Show o 4 I oI P Public Opinion I Io o 4 By CYNTHIA GREY A letter from Jean sounds like a chapter from ll n Street It describes the tribulations ot of a city Girl who is trying but not Ye very ry hard to adapt h rolt to the village community In which her husbands husband's busIness Is established And her rasin maln object At present Is to Show them that she wont won't be beaten Into submission by any old fogy togy gossips Accord Accordingly I site Me has smoked In public acco- acco gone to with men friends and flatly refused to go to church although her husband lIy Attends The more the neighbors criticize the bolder r she growS In her attempts to sh show 0 them But ie husband says sho ho will ruin his social and business standing and drive his old friends away The result or of her campaign ot of defiance Is liable Hable to be the wreck of her marriage and she sees eJ the da but feels that It IS altogether the I fault tault ot of her husbands bands narrow It wont won't make her feel an any better to be told that she Is to blame for tor all the tho trouble But I thInk that this Is true It ma may not be too late for tor her her to reverse her policy and turn her married life from failure to success First ot of all all she will have to realize that no no human being can afford to to live for tor himself or alone lone The very ery nature ot of this world demands demands de- de mands certain concessions to society as a whole and J Jean n Is on only one of the many who discover that they cannot be a law unto themselves without paying an exorbitant penalty for the privilege We e may feel very noble wh when We assert that we are Captains ot of our Own tate fate But unless we weDAY i iP P DAY some hes he e to the reefs and shoals of our environment we are sure to hit the sharp rocks ot of public opinion wrecking our own o craft but not damaging the rocks at all Jeans Jean's policy ot of deliberately antagonizing the people among whom she will have to live Is Is an Judged III-Judged outburst ot of ego o L Laying aside mUon ot of the ethics ot of e ot of smoking and dining with men other than ones one's husland these practices In most small town communities are social suicide as' as her husband says I am surprised that h poor he man does not use the In stopping this silly tion of at his It ma may bo be that he Is till still too much the bridegroom to treat her harshly r I J Jeans Jean's ns n's sake I hope this Is the case se For at best she will have to work tat fast and furiously to correct h her r mistakes and she will need all his wisdom and sympathy to help her 4 6 |