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THE BEE! OMAHA. THUKSIMW UL'IOHKR 27. 1921.
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My Marriage
Problems
A Sals Gawrtsea'l New Phae 4
'Revel.tion. of a Wife"
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THE GUMPS
tCC IT IN COLORS
IN THE SUNDAY ill
WILLIAM TELL GUMP
Drawn for The Bee by Sidney Smith
('H'rrif ht, ravage TiibvM I'ewoery
; Tht "Hunch" That Lillian Had.
'' Lillian hfsitatM oMly, . nher
etir If a, I gave her tm opportunity
la Irll me tht thing he ht wished
to I now.
"It's iiifl tlii." . lif ti'l at Ut
patently half ahnif of uhat site
si joins; m ak me. um you m
any rhanrc bring your badge will
you?"
I knew iinUntly what kite infant
nf rnurf. It wit the only badge I
aver had worn, the little piece of
mrul which had give, me rank dnr
inc the world war a Lillians
aiotant in the important secret work
he wit doing for the government.
Lillian still held an important place
in the service, hut with an arrange
ment by which the m only callc.I
on for aid when ome piece of work
which called for hrr especial talcnt
waa on foot. So far as work went
I had no place at all, but I.illun. by
virtue of my own lutine nee, naei man
aved thine to that I was still on tln
rrerve lit and had kept mv badtfi.
but I had done no work aince the
war ended.
"N'o. I didn't." I replied. "It is in
my safety depoiit box at the bank."
- "Good place for it, Lillian coin
mented, arid I could not tell from her
tone whether khe approved or dis
approved my caution. "But it
doesn't matter." he added. v "I have
my badge with me. and a long cs
you're atill on the rolls in good stand
ing, I can lend it you. I want you
to wear it when you go on that fool
fishing trip tonight."
I suppose my face looked the
startled inquiry I did not wish to
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Romance in Origin
Of Superstitions
voice, for Lillian suddenly laughed.
Clear Reasons.
"I don't blame you for th:it
Karlled-fawn expression," Khc said.
"I don't know, myself, whether I'm
getting feeble-minded, or unusually
sagacious, Uut I ve cot one ot my
hunches, or at least a fraction of one.
that vou d be better off if you ha-.l
that badge with you in case of an
emergency. And yet I naven t any
thing to go on except"
She paused, as if wciKhmir .an I
sifting the ingredients of her hunch
while I mentally sat up and took
notes. Many years of close asso
ciation with Lillian Underwood have
taught me to regard her hunches
with awed respect, to consider them
almost clairvoyant.
"I won't, be betraying, any con
fidence." he said, "if I tell you that
the powers' that be are getting all
het up and between you and me
their temperature ought to have risen
long ago over certain slimy under
currents in the seas which the ship
of state is .sailing, undercurrents
which have been unknown and un
charted all too long. They are be
ginning to chart them, and I should,
imagine though I don't happen to
know that the authorities wouldn't
encourage night visits to a big drink
ing water supply like the dam. Ot
course, the natives like Tom Cos
grove, could fish there at night a
hundred years without any damage,
and the patrols know it, and no
doubt close their eyes 1W times out
of 100. But every o often there's
a spasm of virtuous investigation in
all systems, and when it starts, every
one's caught in the same net. I'm
positive that fishing at night is for
bidden there did you see and hear
Tom when he was asked that ques
tion?" Lillian's Request.
I nodded wltli a vivid remembrance
of the big man's humorous embar
rassed ryasiou of the query.
So on the whole I think its as
well you should have my badge,"
she concluded. "You may have to
go some to explain the fishing end of
it, but claim Tom as your uncle or
something like that and say you
wanted to see the dam by niyl-.t in
other words, take all' the blame
yourself. But," she shrugged her
shoulders with a deprecatory motion,
"probably I'm just the 59th variety
of idiot, and you'll have the most
peaceful kind of evening. Let's talk
of something else. How's everything
at home?"
It was an idle question, but it set
me to thinking of something I had
put out of my mind, something which
I had not told Lillian because, we
so far had kept everything disagree
able from her knowledge. But a sud
den impulse made me tell her of
Katie's queer behavior, iml c'
Mother Graham's demand that I
come home and straighten her out.
"I would have gone fur a day or
two. at least," I finished, "but Dicky
would not hear of it. He ".I
stopped, fishing with a sudiien re
membrance of the reason why Dicky
objected to my going.
"I don't blame him," Lillian said,
ignoring the flush. "If I were in Iih
place 1 wouldn't be left ungual (kd to
the tender mercies of that would-bu I
man-eater that's prowling through
thi compound."
She glanced at my face, laughed
softly.
"Don't look so couscience-'.rickcn,
child," the said. "You haven't given
anything away. A child could tee the
dead set Bess Dean is making for
the Dicky-bird, and the way he is
fluttering away from her. But this
Katie matter is something else again.
Of course you can't leave here till
Hess Dean goes, but as soon & flu
docs I'd vamoose down there for a
day or two. And if you don't mind,
I'd like to go with you." . .
By 1RVINO KINO.
Th Poor Man' Core.
I fa child in rating an apple mere
ly girdle it-tlut is eats around
the apple's "equator" and leaves in.
tact in it upper and lower lonn,
it i a sign thitt be will never be
rich. The rommoii saying it that
he leave a "poor nun's core." Thit
very common superstition is proba
bly based uion an instinctive and
unconsciou ptycholoKV. The child
doe not how( that natural Acquisi
tiveness of character which is the
foundation of wealth. If he had that
quality he would rat the apple to
a "clean core," and "the child is fa
ther of the man.
But there may.be lingering in
the superstition, also, a remnant nf
aucrnt myth and magic. There is
an old custom, still said to be prac
tised in Bohemia, in which the eat
ing of an apple is connected with fu
ture abundance, which custom is
based on sympathetic magic a clear
survival from primitive times. The
first apple that a young tree bear
is. given to a woman who has borne
a large number of children and she
must rat it entirely up. By doing
thi she communicate by sympa
thetic magic her fruitfulness to the
tree which will, next year, bear an
abundant crop. Should she only eat
tht apple partially the sympathetic
magic would not, naturally, be so
powerful and the desired abundance
might not ensue. It will be seen
that there is here the same idea
found in the superstitiion of the bo"
and the "poor man's core, viz: That
a complete consumption of the ap
ple is necessary to insure abundance.
(Copyright. l:i. by h MoClur New
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