I certainly am." they love and adore you. The Jewish race appreciates qualities like The Conrads exchanged terrified ' , yours. But anyway, I shan't forget glances. "Then I must ask 'you to explain Perhaps I can do them a good turn some day." yourself." "Neal would you mind very much Neal's worst enemy could hardly do you suppose It would be posaccuse him of a lack-o- f eloquence, "I'll Continue My Usual Subscrip- sible for me to keep on on any theme or on any occasion. teaching tion to This Household Just a after we are married? I don't see And this time he outdid himself. as You Are Decent tJ Anns." how Long my family is going to get along The results, however, were even . worse than he feared. self. It started to you by express without what I'm earning," she fal"And you expect us your father this morning. I know my mother tered. Neal did some swift calculating. and I, your brother and sister to rs sending you something, too, with to receive a letter welcoming you Into the fam- Ills contribution to the expenses of go to the wedding his own family had been seventy Ave this this person." ily: "I wish I could kiss you tonight, dollars a month, nine hundred dol''My fiancee. Very soon my wife. Of course." over and over again, as I did that lars a year. If he added this burFerhaps you were thinking of time down by the rosebush, and feel den of Anne's to his own, they were bringing her here to live." you In my arms. But I will before going to be a good deal straitened "I wouldn't be so cruel to her." And meanwhile you know In consequence; but that, as he saw long. He had scored. His mother at that I love you with all my heart It, was what he ought to do. They tempted to draw blood In her turn. I and soul, and that I ara counting were In the same boat, as far as "Have you thought what the the days that must go by before you their dependents were concerned ; ,and he Intended to do the rowing. withdrawal of your contribution to are my wife. "You've been earning ten dollars Is to "NEAL." the famlily expenses going a week?'" Anne wrote back: mean to us In our old age?" "Yes." "Harriet and Arthur aren't so ."Dearest Neal: The ring came this "How many weks are there In the very aged. It wouldn't hurt either morning, and fits perfectly. I put it school year?" of them to get out and hustle a lit- on right away, and have It on now. .Thirty-eightOf course It's the most beautiful tle, as I've had to do." "Three hundred and eighty dol"Neal I do not degrade us and thing I ever saw in my life. lars well, we'll manage to find that "Your I loiter mother's with came, too, much some way. Don't yourself suppose vulgarity! worry." your language- - -- and your conduct-- are and a lovely brooch which she said "Yon mean you'll send It?" the result of your political as- had belonged to your great grand"Of course why, Anne, darling, for mother, and which she had sociations. You should never tle boy. SYNOPSIS Continued ally Sez r1 France P&rktnaon Keyea CHAPTER c Jr HI well-wishe- red-lett- -- 5;m 1 it bit" "Well, so have 1. So that's setAnd we won't stint on tled, too. that trip, either. We'll have good allowed y ... ;' have yourself kept a gentleman, by your wife ever since you were a lit don't take It that way" (TO BE CONTINUED.) The young- - folks nut be proper, law, They molt know what te do ana how, S here's a rata for tha yoancer set. And the new domestic etiqeette. PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY A Youthful Pole at Lunch. by, National GeoerapWo Society, I. C. WNU Service. Prepared Washing-ton- youthful POLAND, with Its European famous Cor- ridor holding the limelight has been considered in the light of a vanished past or. a problematical future rather than of a vital and engrossing present Before world economic conditions clouded the Issue Poland made substantial strides materializing the air castles its people had cherished for many centuries. On war wasted territory stretching over an ancient forest area from marshland to mountains, Poland brought agriculture back belevels. Factories which yond pre-wit found destroyed or Idle were rehabilitated. Railway mileage was increased and a uniform gauge adopted, so that rails bound Poland together instead of tearing it apart President Wilson championed Poland's aspiration for independence, and the United States government loaned funds for the purchase of food, clothing, and supplies which were essential In the early stages of national rehabilitation. More" densely populated than Pennsylvania, Poland is stillan agricultural nation, and the consequent elasticity of its labor supply, the economic independence of its peasants, and the modesty of their needs give it social stability in spite of the rapid growth of urban and Industrial life. "Without the sea and the seacoast there is no Poland," has proved a potent slogan. During the summer of 1932 at Gdynia, a city of more than 30,000, so new as to be shown only on most recent maps, Poland celebrated its first "sea festival" near where General Haller, after fighting his way to the Baltic, dropped a ring in its waters to celebrate the union of land and sea. Where a few years ago one waded in deep sand, dodging weblike nets and upended boathalves converted Into shelters, or watching women bury potatoes In straw-linesand pits for the winter, thei-- are y buildings. city streets and Gdynia, with a port that can accommodate 50 vessels at a time, now handles more than 5,000,000 tons of exports and Imports In a single year. Near-bDanzig, eight times as populous and once one of the great ports of the Hanseatlc league which In its golden day virtually controlled the trade routes of northern Europe far from being wiped out through this new rivalry, now handles 8,000,000 tons, four times the r tonnage, and the largest traffic In Its history. Among Baltic and North sea ports, Danzig's tonnage Is exceeded only by that of Hamburg, Bremen, Copenhagen and Stockholm. The Vistula river system drains most of Poland, end Vistula-bountraffic passes to or through Danzig before reaching the sea. Gdynia It Naval Base. But it is Gdynia which gives significance to the "Polish Corridor" foreshadowed In the thirteenth of President Wilson's famous Fourteen Points. And the new railway from Upper Silesia to the Baltic, avoiding the free city of Danzig, assures Poland's economic freedom. In financFrance has ing the railway, and Swiss financiers extended a loan of $2,500,000 to the city of Gydnia. A Polish naval base on Polish soil could have been foreseen, but politicians fourteen yenrs ago never dreamed of Gdynia. Now there It Is, one of the ports on the Baltic, and Polish emigrants to North America embark there, direct from Polish soil, Instead of at other European ports which their predecessors once helped make proswind-shake- d five-stor- y pre-wa- d d perous." of all Polish trade, moving through the ports of Danzig and Gdynia creates a north and south traffic In the Polish Corridor seven times as heavy as the east and west commerce, although much trade between Germany and Soviet Russia Is diverted across the corridor and through Fast Prussia and Lithuania, away from the heart of Foland. Recently Iron ore and cotton for Czechoslovakia entered through Gydnia, thus providing return loads for Five-eight- f coal cars from the south. One ship from New Orleans unloaded 7,350 bales of American cotton In a single day. Naturally, the Pole hold the Polish Corridor to be essential to theli very existence. The builder of the new port was cheered loud and long during his address at last summer'i sea festival when he said: "Our ancestors did not come to this Polish shore either as guests or immigrants; they did not here establish themselves by the grace or through the protection of anyone; here we stand on our own soil, rooted In our own past oftentimes heroic and victorious, sometimes cruel and bitter. Here we will remain and achieve our destiny." Sheltered from Baltic storms by the sand spit of Hel, Gdynia, although an artificial port. Is well protected and capable of almost unlimited expansion. A school for the merchant marine, a huge modern post office, through which all mail is routed, and the shipping offices connected with Po land's growing fleet are prominent along the shore. Modern machinery is used in transshipping the exports, principally coal, lumber, zinc, bacon, eggs, sugar and butter, and the imports of foodstuffs, cotton, metals, and machines. Lowicz la Colorful. To the photographer the Gdynia of today is less picturesque than the barren, breezy beach dotted with Kashube fisher folk, and the real treat for the eye and lens Is Lowicz, capital of peasant Poland. No lens hunter was ever tempted by finer promises of photographic game than In Lowicz. To be chosen from the ranks of women in spotless kerchiefs, rainbow skirts billowing wile over heavy petticoats and boots might be an honor, however awkwardly phrased by the eager photographer, but to accept the Invitation would be to subject oneself to the jollying which familiar friends can make most embarrassing in the ever-movin- g high-lace- d presence of strangers. There Is no lack of cordiality on Sunday as the bright parade leaves the abbey church. The broad-facewomen of the fields gayly smile Into the lens so long as they can keep moving and hence not reveal any Individual vanity concerning their unquestioned attraction. Beautified by splendid parks and gardens, furnished with wide avenues and broken by large squares, across which the massive piles of Warszawa (Warsaw) rise In solemn dignity, the Polish capital always seems a dull background for the 1p repressible Polish spirit; yet one can still say, as did Napoleon, "Warsaw Is always amusing." Until one has seen the Polish theater he does not realize the variety and beauty of the modern stage. Poland's romantic poets and dramatists of eighty years ago, such as Adam MIcklewIcz, Zygmunt Kraslnskl, and Juljusz Slowackt, either wrote in exile or were subject to a stifling censorship. Interest In America. True, to the Poles themselves even strictly censored dramas were packed with thrills, for behind Innocuous allegories they sensed the rebellion of the Polish spirit against But with the coming of oppression. freedom Polish drama developed a catholicity of Interest and dramatic method unsurpassed In modern Europe. "Street Scene," "Broadway" and "Anna Christie" have all been admirably presented In Poland, and there Is a keen Interest In all things American. Partly this Is due to the presence of many Poles In America, but much of It dates back to the days of our Revolution, In which the Poles took a keen Interest and In some cases a personal part Today one can telephone to Poland from any city In the United States, but In the days of the Thirteen Colonies the American Revolution was physically far away and England ruled the seas. Poland not only observed the Washington Rlcentennlal In Poland, but also, on May 3. Polish national holiday and anniversary of the pre- mature Constitution of 1701. praised Burke, Poland Issued a stamp picturing Washington In the center with KosWuszko and Pulaski. by Edmund y THIS WEEK'S PRIZE STORY Why ear abroad when ear INTKR MOUNTAIN section furnishes tha bast of everything necessary to comfort ? 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