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case, however. Lunch was the firss
thing on this program and the three
OF them ate 1t In her sunny small sttt-
ing room high up In the Ritz hotel
II Ann had tried visualizing her step
mother-in-law before they met, 70
would have been just that much time
wasted, she decided, because she'd never
seen any n even remotely resembling
her before .
Small and brisk, she had q birdliks
trick Of putting her head to one side
and considering what you were saying
as though it were something especially
delightful-a worm or a crumb maybe
before she gobbled it up. Her laugh.
coming straight from the stomach and
surprisingly loud for her size, kept
bubbling up at her grandson.
Her clothes were smart. Smarter
than mine, Ann thought. who had spent
considerable time on her own appear
ance that morning, studying her rosy
prettiness in the train mirror with Q
kind of despair.
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Copyright: 1884: BY DOROTHY Adds
IN TWO PARTS-PART ONE

IN TWO PARTS-PART ONE
AFTER EIGHT STAUNCH AND
LOVELY YEARS OF MARRIAGE
ANN is BESET By OLD FEARS
WHEN HER STEPSON'S MATERNAL
GRANDMOTHER COMES ON A
VISIT FROM ABROAD.
The cable had arrived two hours ago
Coming over the telephone Ann had
taken it for her husband. C"Who is this
speaking?" I am MRS. Holden" Mrs
John Holden?" "Yes.D Followed the
message which Ann took down.
ARRIVING Berengaria n week Satur-
day. New York two days. Expecting
you and Johnny. Warmest greetings.
MATER"
At first putting the receiver back,
Ann had been delighted at her own in
differnce. Ha, so that old enemy was
slain! But then, little by little, as she
went about her task Of fixing flowers
(the task that had been interrupted by
the ringing of the Telephony she was
dismayed to find old doubts besetting
her.
If this were only a new fear, she
thought as she blindly stuck purple
and yellow pansies in a low blue bowl,
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Time than it takes to tell about It, he
was back brandishing mallets. "Here
you are, Ann" He charged down the
terrace toward her, his new front teeth
exposed In a radiant grin.
How do we stand?" Ann asked, re-
celVlng her mallet.
~ tow up. Don't you remember,
I'm up? HE, don't you remember the
Iast game We played I socked you way
OUT under the lilac bushes? Boy, was
that ever a sock!"
In the course of their game, Ann
SAID: You and your father are going
10 New York next week, Johnny"
little boy looked up from mea-
surlng a mallet's length. ITO New
orr? o, boy! What for?"
IL see your grandmother. She's
going to be there"
Honestly, are we going to New
ork But aren't you coming, too?"
No, she had to stay home, Ann told
hlm. She couldn't leave the garden
just now. Go on, shoot-it's your
turn"
But don't you want to see my grand
mother? Ann, why hasn't she ever come
to this country before?"
Ann explained about his grandmoth-
er. His grandfather, who was her
husband, had been very i'll in London
Tor a long time and she hadn't been
able to get away. But now he was bet
ter and S % she could"
Does she look old?
Darling, I don't know. I've never
seen her."
After their game it was time fol-
Johnny's supper and Ann read Tom
Sawyer out loud to him After that big
John came home. He and Ann went
upstairs to dress for dinner.
Had he had a hard day in town:
Ann wanted to know as she padded
about the room shedding and collecting
clothes. Had it been hot? How about
the McCracken deal-was it coming
along? She knew Is much about the
business as he did. Her tact and sense
were indirectly responsible for more
decisions and innovations in the office
than ever John realized. He launched
into a complicated recital of his day.
But after a few minutes: Ann
you're not l~istening!" he complained
Accustomed to an attention which went
leaping and bounding ahead of his
words, he felt aggrieved. He turned
dark and sulky like a small boy de-
prived of some legitimate privilege.
Darling, I am so sorry but I'd for
gotten to tell you something quite i'm
portant." She told him the news, show
ed him the cable, and waited.
Whats that date?" big John ask
ed, knitting his brow more deeply. "A
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but this old one, this old unworthy one
that she had fought with every weapon
in her power years ago! -

but this old one, this old unworthy one
that she had fought with every weapon
In her power years ago! :. =
The flowers fixed Black Eyed Susan
and pink snap dragon like splitting sun
shine In. the living room, petunias and
the little bowl Of pansies in Johns
den) she strolled outdoors and down
into. her garden. It was, quite literally
her garden. Except for the building
OF a low brick wall no one had touched
1t but herself, and now, as always, when
she sought it out in times of stress, she
felt chidden by its quiet peace. Phlo2
and larkspur in the late light of a sum-
mer'S afternoon make any human agi-
tation seem unnecessary. .
And this particular agitation, Ann
admitted to herself, was quite unneces-
sary. Eight summers ago it would have
been understandable enough: a 49,
year-old girl marrying a widower Of 80
whose first wife had only been dead a
year might well, now and again, feel a
pang of wonder about the girl in whose
room she now slept. Nor would it have
seemed strange if, her husband mur-
muring in his sleep, she had leaned over
to listen for that other name.
Now, however, after eight staunch and
lovely years of marriage, all such
ghosts should have been laid. Were
laid, insisted Ann. But as her young
stepson burst through the door which
opened on to the terrace, she was sud-
denly stabbed by the sharpest of those
early fears: that John had married hel
Quickly like thatD so that Johnny
wouldn't have to grow up an only child
And then she had failed him. They
had had no children.
To be fair to Ann, Johns first wife
had been a very glamorous creature,
Like ripples the legend of her charm
spread out and out until there was
hardly any place that you could go that
people didn't say: "Oh, you come from
Buffalo, do you? I wonder did you ever
know a girl named Cecily Mosely? She
married, but I don't remember her
married name. She died soon afterward
having a baby. I think"
After a while Ann got so she could
say: "Cecily Mosely was my husbands
first wife. I wish I had known her,
but we never met"
Never met. Why, in those first years
Ann felt they were always meeting.
p~lease?"
Sure I WILL" shouted Ann. Get the
mallets out. I want yellow"
AS though mad dogs were at his
neels Johnny dashed around the side of
the house shouting: Gonna play
croquet, gonna play croquet." In less
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Wash OUT
Is MILES OF
KIDNEY TUBES
Win Back Pep Vigor -. Vitality

AS3AASY
Medical authorities agree that your Id
1eys contain Is MILES Of tiny tubes Or
Gters which help to purity the blood snd
hReD you healthy.
II you have trouble With too frequent
hladder passages with scanty amount caus-
ing burning and discomfort, the is MILES
Of kidney. tubes need washing out. This dan
ger signal may be the beginning of nagRinx
haskaehe. leg pains. loss Of pep md vitality.
xsttin9 up nights, lumbago, swollen FEET
and :nhes, rheumatic pains and dizziness.
+ kidneys don't empty s pints every day
md get. nd Of I pounds of waste matter.
your body will take up these poisons cauIinS
serious trouble It may knock you out and
lay you up for many months. Don't vait
AZ your druegi.t for DoAN's Pills..
. doctors prescription -. which has been
used successfully By millions Of Kidney suf-
ferefs for over 40 yearA They give quick
re1ief and will help to wash out the Is
NILES Of kidney tubes.
But don't take chances with strong drus,
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On DoAN'S PILLS :. . the old reliable r.
PEI that contain NO dope" or habit-forminr
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1t your drus'It g 1884. Foster-M lburn Co.
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BEER TAX $632,920

The tax on sale Of beer in this state
since the beverage became legal on
April II, 1888, has brought $632 900. 20
into the Montana treasury, J.. j. Jewell,
beer licensing clerk for the state board
Of equalization, said.
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Ftfty-five per cent of the camphor
On the market today is synthetic cam
phor, largely Of German origin.
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London ambulances made 40,619 trims
and carried 39,767 patients in the last
year.
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Manufacturing plants which were
damaged BY floods In northern japan
are resuming operations.
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Employment in Austria is increasing
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M. N. A.. September "a, 1884 az
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TAILORING AND FURS
FIVE CENTS PREMIUM per bushel on
your wheat checks for all tailoring and f,-
work: Suits and overcoats from s22.5o up.
ALEC Liberty Tailors, Now at 81
F0ortn 81. NO, Great Falls. Mont.
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FILMS FINISHED

FILMS DEVELOPED Csc Including twc
e~nlargements and one 8x1O enlargement
coupon. CAMPBELL'S PHOTO SHOP, La.
Crosse, Wis.
Evening star., 1934-01-21
ho5 Eo IN HuyMv-By Hzqn Cobb-Contuzuea Page

concerned; neither he nor the duck was
expecting that to happen. He has done
loose lecturing from time to time, his
pr0udeSt boast in this connection being
that while on the platform he never
succumbed to the temptation. of giving
readings from his own stuff. He was
approaching so before he went in for
radio and bridge work, but has had
some success in both fields.
After being a newspaper man from
the time he was Is until he was So,
and an author of avowed fiction since
then, Mr.. Cobb is often tempted to
retire and rest upon his laurels, having
put in a bed of laurels when he pur-
chased his present Summer place on
Long Island. But always he has put
this prospect from him, saying: "One
must be unSelfiSh in these matters. One
must think of that overdraft down at
the Chemical Bank. One must think
of the first OF the month"
Contrary to common belief, Mr.. Cobb
is not fabulously wealthy-merely fabu-
lous. That he suffers others to regard
him as wealthy offers keynote to the
mans true nature. He's just crazy
about imaginative romance.
word in conclusion to correct an
almost universal and perhaps justified
misapprehension. Contrary to the
popular belief, Mr.. Cobb is not witty all
the time-only in his waking hours.
Evening star., 1934-01-21

sequently, these measurements became
reversed.
Unlike many literary celebrities, Mr..
Cobb was never much of q hand for
marrying around. In fact, he is still
hanging on to his precious little stock
Of pre-War wife. That Mrs. Cobb has
been able to stand him for 30-odd
dragging years is by some attributed
to his jovial and mirth-provoking dis
position and by others to her powers Of
endurance, some going so far as to
say that early in the matrimonial game
she got numb. The worthy couple have
one daughter and two grandchildren
The daughter, whose pen name is Elisa
beth Cobb, has followed in the parental
footprints successfully. She writes
novels and short stories. Although the
father often says, laughingly, II do not
know where got my gifts as writer,
but It Is quite plain where my daughter
got hers" rumor hath it that secretly
he entertains the fear that eventually
he will be known only as Elisabeth
Cobb's pa. While manifesting ever
Spartanlike mien in their presence, he
is said really to be quite fond of his two
grandchildren.
Admirers Of Mr.. Cobb might be in
terested in moving one. Of his expert
ences while serving as a war corre-
spondent overseas in 1918. BY invita-
ton Of . friend who commanded a
Evening star., 1934-01-21

Canadian contingent, he went one
1t was comically called. Mr.. Cobb was
led to believe that the affair practically
had been arranged on his account to
give him pleasure, but as soon as the
Germans began to shower down high
explosives on the spot where he hap
pened to be, he realized there was a
catch in it somewhere. While coming
away from there he dismissed the Incl
dent with a smile and gesture, but
three or four minutes later, upon
reaching the rear-a distance upward
of two miles-he was quoted as saying:
Next time they'll have to worry along
and do the best they can without me.
Because, gentlemen, this is positively
going to be my last World War!"
Mr.. COBB never took up smoking until
W. after he was IS years old. He
caught up the first two weeks His
principal recreations are hunting, fish
ing, collecting Indian relics, conferences
with income tax examiners and wearing
a smock while working. Lady journal
lists often come to interview him upon
the subjects of his hopes and ideals
and then 60 away and write awe
stricken pieces about the smock.
Mr.. Cobb is a persistent wing shot,
but not a perfect one. When he kills
a flying duck It is shock to both parties
Evening star., 1934-01-21

cheer Cn their weakened condition they are
seldom able to hit back very hard) You don't
really have cold,'' tell them. You just
think you do. You don't see me shifting and
gargling and coughing I haven't had a cold
all Winter"
I used to have q cold every Winter-the old
catch -as-catch-can variety that hangs on until
late in the Spring. Whenever 1 went outdoors I
bundled up like a StratoSphere explorer. My
medicine chest measured n inches expanded
and contained complete battery of sprays and
inhalators. My ruby-throated gargle rang the
white-tiled welkin Of the bathroom a dozen
times day, and was up and atomizing two
or three times each night But I caught cold
just the 1t most dscouraging.
This year, however, have adopted an en-
tirely different regimen. Instead of fortifyng
myself with oveTshoes, scarfs and earmuffs,
I brave the elements in ordinary clothing; my
costume is the same, Winter and Summer.
Instead of codong myself exercise before
open window every morning and then plunge
into an ice-cold shower.
Most important of all, instead of worrying
about germs and dosing myself with pills and
potions, I concentrate on my cwn wen-being
and think wholesome thoughts. l have, as it
were, thrown out my medicine chest and taken
a deep breath. I say to myself. There are no
microbes on my mucous membranes. All is
healthful peaceful and prophylactc-for only
a skeptic ever be septic. Go way, bacteria,
and sit down"
Editors Note-Mr Holbrooks manu-
script ends abruptly at this point, and
he is now in bed with a sore throat and
temperature of 103. He wishes us to
add, however, that, In his opinion, Win
ter colds are berely q bentul state
dothing bore
Evening star., 1934-01-21
By Weare Holbrook

Occasionally D dramatic touch Is added to
the posters For example there Is the terror
stricken group Of Office workers covering IN
corner and whispering, Don't 90 near Jack.
He SnifneS!"
IN THE world Of paaeards, every breeze brings
bronchitis and q sneeze is social suicide.
And the straphanger who gazes at this album
of agony day after day finds his thoughts turn
pain-twisted figures Of the poster people he
feels that 1t Is only by some miracle that ne
himself enjoys good health. Then he begins
to wonder whether he really is enjoying good
health Looking at the picture Of the young
ously and realizes that his own throat isn't
quite comfortable.
Turning to the picture of the apopleptic
mighty "Kerchoo!" he is conscious of
sinister tickling IN his own nose. The forces
Of suggestion are working on him. After
glance at two or three more placards ne IS
fully convinced that he is catching cold. And
if you think you are catching cold you
might as well catch one and be sure OF 1t; the
doubt is as distressing as the disease.
This Is not to say that microbes are pro-
duced parthenogenetically from street car
posters. But it does seem to me that the
majority of colds merely the result If
mass psychology. just as one person cougf lg
at a concert inspires his neighbors 10 make
similar noises, q single sneezer may rally q
whole regiment of sneezers with one trumpet
call and flourish Of the old bandana gonfalon.
Evening star., 1934-01-21

In sheeplike unanimity these misguided
wretcheS trudge around with bleary eyes and
incandescent noses, coughing, shifting, gar
Cling, wheeling and expecting sympathy from
the world in general They do not realize that
they are simply victims Of a state Of mind.
Furthermore. instead of making any at
tempt 10 escape from the morbid atmosphere
which envelops them, they deliberately seek the
society Of other snif1ers for the purpose Of
discussing symptoms and swapping remedies
take busmans holiday, surrounding them
selves with poignant reminders Of their imagi-
nary afiictions. The mere odor of camphor
is depressing enough in itself, with its sug-
gestjon of dusty attics and ancestral haber
their handkerchiefs with it by day and spray
their pillows with it by night.
That o large portion of our common-cold
victims are mental cases is proved by the
fantastic courses of treatment they give them
selves. Some Of the remedies they resort
to would beggar description. No sane person
would spend the day inhaling medicated
vapor and slipping chicken broth when he
beefsteak. brisk cold shower is better than
a hot mustard bath, and a rousing song will
a sore throat more quickly than
gargle.
chondriacs engaging in nasal maneuvers
and croaking Ike one-tube radio sets do not
sympathize with them. I slap them heartily
the back and give the good old bronchial
Evening star., 1934-01-21

-HE common-cold bacillus has been
isolated again. This happens every
Winter and it is still good for page
story DR.. Bohumn Shrdlu Of Bin
glethorpe University, announced
yesterday that he had cornered the
nnicrobe and made Il tell him MS f1gnt name:
II is now being held incommunicado until
son,e one bids for the motion picture rights.
So far, DR.. Shrdlus discovery has had no
sractical value except To rabbits. He nocu-
lated a rabbit named Hilda and cured her OF q
nasty head-cOld, or what might have been
nastv head-cold For days Hilda had peeh
viSgling her nose as If about to sneeze; but
after the incubation she sneesed once. and
hasn't wiggled her nose since. Dr. Snruiu plans
: to experiment on monkeys next. He feeH tnat
he's really got something-and so does H1ida'
but she can't decide what.
However it is easier to isolate germ IN q
laboratory than in q street car Tor instance.
There aren't so many exits to watch
If the power of suggestion amounts TO any
thing street cars and subway trains are prob
ably the greatest common carriers OF common
ailments today. 1t isn't question OF SANTA
ton but of psychology. The ventilation may
be perfect and the straps completely sterile
But above the straps is gruesome gallery OF
sufferers gazing down with pain distorted faces.
We see the man who doesn't wear heavy
underwear shivering in Dion Boucicault
snowstorm and staring wistfully at his wool
clad neighbors; we see beauty In distress,
elutching her ungargled throat and apopleptic
old gentlemen coughing alarmingly for want
of a soothing pastille. Farther on, toil-worn
housewife droops over her waShtub, signing Tor
. headache powder, and whte-haired
patriarch in the next panel cringes In the grip
Of rheumatic pains unreheved BY dash OF
IMMINENT.
Evening star., 1934-01-21

Of circumstance pointed his footsteps
In different pathway. His was one of
those old, or Southern, families, and,
following the custom of such, IT went
broke; in other words, financially speak
ing, it just naturally folded up. 1t be-
came incumbent upon our dauntleSs
young friend seriously to earn a living,
whereas heretofore all he'd had to earn
was spending money. He got job as
q cub reporter at SITS week on the
staff of 1.-The Paducah Daily News and
Sunday Visitor" The rest Is history,
constituting as It does one Of the bright
est chapters in the annals OF American
letters.
| JOWEVER, it might not come amiss
to add few contributions Of q
more or less personal nature to the
steadily growing volume OF Co6biana,
which in printed form fills so many
shelves of our public libraries; and
which, in the spoken word, forms so
attractive a department Of our native
folklore.
While still comparatively unknown,
Mr. Cobb married Miss Laura Baker OF
Savannah, Ga. Just to give the reader
q rough idea of how maturer years may
make a mans figure take . Joke, Mr..
Cobb at the time of his wedding weighed
165 pounds in his dress suit and had q
A4-inch bust and q 32-inch waist. Sub
Evening star., 1934-04-15
CITY HEADS SEEK
c. C.W.A.FUND AGAIN
Will Meet Tuesday With
Park and Planning
Commission.

The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission will meet
Tuesday at 10 am with the District
Commissioners to iron out differences
on the plan proposed by the city
heads for obtaining public works
funds for a number of needed projects.
They will discuss a compromise
plan under which the P w. A. would
advance funds for an $18,000,000
program, about 12,500000 of which
would be appropriated under authority
of the Capper- -Cramton park develop
ment act, to be repaid by the District
at the rate of 81 .000,0 600 a year, and
the remainder to be granted outright
by the P w. A. on the 1910 per-
centage basis.
Under the new plan. in years when
Congress appropriated funds for park
expansion, half of the repayment by
the District would 60 for that pur-
pose and the other half as a refund
OF funds advanced for the construc-
tion projects. Congressional approval
would be required.
Tomorrow Commissioner Allen will
consult with public school officials
over the proposal that the Health
School Building, Thirteenth and AL
lison streets, be converted into a
temporary annex for tuberculosis pa
tients who cannot be cared for in
existing hospitals.
DR.. Peabody said last night the
building would be fitted for the pur-
pose at a reasonable cost. Some of
the 100 or so school children having
incipient tuberculosis, now being edu-
Gated there, he said, could be trans
ferred June l to the Children's Sana-
torium. Other provisions, he added,
would have to be made for the other
children. He said this would not be an
ideal situation, but said the prime
need now is to find places for those
who must have hospitalization.
Commissioner Allen said yesterday
he and DR.. William G. Fowler, health
officer, were not in agreement on this
plan. Fowler declined comment ex-
cept that the Special tuberculosis
Investigating Committee would meet
again Tuesday and would submit its
report and recommendations to the
Commissioners as soon as their sur
vey had progressed far enough.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
Norma Talmadge Divorces
Joseph M. Sc1,enck IN Mexico
Actress Separated From
Producer Six Years
Ago.
Declares She Is Not Con.
sidering Another
Marriage.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Ell PASO, Tex, April 14-Norma
Talmadge. former motion picture star,
obtained a Mexican divorce today
from her husband, Joseph M. Schenck,
motion picture producer. Confirming
the action tonight, she said the di-
vorce was granted in Juarez on the
ground of incompatibility
The couple married in New York
in October. 1917. They have been
separated the last six years, and the
37-year-old actress name has been
mentioned frequently in connection
with a possible romance with George
Jessel, comedian.
Issued Earlier Denial.
Miss Talmadge at first denied the
divorce, when it was announced by
Mexican attorneys. The JuareE di-
vorce records are not available for
public inspection.
Miss Talmadge said she planned to
leave later tonight for New York.
She established residence in Juarez
Friday night. She was accompanied
to Ell Paso by her attorney, Ingle
Carpenter. Los Angeles.
I'm free now, but I don't know
what I'm going to do" she said. I'm
going to New York and spend few
days thinking about my freedom"
Scouts Report OF Romance.
The actress said she wasn't thinking
of marrying again. She smiled at the
suggestion of another reported ro-