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Show KATHLEEN NORMS When Hubby Finds True Love first time in months. Chuck was loving and coaxing with me. He begged me to be kind, to be nice to Daisy, to realize that she was taking tak-ing nothing from me, because he and I had lost all love for each other long ago. This last is completely com-pletely untrue. And finally, as I did not yield, he hinted what I have known must come, that no household house-hold bills would be paid, and that the children and I would have no money at all until I agreed to his arrangement. When I said I could claim support under the law he said by all means to do so. "All this is like a nightmare. What shall I do? Help me, and tell me what to do." What you must do, Ray, will be done for Chuck's sake as well as yours and the children's. You must stick it out. Even if the woman were a finer type, and there were a faint chance of his really loving her, you would have to1 pursue the same course. You cannot fail the children because he does. If you have to take boarders, or a job, or move back to Mother's, no matter. Stick to your guns. You cannot lose. And the person per-son who will be most deeply grateful grate-ful to you in the end will be Chuck himself. But the eternal mystery of it, to a woman! Not that a man can be attracted to another woman, or want a divorce. Those things, if indicating in-dicating a weakness for flattery and self-deception, are natural enough. But that the man should want to insult in-sult and hurt the woman he loves, sweep all the value of the happy past aside, injure his children as no enemy could injure them, and add to all this the bland assurance to everyone concerned that he is acting act-ing wisely, generously, and with a cool head. His wife, he assures her, never really loved him. "TVTY HUSBAND is insane," Hay Runyon opens her letter abruptly. "There is no other word for it. Outwardly, he is what he has been for the 13 years of our marriage, mar-riage, a quiet, devoted husband and father, a successful professional man, popular in business and club circles. "But, actually, he is inflicting upon me and upon our children, Mimi, 11, and Charles, 8, as cruel a persecution as any torturer of old could devise. He has fallen completely com-pletely under the spell of a woman two years older than he, a twice-married twice-married and twice-divorced woman, a woman whose dyed hair, coarse talk, and low associates ought to repel him, as they do all self-respecting people. Chuck invests 'her with every charm and virtue on the list, can hardly speak of her for the reverence and emotion her name evokes in him, and proposes to tear our lives to pieces so that he may place her in the proud position of his wife. "He wants me to give him a divorce, di-vorce, accept a third of his income, which would not be $3,000 a year, keep the children, allowing them to come and stay with 'Daisy' whenever when-ever he decrees, and that I keep friendly with Daisy and never say anything that reflects on her. Never Loved Me "He says he has never loved me this after years of such companionship compan-ionship and happiness as few women wom-en know. He says Daisy will be a far more intelligent mother than I, to his children, and he told his own devoted mother that he had never had much respect for her judgment. He continues to live at home, seizes every opportunity to win the children's sympathy, telling them kindly that Mother isn't well, and that's why she Is so nervous and tearful. He never speaks to me at all, declines all Invitations that in- . . the children's sympathy . . elude me, and to my request, in a moment of desperate anger, that he move to his club, he returned calmly calm-ly that he could not afford it, as he expected his expenses to be doubled shortly. "For Daisy's birthday he ordered a white cake frosted with daisies, in the center of which he placed a ring worth thousands that he had been holding, up to that moment, for Mimi, some day. When he took Charles into the mountains fishing for a week, she went along. If I force him to speak he says patiently, patient-ly, 'Why don't you act as Daisy does? She has never done a small or a mean thing in her life.' And he told me that if he threw her down now it would kill her, and brought out the old argument that it would be better to have two of the three of us happy, rather than all be miserable. miser-able. Heartbroken "Of course, I can't eat, or sleep, or pretend I am not heartbroken. This horrible thing, vaguely suspected sus-pected at this time last year is reality now. This morning, for the |