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Show THE BULLETIN Kathleen Norris Says: THE Young Wives, Beware! (Bell Syndicate 0 RUPERT HUGHES CHAPTER By RUPERT WNU SERVICE claimed with unusual fervor for him. "That's my religion, and the One day the rogodlns cam closest I can come to a prayer is home with a child. .They said they an. operation. And as for experi had adopted her. mentingit's the crying need of the That evening while Mr. Pataky world. Miss Ludlam. If only a man wai at the Foliei Caprice teeing a could have a lot more money to musical work, the Pogodins had spend and all his time to devote made baste to pack up their belong' to exploring. Experimental surgery togs and ship them to the station. is the new. world; it's unbounded. Mr. Pataky being away from home undreamed: of why, my God, it's excuse mel" ' did not learn which of the stations He collapsed In full flight, they went to, and from. In answer to Jebb's frantic de- - ashamed of his own excitement but sister Jennie cried: "Don't mind mands for I guess as to the probable me I'm used to Charlie. I love to destination of the couple, Mr. Pa hear ypu swear. It shows you have taky pulled out a business card, the tbe frenzy. that a man needs to be duplicate of the one Jebb already You are the man I need to great. 'had. Mr. Pogodin was In business heto me found this memorial. It jboth In Paris and in Warsaw. He must be Just a little different from had not done well in Pest those that are already established: "I am sure you find them in, Paris it must but you know so' much betor In Warsaw, If maybe they ain't ter than I do what 'is needed. Won't gone to some other place." you please please take charge of To come to this trail it for mel and realize that whichever way he Jebb almost fainted at this gift took he would wish he had taken so great he had never even dreamed the other; and that every day of de- - of it ... ; ilay increased the difficulty, and They talked till the porter In blurred the track, was maddening formed them that the whole car was to Jebb. He gave Pataky the mon complaining. ey for Cynthia's little destructions When the train at last reached and got rid of him with curt phrases Paris, the Wentworth Ludlam Me-- 1 When Jebb reached Vienna the mortal Hospital and Experimental next morning and, went into the breakfast-roohe found Minima. . waiting lor nun. Her face was lumi nous with welcome, but it turned gloomy as she cried: ' "You deed not flnded' the Cynthia child. Am an I amanr He told the story briefly, hastily explained hia new dilemma.' She solved it In one Instant: "Leesten. Do you speak Polish or Mosgovian?" He shook his tfaead. Then she ran on, eyes flashing with delight over her scheme: ,. XV-Coflt-inued -1-5- ' , . m "I am cherkes-Circassia- n born, and I learn some Russian as child, before I am taked to Turkey. ' ' "But leesten? You shall go to Par. is and look, and I shall go to Warsaw. .The one who. finds the child feerst telegraphs the other. I bet 'you I gone to find her the sheker-- , bull the sugar lump feerst What you bet?" By this time the Ludlamf met In and came-ove- r ,the breakfast-roo'to their table. The story and the scheme told all over again, enjap- tured sister Jennie and even opened the fat eyes of brother Charles. As a much traveled woman, sister Jennie scoffed at the idea of any difficulty In Minima's way. Brother Charles volunteered to get the passport from the American consul in Vienna. An hour later he came back with It boastfully: 'It Isn't everybody that could have got this,"- he said; "I had presence of mind enough to realize that if I said Mme. Janghlr was a Turkish lady there'd be all sorts of red tape. So Z said she was an American." "Wen, she' is. by intention." said sister Jennie. Minima blushed and - Jebb sighed.- - The Warsaw train left at noon and required seventeen hours for the Journey. Jebb's train to Paris took twenty-seve- n hours, and he was weary of globe-trottinThere was so little time to get . g. Minima aboard her train, and there .were so many instructions to give her, that leisure was left to talk of nothing else. And Jebb was sadly glad of this; it saved him from the torment of restraining his words of adoration. Jebb's mood was funereal when he returned to his. hotel. In bis absence the Ludlams had. decided to go to Paris by the same train a conspiracy hatched by sister Jennie to console him. When dinner was finished sister Jennie told Charles to go. to the smok and. stay there; and she asked Jebb to' come back after the expiration of one cigar.- As soon as he had accom plished his cigar he wandered back to sister Jennie. Then she unfolded her plan: "When I first saw you In Vienna the other day, and thought you were very rich, I told you I wanted more of your help, you remember?" Jebb smiled. "Now that I find you are not an Idle millionaire, but a keen and brilliant surgeon oh, don't lift your hand it gives you away as a surgeon, and Minima has told me of your miracles in wherever it was. "I spoke to you of my-- poor brother Wentworth. Before I die I want to see a memorial' of that beautiful soul, cursed through no fault of bis own, by an inheritance from poor ancestors that had heaven' knows what .sorrows or failure to drive, them to despair. My poor, dear brother was started wrong, he could never hope to be what he ought to have been. ; "So I thought that a hospital for correcting the malformations and the Inherited handicaps of little children would be about as good a memorial for poor Wentworth as I could find. "And I wanted a large part of its work to be experimental I want it to keep investigating, finding new methods, pushing Into the dark. You understand, don't you?" "That's about all I understand in this world. Miss Ludlam," Jebb ex ss . - you-shoul- ; d Letters Rate Jobs, Homes First History has a way of fading into romance with the passing of a cen tury, even though the facts are kept meticulously aligned. So it is that when one thinks of the development of Michigan, Ohio and the rest of the Northwest Territory, he Is apt to think In terms of boundary Jugglers, coonskin caps, long rifles and buttered rum. Alvln Hamer, Detroit bookseller, has discovered a collection of letters written by the five sons of Josiah Colburn, a dour Yankee of the early Nineteenth century, to let us know the first of the 1800s was not altogether a time of the grand gesture and political These were men whose letters reg veal that they were Journeymen and laborers and seafarers whose main concern was not with the dangers of frontier life, but with the ordinary business of getting Jobs and founding homes. Out of New York state these boys came, to spread as far north as On tario, as far west as St Louis, and south to New Orleans, with the g father always in the background, giving good Scriptural gold-braid- was left to talk of else. Leisure bo thing d Pp-gedi- Century-Ol- m HUGHES royalty basis with a guarantee of his mouth full of the ashes of con a good Income for life. fession, he began to tell her of his When the pulled In other self. at the station, Jebb ran through the "Do not tell It me," she said. "It cars searching. hoorts you, and I know it all many Cynthia, dawdling In the corridor days. Seester Jennie tells It and it as before, saw him first and set up makes me such Joy to theenk that a shriek. you have been shrinking from me The child's first distinguishable not because you did hated me, but because you did loved me all thees speech was: time." long "Oh, Nunkle Dave, you never told "Then you understand why I kept me what Thlnpat the Thailor had In the thoot-cath- e he bringed his little silent?" "Yes." Bridthet1 daughter "And why I can never ask you And before anything else could be to be my my wife?" told Jebb had to ransask his excited "No. Leesten, Jebb Effendim, you brain for a catalogue of gifts that theenk you have another self that would have foundered the reindeers you cannot keeL I theenk you can. of Santa Claus himself. weet the help of Allah and weet my And after this. Cynthia must teQ love to make you a home. Even If her own adventures with the Pogo- you cannot keel that Meesfer. Pier-po-nt din s, and she must show 'off the still, when you are that man Russian she had learned and the could keep .you close, take care Polish words, and what a nice wom- of you, save you from to run aHover an Mme. Pogodin was though not the world, and, perhaps some day half so nice as Aunt Minima. be made dead in some . terrible In fact there was no silencing the- place. If' I should be your wife I should guard you and when the long child till fatigue put her to sleep wake or at least they supposed she was seeckness was over back, to yourself in your ovynhome asleep. arms always. Then soon, "And now, hanlm effendim Mini and in my know Allah would answer I I know, ma tell me how you managed to such prayer from two such lovers, find her you wonderful, angelic" soon the other self .comes less and he stopped short on the brink of a leu often, stays less and less long. plunge. That could be couldn't eet?" "Oh, eet ees such a long story. "Yes, it could be it would be, if They were not hard to find, the but I love you too much to let you but they refuse to geeve up endure it" the baby. They say she is their "Hush.. Jebb Effendim. I theenk own, and they defy me to proof she you want me for wife yes?" is somebody's who is In America. Jebb only cast his eyes up In deSo I go away much afraided. But spair of words to express this deI come back and wait in the street sire. "Then if thees time Instead of to Not till next morning Cynthia comes out alone to play and I stealed her. be gived by somebody to somebody, from the stealers oh, how I runsl I give myself for a gift then then oh, should the gift, be refused? From the depths of his soul Jebb should you ruin my life forever? sighed. It seemed impossible to should you oh should you make me keep bis love secret any longer. He do all the proposing?" had no right to deny her that tribare very Those compartment-car- s ute. It was her privilege to know cosy for settling disputes of this that he loved her enough to relin- sort And Cynthia was . asleep or at least they thought she was asleep. quish her for her own sake. And then with much hesitation. THE END. Nord-Expre- Station was pretty well talked out and a good deal of it was mapped on paper.. The first place Jebb sought In Paris was the office of the Machines Flaubert The president and his son received him and recog nized the name of Nikolai Pogodin with contrasting feelings. The younger member of the firm laughed; the elder swore. Mr. Pogodin. they said, had been their agent but his interest In the race tracks of various capitals had mixed up his accounts so that they had regretfully erased him from their rolls. The Flauberts promised Jebb any information in their power, but they doubted if Pogodin were in War saw, or that he would remain any- counsel. where long.' pow-wo- hard-workin- Bible-readin- . There was Thomas, a roistering wanderer In sail, whose papers show that he sailed in 1818 from Kingston, Ont, with a' cargo of 40 barrels of beer and 427 pounds of cheese, at a time when memories of with Britain were still fresh. It was Jeremiah who wrote of the boom which followed the war In Buffalo, only to complain three years later that Jobs were hard to find. He had Just finished his apprenticeship as a carpenter and was starting out on his own. "X am this day pretty good looking, half white and 21 years of age (half Indian, perhaps?). I am now square with the world I owe nobody and nobody owes me.," Jerry wrote to bis sailor brother. Thomas had evidently cautioned him on the folly of wandering, for he continued: "Free and independent you have advised me to refrauh from rambling and be steady. X should be glad If you would take a little to yourself, for I believe you stand In need of becoming more steady than what you have been for these six years past For you have traveled thousands of miles and I have wi traveled half of one." the-wa-r CHAPTER XVI Jebb went back to his hotel to tell sister Jennie that he resigned his stewardship In her great project He must set out on a dismal Journey to Poland. But sister Jennie was not to be found. She was shopping In the Rue de la Paix. He went to his own room and was dismally flinging his things Into his suitcase when a telegram was brought to his . door.- - "VE ARR NORD EXPRESS OUTSITE RUSSIANS BORDERS VE ARRIVAL IN PARIS DAY AFTER TWO MOR-OCYNTA IS GOOD AND SENS LOAF TO NUNKEDAY. "MIBUMA." Yeiterday a lawyer from Biltt town called on me. lie tayt that BUTi wife gotten pouetiion of then tetters. By KATHLEEN NORRIS WHEN the mother of a 16 or old girl advises her doing something, or warns her about it she is' usually actuated by pure affection and loyalty to her daughter. She knows that the years between 18 and 25 are the years when a woman who la Indiscreet reckless, Inexperienced, can throw away all the happiness of her later years. Thousands of girls do, and live to regret it for the rest of their lives. But somehow they never will believe that their mothers are right 'Mother "My mother hasn't the least idea of bow things are today," they write me. '"Mama la so that if s perfectly maddening. Mama thinks .the. most innocent Mother things are dangerous. doesn't want me to have any fun. My mother is always afraid of what the neighbors will think," Any explanation of her anxieties . will do, except that she is your mother, and loves you, and wants you to grow safely to honorable and happy womanhood, and not make mistakes. "My mother talked to me the night before I was married," writes a Pennsylvania woman, "and if I'd taken her advice seriously I might have spared myself the misery I'm in today. But I always thought of Mother as straightlaced and fussy. and I didn't pay much attention. She told me always to put Len first In everything, and like all brides, I did make a great fuss over him at first We had a dear little boy and were very happy for the first few years. Knew Billy as GIrL "Then a man I will call Billy turned up. I had known him as a girl, and we had had a pretty ex citing love affair, of which I had told Len. Nothing wrong, but we had .been engaged, and I thought Len ought to know. "Mother had never liked. Billy, partly, because he la divorced, partly because he is quite a sport But he is very attractive to women, and when he shewed that he still admired me I didn't mind making Van a little JmHous. This worried Mother terribly, for she adores Van. "When. Billy went away after a short visit he asked me to correspond with him. He sent me books and articles, once a beautiful handkerchief, and once perfume. His letters were amusing and admiring and X answered them, saying a good deal more than X really felt This was about a year ago. We wrote each other about every 10 days, so X suppose he has at least 30 of my letters. Bill's Lawyer Appears. "Yesterday a lawyer from 'Bill's town called on me with a great deal of discretion and secrecy that drove me nearly mad.- He says that Bill's wife has gotten possession of these Never having dreamed letters. that he was married at all, I was shocked beyond words. I said that I had not known that Mr. D. was married, whereupon this horrible man said, 'But you knew, you were, didn't you?' She wants $1,500 lor the letters or she will, sue for divorce, naming me. Some of these letters I signed and others the pet names he had given me in his letters. Our actual relationship was always strictly within the bonds of morality, of course. "I did not close my eyes last night and I am half frantic today. At first this lawyer said he would be here until I decided what to do, but he telephoned this morning to say he is going back to Trenton, and will wait to hear from me. What maddens me was that I have never been in love with Bill, but only enjoyed this correspondence as a sort of romance. My husband and child are my very ilf eblood, and any thought of trouble at home breaks my heart I do not even know that Bill is married; It may be that he needs money and trusts he will get it this way. For the sake of a home, a good husband and an Innocent baby do, do help me find some way out!" Thrills at an End. Poor Joan, she has had a whole year of flattery and excitement and . . It seemed intolerably long to Jebb before the Ludlams returned to the hotel, and when they came In they were fagged with shopping. The telegram acted like an elixir of new life.. ' But the true laggardliness of time was felt only when Jebb tried to live out the day and a half between him and Minima's return. He spent a large portion of the tune writing and rewriting a cablegram to Mrs. Thatcher. This war not easy, for he must Inform her that her child was alive and well and on the way home, that her husband's good name was rescued and documented, and that the poor faithful soul had left an invention which a prominent manufacturer, Charles Ludlam, had inspected and would place on the market fur her on a &as . JOOST floor. 0 - . Through this fog of misspelled words a blast of sunlight came that almost smote Jebb Saul-wis- e to the WNU Service.) MARKED MAN Here's a Western story with a mystery motif that has both plausibility and punch. It's Harold Channing Wire's best range-lan- d yarn! High spots of a consistently exciting story deal with Cowboy Walt Gandy's efforts to solve a pair of murders and to defend the C C ranch and its tenants against the attacks of a mysterious foe. "Marked Man" is an unusual narrative colorful, red - blooded - he - man's reading from the first page to the last Read every thrilling installment serially in this paper. BEGINS NEXT ISSUE . , Warning to Wive Here is e warning to young wives of 1940, who think they can eat their cake end have it to,. 11any young wives, according to Kathleen Norrit, teem to feel that once the security of a homo and husband is their3! they can put that security on the shelf and start looking around for new playthings. But that style of living doein't always work out. Sometimes the little lady gets burned. Mothers still insist that their young daughters who are married should put friend husband first in their hearts. But the daughters often think that Mother is and doesn't know about modern" men. Usually though, they learn that Mother is right. Naturally it's all right to know men other than your husband but "affairs no matter how innocent are out. And if the mistake it ever made if Mrs. Young Wife does engage in an "affairthe nod better tell Hubby and start all over again. Unless she does tell him she isn't playing fair and when she eventually gets caught it may ha too late. the thrill of a secret love affair, she has made nothing of Len's rights and lien's .dignity, and now she expects to be extricated from it in a few minutes! The mischief has been far too long In building for that Her only way out Is one of humiliation and courage and risk. Joan has been stuffing greedily on poisonous sweets for 12 whole months. Now for emetics and castor oil and general wretchedness. For she will have to tell the whole story to her husband at once, and have him get in touch with some friend in Trenton, or some city authority, who can find out exactly what the engaging Billy's marital status Is. If he really is married, then Van, Joan's husband, might write him, remind him that he has some letters from Joan, and ask their return. This may work, inasmuch as Billy may not want trouble with his wife over them, should Joan turn the tables and inform her of anything that has been going on. If Billy isn't married, the matter is comparatively simple. Joan's husband may ask for the letters, thus showing Billy that he knows of their existence, and so spiking Billy's guns on blackmail. Then forget the whole thing. Jeaa Most Confess. Whatever the outcome, Joan's complete confession to her husband must be the next step. "And Is It a crime to write to a man when you're married to another?" many a young wife who is playing with the same sort of fire may indignantly demand. No, but the advice of Joan's mother was Put your husband good advice. first Don't do anything that you wouldn't like him to do. Keep your men friends, of course. But keep them as a wife, not a flirt Act like a woman embarked upon a serious business, not a free lance still in the market for affairs. There's no law against writing letters, affectionate, romantic, emotional, to a married man. There's no law against making a complete fool of yourself. There's no law against living on chocolate cake and sleeping in a bathtub. Terrible Alternative. For a long time after this scalding experience Joan will be a very meek and devoted little wife. She'll have to be. The alternative, divorce, and the surrender of her child, as being an unfit mother, la too expensive. A few of those should have been" letters would convince any court of domestic relations that Joan was a pretty flighty parent She's now put strong weapon Into Van's hands. For months, perhaps for years, he won't believe anything she says. If she demonstrates affection for him. if she cuddles the small boy, praises her home, expresses herself as happy. Van may took on with a cold and unconvinced eye. So don't despise mother's suggestions, you younger girls. They have been won from that same hard school of experience that you have to face. They form that most valuable possession that a wife or any other woman can have. The impalpable, undeflnabie, indispensable wing called CODE. "little-wife-tha-t- -- -- |