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Show ILOVE and MARRIED LIFE tnj. the noted author Idah MCSlone Gibson j THIS .(ls OF .1 IDE. ' Because 1 want you to nnd r.stand, ' my dear child, that after all has ; passed, it Is the surface of things , which affect us most 1 m going to j tell you exactl) what your 'Daddy Karl" and I did last evening. You remember he came In Jusi as I was writing to you what he, perhaps, per-haps, would call a little sermon and I, was ready to take up the seriousness of it all with him. ftflt one look at 'his face took it all out of my mind.' "Get on your hat. Katherinc, ami come put In the new our." "What uew car?" I asked rather stupidly, as 1 could not come back so rapidly to mundane things. "Your new ear. 1 "My new car ' ; I repeated, "Yes. my dear. Don't you re.ili;o that today is the anniversary of a very Important event''"' and then I suddcnlv remembered that your Had-, fly Karl" and I had been married twenty ) cars. " f co n sc,' said "Daddy" mischlev-OQal mischlev-OQal "I'm going to overlook your, forgetfulneaa this once, but don't you ever do It again. When a woman begins be-gins to forget hor marriage aniver-aary, aniver-aary, something must be very wrong." Or, else. Karl.' I murmured as he bent down to kiss me, everything mu. t be v.erj iihi Why do you know, It seems as though we have been always married. Bven today, while I vo been thinking of Mary's marriage, which must necessarily ne-cessarily bring up many memories of my youth 1 can hardily make It seem that yoU aie not her father. on have so long been a part of my life the best part of it, Karl. dear, that any other part seems a dream." And this brings me, Katharine, to' the real present I have foi you." ;(n-swered ;(n-swered your Daddy and he laid in my hands two queer little green jade lm-;l"rs lm-;l"rs v , They were absolutely alike, oxci pt that in one the right eye was missing and in the other the left eve u : gone "How strange," I said, "did these little gods never have but one eye each ?" "Never, and that Is the rea:;on why they always go in pairs. They can) nee the world as It really is only when they re together. Consequently, there has grown up about them a peculiar tradition which Is that If these little gods were ever separate 1 they bring great unhapplncss to their possessor" Through all the ages, these gods must1 be together to bring happines, according accord-ing to ancient command. And if a' man wishes to do great hurt to hiA enemy, he contrives sometimes to secrete se-crete In his house, or near him. a single one of these little Idols. The other he throws Into the sea or Inaccessible pl.i re. I'. great cood luck, rny dear, I re-1 cied these little bits of Jade around: which this ago-old superstition, c ling -, this morning, from an old friend who Is now In Egypt. And knowing howi vou enjoy anything of the kind. I I brought them to you. These my friend writes, are supposed to bring particularly particu-larly good luCk, hccausn they were1 found by a pearl diver, together, deep down in an almo.st Inaccessible cavern." cav-ern." 'How did they get there '" I asked; In wonder. "Well, the story goes, that always when these gods are separated they Seek each other; meantime, making a; the trouble possible for thooc who pos-ess pos-ess either one of ihcm. The diver who brought up these little so-called makers of Destiny, insisted that thousands thous-ands of years ago a man sent one of these gods to his enemy and threw the other inro the sea. "And through the ages, they were always seeking, seeking each other again. Just how they came together, no one will ever know. But here they are, my dear, and together they mean happiness for their possessor for you.." I looked at them for a moment and then I said: "Why Karl, we don't need them Let's i;ive them to Mary, Look! I will string them on a cord and place the cord through the loaves or this book and within the next few weeks. I will place this book in her hands and tell her to read the book and preserve the little green gods, Jealously nfler her marriage." TOMORROW A Talk with Karl, i Copyright National Newspaper Service |