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Show Consider Your Handicaps Before Thinking Seriously About Marriage We, the Womea i By RUTH MILLETT Two year ago Jessie Slmpaon muat have thought that her lift . Wa ruined beyond anything he could do. The lovely, laughing-eyed, 19-year-old beauty contet win, ' ner had both leg cut off under train. She wa engaged to be married but ihe told the man aha loved that their engagement wa off. January 17 aha li going to marry the man he tried to "Jilt." And ihe la aatlifled that ahe will make him a good wife. Jessie Slmpaon, who proved her high courage by pitching In and modeling for artlU to get money to buy henelf artificial artifi-cial leg and then act henelf up a owner of a beauty ahop hai also proved she has a lot of good, hard, common sense. . She didn't let her fiance talk her Into marriage right after the accident ' She bad a hard fight to make-rand she wanted to make It alone. A fight agalnat feeling sorry for herself, against thinking that ahe might as well give up working toward and planning for the kind of life she had dreamed of when she took .. 1 her young man's ring. Well, she won the fight. She also practiced walking on JierrU.ficlal legs so much that she can do anything now drive a car, aahMTplaFBtfref wrtTiousework. She has decided that she Is ready for marriage. That she t' can enter It now without being handicapped. , The average girl would enter marriage with fewr handicap handi-cap If ihe would take the time Jessie Simpson haa taken to ) figure thlngi out and try as hard to compensate for her ahort- ' coming. - ' ' I The trouble is, Jessie Slmpaon knew that ihe wai handl- 1 capped. But the girl who hasn't the slightest notion of how to make a home doesn't think she is handicapped at all. . She doesn't even realize it after her marriage la all washed up. |