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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD fthe ;nt claims unlersi& J y office y of Ma; NOftais Kathleen Norris Says: b Age Gap in Marriage An orphan, gfORf SO FAR: aE.. r herry) Rawlings knows al-- imson, the KATHLEEN NORRIS Estat. Deceasei her early history when, " 1,1 Bell Syndicate of her guardians, is the wishes !d' and Emma jodson Marshbanks un March to tM becomes the secretary Fran- erteous Porter, wealthy San Busy as she Is,- Cherry ion, March lavahd. time to Brae and .he Judge from " of his household; (be members Marsh-- 4 tonal old mother; Amy of his dead debutante daughter cd' t'r Fred; and Fran, his gay young mblic opa. Shortly afterward Cherry Med" if ' dwife.0 Emma, that her mother d too much Emmas , married) bad been that her father had been father idiel brother, Fred-Aa that, shortly after Cherry and Amy had switched m, cherrys mother ko babies! Poor Cherry Rawlings the rich Amy Marshbanks. The 'os, 90 m. ! confirms the amazing story, but water; 26 burns certain tect Amy his mother e Permits, iTs that would have proved it to be 4 horses, Meanwhile, Cherry had fallen In a young artist se. cement tb Kelly Coates, had been infatuated te without (or a time Is rran Marshbanks); and Amy e Tabiona buumed to marry Count Mario t Cherry Is Jealous when mtimates she had lunch with Keljy "1 Sausalito studio, but he tells her In weeks, bid Mrs. bisnl seen Fran resents her Abacus tells Cherry she Judge Marsh-o- s cl in the house. u shot to death in his library in the house is nnder everybody ECK Cher-jj- j idnon. Kelly finally convinces be is over his Infatuation for ud she agrees to marry him. Amy In Reno. Cherry ,w, count Gogo marks on Mien there are gunpowder use find love let-- i ai negligee. The police Utah gelly wrote to Fran. iW continue with the story. WNU Feature. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1752-is designed tor sizes 34. 36. 38. 40, 42. 44, 48 and 48. Size 33, with sleeve, requires 4 material. yards Send your order to: SEWING CIROI.E PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco , Calif. Enclose 20 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No. Name Size........ Address mys re. b CHAPTER XVI :man Inn first Ive heard is the said the of old woman, in a desperate resignation, d inly knew of it myself yester-Iput them in a place that red absolutely safe. They fer-- d ays ee Jays of them out. !rry had finished. She went to the chair opposite the older i Marshbanks at the fire. Kelly Coates Mlo, everyone! SCH x: the in doorway, a great with fear jam. Oh, she did not want to My this morning, not after s story of the letters, not after wonderful day he and she had ogether at Topcote! he would have escaped, but there He came in, greet-Fra- n io escape. and old Mrs. Marshbanks Gregory, catching Cherfys i as he stood beside her, but no other look or greeting, and gave rrys heart began to tremble Utah m AN Utah 6 of Amys elopement it had not too much dis-- d at once aped her grandmother. any good of him! i Marshbanks said of Count Go-- r sibly touched by Kellys solici-- i io spite of her stiff manner, all events, Amy is a deter-- i young lady and knows her nind. She may mold him into he husband she wants, Kelly And then to comfortingly. You telephoned that you d to see me about some- dont know HI talk for a few minutes, asked, rising. Some-i- f has happened, Cherry heard ay as they went away together, ( I don't know how serious it uld we Fran he. ! trys own 1 big heart sick with ap-io- n, she went through the halls up to her own room seemed to never be and happy again. She was try-- o master her tears when May in with the message that Mr. s would like to see her a mo- - minutes later. It 7 that life would .4 Proof listillers w York ! at her a moment, her gently about with 8 hands and asked her why ad been crying. 8 fait so horrible! Cherry 4 fresh tears welling in her She could not face him. ataboutMarchioness? Nerves? this beginning to get you? h Kelly, Im so wretched about letters! I knew of course I Cherry faltered, that you fond of I knew that Fran; as soon as I met her, or you! hurts me so it hurts me so 1 ' was so happy thinking that 1 would be together to happen nowl To have the .e and the newspa- spoils everything! ? does it spoil everything? Bravely, still holding her with both hands behind her rs"Look at me. Cherry, hasn't spoil anything. Do you 8t you dont want to come 7 looked squared with ,h it 18 y or and soap in a med. asalito now? miled up so tent. 1 dee. sure s to but at 11 him through au makes 80 she said, even though hope in her voice. ,1,7 you Just said that you cared or that at one ' onths time ago, I thought I was ut Fran. I never asked me to Sausalito and run s r f 'bought of her doing , 4l1 th'Og. she UU you about the let- - Reason Aplenty Theres no need for you to CHmfrt me by Just nythinB1" cherry said. She seat- big fireside chair, h(iMCame to sit on the broad og tight to her hand. ' it. What about the ielk the dentist. I said the patient, but on my corn. No, I had to tell them, Kelly she 16 said breathlessly, apologetically. She had them, Kelly. And a her if shed picked up the gun. or so ago the police found them. day Not necessarily. We were all so "So what? frantic! But, Kelly, Cherry went So what? she echoed dazedly, on laying a gloved Cant they use them, Kelly? Cant handimpressively, on his shoulder, this is the they make it seem that perhaps if strange thing. Fran did have that you loved her . . . ? negligee on at first, but when the Why, Kelly said, what on police and the doctor and all the earth do you suppose was in those others got there she didnt. She had letters, dear? Plans for murdering on only her nightgown, for she was Jud Marshbanks?" shivering with cold, and one of the You comfort me, Cherry whis- maids went and got her an overcoat pered, her eyes shut. "You dont from the hall closet. know how you rest me, Kelly." Ha! Kelly said, his brow knitHe twisted about a little so that ted. Sure of that? he could get an arm around her. Im absolutely sure. The first What was in them? she asked thing I saw when I opened my door faintly. was that the halls were lighted, and Well, I suppose the usual thing. May and Molly and Helene, the othThat I was oh lord perhaps that er maid, were coming down from I was happy in my new friendship the upper floor, and Fran halfway for one of the most fascinating wom- down the stairs saying it was noth' en Id ever known, that we mustnt get excited, Kelly said, ing, half amused and half impatient and wearing that negligee. But There must have been more than when the doctor and the police got that because she was so fright- there, she didnt have it on. ened." She could have run upstairs, Ill be damned if I know what hung it up, and gone down again scared her, he said, in a genuinely without anyones noticing? She was beside herpuzzled tone. Easily it was a madhouse for self. Kelly, she said, it isnt for a while. And nobody was watching my sake but yours! Your career is or checking. ruined. And she wanted me to take She wiped that revolver on the her away. Take me away and mar- first thing that came handy, a fold ry me! she said over and over of her dressing gown, Kelly formuAnd then it oclated it slowly. again. And what did you say? Cherry curred to her that the stain would be a hard thing to get rid of. She asked, paling. "I said that I loved you. couldnt count on anything she had Her eyes filled again. Cherry to clean it with She grabbed that gun instinctivecould not speak. Then she said that I didnt know ly and cleaned it before she realthe man pur- ized that if those smudges were diswhat might happen, sued, still in the tone of one com- covered matters would be worse So and I asked than ever, Kelly continued. pletely bewildered, her what on earth she was afraid of. she took the boldest course and as She said, 'You dont know, you dont it turned out the safest one. Were know how they sound! Youve not not far from Fishermans Wharf, seen them for months. It was the Cherry; how about an oyster stew? She Oh, Kelly, Im starving! darnedest thing I ever knew. But as for the police and the press ex- laughed her old joyous laugh as he in his, and ploiting them and landing me in caught her arm tightly they went along together at a walk jail, why, its just silly. And you really dont think therea that was almost a run. The restaurant was as plain as anything dangerous in those letlinen and cheap chairs could coarse a ters? Cherry asked on long sigh. the fragrance of the "I know there isnt. What gets make it, but outside scented kettles crab boiling is. thinks there she me is that appetizingly. the place Its clearing, Cherry. Get on your Honestly, Kelly, is there one coat and rubbers and tie something in the world Fran did it? chance a for over your head. Well go the presently said. girl walk. I don't think so. I'd swear she on the feet If I can keep my didnt have the nerve. But it strikes she said, adding in a longground! seemed to me all along so good me its ing tone, Oh, Kelly, itll be her position is that of someone that some house day to get out of this who knows something, or thinks she and into the free, open air and to she's protecting someone. But does; on forget everything thats gone who? Amy? The old lady? I dont here! know . . . Here are our oysters. Dont you think sometimes of the Its just one oclock, Cherry fact that if things had gone just a said, and I think ID telephone a be little differently you might not coming. he borne that Im rich woman, Marchioness? back she sank came she When the wet the table, asked, as they walked along gripping her chair, into wind. sidewalks, leaning against the to speak. trying No; I never thought of it, really. Cherry, what is it? Whats the I wouldnt want it Ill feel so rich matter? Kelly stammered, catchas your wife. Kelly, Cherry said, ing at her hands. to that it would just be a bother It was Mullins, she whispered. alone over there, be to me. Just They want us to come straight she continued, gesturwith you, home. She said she said she and s there over you. Fran ing towards the far hills, could Jud had quarreled no money in the world that confessed! has minute of it. tempt me to give up a When they went out onto the wharf a be to great advenheld Ke"Its going looking for a taxi. Cherry hand ture, Kelly said. tightly. can t llys Its going to be heaven! I Frans confessed, eh? he said I wonder what it yet. believe more than once. facThey paced along together, that means? Why does she drag me She knows darned well that ing the wind. with Amy in? Oh I'd forgotten, what she's up to I m not io it. whatever sudsaid could say you were! But-s- he and everything." Cherry In not enough." Yesterday when I was thats but denly. Yes, was she said, when they had Frans room, and she that showing Kelly, the poa cruising taxi and were on me the overnight case when they got signaled lice had broken open their way, "promise me something. went into the bath-rooAnything," he said. your letters, she she while to take a shower and Promise me that no matter what blew in through now, no matter how tanwas there the wind In to close happens went I and and I are forher closet gled filings get, you dresswindow and one of her hand and eternally bound to each ever ing gowns blew against my other! a pistol and Kelly shed wiped Grease and "Why, my darling, my darling, life now. mistake. ! he said, "my life is your it p"""" Here we are! he finished abruptly, as the cab drew up at the imposing UP..wh'nt are you talking about? Now well Marshbanks doorway. all this is about. what tl,Tan see to bm'' 1 tryThere were four officers there lpad an had dresses? of her one instead of the usual one or revolver on she wear- - now was there, too, silent, Fran One of those negligees had on when two; with her she what was that very pale, raven-blachair. 5 ran downstairs that mght-w- hen white skin and shouting bad to tell them, Kelly, aU heard the judge I y rnd we all ran to our doors. The he said breathlessly, apologcti-cJillit, remembered I it saw . I ... S'P.U k minute although "d then. forgotten it until Forgotten what?' hiS' iomaon would bav. youre standing The Problem Breathe deeply. Germs are killed by deep breathing. But how are you going to teach the germs to do it? Thats the Question Shall we live with your 1752 Its Vf OST Can we live without them? Indispensable useful as well as smart is button-froIleTI never make a soldier, this dress which busy women every- exclaimed the sergeant of the When his recruit. where are growing fonder of all the time. It has an executive look legs above his knees stand at atabout it from tailored collar to tention, below they stand at ease. set-i- n belt to ample comfortable How Could lie? skirt. Father Im afraid your young man is living beyond hi3 means. Daughter Oh, no, daddy! lie Temperamental Foxes Silver foxes are extremely deli- hasnt any. cate and temperamental animals, says Colliers. On Canadian farms where they are bred for their fur, their diets are worked out to the point where, for example, a COLDS Many users Buy first use is fox is fed exactly 533 caloHas a base t COUGHING. ries a day. Visitors are usually oldrevelation. fashioned mutton suet. SNIFFLES. excluded because the animals are Grandma's favorite. MUSCLE- so easily disturbed that even the ACHES Demand 1enetro. stainless sight of a strange face may irritate them sufficiently to affect their skin. Buy War Savings Bonds 4- - well-style- d nt knock-knee- d To think sickens me. Margot married to a man twenty years older than I am actually By KATHLEEN NORRIS enough, my CURIOUSLY week letters, one from Portland, Oregon, and one from Cleveland, Ohio, and both asking the same question: is a difference in age a serious thing in marriage? The Portland girl is 30 years old, her young man is only 24. She says that she is young for her years, and that he has been developed by responsibilities and hard times to seem much older than he is. He was a worker at I4,1;ook care of an invalid mother and little 8ister until the mother died and the little sister married, and Alma says that while he is full of fun and confidence and eagerness, he Is really a serious man was madly in love with him. I was in many ways. stupefied. Margot to me is still the Alma has had a hard time, too. dear happy dancing child who has She has been the main support of a been my companion all these years; family of older persons, faithfully to think of her as married, and to a man almost 20 years moving between home and office for married almost 12 years. But for all that older than I am, actually sickens she Is young in spirit, she writes me. I have not been well In soul, me of a tiny week-en- d cottage near mind or body since this thunderbolt the sea where she has sometimes fell upon me. John is about three succrowded in as many as a dozen times her age, a cessful who man has friends, many window garfriends, of her cat, her dens, her love for cooking, and the a fine practice, and who is extremely youthful in his tastes. He takes her tiny niece that her brother sometimes lends her for a visit And her to dances, plays tennis, associates with younger people, but all picture shows a small, charming much that doesnt change the facts. Worse, a under person, beaming he was married long before Margot hat was born, and has two daughters So my advice to Alma was to marthan Margot. One of these is elder ry her Tom at once, and enjoy her married; the other lives at home rightful share of happiness as wife, as his housekeeper, and as the estaband someday mother. lishment includes his paralyzed old Pleasant Years Predicted, mother, two servants, a nurse for There is no generalizing about the mother and an office nurse, with marriage, but it is true that mar- a chauffeur and gardener as well, riage in which the wife is somewhat everyone seems to feel that Margot the older of the two, do generally would be lucky to keep this daughter turn out happily. Alma is going in the family as manager. Margot into this marriage with a real destands a little in awe of Helen, who termination to make it a success, is about 24, and says she would like and something tells me that it will this arrangement. But to think of be one. my adored baby in that big house, The other case Is that of a girl with a husband older than her awn named Margot, who Is 17. She Is father is, and all those complicated the only child of a divorced mother; relationships to adjust, frightens me. I could prevent this marriage until it is the mother who writes me. I was only 18 when Margot was she is 18, perhaps, but she could go to her father for permission, and born, says her letter, so that we as he has never had the slightest reare more like sisters than really mother and daughter. She has been sponsibility for her, or Interest in he would probably give his my one and sole consideration for her, consent We travlife. of moment her every What argument can I use with eled in Europe every summer; I helped her with all her lessons; we her to convince her that she is had a plan for every Saturday and throwing away youth, good times, Sunday. My husband was 14 years the prospect of falling normally in older than I; it was his family, and love with someone of a suitable age? his first wifes family, who made For certainly what she feels for this our marriage impossible; Margot man isn't love. was only a tew months old when I Situation Beyond Control. left her father, and I have not seen The answer is, you can do nothing. him since. , And for your consolation let it be Like an unde to Margaret has said that Margot is now playing a always been the family doctor; he part, and it is a happy and popular was on the staff of the hospital where part she was bom, later became a nerve That will be Margots role, and specialist and moved into our neighshe will love it. Presently the rmiids, He is now B4. When he chauffeur, borhood. tire helpbegan to call constantly at our house less old mother, the nurses, will all it was natural for me to feel that he be in love with lovely little Mrs. was interested in me; I have always John. Sometimes girls keep up that liked him, without ever giving any attitude all their lives; I knew one deeper feeling so much as a thought. handsome old woman who still liked Some weeks ago I said to remember that when at 16 she to Margot that I wished John, to married a rich man of Si), he insisted call him that, would ask me to marry that she go on with her schooling. him and have it over, as the susAnd when he went to the Philippines pense created by bis calls, gifts, sigduring the Spanish war, he put her nificant speeches, notes, was getting into boarding school. She had four on my nerves. step-sonall much taller and older than she, and two boys of her own, Daughters Confession. Her answer was a burst of tears, and, while It wasnt marriage as and a hysterical statement that If most men and women know it, marwhile a for I thought I'm corry. But I had it bad not been for her fear that I riage with its young eares and rethat we could hide it loved John, and that it would break sponsibilities, its mutual dependence to tell. my heart to lose him, she would and financial worries, it was a hap(TO BE COMTLWEDJ have told me long before that she py life for her. tragic-lookin- she did." said shout, havent touched your tooth yet. SMETRI wide-brimm- home-make- r, y Mora Schell, who works on automatic control dcvlcca at a, Sperry Gyroscope Co, plant nr THE II -- m ZONE- WHERE CIGARETTES ARE JUDGED The Taite and Throat Is the proving ground for cigarettes. Only jour taste snd throat can decide which cigarette tastes best to you , , , snd bow it tlTccts your throat. Based on the experience of millions of smokers, we believe Camels will suit your to a j LA |
