The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1933, Page 4

4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1938 The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper ‘ THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Trib- une Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck a8 second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year ......$7.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bis- MAICK) os ss.seeeeveeeee Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) ........... Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ..... ‘Weekly by mail 5 Weekly by mail in state, three years: . Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year ............. 1.50 Weekly by mail in Canada, per year 5.00 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of 8 significant development in our po- litical life. | Anarchy Action of a group of men at Le Mars, Iowa in taking a judge from his courtroom, beating and abusing him and nearly hanging him from a telephone pole, constitutes a blot up- on the citizenship of the entire state. Governor Herring's action in calling out the national guard to restore Peace and order and his scathing comment upon the failure of local Peace officers to halt the outrage should be followed by a sincere effort to bring the ring-leaders of the mob to justice. Only by so doing can the good repute of the Hawkeye state be maintained. The judge who suffered persecution and torment rather than agree to vio- late his oath deserves commendation. 00} Upon his election he made solemn Promise to do his duty in upholding the law as he found it. That he did this, even in the face of death, is to his credit. That is the kind of man who should sit on the bench in our courts of justice. Only from such men can every citizen be assured of fair treatment under the law. spontancous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. No Bonus March Passage through Bismarck of a group which is said to be the advance party for a new bonus march on Washington from the west coast has brought this subject to the fore again. It was peculiarly timely, therefore, that Louis Johnson, national com- mander of the American Legion, con- demned any new bonus march in a speech at New York Saturday night. Commander Johnson's attitude will be that of responsible war veterans everywhere. Here it is: “Within the last few days a tircular came into our hands an- nouncing that the communists were endeavoring to organize a march of véterans on Washington in May. The Legion condemns Perhaps the most significant re- mark in the grisly story, however, was that made by Governor Herring in expressing doubt that the men in- volved in the attack were really farm- ers, The affair smacks too strongly of gangsterism to have been done by honest tillers of the soil. If they were farmers, it is doubtful if they were representative of the hard-working class which has made this country great. If they are ever brought to justice the list will not in- clude the men who have contributed materially to the upbuilding of that part of Iowa. These times have bred radical agi- tators in the country as well as in the cities and the temptation to listen to such men is strong. Before enlisting under such leaders, however, people do well to look into their past records and their constructive achievements, if any. and disapproves, with all of its strength, this proposal and I ap- peal to every veteran in the coun- try, both in and out of our organ- ization, to shun these tempters who have no real sympathy for our disabled but whose sole aim is to gather together crowds to sow the sced for the overthrow of our government and for your own enslavement under a rule of tyranny. “These radical, un-American opportunists are. preparing to take every advantage possible of the disappointment and suffer- ing of the veterans resulting from the new regulations. We shall see to it that injustices are corrected. In the meantime, let us remain firm in our faith in our govern- ment. I call on every true Le- gionnaire to urge all veterans in their communities to refuse to join this new communistic move- ment. If there is a march on Washington, let us be in a posi- tion to say that» no member of ‘The American Legion is part of it.” The view thus expressed is both sane and humane. Well-intentioned individuals should spare themselves the misery and trouble which sur- rounded the bonus marchers of a year: ago, It does them no good and it cannot conceivably help to rescue the nation from its difficulties. We are on the way out but every citizen will need courage and patience. We want no rocking of the boat. ‘The visitors in Bismarck, by the way, received a cool reception fyom Jocal officers of the American Legion. As members of a great patriotic or- @anization these men resent ‘chisel- ing’ tactics and so they refused to co- operate in the holding of a public meeting here Saturday night. Radical agitation, the attempt to ‘use past services to the country as an excuse for present preferment, are not included in the program of the Amer- ican Legion and other sound veterans’ organizations. And so the spirit of hospitality was missing. In the government's economy pro- gram no group has been so seriously affected as the war veterans. As a body they have not cried out against it. Instead they have admitted, as Commander Johnson did in his Speech, that there have been abuses which, in justice to the government, needed correction. At the same time, he contended that some of the new veterans’ regu- jations are unnecessarily severe and will reduce the compensation of some men suffering from battle casualties ‘as much as 60 per cent. These situa- tions, he said, can be corrected by ex- ecutive order and the Legion will work toward that end. Johnson also raised other questions which demand the thought of every- one. They were: “Must the veteran alone stand the burden of reducing the cost of government? Are there no other places where curtailment is in order?” For answer he pointed to the top- heavy structure of the commerce de- partment, certain activities of the de- partment of agriculture and ship sub- sidies which resulted in one firm col- Jecting $1,400,000 for carrying 12 Pounds of U. 8. mail. His view was that the American Le- gion can perform no more meritori- ous service to the nation than to in- sist that all abuses—not alone veter- an abuses—be eliminated from the government. If the membership of the organization follows this lead it will be @ fine thing for America and Leadership toward anarchy, such as that which prevailed in Iowa Thursday, is not wanted in this coune try. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other edi They are published without r to whether they agree or dis with The Tribune's policies, The Clark Tragedy (Minneapolis Tribune) An appalling tragedy has written the unhappiest ending possible to the case of Mrs. Clark. Probably no one who was shocked by that tragedy has failed to ponder the events which led up to it, to attempt to fix re- sponsibilities, or to see with perfect clarity just how it might have been averted. The snuffing out of four lives has suddenly softened public judgment in the case. Where many were certain that absolute justice had been done to Mrs. Clark, there is an unmistakable tendency now to feel that mercy should have tem- pered justice. This tendency is as human as it is comprehensible. It flows from the deep conviction that a strict insistence on the letter of the law was not worth, to society, the awful consequences of misery, disgrace and finally destruction which fell to an entire family. While it is impossible not to sym- pathize in some degree with this point of view, the truth remains that an unemotional contemplation of the facts leads to other conclusions. The first conclusion is that justice, by its very nature, cannot guess or prop- erly be concerned with the reactions of the individual to its mandates. If the reactions are abnormally severe, and if they ultimately lead to stark tragedy, that is indeed to be regret- ted; but the duty of the courts is to administer justice impersonally, and not to anticipate the ultimate effects of their decisions on the human mind. The second conclusion is that @ sentence may be no less just be- cause of the individual's failure to be reconciled to it, and that a system of jurisprudence which premised the need for mercy simply on that failure would be, in fact, no system at all. The third conclusion is the Clark tragedy was an entirely abnormal consequence of a case which ran its entirely normal and judicial course to the highest court in the land, and that every guarantee of justice so- ciety affords, as well as every op- portunity for mercy, had thus been provided. ‘We cannot share the belief, then, that this was a case of justice, like some grim and unreasoning nemesis, driving its victims to their doom. The integrity of our jury system, after all, was involved in the case. The sentence imposed did not, under the circumstances, seem unduly heavy. Yet tragedy has today altered, for many, their conceptions of justice. A profound sense of sympathy and dismay has raised the question as to whether mercy, in which the strict claims of justice had no part, would not have served a better purpose. This conflict of reason and emotion is by no means new, but it is one which has been brought home, and with tremendous force, by. pitiful and shocking denouement which has closed the case of the government, against Mrs. Clark for the unhappy per she played upon the Foshay jury. FIRST IN U. 8. The New York City Chamber of Commerce was the first institution of its kind in the United States. It was organized in 1768, and was incorpor ated under a royal charter from King George III in 1770. THIRTEEN NOT UNLUCKY Denny Shute, one of the leading professional golfers, carries a luck Piece of @ goat and a figure “13.” Approximately 3200 cubic feet of helium, 95 to 98 per cent pure, is re-/ quired to support 200 pounds. | Speech may be silver, and silence gold, but paper money seems to be| doing all the talking these days, | i a The International Situation { i i 1 PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. in ink. TOBACCO AND ANHEDONIA Recently we gave a composite analy- sis of right mindedness and anhe- donia in parallel columns, thus: Right-Mindedness Anhedonia Motion Emotion Play Sport Work Business Diversion Thrill Relaxation Boredom, ennui Pleasure Vice Contentment Restlessness Happiness Despair Revered old age Suicide Now let us see where tobacco he- longs. Fanatics will expect me to put tobacco in the right hand column, Many tobacco addicts will expect me to put it in the left hand column. But I'm going to play it both ways with proper limitations, In the right hand column I'll place tobacco ad- diction or slavery. In the left I'll place total abstinence and temper- ance in regard to tobacco. Paren- thetically and just to show there is no bias, let me say that there is no Possible doubt as to the proper place for alcohol in this analysis of many human lives, It belongs in the right column exclusively. Rightmindedness—you DO SOME- THING. No matter what—you may fight or you may run away, you may shingle the garage or spade the gar- den, but you DO SOMETHING. Anhedonia—incapacity to enjoy life —you just sit still and try to appear nonchalant. Or you smoke. Sherlock Holmes reaching for his syringe is a piteous figure, a mistake of his creator's. The young person lighting a smoke to conceal something is likewise a piteous figure, a mistake of our educational system. The smoker who feels impelled to resort to tobacco in the midst of a day's work or a game or a meal merely drugs down the faint impulse that still stirs in him to do some- thing. He just sits tight and waits till the drug obtunds that instinctive impulse. To that degree tobacco is his addiction. It dulls his conscious- ness of his own worthlessness, incom- petence, ignorance, weakness, or in- ability to participate in whatever is going on. The temperate smoker responds to the action impulse by DOING SOME- THING or other instead of attempt- ing to pretend nonchalance or indif- ference. Through action he blows off steam. And he derives far greater enjoyment from his quiet smoke af- ter the day’s work, play or activity is over and the hour for relaxation has. come. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. Letters should be brief and written QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Glitter I work all day at a desk that has a glass top. Lighting is natural day- light, from a window at left of desk. Is this hard on the eyes? (Miss V. W.) ‘Answer—It is always better to avoid shiny or mirror surfaces or pure white. Try to have the source of light behind the plane of your vision as you sit at work. Big Drink Any harm in drinking one quart of luke warm water to which two level teaspoons of salt has been added, each morning? (Mrs. H. B. L.) Answer—It is an excessive quantity of fluid to take at one time. Better omit the salt. The drinking of a pint or less of water, hot, warm or cold, is @ healthful habit. Cloves I formed the habit of eating cloves when a child. I quit a few years ago, thinking it might be harmful. Please let me have your opinion. (Mrs. H. 8. H.) Answer—It is not a healthful habit. You give insufficient data to war- rant an opinion. It is not a very dreadful habit in any case. No ce To settle a family argument please ‘answer these questions: 1, Is there such a thing as resis- tance in the human body, that is, re- sistance to diseases, particularly germ diseases? 2. What is immunization? The | Producing it process of developing or immunity. Immunity is a well recognized state, which may be measured or tested— such as immunity to typhoid fever, immunity to diphtheria, immunity to smallpox. (Copyright, John F, Dille Co.) IN I NEW |} YORK By PAUL HARRISON New York, May 1.—Few theater- goers, arriving well-fortified from flavorful dinners, ever give a thought to the distasteful stuff actors are obliged to consume on the stage. For even if the stage food happens to be well-prepared—which is seldom, be- cause property men are not inclined to worry about cuisine—it becomes distasteful after a few hundred help- ings. About the biggest eating-and-drink- ing show on Broadway now is “De- sign for Living,” and the cast of it seems to be getting a little pale around the gills. Every night and matinee, for example, Alfred Lunt and Noel Coward must simulate a pleas- ant giddiness after consuming a quart of water, colored with caramel, which is supposed to be brandy. Then there always has to be a fresh rice pudding, sent from Dinty Moore’s around the corner. Lunt doesn’t like raisins, and he had a pretty bad time of it for several days before Dinty’s was per- suaded to send plain puddings. Coffee, fresh from the property man’s own percolator, is the only thing that doesn’t pail. After that, 3. Is there a difference between | though, the actors have to drink them? (Mrs, W. P.) “sherry,” which is more water colored Answer—l. No. with more caramel. They smoke a . a | Who Is He? « s HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle 2Who is the Youth is the period of action, the time to DO SOMETHING even if only to bounce about like a playful pup or a lively kitten. It is sadder to see youth substituting the obtun- dent effect of tobacco for the normal reaction to the impulse to DO SOME- THING than it is to see an old burned out fool trying to drown his misery in drink. Somehow it seems that the youth has been robbed of his chance; he has not received a fair deal in his education. I am more convinced than ever be- fore that the young person who wants to enjoy life will not use tobacco be- fore he or she has attained full adult development, and any one who does use tobacco gets the greatest pleasure and the least harm from it by tem- perance in its use. |CUSTERS ANNIHILATION WAS A RESULT OF THE UPRISING HE LED. NAME HIM, Which THREE NATIONS HAVE THE LARGEST Hi ST NAMES OF THE (C05. OF AIRPLANE. FAME. hold? man in the 1S Therefore, Dicture? 20 What office did 12A kind of a ene iaenane coarse file. the man in the 13. burdensome Picture form- sense of re- e erly hold? 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Canada. 49Going beyond God of love. 45 Second note. 32 Babylonian due limit. 10 Sweet secre- 46 Bill of fare. god of war. 50 Born. tion of the 47 Pertaining to 33 Ozone. 51 Relieves. plant louse, air. 34 Official \ 52 The least 11 Free from 48 Part of a examination whole number, fraud, pedestal. - of accounts. 54 The matgrass. 15 Underanged. 53 Neuter 36 Commonplace. 56 Act of making 16 What office Pronoun. 39 Before. good. does the man 55 Preposition. Petr rs fie. FPN 8 a lt al \i in the picture aie i lot of cigarets, too, a couple of car- tons & week, but never yet have been supplied with their three favorite brands on stage. This same property man recalls that his toughest problem was to find a Substitute for the many glasses of sodium bicarbonate that Lynn Fon- tanne was supposed to drink in the comedy, “Caprice.” After a few nights of the real thing the actress, near to tears, announced“that she simply couldn’t down another swallow. A doctor finally was called in and saved the play with sugar of milk, which looks like bicarbonate. * * * LUNAR LUNCHING Another current dining-table play is “Three-Cornered Moon,” which has coffee and milk in the first act, string beans and coffee in the sec- ond act, and more coffee in the third. The beans are canned and cold, and the glasses of milk are real, but the coffee is represented by plain water in cups that have been painted black inside. The director insisted on the water, so that Cecilia Doftus, Ruth Gordon and the rest would have to handle the cups convincingly. The first act of “Another Lan- cocted by the property man from Slices of pared apples. A lot of olives also were supposed to be consumed, but since these were teal olives most of them were snitched by the cast before the curtain went up. They dreaded having to eat olives before an night hit on Broadway. day a film company forked over $26,- 000 for the movie rights. and sto} ligan custom is still maintained, as a sort of thanksgiving feast, + # # A GOLDEN MELODY Success stories: A party backstage at the Casino Theater the other night celebrated the fiftieth performance of George White’s “Melody” and proved it the fifteenth successive hit he has produced since his first “Scandals,” in 1919... . Years ago a young play- wright named James Hagan was spurned by producers and movie com- panies when he offered them @ play called “One Sunday Afternoon.” He jonly asked $500, but one frank agent jtold him it wouldn't bring a dime. ‘Recently he dug it out of a trunk, landed i with 9 firm of Peters and Spiller, and saw it become an over- (Copyright, 1938, NEA Service, Ine.) RW guage,” which recently closed, was} ‘The wonderful full of synthetic potato salad con-/that is found in Bier Sa cc | tees fit food for human consumpton.—Dr. William I. Sirovich, New York city e ongressman. ee * I don't see how the country can recover until we put our feet down P spending on frozen projects. audience anyway, because the seeds| congressman Taber of New York. * usually smothered their enunciation. Every actor has nightmares about be- when his cue comes. getting the hiccoughs. Speaking of theater fare, there's a Little Chillun.” son's all-Negro drama was in rehear- sal, many of the 174 Harlemites} Not one acre in eight of our orig- couldn't afford restaurant meals, or|inal forests remains, and the per- even subway fare to their homes. Sojcentage of this remnant devastated the producers had big pots of mulli-/each year is greater than the year gan cooked up, brought in heaps of | before.—Lieut.-Col. George P. Ahern. sandwiches, and milk for the pick-|@———: Now that the singers’ and actors’| @. aninnies, and fed them all right there. faith in the play has been justified, ite they could take separate taxis to Har-/seems to want to change the admin- lem if they wanted to, But the mul-|istration’s theme song from “Happy SYNOPSIS pretty telephone operator, gives up her opportunity for an operatic career to marry wealthy Ken Sar- gent. Ken’s parents had hoped their son would marry the socially promi- nent Peggy Sage and threaten to have the marriage annulled. How- ever, the young couple go house-| keeping and are ideally happy. Then Ken loses his position and, one night, Lily Lou hears him sobbing. Next, day, Ken's father calls and informs Lily Lou her marriage has been annalled. Feeling Ken no longer cares, Lily Lou accepts a railroad ticket and $500 from Mr. Sargent and goes to New York. She rents a furnished room and through Maxine Rochon, one of the boarders, secures a position playing the piano for a dancing teacher. Later, she and Maxine go to live with the wealthy Mrs. Paula Manchester, whose hob- by is befriending young artists. ‘Word comes that Ken is engaged to Peggy Sage and Lily Lou is de- pressed. Shortly after, Lily Lou is stunned with the realization she is, to become a mother. She longs for! Ken, thinking how proud he would have been, but refrains from writ- ing him. She loses her position but Dwight Gwin, the noted vocal: in- structor, employs her as his accom- panist and promises to give her sig- ing lessons. At times, Lily Lou is happy visioning a successful career but there are also hours of anguish when she thinks of her baby and feels so lonely without Ken. One day, Nita Nahiman, the popular opera singer and Lily Lou’s idol, calls on Gwin. After hearing Lily Lou sing, she offers to take her to Europe. Lily Lou is in seventh heaven, CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX Mrs, Manchester was delighted. “Madame Nahiman! Really!” “Manchester gets a second-hand kick out of everything we do,” Maxine said. 3 Maxine did not show much sur- prise at the news, but nothing sur-| prised Maxine very much. She made a great fuss about Lily Lou's good luck, and dragged all her clothes out of the closet to help her pack, then remembered an engage- ment, and went off in the midst of it. Nobody really cared very much) what happened to you, here in New York. Not even Gwin. He was delighted in a way, but in another way he didn’t seem to care. The same with Madame Nahiman. Offer you the other bed in her de luxe stateroom on the ship, promise to tutor you in Paris, and then seem to forget all about you. Lily Lou flew to get her passport, her visas, to buy the little extra things one always needs, to draw; out the $150 ctill left in the bank. She was going to Europe with Nita Nahlman,. She, Lily Lou Lan- sing from Woodlake. . . . She hur- ried with her packing, her last min- ute ironing. She wanted time to write a long letter to May. A little smile trembled at the cor- ner of her mouth as she wrote. A was eighteen, She had changed ajrestl: lot since then, but Ken would re- member her more like that, so it was just as well... He also lives} co}, in terror of choking on something, or| Brewers Association. By HAZEL L * The brewers alone could not alter ing caught with a mouthful of food|the drinking habits of the nation— . Jacob Ruppert, president U. 8. x ke * ‘We saw this spring a resurrection picnic dinner served backstage at the|of the German nation—Dr. Hans Lyric after every matinee of “Run,| Luther, German ambassador to the When Hall John-| United States. *¢ © Barbs A good share of the U. 8. Sena The Sargent Steamship Line and Lily Lou Lansing, young andjthe Sage Navigation company had! merged. Kentfield Carey Sargent, Third,| en route for South America, Kentfield Carey Sargent, Third, general freight agent of the Sar- gent Navigation Company, on board the yacht Seaforth, to race next summer in the Pacific coast an- Lily Lou rolled up the clippings, stuck them in a corner of her trunk, Her conscience, the miserable Woodlake conscience, began to tor- ture her. How could she go to Europe, with Madame Nahiman not knowing that.in April... .. She tried to remember Dwight Gwin's exact words, “None of her| dara business! Don’t you mention it to her. Trump up some excuse to see friends or something, and slip off to the American hospital! at Neuilly. -Nita’s broadminded. Keep your mouth shut and don’t spring it until you have tol” It had been the first thing she thought of. “I can’t go!” she had cried to Gwin two minutes after| he had assured her that Madame Ashlee was serious about taking er. She had let him convince her, be- cause she wanted to be convinced. She couldn’t give it up. Think of it... the chance to get away from New York, away from all the pry- ing eyes ..< It would be easy to slip away later, plead ill health perhaps, go to that hospital in Neu- ill - Nahlman need never really know. She'd have enough money— $150 left of Ken’s father’s money, and over a hundred in currency, saved from her salary from Gwin, and a twenty dollar money order her mother had sent her for her birthday, and American money goes so far in Europe now. Besides, Nahiman said that wouldn’t need money—none at Yes, and that was just i Hom expenses, truth? She'd never take her if she knew. Might as well give it up right now. her place? People always are so disgusted with you when you say you're going somewhere, and then you don’t... Lily Lou walked up and down the smal] green and white room, stepping over little heaps of shoes| and boxes and tissue paper on the floor. She put her old lace dress in ried, by a minister. Madame Nahiman. . . . No, she couldn’t do that. She put on her hat and coat and called a taxi, glorying in her courage jand extra ing. “Tl wait,” she said. She sat alone in the lobby, sur- rounded by empty chaits, and a ‘She couldn't help wanting Ken to]general air of waiting. A green know, There wasn’t any that, Not even Peggy Sage could tables, straightened chairs. object to that ... to his reading|be! about her in a paper... harm in|uniformed porter languidly dusted Two) hops drowsed on a bench. At ten Madame Nablman an-! She went to her bureau and took|swered the telephone herself. out the four newspaper clippings Lily Lou went up. Madame was| she had hidden under her hand-jin bed, eating heartily of ham and kerchiefs. eggs. A { The other Days Are Here Again” to “Silver ‘Threads Among the Gold.” ee # Woman statistician shows that on- Jy one in 86 women drivers has an au- to accident while one in 21 men driv- ers call up the wrecking car. Doesn’t say how many of those accidents hap- pened to the men under instructidns from the back seat. ae tk Arkansas town has the Mountain Home Anti-Cuss- ing Club, Don’t know what kind of a club it is, but we feel sure it isn’t a golf club, sk & Poets should work 150 hours a week, says Edwin Markham, The idea being, we suppose, that whem the rest of us get the 30-hour week someone will read the poetry. *& French arrest many workers and tourists near the border fortifications, says a news story. Well, Europe may take hope. The spy industry seems to be picking up. at least. (Copyright, 1933, NEA Service, Inc.) Juggiers’ dates usually turn out to be hand-to-hand engagements, “Tl send for some breakfas: for you... @ cup of coffee, some brioche!” Lily Lou was too shy. She said she had nad breakfast. Then she sat and watched Madame Nahlman eat. It took a long while to gather courage to #.y what she had come to say. Thacame Nahiman didn’t understand at first. She sat straight up in bed, her blue eyes 4} wide, her long, reddish hair drag- ging her shoutuers. Lily Lou tried again. This time there was no possible misunderstanding. Madame Nahl- man drained her coffee cup, put it down on the tray and stared at Lily Lou for a long minute. Then she fell back on her pillow and screamed with choking, gurgling laughter. She laughed until she cried, and Lily Lou had difficulty in not cry- ing, too. “Oh!” she choked, “if that isn’t the—the most—” When she quieted a little, Lily Lou rose to go. She was pale, and very calm. “I thought you'd feel that way,” she said. “It was nice of you to ask me to go, Madame Nahlman. I'm only sorry that it wasn’t pos- sible—” Under the bright blue gaze of the hennaed prima donna she could hardly continue. She spread her hands, in a hopeless gesture, “You have changed your mind, you won't come with me?” “Oh, no—I mean yes, of course T’d go, but how could I let you take me, when—when—” Madame Nahiman went off into another fit of laughter. She seemed to be considering some private, priceless joke of her own. “Life! So complicated. ... But never mind, you can Have all the babies you want. Have twins!” Another gale of laughter. “We sail tonight, just the sare, only you will be seasick, my poor little girl. But never mind. That is life.” “I was married!” Lily Lou cried desperately. “I married a boy who was not quite twenty-one, and his parents had it annulled. So I left, and came to New York—” “Ah, yes. To the big city—” “No, not on that account. His father—” “His father is backing you? He has money?” The prima donna’s blue eyes had narrowed. This was no time to hedge. Lily ‘Lou sensed that, “He is a wealthy man,” she said, “and he gave me my train ticket east and five hun- dred dollars. I have $150 of it left. “No. But the child. They will provide for it? You have a settle. ment? Or will they take it?” “No! Ob, no. They don’t know about it, I didn’t tell them. I have enough money—I can*manage. I'll go to some little place for a while im France—that is, if you'll take me—and then to the American hos- pital at Heatly, and you won't be bothered—really: “But you can't do that. pink silk leg out of bed. Lily Lou had a vision of her wiring the Sar- gents, of old Mr. Sargent getting ithe news, and Ken and Peggy clins- ‘ing together, cowering away from it. “No, I can’t tell them now. It’s too late. He’s engaged to be mar- ried again. Maybe he’s married— for all I know—” (To Be Continued) Copyright by King Features Syndicate, Ine.