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question and conjecture passed.
Mikes friends accepted Julie after
a fashion, cognizant, all of them, of
the drama afoot, watchfully wait
ing. Julie, always and forever in
Rita's shadow, either real c. imag-
mary, sparkled with brittle and
nonchalant gayety that denied the
incredible situation. That was her
attitude the first month.
jules Endurance Goes.
This pose gradually gave way TO
stormy weeping in private and
great show of fippancy in Mixes
presence. After that came a reck-
less mood in which she cared not
what her husband or any one else
though.
Doggedly Mike went through the
motions of a model husband. He
did thoughtful little things like
searching a room with his eyes until
they rested on Julie, like remmem-
bering her small preferences, like
including her in his remarks, Julie
and I did this and that" or, Il
thought SO, didn't you, Julie?" Mike
worked very hard at putting his
act over.
Rita, meanwhile, was a ghost who
lived in jules home, a lively ghost
who never failed to step between
the young husband and wife in
some guise or other. In public she
wi 1f
catching Mixes attention and hold
ing it. She had proprietary man
ner toward him, maddening to Julie.
She patroniZed and outWitted the
frantic wife with a technique that
was climax in subtle effrontery.
Julia's anguish and humiliation
might have reached the stage of
desperation long before it did had it
not been for Mikes fishing lodge on
the Keys, tWo-hour run from
Miami. There she spent her days,
driving down in her smart little
car, swimming until her dazed and
battered spirit was soothed by the
warm salt water.
One day, returning to the city in
the late afternoon, she stopped at
the country club for cup of tea.
Passing the bar on her way to the
tea lounge she glimpsed Mike and
Rita. They sat at small table,
talking intently, their. expressions
indistinguishable in the dim light.
Julie did not stop for tea. She went
back to her car. Whether or not
the end had come, Julie had
definitely reached the the limit of
endurance.
Copyright. 1941, the Chicago Daily News.
Continued tomorrow
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you think our marriage mistaken"
Certainly" There, she'd managed
to say that much.
Then it's too bad all around"
he sighed.
Julie waited in the parlor. She
had half an hour in which to think
ana there was a shred of consola-
ton in her thinking. The skies had
fallen. In spite of that, Mike was
still her husband and he intended
to remain her husband. 1t gave
her time to catch her breath, it
gave her time to adjust herself.
Rita's change of mind had placed
her, Julie, in an intolerable predica-
ment, but-she was still Mikes wife.
That fact was of monstrous impor-
tance.
The bride and bridegroom, with
Rita and her mother, dined at the
hotel, publicly, for all to see. An
immense effort was apparent on the
part of the Demings to make the
occasion ordinary and casual. Mike
followed Rita's lead, laughing and
talking with forced good humor.
Rita made a point of directing her
remarks to Julie and the younger
girl was the loser in each verbal
encounter
Once Rita said, Your dress is
charming, Julie dear-so becoming
Thank you" Julie pushed at her
salad. She had eaten nothing
Part of your trousseau, I sup
pose" Rita leaned over to touch
the Starched sleeves appreciatively.
Julie fell into the trap, saying
honestly, Il had no trousseau."
Rita's apologetic laugh thrilled.
"Of course not. How ridiculous of
me. You and Mike were married
all of a sudden, weren't you?" At
fectionately she perked up the
sleeve
We'll, naturally" Julie said.
Then Rita: so Mike bought the
lovely little dress for you"
Putting down her salad fork, Julie
folded both hands in her lap. Yes
she said.
An Invitation to Julie.
Mike was carrying on an indif-
ferent conversation with Mrs. DEM
ing and did not hear Rita's COM
ment, How nice for both of you,
especially Mike. 1t salved his con-
science TO spend money on you,
justified his having made a fool of
himself-and of you" Rita's tone
was low and extremely nasty.
Stung to fury by the uneven bat
tie, Julie struck back. Il see you
have a great deal to learn about
Mike. OF course you've never hon
eymooned with him" Julie had
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"Well?"
I've got to talk, Mike"
He waited and she could think Of
nothing to say. She knew what
should be said and the words formed
in her mind, getting as far as her
throat. She should say, calmly and
reasonably, Let's not be silly about
this. No harm has been done, not
really. I won't stand in your way.
I can get a divorce as easily as I
married you, maybe easier. That's
what divorces are for-to right mis-
takes" The words refused to be
said. Alarmingly, they stuck in her
throat. Perhaps she could reach the
same point from another angle.
What are you going to do?' she
faltered.
Nothing"
"You mean-just nothing?"
That's right"
Are we going to stay married?"
Tears smarted her eyes. They
Couldn't be tears of relief, not when
he wanted Rita and was only be-
having according to honorable ethics.
And yet she did feel wild relief.
I'VE are staying married." he
stated lifelessly. You are my wife
and nothing can change that"
With her nerves on edge, she took
offense at his tone, f1aring, You
needn't be a martyr about it. I can
think of nothing worse than being
married to a martyr"
He looked at her queerly. do
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CHAPTER X.

of Julie Nash. Julie had not known
how desperate the position of q
milestone could be.
She knew herself to be absolutely
helpless against Rita's clever sophis-
| tication and Mikes love for her.
Rita had proved her superior clever
ness by her gracious acceptance Of
the situation. But had 1t been ac-
ceptance? Julie was not at all sure.
Mrs. Deming's criticism of her
daughter after Mike and Julie had
left had been bitter. You've got US
into fine mess, haven't you she
observed cauStically, removing her
shoes and signing profoundly. You
tossed wealth and security into the
ash can for
How did I know Dick was poor
as a church mouse?" Rita inter-
rupted furiously. Flouncing about
the room, she stumbled over one of
her mothers shoes. How was I
supposed to know that his rich old
uncle had thrown him out of the
house," She gave the other shoe a
vicious kick
Her mother cried stormily. well,
you certainly fixed things for both
Of us and there's nothing 10 be done
about it. viii you kindly stop kick
ing my shoe around
Asks for Two Months.
Rita laughed with a Wry twist OF
her lips. Nothing to be done about
it, you say? just wait and see. That
silly doll face can't hold Mike Gray
two months. The only hold she has
now is a legal one and what I can
do to legal ties" Thoughtfully
she lighted cigarette, adding,
Give me two months, mother"
Lying on her bed, Julie was think
ing of legal ties and the lack of other
ties. The chain that linked her to
Mike was an unnatural one, welded
by man. She realized that it gave
her the upper hand for the moment.
If she were but smart in the ways
of allure and fascination she might,
with the advantage on her side. win
Mixes love. But she was not smart,
she was young and untaught in
loves artifices. Even her alteration
for him was a handicap. Guarding
1t, her every act and response was
stultified. Pressing a hand to her
hot eyes, she said the things that
she had so deeply resented in others.
"Oh, I'm such a kid" she whispered.
Mike had told her to dress for
dinner. so at last she set about it.
A warm bath did little or nothing
for her weary detection. She sell
dom resorted to makeup, allowing
her own faultless coloring to stand
on its own, but on this dreadful
night she made a pitiful attempt at
sophiStication, rouge on her pale
checks. a flaming mouth, blue.
shadowed eyes. She donned her
loveliest dress, Mikes favorite,
black gown, high-necked. with far
ing sleeves of starched white lace.
Mike had said she looked like a
fairy in the dress, fairy with
starched wings. She was fastening
diamond bracelet around her slim
wrist when he came into the bed
room. Her shaking fingers fumbled
with the clasp.
will you fasten my bracelet,
Mike?" she asked.
He did so, holding her wrist
moment. You look lovely, Julie"
he said fatty. as if he must say it.
Thank you, Mike -" She al
most said Mr.. Gray -" so far
apart had they already become.
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Substitute Wife g
BY louse Andrews

competent 13
yearoId secretary Mike Wealy Miami businessman
has but he engaged to Rita
scheduled ued
ding q young Vee, and
aches to
he asks her to him she
think the thing
through fully He persists holDeUer promising that theirs
until death part Julie, 0Utng
the riaDdu honey
moon and her
mother her apologies and peddtngS nuh
that Mike and Julie married.
then subtle campaign to
humiae Julie
CHAPTER X.
the bed, head
covering the
Mike and-it too late
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-07
BULGARIA. WILL
 INVITE GERMANS
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NSOIlIuluSQ 1TOm rage U
 National Assembly last night that Turkeys absoulte adherence to her alliances so far have produced good results" Turkey has an alliance with Great Britain. Saydam said that "our policy will be to follow the same tried line which produced such favorable results" Observers in 1stanbul interpreted this to mean that Turkey would fight if Bulgaria was occupied.)
 Qn Washington, treasury officials prepared to freeze Bulgaria's credits in the United States if it became evident that German troops had control of the country. Bulgarian investments in the United States were estimated at only $1000 000, however, compared with $1O,O0O, ,00O American investments in Bulgaria.
 (At Budapest it was rumored that Germany had loaned" Bulgaria 2,500 airplanes and that German anti-aircraft crews in Rumania had been strengthened. Budapest repor- ted that IT German army men and three Hungarians had been killed in a train wreck near Berettya-Ujfa southwest of Debrecen, Hungary.0
 (At Sofia, Bulgaria, military ob- servers said floods in the southeast part of the country would make any large scale military operations there impossible. The floods extended to the Turkish side of the frontier.)
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I'll bet they haven't even seen the play" Miss Hopkins said. Their attitude was an insult to the fine young man who wrote the show. You can tell them for me that l haven't gotten to the point where l have to appear in dirty plays"
 T'acluded in the dialogue ordered changed or omitted by the two cen sors were several of Miss Hopkins lines. She plays a clerk in a small town general store who falls in love with the local Don Juan while her husband lies fatally ill with a lin gering disease.
 Addy Suffers Most
 Wesley Addy, who plays the para mour suffered most at the hands of the censors. Included in his lines ordered completely deleted were several boastful and vivid descrip- tions of former conquests.
 Miss Dudley, who alternated with Elaine Barrie in the John Barry more production, My Dear Chil- dren," also lost several speeches to the censors' scissor. She plays the "other woman" who lures Addy from Miss Hopkins in the pay and is later mobbed by outraged citizens for misconduct with a Negro.
 The plot draws to a climax when the dying husband learns of his wife's infidelity and shoots her The angry mob fires their home and she and her lover die in the flames.
 The police commissioner described the drama as "a play about cheap white trash" and said a major pro- portion of the dialogue was "im- proper and indecent" He agreed with Mikolajewski that "too many of the lines have double meaning and must be modified"
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ANNUAL MARCH OF DIMES OPENS
of Dr. Edward J. Godfrey, Lewis c. Reed and William J. Pape.
 Drive HeaduuarterS
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of Dr. Edward J. Godfrey, Lewis Q. Reed and William J. Pape.
 Drive Headquarters
 Headquarters for the local drive were being set up this afternoon at the Hotel Elton under MT. Mc- Donald's direction. Within a few days, distribution of several hum dred coin boxes to schools, stores offices, factories and public build- ings. Lapel buttons will be given tc all donors to the fund. Sale of tickets to the Presidents Birthday Ball will also begin shortly.
 MT. McDona'| was today drawing up lists of committees which will aid him in the local campaign. An nouncement of committee person. mel will be made in day or two.
 Drive Will Be Pushed
 An intensive drive is planned be- aween now and the 30th by Chair man Mcdonald. Extensive publicity is planned, through the medium of press, radio and public meetings
 Tn beginning his duties today, MT Mcdonald paid tribute to his pre- decessor, Thomas P. Cassidy, who directed the annual campaign here for the past several years.
 we shall have done a wonderful job if we are able to secure results comparable to those achieved un- der the chairmanship of MT. Cassi- dy,n said MT. Mcdonald. His di- rection of the campaign each year has never been sufficiently praised. '
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Republicans: - Senator Minority Leader Warren R. Austin, Vermont ''It will help achieve unity of ef- fort; Senator Robert A. Taft Ohio, "The President "is asking again for unlimited personal power';;" Senator Wallace H. White Maine, q propose to support the President in his objectives so far as I can without getting the country into war" Representative George H. Tinkham, Mass, "The President declared war on the world" Repre- sentative Hamilton Fish, New York, 'fIt should be carefully considered by Congress-" Representative Dewey Short, Missouri Tt is as clear as sunlight that he is getting us into war"
 Prominent Citizens
 Ali M. Landon, 1886 Republican presidential candidate: The whole tone of the Presidents message Shoves us further into underwriting a British victory. What else can the President mean when he says Wt CdllIlOG dS4ulSoCe III d pCdSC Sn cept one acceptable to us. I heartl- ly agree with the President in his demand for swift and driving ef- forts to speed production and to build up our national defense"
 Wendell L. Willkie, 1940 Republi- can candidate: Will comment soon in a nationwide radio speech.
 Philip La Toilette, former gover- nor of Wisconsin: To-day, MT. President, you did something no Other President has ever done. Sen tence after sentence you battered at Americas faith in herself"
 Sergeant Alvin c. York, the AEF's number one hero: He was giving the American people the truth straight from the shoulder" ."
 THE PRESS
 East: Boston Herald: He would stretch our neutrality to the utmost extreme .. Our only means of safe- guarding our way of life by arming to the very limit of impregnability;" Philadelphia Inquirer: MT. Roose- welt properly accented as the major responsibility of the United States
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MUSSOLINI MET
 WITH MINISTERS
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 8,794, ,5o5 ,295 lire 4o99, ,54O).
 Figures for the current fiscal year were not announced because ex- penditureS are still being made.
 The cabinet approved the budget for the fiscal year 1939-1940 which had shown dencit of 28,038, 400, ,O0C lire ($1, AIS, $40, ,000).
 Tooay's high command communi- que gave the expected news that Bardia had fallen and was com pletely in British hands.
 "The last strongholds which still resisted in Bar6ia fell toward the evening of Jan. B." said the con- muniQue. "The losses inflicted or the enemy were heavy. Our losses in material ard men also were heavy, including dead, wounded and missing"
 (The British entered Bardia Sat- urday, Jan. and said that all re- sistance ceased at 1:30 p. m. Sum- day)
 Italians Still Fight
 The communique said that in AL bania Italian troops made successful surprise attacks and occupied an important position. Italian artillery was said to have put British mech anized units to flight on the Sudan ese frontier.
 "The last StrongholdS which still resisted at Bardia fell towards the evening of Jan. B." said the com- munique. Our troops during g days wrote magnificent pages of the high est bravery and inflicted heavy losses upon the enemy Our losses were also heavy in men and mater ial, including dead, wounded an6 missing. During an enemy raid or Tobruk two enemy planes were shot down in flames by the navy'S anti aircraft artillery.
 On the Greek front we took i'm portant positions with successful surprise attack"
 Bombs On Valona hCnens, 1an. 1-,OP)-British Royal Air Force planes again have rained bombs on the vital Italian Albanian port of Valona, coincid- ent with intensification of Greek attacks on the Tepelini-Klisura front, dispatches reported today.
 An RAF communique said that British planes bombed warehouses and jetties at Valona, starting Sev- eral fires. The raids were made de- spite bad weather. Italian chasers were active at Valona and it was be- lieved that two of them were dam aged. One British plane was lost in the Valona attacks.
 Front dispatches said that the Italians were busy strengthening Valona's Qualifications. Greeks mov- ing on the port were said to be ad- vancing steadily but avoiding un- necessary losses.
 The Greeks, it was said, followed policy of encircling fortified posi- tions, forcing the Italians to with draw or run the danger of being surrounded and cut off.
 A Greek general, reputedly one of the greatest field strategists in the Balkans, was said to be operat- ing on plan of rnethodically talk ing one fortified height after an- other in the relentless Greek ad- vance against Valona.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-07
World Is Reacting To Speech Of President
Opinion FavOring His Plea for Defense of America Aid
 to Britain Are Given Greatest Backing
tBY UNITED PREss)

World reaction to President Rooseves State of the Unon address pedging all American aid to beeagured democracieS follows:
 The United States Congress
 Democrats Senator Majority Leader Alben Barkley, Kentucky W expresses the overwhelming determination of the American people, Senator Morris Sheppard Texas, "It was of the greatest deverances of all times Senator Carter Glass, Virginia, Tt couldn't have been better" Senator Pat Harrison Mississippi "It has the ring of real Aercanism it Senator Burton K Wheeler Montana Its intended to frghten the American people to point where they would surrender their liberties and establish wartime dictatorship"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-07
COLLEGE CLASS IN EXPLOSIVES

Manhattan, Kas. - (UP) = Kan sast State College apparently will be one of the few colleges in the na- ta0n to offer a course in explosives as part of the engineering training for defense, Dr. w. L. Faith, head of the Department of Chemical En- gineering-at at the college, believes.
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propaganda in view of the British bombings of Marseilles, Geneva, Basic and other neutral cities"
 It said, however, that the eGr- man government was Investigating whether some of the bombs, through accident or weather conditions, ac- tually were caused by German planes. The Jan. 1-2 bombings were still subject to investigation but investigation had shown that Ger man planes were not responsible for those dropped the night of Janu- ary 2-3.
 Announcing investigation of the first raids, the communique said:
 If these Investigations show that by some unfortunate accident on the night Of Jana 1-2 it actually was night os Jan. 1-2 it actually was involved, the German government will not hesitate to apologize and offer full compensation"
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CRAIG CAST

Alec Craig has been cast in the newest Crime Does Not Pay short s.Immigration."
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Cuba is increasing it's shipments of food to the United States.
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MIRIAM VERY
 ANGRY AT BOSTON

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IRELAND TO BE GIVEN APOLOGY

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ture, perhaps giving it a more oflcia' note, but not altering materially thi situation as already known here.
 The private view of responsibl. Nazis was that the material assist ance which the United States might send to Britain would arrive too lat to prevent a British defeat.
 It was understood there would b., no official eraction to MT. Roose. velt's message until tomorrow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-16

than in cases given the injection treatment.
 Soy Beans
 Please tell me approximately how many calories in a cup of cooked soy beans.
 Answer-Nearly 2O00 calories in the pound of soy beans. Cupful is variable quantity, but would average 700 calories. Soy beans contain 33@o protein, 2196 fat, 309o carbohydrate, 5@o mineral matter-one of the most concentrated biologically complete foods supplied by nature. U. s. Deut. Agriculture sends on request Farm CTS Bulletin 1917 which gives much information on soy beans and soy bean products. Write the Agricul- ture Department, Washington, D. c. for it-do not write to me for it.
 Blonds and Tuberculosis
 If I recollect Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain" contains wealth of information on tuberculosis-he mentions the high susceptibility of brunets, but says they are fair of skin, dark of hair. Also Danes and Swedes, generally having blond hair, more often show the lymphatic form than the lung form of tuberculosis, and tuberculosis of lymph glands etc., is more easily cured. (F. S) Answer-Thank you, Ma'am.
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 How glad am that I accepted IyN,Yy. oJY,ioa oYoI e1x,ora nff Io fiuac The fight took just four days, about as you said, and then everything was all right. I'll never need another physic. I wish I could bestow a medal on you. (Mrs. G. M. B.
 Answer-All the quacks of yester- year taught people to keep the head cool and the bowels opne-and sup piled countless carloads of medicine to insure the latter. say keep your head cool and your mind off your elimination" If you think physic necessary, better send ten cents and stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress, for booklet, "The Constipation Habit and Colon Hygiene"
 The New Cri Book
 Please print again the description of the transparent face mask you recommend against infection with flu and colds. (W. SO
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