A Marriage Saved
By BARBARA ANN BENEDICT
(Associated Newspapers- WNU Service.)
CUD had always respected Neil
and Elsie KildufT. Especially
Elsie. She was not only a
sensible sort of person, but a
good sport Took things philosoph
ically and made the best of hard
times.
It had, in fact, been Neil and Elsie
who had brought about the mar
riage of Jud and Bettina. Jud
hadn't been strong for the marriage
stuff. But Neil and Elsie had made
such a go of it Seemed to have
such swell times together. They
were the only married people of his
acquaintance who got along without
much squabbling; they found pleas
ure in each other rather than in
someone else’s husband or wife.
Jud thought of these things as he
stood on the curb before his apart
ment that cold, bitter January aft
ernoon. And impulsively he decid
ed to go and have a talk with Elsie.
It would be good, he thought, to talk
with Elsie, after what had just hap
pened.
He knew, as he turned up his collar
and bent his head against the strong
northeast gale, that he'd never go
back to Bettina. Today’s quarrel
was the culmination of many. It
would be the last. He laughed
cynically as he pictured that last
scene; Bettina, white-lipped, saying,
“And this time you needn't come
back. I’m tired of you running out
in a huff every time we have a dif
ference of opinion, and then come
whimpering back home about meal
time. If you decide to return this
time, please let me know, so I can
get out.”
And Jud had said, sarcastically,
“Don’t worry, sweetie, the joint is
“Why, I thought—Good heavens,
Elsie, what's happened?"
yours. I wouldn’t come back for a
million dollars."
Neither of them had meant it, but
now the damage was done. It was
too late to repent. They were too
proud.
Jud was brushing the snow from
his coat sleeves when Elsie opened
the door. He stopped and looked at
her in alarm.
“Why, what's the matter, Elsie?
You’ve been crying.”
“Oh, Jud, I’m so glad you’ve
come. I—I wanted to talk to some
body. It’s—it’s Neil.”
Jud stepped inside and closed the
door. “Neil? What's wrong with
Neil?”
"I m leaving him.
“Leaving him!” Jud's face was
a mask of dismay and disappoint
ment.
“You! Leaving Neil? Why, I
thought — Good heavens, Elsie,
what’s happened?”
Elsie flung herself on a divan and
began to sob hysterically. Jud wait
ed, awkwardly, until the storm had
passed.
“It—it isn’t any one thing.” Elsie
said, without looking at him. “It's
just a whole lot of little things put
into one. Little quarrels we've had
from time, getting worse and more
frequent."
“But, look here, Elsie, you can’t
barge out on old Neil like this. Why,
you two have made a real go of it
compared to—”
“That’s just it. Folks think we
have and we haven’t. That’s what
makes it doubly hard.”
Jud dropped down on the divan
and took Elsie’s shoulders in his
hands. “Look here, Elsie, tell me
the whole story. Maybe I can help
you.”
As he listened Jud became con
scious of a feeling of mingled dis
gust and shame. Disgust because
these things that had brought dis
aster to the matrimonial career of
bis two best friends, seemed so trivi
al and unimportant. Shame be
cause few details of Elsie's story
were unlike the causes of his quar
rels with Bettina. Elsie's troubles
seemed slight, absurd, foolish,
scarcely a creditable excuse for a
breach in relationship. Yet when
compared to things that had seemed
so important to him and Bettina,
they closely resembled each other.
Jud suddenly knew a feeling of
anger. He shook Elsie brutally.
“Listen to me, you little idiot You
and Neil have got to patch it up,
do you hear! You can’t quit It
wouldn’t be fair to the folks who
think you’re perfect, who point you
out as the ideal couple, who try to
make themselves like you and fash
ioh their tivrfs after the manner of
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Jud talked on and on. He wouldn't
have believed he had It in him.
Words just came—strong, powerful
words. Words that made Elsie’s
eyes open in surprise. Words that
Anally dried her tears and brought
a smile to her lips.
"I hadn’t thought of it that way,"
she confessed. "I—I guess we’d bet
ter try again. I needed someone
like you, Jud, to talk to me.”
Jud felt important and trium
phant, yet behind it all he knew a
sensation of being a hypocrite. Was
he man enough to go home and
face Bettina? To practice what
he’s preached? He threw back his
shoulders. He'd do it, by jove.
He’d go back to Bettina and apolo
gize. He’d talk to her as he’d talked
to Elsie and they’d made a new
start.
He knew a warm feeling of
ecstasy. He felt like a martyr.
Elsie followed him to the door.
There was gratitude in her eyes.
She made him promise that he’d
bring Bettina over for bridge after
dinner that evening. She pressed
his hand warmly, her eyes shining
with happiness, and watched hifn
out into the street
She turned then and went back to
the divan and sat down. After a
moment she picked up the phone
and dialed Bettina Chadwick's num
ber.
"It’s all right darling," she said,
when Bettina's eager voice an
swered. "He came here as you ex
pected, to pour out his troubles. But
I was ready for him. He's on his
way home now. Thinks he’s a mar
tyr. And it's just as well to let
him think so. I’ll tell Neil not to
say anything when he gets home.
And, for heaven’s sake, don't men
tion to Jud that the whole thing was
prearranged. He’d never forgive
me.”
Cold Bath Is Excellent
Tonic Before Breakfast
A warm bath, taken just before
going to bed, relaxes the muscles, j
attracts blood from the brain and
tends to induce sleep in many in
dividuals. A general cold bath or
shower is an excellent tonic if taken
on rising in the morning. It wakens
up the sluggish circulation; it drives
the cobwebs out of the brain and
provides a general feeling of well
being.
The alternate application of hot
and cold water is one of the simplest
and most successful forms of treat
ment for pain, congestion, inflam
mations, blood poisonings, sprains
and bruises. But when to use hot
or cold is a matter of training and
experience. The application of cold
over the heart slows the pulse,
and over the abdomen relieves in
testinal spasms, slows the move
ments of the abdominal organs and
controls pain. A pleurisy pain is
best controlled by heat; the pain of |
a rheumatic joint by cold applica
tions. Sprains and bruises are re
lieved by cold applications or im
mersion in water. This closes the
blood vessels and tends to prevent
bleeding into the joint as weil as to
reduce the swelling.
For severe inflammations, those
due to infections, where there is
much redness, pain, swelling and
fever, contrast baths are advised, in j
which the infected part is placed in ;
water as hot as can be borne for
four or five minutes. Then im
merse in cold water for 40 or 50
seconds and repeat five or six times.
Between immersions, the part
should be wrapped in cloths wrung
from a hot Epsom salts solution.
These force a large amount of fresh
blood into the inflamed part, blood
that is loaded with white corpus
cles which attack the offending or
ganisms. Water inside and out is
fine medicine.
Too Little Vitamin C
Many of us are victims of a mild
type of scurvy (too little vitamin;
C). The lack is great enough to
hold the system substantially below |
par. Minor signs, such as tender
gums, are observed occasionally. In
all probability, however, the most
significant indication involves the
slow and imperfect healing of
wounds.
Physicians have long noted that oc
casionally they will encounter a pa
tient whose cuts mend so gradually
that he is singled out as possessing
some peculiarity. We now know the
answer—not enough C.
Research has now shown just
what happens. When one docs not
take an ample quantity of C. all of
the steps in the restoration of bro
ken tissues are retarded. Under the
microscope, the cells appear imma
ture. The healing elements seem to
be floating in too much fluid. They
are thus prevented from forming a
network of firm fibers.
Surgeons realize that in those who
i are obliged to undergo operations,
| steady improvement is all impor
tant; and the employment of doses
of C will reduce the hospital stay
appreciably in many cases. To
bring this about, the use of fruits
i and fresh vegetables will do more
than all the dressings that may be
applied. It is assumed that there
1 is no infection and that the work has,
j been performed in a skilful manner, j
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Strenuous American
WHEN a German bomb fell on
the Church of St Mary Wool*
noth in London recently, its explo
sion had repercussions in America.
For it not only destroyed the church
but it also blasted into oblivion the
dust of a "strenuous American”
whose career won him the right to
that characterization two centuries
before Theodore Roosevelt made the
use of the term popular. William
Phips was his name—or, more ac
curately, Sir William Phips and he
was born on February 2, 1651, in
Pemmaquid. now the city of Bristol,
Maine, but at that time a town in
the British colony of Massachusetts
bay.
He was the son of a gunsmith
who is described as a man “in hum
ble circumstances." But there was
nothing humble about the size of
his family. There were 26 children
and William was his twenty-first
son! At the age of 18 William bound
himself to a ship-carpenter and at
the end of his term of service went
to Boston where he started out on
his amazing career.
Ten years after he left his birth
place he was the master of his own
ship. In 1684 he set out to recover
the lost "Hispaniola Treasure”
which lay beneath the clear waters
of the Bahamas in a wrecked Spanish
galleon. His first search was a fail
ure but three years later, under the
patronage of the duke of Albemarle
he recovered bullion, coin and plate
worth more than a million and a
half dollars.
So generous was William Phips
and so liberal was he to his sailors
that his own share amounted to only
$90,000, as compared to the duke of
Albemarle’s $250,000. King James
II, who by law was entitled to
one-tenth of all treasure discovered
by his subjects, received nearly
$150,000 and he was so grateful to
the bold young colonial that he
made Phips a knight and gave him
a commission as high sheriff of New
England.
In 1690 Sir William commanded
an expedition against the French at
Port Royal in Acadia which cap
tured that place and later in the
year he was placed at the head of
an expedition of 34 vessels, manned
by 1,500 sailors and carrying 1,300
New England militia which attempt- i
ed to take Quebec. After a siege
of several days, the colonials were
forced to withdraw and. when nine
of his ships were later wrecked,
Phips greatly depressed by his fail
ure, returned to Boston. However,
he did not suffer any loss in pres
tige, for when he went to England
to urge another expedition against
Canada, the king appointed him
captain-general and governor-in
chief of the Massachusetts Bay col
ony.
Phips arrived in .Boston in May,
1692, and immediately asserted his
authority by putting an end to the
witchcraft nonsense by organizing a |
special court to pass upon all such |
cases. As a result the jails were
soon emptied of persons accused of
witchcraft, but it won Phips the en
mity of powerful political and ec
clesiastical forces in th>» colony.
They began making claims of dis
honesty and cruelty against him and
in 1694 he was summoned to Eng
land to answer to these charges.
Assured by crowTi officials that he
wras still in royal favor, he was pre
paring to return to New England tc
resume his duties as governor when
he died suddenly of a malignant
fever on February 18, 1695. He was
buried beneath the floor of the
Church of St. Mary Woolnoth and
there his bones lay for 245 years—
all but forgotten until the explosion
of a German bomb reminded his
countrymen once more of this
early-day “strenuous American.”
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In his day Phips was noted for
his height—six feet, three inches—
his mighty fists and his sense of hu
mor. While he was short on "book
learning,” he was long on signs and
superstitions. He believed that
seven was his lucky number and,
since he was the twenty-first, or the
thrice seventh, son, he believed that
the three sevens gave him a triple
advantage over other, men. He
must have felt assured of that
when, after one failure, he recov
ered so much of the “Hispaniola
Treasure." . j -w
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Strange Pet fellows
N early everybody, with a fete exceptions, likes a dog or a ml of
their own. Others favor canaries or guppies or goldfish. Then there
are still others who go in for the most unusual pets, and it is with
these that the foiloicing series of photos deals. The animals and
birds here shoun are not out of the ordinary. All are natives of
the Lnited States, with the exception of the leopard. However, it
is distinctly unusual to find them in pet roles.
Meet Pete . . . Everyone in Barnrgat, N. J., knotes Pete, the pet
of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Beckett. Mr. Beckett found Pete, an
abandoned bab\. in the nearby woods. He was brought up on a
bottle. The deer is shou n here on his daily shopping tour.
Jf isdom comes to roost on the
stem of Charles Kornrt's pipe—
Kornet found this oul in Bronx
park, N. Y.
Freckled (and hou !) Jack Wil
son of Pittsburgh has a pet raven,
whose “peck” is quite painful as
we see from this picture.
Little Annoy Feller's pride and joy is the duck uith which she
is shown here. She raised it from an egg and the duck is fond of her.
Mrs. Arthur Myeland of Chi
cago created quite a stir in Mi
ami when she appeared on the
beach uilh a pet bear.
A leojmrd is the pet of Mrs.
Linton If ells, wife of the explorer
and writer. "Miss Snooks" has her
own room, and is quite frisky.
Government Agency Helps You
Dream of Home Comes True
ISA “home of your own” an ua
* fulfilled dream? Then you will
want to know more about the Fed
eral Housing Administration, one
of the most important agencies
A Bell-Ringer
Customer—I wish to buy an ap
propriate gift for a bride—some
thing timely and striking.
Merchant—How about a nice
clock?
Beware when hubby spreads soft
soap. He wants to slip away for
the evening.
Deferred Classification
Helen—Did Nellie reject Johnnie
when he proposed?
Mildred—No; she put him in Class 5
—to be draun on only as a last resort.
Danger in Weakening
“Do you think it is unlucky to
postpone a wedding?”
“Not if you keep on doing it.”
created by the national govern
ment in the past few years.
Loans insured by the FHA have
helped thousands of families—
many making under $2,000 a year
—to buy their own homes. Other
government agencies might also
be of interest to you.
• • •
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PITCHING HORSESHOES
after dinner became a good
American custom back in the
18th century when this sport i
took the place of quoits.
EQUALLY ENJOYABLE before and
after dinner it the good American custom
of smoking mild, fragrant King Edwards,
America's fastest selling cigar. For a cool,
mellow smoke, light up a King Edward
today.
Test of Civilization
The true test of civilization is
not the census, nor the size of
the cities, nor the crops, but in
the kind of men the country turns
out.—Emerson.
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