Show : - - - - - e r - " - Isim -- - - h S ilownionommes a641 By DEAN DAVIES ''' — walk ' "Ma Hawkins! How you spoil U I swear- - I can't refuse a thing you pass me" Judge Gray gulped between huge forkfuls of golden brown buckwheat cakes He accepted another sausage 1'rapped in its blanket of crisp home-cure- d bacon and looked up at his beaming hostess Molly Hawkins' cooking was her pet vanity- and she stood holding her hands 'clasped in front of her apron stiffly Starched- snow-whiwaiting to anticipate every desire of herhusband and guest Before-they even knew theYNa1ite4 another helping she was there with high piled platter er steaming coffee pot The judge carefully wiped his mouth and turned to Charley Hawkins his lifelong friend "Do you know Charley I live a year in ang ticipation of this darn racket and Ma's cooking? The wife says I nearly drive her wile telling of the hunts we have down here and the biscuits Molly Hawkins makes" Judge Gray's voice was He spread hearty and sincere between butter fluffy' creamy halves of one of the "perfect" biscuits "Yer just like one of us Judge" Charley managed after making a ceremony of drinking coffee from a huge saucer and briskly wiping the dripping ends of his sandy mustache upon a freckled hand "Why—in July I believe it was—I started fixin' the sights different on my rifle Jim Brady came along an' seen me workin' so he brought his'n over fer me to fix too Then—" Dad—" Molly interrupted "We've fixed enough guns sence but if then to supply a you two don't git started soon yer fixin' won't amount to nothint It's gittin1 clost to 4 o'clock and Blueberry Gap is three miles away" TIArn loud gulps signified that two coffee cups had been emptied Both men jumped up grabbed red calico covered- hats from the wall rack and qamped out to saddle their horses Molly could hear them shouting around in the yard "That buck's goin' to die today" Charley was boasting "I'm gittin' sick of havin' people listen- to that story with their tongue in their cheek I tell you Jedge it's the biggest feller I've ever seen Folks jest call me a dreamer fer sayin's it It horn spread has a three-fosure is the truth though Why you jest missed seem' hirli last year You wuz settin' on Remember? that big' rock at the head of Antelope Tumble—" Ma Hawkins shut the door Dad would ramble on into a story that I 11 '" ' - - - te 1 p 0 old-time- rs ' 0 it '4' ' 1 1 I it - By KATHLEEN NORRIS If the famous quintuplets had been born into your family would you use that extraordinary circumstance to -7'"!---777r-- better your for- tunes: would you : o sell their pictures - 1 r Sit''' I :ii:14:::1'::::::': '' I I 4 ' ':: - 1 - 1 t :''' 4 4t - C Orin dee lead gem? verses— the name 'MarY'll Miracle And I said thats John 'midi And lU mend snd get the same so I omit for GOLDEN TREATMENT (Aisle se sly could het ' And I put Mit John's supper And I petit la his tea And it didn't taste a little hitt Had seeder so you se— kind eg sailing It was antoothest For little Doctor Me And I watehed and grayed andandtag (And cried some too I guess) And I didn't have the greened filth I'm ashamed now too:optima And John never tholight a minute Ile wag being freed of drink And soon he's as well a any one It make me cry to think! int meltrn me cry for gladness I'm ao proud to lie hi wife— Since he Is freed of drinking And leads a nice new life '"'glyies John hi atilt I can't Nay It elm enough! And hates and loathes a hntior A hit woold a polann stuff And when I my my prayers at night A thankftil an can be— John the most nt ell— t tray for Then GOLDEN TREATMENT for Drunkards MEOMIMMPM0 If you have &husband mostehrother father r friend hail a victim of liquor 'end your name and address on the coupon below It has helped many and should be just the thing you You may be thankful as long as you want lire that you did it 1 Free Treatment Coupon in your name and address on blank IFill below Then cut suit this coupon and 1 it to Dr jW llaina Co 341 1lenn Cincinnati Ohio You will write a I trial package or the Golden Treat ment as Idescribed above in a Plain sealed wrapper I FREE Imail ' 4 St Address or RI Lett- - D — --- -I Nat -: I - tracts and indorse — e- 1—to h- - a c- "Uh huh Say—" her tone become confidential "most folks around hare think Charley must've dreamed do about that deer I reckon-Wh- at you think Ned?" "Oh—well—uh—I guess if Charley says he saw him he did: but a three-foo- t spread is a mighty big deer But—say it would be nice for him to get that big fellow wouldn't it? You with your Grace singing in the city and all? I guess you know the sport shop is giving a swell radio for the biggest set of horns brought in this year?" "Yes me an' Dad hts been talkin' about it" Ma turned to the kitchen stove to poke the fire She gazed dreamily into the ruddy coals lost for a moment in thoughts of her With own Her daughter Grace a real future before her in the world of radio singing A wave of homesickness swept over hen A burn- Molly gave the ing stick snapped fire another vicious jab with the poker and turned to Ned who was twisting his cap nervously in his hands fearing he had offended her by seeming to doubt the existence of Dad Hawkins' big buck A sudden thought occurred to Molly "Say if you want me to Ned I could take yer gun in the hills with me this afternoon The men wanted me to drive the old '''''''' - J - ::-- - safety" 50-o- ments7 Or other half don't tare The question is clear enough anyway: Have a mother and father the right to makrmoney on or by or through their babies! Mrs Dionne's situation is peculiar A pleasant looking young creature not yet 30 poor obscure hard working she found herself about a year ago with five small Children on her hands Her life at and another one coming that time was all struggle cribs bottles buttons off saucepans to wash crying wakefulness in the night cryIf she ing naughtiness all day long has had a full night's sleep in the last seven years it was a special miracle— a gift from heaven If she was ever without a tired back and aching feet in the years between say 1928 and 1934 it was when she was safe in bed for a few brief days' rest with a new little Dionne in her arms Well then some ten months ago To this came the familiar ordeal woman still in the twenties it came for the sixth time It naturally didn't mean that she could completely give up the household responsibilities from her bed such a mother still must settle nursery disputes issue directions as to which milk is which and where his other sweater is sympathize with the man of the family for the inconvenienCO to which her unfortunate indisposition is putting him But this time there was e Five small pulpy little babies instead of one were presented in turn to her amazed eyes—and the world became quintuplet-consciouElzire Dionne was talked about where-eve- r men and women read English pleasures and luxuries of which she had never even dreamed came flooding into her life—travelf triends-o--gifmfame praise: She didn't have to give up her new little daughters to gain all this It came because of them indeed without modern science without all the care that money and skill could give them they very probably wouldn't have lived Quintuplets never have before Born small and weak and delicate they have very speedily drifted back to a world where overburdened little mothers of poor babies have more time These habies have had royal care for every moment of their lives They are flourishing like five little rose trees one lonkat their picture proves that - i live Wouldn't it be the most foolish sort of false pride to refuse all this? It seems to me it would Why should when it comes so easily so safely and with so much praise and delight and amusement and excitement in its train? Who would be benefited by the Dionne's hauteur? If these little girls grow up as sweet as their tiny babyhood nrortliarethey will healthily enjoy their fame Not many daughg ters are born with a capacity that far excels that of their own father As a nation we're all baby Crazy and Mrs Dionne may be sure that when the girls are a little older there are ten million American men and women who will want to see them wait in line to file past the window through which they can watch five busy little duplicate fairjes playing with blocks and putting dollies to bed and other- wise making themselves as enchanting as only small preoccupied girls can be If my unknown correspondents want to worry about children why not pick movie children? There is a point that is really debatable unless you feel as I do that there's no argument at all in favor of teaching clever babies lines they don't understand training them to kiss strange men ecstatically as "daddy" changing their clothes until every fiber of their delicate little bodies must ache from fatigue and exposing them to the heat the strain the weariness of rehearsals of crowds of blinding lights of infinite delay and con- money-makin- R::::'t' 'went the Dionnes really need money are in a position to enjoy the novelty and power of every dollar of it that the censorious voices say so sternly: "Well I think WS dreadful!" It doesn't seem to me dreadful at all Here is a biological phenomenon and for once it isn't a boy or an armless wonder: it Is all sheer Almost and charm every day beauty we have in the papers an illustrated of with a divorce parents fight story ing for the TIOSSCSSiOn of a small child and the child is usually pictured her small face all ready to wrinkle into tears her little arms tight about Muni kV:: '::::::::::::v!:: :z ''''"'-- ' WOMENI ' OR::::-- t::v'-:- ' -1 4 i:'' 7- - 7 : horse and kneeling down take Careful aim at her own target Two shots rang out on the still mountain air They echoed and reechoed from one rocky hillside to another 9ne bullet came from the Hawkins He gun of Charley watcbed the buck crash to the ground then leaped up shouting Judge Gray brought up his horse and the two men jubilant galloped over to the shabby half-to- n to share the good fortune with Molly When they reached the car they looked at each other with surprise Ma Hawkins Was stretched in a shaking heap upon the seat with her head buried in her plump arms She was sobbing convulsively "What on earth is the matter?" Judge Gray asked finding his tongue at last Charley eased his hot gun to his other hand and awkwardly patted the quivering shoulder of his wife "What is it Ma? Seems like rve never heard ye take on so even after Graciei left us to go to the - "Lawsy—now don't you two mind d face I done—over there Killed that—that purty gentle creature which had no more chance of gittine away than our old jersey cow" The judge smiled If Charley had not put in a timely shot the deer's chances would have been rather better than the jersey's he mused "Now now Molly pull yourself together" he urged gently "You should be real proud of yourself for getting that buck He's the biggest deer in this country barring none Why we've been stalking him for hours and he Comes right up to you to get himself shot" Ma Hawkins looked up at him' Surprised and pleased at his praise she shook off the feeling of shocked bewilderment she had experienced ever since she had seen that majestic creature stumble and fall cause of her own act and straight-(Continutear-staine- ed on :'0- Pollowint Page e ' Iliodess '"''Iiiiiii:ip ''finligE'r:'4 g '"':: 4i fk if::: i '::i:i::::::::1:" :A' t : '' li ItigNiiR: t:: :h::: gii'ii:VRW4O ' ' ''4 i:i:iiil!‘ :: 0'ftiiiIii'0': :::F 4:0:: f ' r ::' ::::::::::::: -— - - ::::::m:: ::::::m:::::: 'ft4'N'm4 - M:::::::::::: ::ex! 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If 1 fi 0:' ::' ' 'i:$:::::::::e:f :0:'''''' :1::?:::It'''aj l'' Geed ttnimotteloist it - be-"N- t :4Liniiii''''i:: o'' ' i 414 - me—" she raised a what "Look—lcmky For—in the Modess Laboratories — a new type of sanitary napkin has recently been per fected A napkin that combines three safety features to give N ' 0 N: § d - city" "accidents" can now be a thing of the past! - 4- sob-shak- "CertaingSate" WOMEN 4 ' ' 464tos'e ItBen-Gay- b I man dismount from his seen THE NEW ASA FOR nTeMa01 A I ACCIDENTPANICI END s : :q7'-m- far - Bell Syndicate ' CRIM:::::':::!:-:'' ' (Lipkin Anyone who has had the slightest experience of the cinema world knows how exhausting--homaddening even to a grown person are the ways of the moviemakers: what all that must mean to- a child one hates to imagine At its easiest at its most carefully handied and briefest to make one picture must leave an indelible impression on the undeveloped little heart and mind and soul and body and some of our tiniest stars make four or five pictures every year Yet nobody seems to feel the parents to blame Then there are other parents—very rich parents these— who send exquisite pictures of their fortunate childreneiC riding ponies or basking on beaches smartly dressed for the park as testimonials for soaps and foods It seems to me miserably unfair to the children to thus exploit them for money What do the parents buy with those checks that is worth the dignity—the privacy to which ordinary infancy has a right? The Dionnes are unique these others are merely rich The truth is that the critics of the Dionnes would forgive them fast enough if they were enormously wealthy if it had been to the Rockefeller& or to Barbara Mdivani or the Duchess of York that the five daugh tens had been given then we should hear no word of blitme no matter how -- 1935 -- -- - - es (Copyright - t mie's neck to show how she adores her Mummic Recently we had a sensational case with an aunt and a mother fighting for the custody of a small l heavy-face- d little girl who looked as if she had never had in her life one hour of the carefree delight of come panionship and love that is every s right feel the For these children one-doheartiest pity their lives are twisted In the very beginning and twisted baby lives don't often get straightened out in later life But nobody need feel any pity for the fat complacent charges Yvonne of the proud Dr Datoe! Emelie Marie Cecile and Annette thanks to their generous government can spend some ten months every year In rollicking about in sand boxesand sunshiny nurseries can thrive on the foods their own special physician selects for them can he as obscure and normal and happy as five quite ordie nary little sisters And in the other two months' carefully handled with a due regard for sanitation a due cone trol of crowds and fatigue they can roll up a bank account that will make them popular with' their family as well as with all the world beyond Years ago it used to be considered smart to name twins Theodora and Dorothea because both names mean "gift of God" The Misses Dionne are proving themselves in a very real and practical sense gifts of God to their somewhat burdened parents and I think those parents would be strange folk indeed if they did not accept their good fortune And within a tew years- if they live mother and daddy will have stored up enough money to keep them' and the five others Comfortable all their - ' Every Story Submitted a horse champed a twig snapped and Ma caught the flash of red in the oak brush The deer 'looked down the ridge then up at the rocky juniper-covere- d crags of Pioneer Deciding on the safety of the heights he turned his white rump to the woman in the car and b'gan bounding up the hill with long fast leaps Molly Hawkins' hands began to tremble What if- - the deer should get away? If she missed this chance and someone else shot the biCbuck —that' somebody perhaps whom she had heard in the hollow—then her dream of having a real radio with a loud speaker would be ended and her man Dad Hawkins would still be known as a teller of "big deer" stories Fascinated she watched the buck weaving through a small patch of scrub oak There was one mere little graveled clearing beyond that— then he would be cut of range and her chance would be gone The thought spurred her to sudden action She grasped the gun firmly but her breath came in little jerks of despair How her back ached sometimes when she had sat for hours listening to her radio on the earphones' waiting for Gracie to sing—she had suffered this same nervous numbness Again- the thought of the radio made her gasp "He mustn't git away" she breathed "This darn through- gritted teeth Ned say it shot to the right —no—to the left—oh lawsyt Which Her hands did he say anyway?" were unsteady The gun waved before her eyes like the choir leader's baton A mist seemed to dance before her eyes The buck was coming out of the brush to cross the clearing Molly steadied herself with a mighty effort turned the gun in the direction of the swiftly moving white patch rested it against the car frame and shutting her eyes (Dad tight squeezed the trigger always said to squeeze the trigger so the gun wouldn't jerk) Down the slope if Molly' had chanced ' to look she might have 3 e Those very words came back to Ma with startling vividness when several hours later she sat as though she had been suddenly She was stricken with paralysis sitting in the shabby old "half-ton- " parked in the doubtful shade of a shaggy cedar on the Blueberry Gap suddenly without a a huge buck deer sound warping had' approached her with casual unhurried gait and stopped within a few feet of the truck to look at her with gentle eyes Her first thought had been to shoot the creature with Ned's gun The lhought was instinctive she supposed Shooting was always the thing the men talked about most after the hunt but the sight of such a huge magnificent yet helpless animal inide her pause She had never seen a deer like him in her years Such splendid antlers spreading more like those of an elk than a deer kind a neck that looked thick and strong Slowly Molly raised a tentative forefinger and scratched the brown spot on her throat Her muscles were tense "Lawsy new ain't I the old softy?" "That buck- is she murmured bound to git shot: why shouldn't I do it? It is most likelSr the deer Dad and the Judge are hunting fer and somebody else might git it before they have a chance to even see it" The thought of the gun returned—"loaded and no safety" she lifted it eagerly 'Somewhere in the hollow below' ing - ' : Critm Made of IIIIIIII t r L ' 4 so ridge a ut in case they've killed a eer I can bring' Win fet lem No if I have the gun with me Dad an 4ix the sights white he is up there and has something to use fer a target" She scratched a soft brown mole under her chin and gazed at him with an expression of helpfulness in her eyes ‘ 'All right Mrs Hawkins that will be real good of you There's no use me trying to shoot it like it is" He handed her the gun She took it gingerly and stood it against-th- e wall with a little rap "Be careful" Ned warned "it's loaded and hasn't uek—ti-p '' and foods baby powders in magazine advertise- - s! Costs Nothing to Try INam ' half-awak- Oder lam aad TasteleesWiten !Joni at Directed Lady Coo Give It Secretly at Hen in Tea Coffee or Feed r l vaudevilleconI Scores of women have written me hotly that they think what the parents of these babies are doing is disgrace- ful and cheapening and harmful that the children will bitterly resent it some day and that it is typical of America's love for notoriety and money and sensation The Dionnes are Canadian by the way but half the women who write me don't know that and the :1:1U Homo Treatment ' -- m them? v'n i'V ' news- - apanpdearrtptchloetsogarcacpehpst I In ail this little town: And my nwrry WW1 and Takeo the place of sigh and froyM For JOHN HA$ QUIT HIS PRINKING And is like himself ones more And the world is jtnd le wadi's With sock happinsas hI i store! 0 contract for ''t' r:i By John's Wife r arrang&JALytpovie and radio rights would you ' ---f think it cheapened the five precious - -little sisters to Norris mercialize them in this way and refuse on any termt to permit any plielicity in connection with 604 e '1- i I'm the happiait little woossa i : i'-':- He Hates WhiskeyNow i "The buck with the big horns?" Ned questioned with his eyes-dany er - - TS Five Girls Get Talked About ot e while" bLairsyl I hope they hustle" she Muttered looking anxiously at the e clock tucked a spotless nap"Guess kin into the lunch sack Dad- need no napery" she chuckled thinking of Charley wip- -ing his whiskers' on the linen square and then absentmindedly putting it into his pocket to use is a handkerchief as he had done a time or two A half hour later the hunters were on their way and Ma opened the kitchen door to throw out steaming It was still too dark dishwater she decided to go clear down to the apple tree to empty the pan into the swill barrel She whisked the dishrag around the pin wiped her damp hands on her ample hips and stood on the doorstep looking at the eastern sky where cold grey dawn was just beginning to show a little pale glow at the edge of the sharply silhouetted dome of Pioneer Ridge The pungent odor of wood smoke drifted past her nose She could see lights in the neighbors' windows and hoped even mumbled a soft prayer that Charley would get the Big Buck today and put an end to the half concealed smiles and ribpokings that were spoiling Dad's reputation for being the best in the valley Suddenly upon the quiet air she heard the rapid clatter of a galloping horse It jerked to a stop at deer-hunt- reg-e-me- "Lawsy Ned yer give me a start Anything wrong?" "Just my- gun Miuus Hawkins Is Dad home? I've got to get these sights fixed The gun shoots 'way to the left I thoughtif I hurried I might catch the old man home" Ma shook her head and sighed "Well rm mighty with relief glad it's only a gun that's gone wrong Yer sure too late for Dad though Ile and the Judge left 40 minutes evil They're gitin' up Blueberry this 'Awning fer that big deer Dad sees up there oncet in a own - deer-huntin- '1 would last for hours maybe She had listened to hunting stories for She days at a stretch it seemed didn't mind hearing them once or twice - but dozens of times and she would- say hundreds of times she had to listen to e story until she could repeat it word for word and the experience seemed to be her ai-sh- -- 1' 1' 7 t o rle s Ss peered Intently into the gloom It was one of the town boys she recognized as he strode up the gravel - ' t -tt- Fillmore (Free Lance) - 0 SUNDA? 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