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Kathleen Norris Says:
There Is No Way to Get Back
Lost Sweetheart
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
I was so stupid that night that / hate to think about it. When Hugo made fun of
me I said I felt I was getting a cold and went upstairs. He later told Mary that when
I m as a kid I had been his sweetheart.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
THERE is no harder situa
tion for a woman of any
age than that in which she
suspects that the love of the
man she idolizes is cooling. The
self-deceptions by which aban
doned sweethearts solace them
selves are pathetic in their
transparency; it is almost im
possible for any one of us to be
lieve that she has lost her charm
for the man she loves.
The girl who writes me a let
ter on this subject fortunately is
young. Brenda is only 17, and
whether she likes the idea now
or not she is going to get over
her passion for the fickle Hugo.
“Hugo was first my older sister
Anna’s friend,” says Brenda’s tear
stained letter, “but from the mo
ment I first saw him he was the
only man in the world for me. I
used to hang around just to see
hkn, and my chum and I used to
walk downtown so that we could
pass his office and perhaps have a
glimpse of him.
“My diary in those days was filled
with him, and if I only had a word
from him it would make me happy
for a week. That was when I was
only 15. Last year Anna got a
school in a city a hundred miles
away. We had a good-by party for
her and Hugo came. He and I
talked together seriously for the first
time and I think he realized that
Anna’s kid sister was not quite so
young as her years. Anyway, after
Anna left he came one night and
brought me candy and stayed talk
ing, and I was so happy I could not
sleep for nights afterward.
Wrote Each Other Daily.
“After that we saw each other
frequently and there was no doubt
of his feeling; when he went on short
trips we wrote each other every day,
and although my parents felt I
was too young to make plans yet,
Hugo is 31 and could well support
a wife; and that made a difference.
“The joy of those first days will
remain with me all my life, for I
can never feel for any other man
what I feel for Hugo. Just his
voice, just his hand on mine when
he taught me to drive, the very
jackets and caps and neckties he
wore were sacred to me.
“He asked me to marry him, and
wrote me that night that he ‘would
never forget the moment when a
dizzy, crazy little girl threw herself
into his arms.’ In that same letter
he says, ‘you are going to be the
most spoiled little wife in the
world.’
"I suppose the rest of this story,”
the letter goes on, “is a familiar
one to you. Hugo had to go away
for three weeks, and even in his
letters, before he came back, I felt
the change. When he did get back
I put flowers around in the house
and wore a new’ dress; but he didn’t
come that evening. All the next day
and the next I didn’t hear from him,
and every second of those days was
an agony.
“On the fourth day I telephoned,
1 couldn’t help it. He explained
that he had been terribly busy and
that his mother had house guests,
an old schoolmate of hers and the
schoolmate’s twin daughters and that
squiring’ the girls took up all his
spare time. I asked him if they
knew about me, and he answered
by asking ‘what about you, honey?’
Invited His Guests.
When I hung up the telephone I
Was almost crying, and my mother
suggested that I write, asking his
guests to come to our house for
Sunday supper. He seemed pleased
oy that, and they came. My mother
nad everything lovely, but the eve
nm 3 did not have one happy mo-
NOTHING TO REGRET
The “ Brenda ” who writes this
letter is undoubtedly in for some
heart-breaking moments, but she
has nothing with which to re
proach herself in later years.
She may have behaved like a
silly little girl, throwing herself
at an older man and then sulk
ing when he explained that she
had misunderstood his brotherly
affection. But she can look for
ward to a more real, a more last
ing kind of love in a few years.
Then, perhaps, she will be able
to laugh at what seems now to
be utter tragedy.
ment for me. Both these girls are
pretty. They are 25 years old and
have been everywhere and have
seen all the plays. One is engaged
and I think the other likes Hugo;
in fact I know she does, and so
do Mom and Dad.
“I was so stupid that night that I
hate to think about it, and when
Hugo made fun of me I said I felt
as if I was getting a cold and went
upstairs. Hugo said to Mary that
when I was a kid I had been his
little sweetheart and we had made
great marriage plans and were go
ing to build a house up in an oak
and live up there. Which made me
seem like a baby.
“Last week Hugo wrote me quite
frankly, saying that he is sorry that
I ‘misunderstood’ his attentions,
that he will always love me as a
big brother, almost old enough to
be my father, and that he would
like his letters back. My mother,
who now says she is sorry she did
it since it disturbed me so much,
immediately without consulting me
sent back all his letters, from my
treasure box.
“I love him as much as ever. He
is so wonderful, there is nobody like
him! If I live to be 90, and marry
10 times, I will always love him
better than anyone else! What can
I do? How can I get him back?
Please, please help me keep from
despair!”
The Price of Love.
It is a cruel thing, Brenda, that
any human being should be given
power to hurt another as Hugo has
hurt you. But it is the price of
love. Love is the dearest commod
ity in life, the thing for which we
pay highest. It is painfully obvious
now that his affair with you was
just what he calls it, half-paternal,
half-brotherly affection for the little
girl who so openly adored him. He
might indeed have made you his
wife, and he might have been a
faithful husband to you. But it
wouldn’t have been the usual mar
riage, the usual mating of human
beings balanced in age, interests,
responsibilities of living together.
There are men who have petted
and adored a child-wife until her tall
sons seemed older than she, but as
a general thing the man to whom a
girl gives her heart at 17 isn’t the
true mate, and the real love affair
comes along six or seven years
later.
You have a lot for which to be
thankful. Evidently you have sensi
ble, affectionate parents willing to
stand by you, help you in your dif
ficulties, make your home a center
of hospitalities. Those are invalu
able assets just now. Also, you
didn’t, in your infatuation for Hugo,
throw away your self-respect when
you threw away your heart.
It might help you to read some
of the letters I get from today’s
girls; girls who don’t regard love
affairs as their mothers did; girls
who argue, in a moment of passion,
“it isn’t anyone's affair but our own
what we do, and if I love him, and
want to do anything he asks, I'm
free to do it!”
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
PERHAPS it’s Shirley Tem
ple’s glowing health that in
spired the British Ministry of
Foods to ask Walt Disney for
help. Studio experts say that in
all the years that she was mak
ing pictures for 20thCentury-Fox
she never suffered from the
numerous ailments children
usually have, and now that she’s
approaching 13 making sub-deb pic
tures for Metro she’s still the won
der of the studios because she’s so
well. That means a lot in Holly
wood, where a star’s illness can be
so expensive for a studio.
Well, Shirley’s diet has always in
cluded plenty of vitamins and min
erals. And—Walt Disney has ere-
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
ated three new characters—Doctor
Carrot, Clara Carrot and Carroty
George, to be used in a drive to
get the people of England to eat
more carrots!
Young women workers in the na
tion’s Capitol are about to be glori
fied on the screen; evidently the
same idea hit several studios at
once. Paramount’s version of the
life and times of the young ladies
will be called “Washington Esca
pade.” Metro bought a story called
“White House Girl,” by Ruth Fin
ney, wife of a newspaper man.
Every so often somebody has to
screen Rex Beach’s “The Spoilers.”
It was done in 1925 with William
Farnum and Tom Sanchey staging
the fist fight that made it famous.
Paramount did it in 1930 with Gary
Cooper. Now Universal will make
it once again—this time with Ran
dolph Scott and John Wayne in the
he-man roles, and Marlene Dietrich
as the heroine.
Another re-make scheduled for the
near future is “Mrs. Wiggs of the
Cabbage Patch,” which was last
made by Paramount, in 1934, with
W. C. Fields, Pauline Lord and Vir
ginia Weidler. This time little Caro
lyn Lee will be the child lead.
That won’t be just gibberish that
you hear the actors speaking in
RKO’s “Valley of the Sun”; it’s
really Apache. Producer Graham
Baker hired Chief Chris Willowbird
to make phonograph records in
which each speech was spoken first
in English, then in Apache. Then
James Craig, Antonio Moreno, Tom
Tyler and other members of the cast
settled down to study the records.
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Elizabeth Bergner, one of the
most famous European actresses to
work in Hollywood, has just com
pleted the first of her films to be
made. It’s “Paris Calling,” a story
of the betrayal and fall of France.
Miss Bergner’s European pictures
include “Catherine the Great,” “Es
cape Me Never,” and “Dreaming
Lips.” She became famous as one
of Europe’s leading stage figures be
fore she made pictures.
The movies are an old story to
Frances Robinson; at the age of
four she played Lillian Gish as a
child in “Orphans of the Storm.”
More recently, she appeared in
“Smiling Through.” Now she’s left
pictures for the radio; she’s the gid
dy debutante in the air’s version of
the delightful “My Man Godfrey.”
A 19-year-old girl is in Alexandria,
Va., getting background material for
a murder trial. She’s the daughter
of Jane Crusinberry, who writes ra
dio’s “The Story of Mary Marlin,”
now in its eighth year. Mrs. Cru
sinberry is a stickler for accuracy,
and the dramatized trial takes place
in Alexandria, so young Jane was
sent off with a candid camera and
a notebook to help her mother out.
ODDS AND ENDS—Bob Hope has
been away from home so much, making
personal appearances, that he swears that
his children haven’t the slightest idea
who he is . . . Jean Arthur, Cary Grant
and Ronald Colman will head the cast of
Columbia’s “Mr. Twilight ” . . . Phillipe
de Lacey, famous not so many years ago
as a child star of the movies, is now pro
ducing commercial pictures for the March
of Time company . . . Alice Faye will por
tray Helen Morgan in the picture based
on the singer's life . . . Though they don’t
have night clubs in Iceland, Sonja Henie
mat be shown runsing one in her next
Fox picture, which will probably play
down her skating.
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The Questions
1. In what sport do three kinds
of animals take part?
2. What is the diameter of the
moon?
3. What was Ty Cobb’s lifetime
major league batting average?
4. The stamp act of 1765 im
posed a duty on what items used
in the American colonies?
5. What animal has a bull for
a father, a cow for a mother, and
is known as a pup?
6. What city is known as the
Pittsburgh of the South?
7. What is the record average
speed in the Indianapolis 500-mile
auto race?
8. When were pigs first brought
to America?
9. Who presented the Statue of
Liberty to America?
10. Do they celebrate individual
birthdays in Japan?
The Answers
1. Fox hunting (the fox, horses
and hounds).
2. The diameter of the moon is
2,160 miles.
3. Ty Cobb’s average is .367.
4. Paper, vellum and parch
ment.
5. A fur seal.
6. Birmingham, Ala.
7. The record is 117.2 miles per
hour, set by Floyd Roberts in 1938.
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canteens show that with men in the Army,
Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard, the
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Trimmed ’Em!
“I just heard him say he was
in close touch with the heads of
several big organizations!”
‘‘Yes, he’s a barber!”
Funny that when a girl’s dress
consists of nothing to speak of, it
usually gives the neighbors plenty
to speak about.
The Truth
First Actor—l played Hamlet
once, in the West.
Second Actor—Did you have a
long run?
First Actor—Seven miles.
His Right
When a croivd of people gathered to
watch a fire, a policeman kept moving
them on. One man refused to go.
"Why should 1 move along?" he de
manded indignantly, “ You’re letting
that fellow over there slay."
The policeman smiled.
"Well, he’s entitled to” he replied
“lt’s his fire.”
His Trouble
Modern Orator—My friends, I
am full of uncertainty.
Then a number of people in the
audience looked at one another
and hoarsely whispered: ‘‘He
must have had hash for dinner.”
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8. Thirteen pigs were brought
to Tampa by DeSoto 400 years
ago, when he with 600 soldiers
planned to establish a colony in
Florida.
9. The Statute of Liberty which
stands on Bedloe’s island at the
entrance to New York harbor,
was presented to the American
people by France in 1886, to com
memorate the centenary of the
American Declaration of Inde
pendence.
10. No importance is attached to
individual birthdays in Japan.
Ages in that country are comput
ed from the first day of the year,
rather than the day of birth. Thus
two Japanese children, although
born 364 days apart, are legally
the same age.
What to give the men In Uncle
Sam’s services for Christmas is
already solved for you by surveys
made m the Army, Navy, Marine
Corps, and Coast Guard.. Ciga
rettes and smoking tobacco head
the list of gifts the men want
most. This naturally places Camel
Cigarettes and Prince Albert
Smoking Tobacco in the forefront,
since actual sales records from
the service men’s stores, afloat
and ashore, show the favorite cig
arette is Camel, and the big fa
vorite among smoking tobaccos is
Prince Albert, the National Joy
Smoke. Dealers are already fea
turing “Send him a carton of Cam
els” or a “Pound nm of Prince Al
bert” for Christmas. —Adv.
LaGuardia, Penniless,
Came to the Right Place
A few years back, Fioreilo
LaGuardia, New York’s peppery
mayor, was addressing a group ok'
Salvation Army workers before
a large audience. The mayor gave
a long and fiery speech in praise
of the organization. At the finish,
the plate was passed. When it
came to LaGuardia, he reached
into his pocket for money. A
blank look came into his face
when he could not find any. He
fumbled desperately in all pockets.
Sensing his predicament, the
commissioner of the Army said in
a loud voice: “That’s all right,
the Salvation Army is the right
place to come to when a mao
hasn’t a nickel!”
America’s favorite cigarette gift
package is now making its appear
ance in the windows and on the
counters of local dealers. It is the
famous carton of Camel Ciga
rettes, all dressed up in gay, color
ful, Christmas wrapper—complete
and ready to give even to the gift
card printed on the wrapper. Cam
els also are featured in an at
tractive gift of four “flat fifties”—
200 cigarettes packaged in a
snow-covered Christmas house. An
ideal gift for all smokers—includ
ing the men in the service with
whom Camels are the outstanding
favorite.—Adv.
Need of Kindness
Kindness is wisdom. There ia
none in life but needs it and may
learn.—Bailey.
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The secret of wealth lies in the
letters S.A.V.E.—Greek Proverb.
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