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Show READ IT NOW The great mystery of Lincolns life is the girl he met as a young lawyer in Illinois. Here is Americas own romantic legend, through the eyes of a historian and a poet By CARL SANDBURG That fresh-from- - a bandbox feeling... .ours, when you use Tampax Introduction by Clifton Fadiman: This Sunday marks the 152nd anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and with the centennial of the Civil War just launched, the day takes on special five-ye- ar Every girl knows the need to feel immaculate when all the odds are against you. You can stand good, honest, dirt, but you cant stand a loss of personal daintiness that might be thought to be your fault. The Tampax promise is personal daintiness . . . Tampax absorbs Think not of internally, externally. the difference that makes! No odor can form. Nothing can show, no one can know. Disposal is personally achieved within the privacy ofyour bathroom. Incidentally, you can, of course, bathe while wearing Tampax. Perhaps you arc still in your teens and therefore think Tampax significance. One of the most fascinating episodes of Lincoln's early career is connected with Ann Rutledge. History cannot tell us that he loved and lost the blue-eye- d tavernkeeper's daughter who died at 22 near Netv Salem, III. But neither can it tell us he did not. We know that Lincoln knew the family veil and even boarded at her father's tavern. And tie know that her death saddened him. We can add these facts: In 1832, when Ann was nineteen, she uas engaged to another man, the prosperous John McNeil, whose real name was John McNamar. But there was something uncertain about their relationship. McNeil, or McNamar, had gone back East temporardy. Ihs letters ceased after a time. The years crept along to 1835, and Lincoln celebrated his 26th birthday. Note let's let Carl Sandburg continue with the story: use Tampax. It stands to for reason they would was certain that Ann Rutledge and Iincoln knew each other and he took an interest in her. Probably they formed some mutual attachment not made Tampax advantages is the Jrccdom oj action it gives you. And teenagers arc more active than anyone. Try Tampax. Just try it that's all. Your choice of 3 absorbencies. Regular, Super, Junior, wherever such products arc sold. Tampax Incorporated, Palmer, Mass. dear to the community. Possibly they loved each other digging-in-the-gard- may have to be deferred until your twenties. Many, many, many teenagers not the least of the it llrcM by J fan nr C innpbcll lor V port . lurl There seemed to have been an understanding between Ann and Lincoln, with no pledges, that they would take what luck might hand them in whatever was to happen, while they advanced their education. Lincoln had his debts, his law studies, his driving political ambitions, while she had her quandaries related to John McNamar. They would see what time might bring. August came and corn and grass stood stunted for lack of rain. Settlers came down with chills, fever, malaria. Lincoln, for his aches, took spoonfuls of Peruvian bark, boneset tea, jalap and calomel. Soon, New Salem heard that Ann Rutledge lay her malady baflling the doctors. Many went out to the Rutledge place. Days passed. Her cousin, Continued on page 23 McGrady Rutledge, a year fever-burne- d, It and her hand went into his long fingers whose bones told her of refuge and security. They were the only two persons who could tell what secret they shared. . . Lincoln was reading law, hoping and expecting the next year to be admitted for practice. Later he advised a young student, "Get the hooks, and read and study them till you understand them. . . Your own resolution is more important than any other one thing. Lincolns resolution to study law drove him hard; friends worried about his health; he couldnt call on ride or walk Ann often or for long. It was a seven-milfolks the her he at her and or called when on nearby farm of "Uncle Jimmy Short where Ann worked for a time. That she was earning wages meant the family was less well off than it had been. The money she saved could go for her expenses at the Jacksonville Female Academy, 25 miles away, which she "had a notion to enter. e Invented by a Jin lor now used br million t h omen 20 lincotftt Thu Froiriu Yuan, by CoH Sondbury, Copyright 1926 by Horcovrt, ond Co. )nc., renewed by CoH Sandburg, used by permission of the pubkshenJ (From NAbfohaM 6roc THIS WEEK Magosin N , February 12, 1961 |