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Show Kathleen Norris Says: The Bride of a Blind Man ' Bell Syndicate. WNU Features. ' -. f hope Dolores and David will have a$ pretty a wedding at can be managed in. these thrifty days, and be back on the campus when college opens. By KATHLEEN NORRIS HER father says that Dolores shall not and must not marry David. Dolores says that come what may she will marry David. Her mother cries a great deal and wants to know what I advise. And David waits. David has a great deal of waiting to do. J For he has come home from fTollQnt eorm'ra in tli ?SniitH LOVE CONQUERS ALL Many, tragic situations are developing in the wake of this war, as in all wars. A poignant poign-ant romance is the problem in this issue. Dolores is now 22. She has loved David since she was 12, when he used to visit her father. He is now 33. Before Be-fore the war he taught Spanish Span-ish at a southwestern university.-He went to war in the seas, stone blind.' They weren't quite engaged when he went away. They liked each other very much, the young Spanish professor pro-fessor at college, who was David, and the pretty half-Spanish pupil, who was Dolores. Before he left ' David asked Dolores If she would wait for him If he weren't killed If he came back ell the pitiful "ifs" upon which our children's happiness depends in these tremendous days. ' Now he's come back blind. And of course he feels that he can't talk about marriage to Dolores, who is . , 22, whose people have only one child, - . and a comfortable position in the Arizona town. It would mean the sacrifice sac-rifice of the child's whole life. But Dolores is the most determined deter-mined of them all. She knows what she wants and it is David. He can go right on teaching with Dolores, who speaks Spanish better than he does, to help. He can live right long In his own cottage on the campus, with Dolores to keep house for him. His handicap will only draw them closer together. His eyes may never see his children's faces, but j Soutji Pacific. Now he is home stone blind. Dolores wants to marry him more than ever. She knows how he feels useless, a burden bur-den a drag on the girl he loves. Dolores' mother is frantically fran-tically opposed to the union so are most of Jier friends, David believes he now has no right to expect his fiancee to marry him. - There is no question of financial fi-nancial difficulties, for Dolores' Do-lores' father is wealthy, and will continue her allowance. Besides, David probably can teach or tutor again. It's just that it seems somehow too aw ful for girl to risk her happiness hap-piness on a blind man. Miss Norris strongly advises Dolores to marry her beloved David. -A happy future is ahead for a couple whose devotion de-votion is intense and spiritual, regardless of physical changes. be will 'see them through Dolores' yes. Dad will go on with her allowance, allow-ance, they'll have plenty of money. '' Should Have Pretty Wedding. ' Now all three say that they will '" " "' ' abide by whatever I decide. This is ... a tremendous responsibility, but without hesitation I answer that I . hope Dolores and. David .wilL have.. as pretty a wedding as can be managed in these thrifty days, and be back on the campus when college col-lege opens, ready for the new life " together. Dolores has loved David ever since ' she was 12 and he 23, ten years ago. He has always been her ideal of gentleness and friendliness and "- companionship; to : feel : that 'he needs her, that she can be always close to him, is heaven to Dolores. In her letter, written In a round childish hand and stained with tears, she says: "Papa used to ask David to din- ner sometimes when I was only a . ? little girl, and those used to be great - days . for me, I used to go 'round hugging the thought, 'David's com- ' lng.. I'll hear that nice throaty voice of his; he'll smile across the table . . , - at me.', .; , "When I got older, and was going to my first parties he'd bring me a gardenia now and then I have them all yet. And a year ago, when he went away, and said something td me out on the porch one night about wanting to feel that I'd miss him. that perhaps someday I'd forget he was Dad's friend and think of him as my friend as my husband well, lived on that for a Whole year!" You don't know how wonderful wonder-ful ie is. I'd rather marry him; with his 'heart and his mind,- than a million mil-lion boys with eyes!" Devotion Is Uncommon. ... Feeling as she does, knowing this man as she does, Dolores has nothing noth-ing to fear, On. the contrary, the happiness of marriage between these two, the flimsiness of its difficulties, diffi-culties, will be a constant revelation and delight to both husband and wife. Many- and many a wife hungers in her heart for the companionship compan-ionship these two will .know; the evening lamp - lighted; , the . day's., school papers read aloud by Dolores, corrected, put aside, the world shut out, and all their dreams and their love shut in. American women have been wonderful won-derful in sacrifice and endurance during these years of war. Now a new job is facing us; to meet our wounded, handicapped sons and brothers ; with heroic courage, to plan activities for them that they can perform with dignity .and satisfaction to tfiemselves. To save their hurt pride. To encourage, them to take jup life again on new" lines. To convince them that love and content, happiness and usefulness, useful-ness, irtterest and achievement do not depend upon an arm, a leg, eyes, backs; that despite wounds and losses, a man may live a full and happy life. HU Handicap will draw them closar . . . , ' T . . , ... |