The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 17

THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1936. SECTION 2 Harlan Countys 'Book Woman7 HitchHikes Baby Born With 5 More Selfish Lover Best Forgotten She totes books woman is sometimes mistaken for a book salesman. by mule back, sometimes she hitchhikes and The isolation of the mountain 'counties, the backwardness of the sometimes Br KATHLEEN NORRIS. Dear Mrs. Norris: This letter Is being written you by a fool, but somehow my life seems to have inhabitants, the stark simplicity just walks, but i Sr.

nn matter what! t--' I4'y the means of! a sportation, of these people's lives make the service rendered by the workers of signal importance in the expulsion of illiteracy in Eastern Ken Mrs. Ann Richards, W.P.A. employe and super- visor of the packhorse library in Harlan Coun tucky, aside from providing a wholesome and beneficial recreation previously denied to these people. The book women's clients run in Mendon, Aug. 22 OP) Belated news of the birth two weeks ago of sextuplcts, five of thea still-born, spread through this farming countryside tonight.

Two weeks ago Mrs. Adeline Speichinger, 36-year-old farm wife and mother of nine children, gave birth to the six. Dr. William B. Lucas, the family physician, described the living infant, a girl, as "weighing about ten pounds, about a week premature but normal in every other respect." The other five, he said, died In the embryo stage after two months' development.

Their combined weight was less than a pound. Dr. Lucas said the mother was dangerously ill at the time but since had made normal progress toward recovery. forced me into foolish ways, and I can't get out. I am 24 now; I was married at 16 to a boy who deserted me just a year later.

"He was 18, and his mother was violtntjly against our marriage from the first, but we loved each other, and ran away, misrepresenting our ages, and being married by a Justice of the Peace. We went on with school, our families keeping the matter a secret, until I expected a baby, when Greg and his mother simply moved away. I didn't know where. His -y-i? ty, manages witlv the aid of her' five assistants to; distribute read-1 ing material to rural and moun- tain sections' three times a ago from 6 to 98. Their homes vary from one to two room shacks, log cabins and just huts.

There are families where not a single member, and the families are huge, can either read or write. Regardless of age, environment or education, thev all eagerly week. Fry imm-. Organized first; in Kentucky two: await the book woman's visit with years ago, the 'her convertible librarv. father, who was my friend through all this wretched business, had died.

My baby came too soon, very delicate, and I thought that in my love and anxiety over her I had somewhat grown up. But packhorse library project was de- it seems not. "I met a man in the office four years ago who seemed to me to be my very ideal. He is eight years $1.49 BLACK KID HOUSE SLIPPERS Rebuilding Sale veloped from requests issued by ministers, missionary workers, school superintendents and A. members in the eastern part of the State.

It provides for the establishment of centrally located libraries of TOMORROW ONLY I The type of home and family which Mrs. Kich-ards visits several times a Week to distribute books. older than and we shared inter-! ests in home and garden, books 1 and walks; not at all the modern' idea of a good time, but very much mine. He is a salesman, and was sent to Boston to work with the firm there. He wrote me devoted letters, begging me to follow, and as I was in a disturbed and unhappy state about Greg," loaned me $100 to go to Reno and get my divorce, which I did.

I then went to Boston, leaving Diana with mother, and he got me a job in his office. For a 4 books, magazines and Christian literature which are distributed to points throughout a county by means of pack-horses and are later collected and flis-tributed in a similar manner. These libraries are now in operation in Harlan, Lee, Jackson, Owsley, Whitley and Johnson A Pair All Sizes need for children's books. In families where the parents are illiterate the school children read aloud, she explained. The carriers sometimes read to families, and occasionally story hour is held for the These people receive the books with an almost child-like grati- toiau rnoio.

Afrs. Ann Richards, supervisor of the "packhorse library" in Harlan County. SOFT BLACK KID WITH HAND-TURNED LEATHER SOLES Counties in Eastern Kentucky Books for this project are tude, Mrs. Richards said. For many Fall Is Nothing year our companionship went on; and that, I guess, was the happiest year in my life.

If I had only kept it at that! She Became Indiscreet. "However, I may as well confess that in the hottest week of summer last year we went to Revere Beach and stayed together for three days. Dan had always said he wanted to marry me as soon as he was a little better fixed, but he was making the pay To Ho rsewoman these books offer an only means of contact with the outer world, a delving into the realm of make-believe, a 'blissful escape from every-day surroundings, but most important of all a step toward the education of Kentucky mountaineer people. Humorously enough the "book secured only through donations. Miss Ethel Perryman, located at the W.P.A.

office at London, and Miss Marie Heaton at Paints-ville are constantly on the lookout for books and magazines suited for these people. Mrs. Richards in Louisville Saturday stressed especially the as and would hear of nothing but an operation. The mere idea so terrified me that I put it off from day to day, and when it was performed for I could not have a dear little baby, perhaps a daughter, marked with my shame! it almost cost me my life. For seven weeks I lay in a ward bed, not caring whether I lived or died, New York, Aug.

22 OP) Mrs. N.W.Corner4wand Liberty M. Robert Guggenheim, nationally Grace Likes Kings Chicago, Aug. 22 UP) Grace Moore, operatic and movie star, who said she sang for the Kings of Sweden, Denmark and Norway during a European tour, told newsmen today that one of her biggest thrills abroad came from the astonishment and satisfaction of her French guests when she served them sweet corn grown on her own estate at Cannes, France, from seed brought from Hollywood. Of the Kings she said: "They were the nicest persons I met in Europe." ments on nis parents norae in but in the end recovered com known horsewoman, suffered a broken collarbone when her mount fell at a Long Island horse show today, but she didn't let it interfere with her enjoyment of If Bra the occasion.

After the fracture had been Iowa, and felt that we should wait. But I loved him dearly, trusted him, and for that matter love and trust him to this day. "For reasons I won't give you I was three months toward motherhood before I knew it. I was stupefied with terror, and went at once to Dan. He was as distracted pletely.

Dan was all devotion, coming to see me frequently, bringing me books and flowers. "I had never lived in his apartment, but in a smaller one in the same building. When I came back from the hospital I resumed my relationship with him, darning his socks, cooking the meals we braced with a steel splint at the Port Jefferson Hospital, Mrs. Guggenheim reappeared at a luncheon given in connection with the event, the North Shore Horse Show at Stony Brook. She lives at Babylon, Long Island.

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