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Show Iathleen Kathleen ( Norris Says : The Unluckiest Wi Wife { e Isn't Isnt ' AlwCLYs Always AlwCLYsThe AlwaysThe The Unluckiest W Woman WomanBell O1nan Servloe Service ) Syndloate-WNU Syndloate WNU Syndicate-WNU Syndicate - ( Bell - t ta q nT nTVO VO ' j 1 a a 4 t ' . afo afot afoR afow w r R f ( Ire . _ .aaea aaea . n 6 6r r < 4 11 ? , fiti fitir i ifiti r r ) ti m mx x ; s ms ' e ea eTier a ller Tier husband wld told her t1 t1at tlat at h his ' $ assl5lant assistant professor a handsome g grl grlof rl rlof of 23 23loved 23loved loved lum hcm as deeply as 1 I e d d her By KATHLEEN NORRISTHE NORRIS NORRIS'T'HE 'T-'HE 'T T 'HE HE ' - ' unluckicst unluckIest w wife e in theworld theworld the THE | world isn t of course the un tin unluckIest tinluckiest un-- un unluckiest - * - luckiest woman There are arethousands arethousands arethousands thousands of women in this coun court country courttry country try and hundreds of thousands m in mother inother inother other countries countIles whose lot is harder harderthan harderthan harderthan than that of Marjone MarJorIe MasonThere MasonThere Mason MasonThere There are women in m rn your town townand townand townand and mine mme mire who have been fight ngpoverty ng ngpoverty poverty ! , overty all their theLI lives long lIvmg living lIvmgalong livingalong livingalong along the boundary line Ime of want wantable wantable wantable able to give their ch ' Idren 'dren dren only the thebarest thebarest thebarest barest necessities of l life e and worry worrymg worrying worrymg mg ing constantly for tear fear that those thosenecessIties thosenecessities thosenecessities necessIties might not be always alwaysavall.able alwaysavailable alwaysavailable avall.able avallable available . Women who have never neverknown neverknown neverknown known even a few days-a days a days - a few hoursof hourso1 hours hoursof -of of -o1 o1 - - of luxury lu'CUry luCUry ' and beauty of o1 plenty plentyand plentyand plentyand and security Women who have to torefuse torefuse torefuse refuse their small babies the fresh freshness freshness freshness ness and comfort and safety small smallbab smallbab smallbab bab es need who have to refuse refusetheir refusetheir refusetheir their growing growmg children chlldren the toys the theclothes theclothes theclothes clothes that more fortunate ch ldren ldrentake ldrentake Idrenake take tor for granted"ho granted who \"ho "ho ho \ " suffer sutIer a thou thousand thousand thousand sand deaths as the young men and andwomen andwomen andwomen women ot o1 the family demand cars carsand carsand I Iand and pocket money and college edu eduI educatlOn education education I catlOn cation as their rIghtThis rightThis right rightThis This in m America Amenca In Europe and andIn andin ' in the Orient OrJent the situation is m in mfinitely infinitely infinitely finitely worse Civilized Christian Christiancountries Christiancountries Christiancountries countries still see barefoot chlldren children chlldrenbeggmg childrenbegging childrenpegging beggmg begging m In winter wmter streets Chma China Chmaknows Chinaknows Chinamows knows that every winter wmter a million millionof millionof millionof of her people will WJll starve slowly to todeath todeath todeath death and a m million hon more tall fall VIC vie VICtuns vietans vietims tuns tans to the diseases that weakness weaknessmalnutrItIon weaknessmalnutrition weaknessmalnutrition malnutrItIon cold and hunger hungerIbrmg hungerbring hungerbring hungerbringComparative Ibrmg IbrmgComparative bring bringComparative Comparative lUlsery Misery lUlserySo MiserySo MiserySo So when I speak ot of the bitter trIal trIalthat trialthat trialthat that Marjone MarJorie Mason has been beencalled beencalled beencalled called upon to bear I am treatmg treating treatmgonly treatingonly treatingonly only ot of the comparative misery and andhumll1at andhumihat andiiumiliat humll1at humihat on that can come to a awoman awoman awoman woman who has a comfortable comfortablehome comfortablehome comfortablehome home fine children chtldren a car a club clubfrIends clubfriends clubfriends frIends a good cook m in her Lit kIt hen henbooks henbooks henbooks books lel leisure ure enough money good goodhealth goodhealth goodhealth health and-she and she and - she says- says saysa says - - a real trust trustthat trustthat trustthat that God will help heJp me through thIS thISdifficulty thisdifficulty thisdifficulty difficulty it If I am wise enough to toheed toheed toheed heed F . His s gUidanceNot guidanceNot guidance guidanceNot Not much material fromhIch from which \\hIch hIch \ \ to toconstruct toconstruct toconstruct construct an appeal to your pity pityis pityis pityis is it ? " * And yet there is no w wife wifealive wifealive e ealive alive that won t feel p ty for Mar MarJone Marjorie Marone Jone jorie ] when she hears her storyManorle storyMarjorie story storyMarjone Marjone Manorle Marjorie is 32 she has been mar marrled marned marned rled ned for nine nme years to a man she shedeeply shedeeply shedeeply deeply loves He is a professor professorhandsome professorhandsome professorhandsome handsome popular successful With witha a comfortable httle l1ttle little income mcome of o1 his hisown hisown hisown I own to supplement his salary The TheMasons TheMasons TheMasons Masons live in m a roomy house on a abeautiful abeautiful abeautiful I beautiful campus there are three threech threech threech ch ' Idren 'dren dren in ill the fam Yam ly a girl of ofseven ofseven ofseven I seven and boys ot o1 five years and andone andone andone I one year Marjone MarJorIe has as assIstant assIstantthe assistantthe assistantthe the fina finei fine colored mother ot of one of ofthe ofthe ofthe I the undergraduate g ris rls she is free freeto freeto treeto to do her part in campus work workmothers workmothers workmothers mothers and alumni alumm groups hos hospita hospital hospital pita pital I convalescent home Shakes Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakospeare peare study club dramatics She Shenot Shenot Shenot not only teaches her d diughtcr 1ughttr dvughtcr but butshe butshe butshe she belongs beJongs to a 1 I ttle circle of col college colloge college lege loge mothers who take turns m in mamusing inamusing inamusing amusing and watching watchmg the younger youngerchlJdren youngerchildren youngerchildren chlJdren children on d Terent trerent ITerent ( afternoonsMarJor afternoonsMarjor afternoons afternoonsMar MarJor Mar or e s hie lIfe * ] was all sun :1 1 h ' : i ne neuntIl neuntil neuntil whenher untIl some four \ weeks eeks ago when her husband m In one of those lu- lu lusi luunes lusiurres luxunes , - unes urres ot of o1 confession that weak men menso menso menso so enjoy told her that his assistantprofessor aSSIstant aSSIstantprofessor assistantprofessor professor about23 a handsome g rl of about 23 didher loved him hum as deeply as he dId her He exultant was over his Con Conquest conquest conquest quest and fatuously related to his hiswlfe hiswife hiswife wlfe wife the deta Is of o1 the affa aira aia r In rn Inwhich rnwhich inwhich which the g rl s great love had over overcome overcome overcome come her scruples scruplesBitter scruplesBdtcr Bitter Bdtcr Inju&lice Injulice Injustice InJu InjusticeTh Inju&liceTh & tice ticeTh Th s sounds as nauseat ng to me meas meas meas as it does to you writes \ Marjor l\Iarjor l Iarjor e but ebut Arthur boyover was like a crow ng boy over it I d d what I could Told h Toldh m that he must be out of his hissenses hissenses hissenses senses to jeopard leopard ie ze e his posit on h s swhole swhole \\hole hole whole \ shole 1 I fe e s work in th s wa way to say noth saynoth ng ot of 11 U u c e b tier Uer tter uyust InJust ce cc to me and meand to the tb ch ( .h h . Idren I 1 tried tIled to put putmy my own heartbre-ik heartbre ik heartbre1k heartbreak - as de It ft was too wastoo late then tor for any outbreak outbreakof of I ofI ofmine ofmme mme mine to do any good For ror I'or Ior ' days da ) s I I I ' Unlucky Women WomenThe WomenThe WomenThe The unluckiest unlucklesl wile wIfe isn I5n isnralways isnralwaystl r alwayst alwaysIT always IT tl ITe tla ! e a unluckiest unlucklesl uoman woman t oman in m tl 1/ 1 1e tla / e a worldaccording world worldaccordmg worldaccording accordmg according to 10 this IhlS art arl cle ele d o by byatl kal hall -atl atl - ! leenNorns leen teen leenNorrIS teenNorris NorrIS For ivh IvTl wh Ie le some of the Ihe trialstl lrials trials trialstl 11 tl 11al tlat at al married women are forced 10 to 10go togo togo go tl IT t1 ITro t1ro ro Ighare ughare tgh Igh ugh are d fj'cult fjcult ffcull fTcult ' indeedmany mdeed indeed mdeedmany indeedmany many times limes ! things lungs could cou14 he be muchworse muchworseBut much muchworse wOB worse worseBut But at the Ihe same time Ume problems do docreep docreep docreep creep creepInlo creepinto into Inlo tJ l tl ! e a homes of fa ml nil esi es est est t ho seem to 10 have app rent securlly security securllylnd securityfnd securityInd lnd fnd so the Ihe story of oflIarJorie lIarJorielIa / Mar/one Mar one /lIarJorie lIarJorie Marjorie / Mason /lIa lIa Ma lIason Mason / son is here discussed It ft is tl 11 ti 11e tia e a slory story sloryof storyof storyof of ofa a 'j0ung j0ung oung young ) ' professor professors s m 1lI w fe and tl lIe tle lIeproblem tlproblem eproblem e problem s1 sT sTe s1a e a had to 10 meet meel Facediv Facedw Faced w Ihan tiean th Ih tie an unfa ihful thful husband husbandsl husbands1 sl s1 sle s1a e a isco IS as ISco asco co fronted fronlcd fronlcdu frontedw u w , . th Ih iii the Ihe problem of ds dgracmg dgracing d s sgracing gracmg gracing hm 11m h 11 m for I 1 f fe e by expos ng ngh.m nghim nghim h.m hm him . or leav ng 1 1m m and taking lakmg her herchildren herchildren herchildren children with I 1 1er erShe erShe er erShe She u IS adv scd sed sod to 10 choose tJ II t1 IIII t1a e II a sec second secand second ond and plan Tie Tle Tl e emf emit emit I ness of 1 1IS Its Itshome I I-S I S - IShome ishome home sl sT s1 ould mild br ng th rh eh s man to tolIS tous to1 lIS us n sensesseemed senses sense sensesseemed $ seemed to be in a bad dream for forthe forthe torthe the thing thmg had come upon me like a athunderbolt athunderbolt athunderbolt thunderbolt , , and the past was all allspoiled allspoiled allspoiled spoiled as well as the futureAr futureAr future futureAr Ar hur hut as completely obhvlOUS oblivious obhviousof obhvlOUSof obliviousof of any feeling feelmg of mine mme as he had hadbeen hadbeen hadbeen been of ordinary ordmary decency and duty dutyasked dutyasked dutyasked asked me if I would have the g rl rlat rlat rlat at the house now and then so sothere sothere sothere there would be no talk . . ' This I Itold Itold Itold told him was a physical as well as asmoral asmoral asmoral moral impossibility I sunply simply sunplycouldn simplycouldn simplyeouldn couldn t do it On this pomt point we wehad wehad wehad had our nrst serious quarrelSmce quarreLSince quarrel . Since Smce then I have not spoken to toArthur toArthur toArthur Arthur directly But for the chll chil chlldren children children dren s sake a certain amount of ofcivility ofcivility ofcivility civility must go on Arthur con contlIlues continues continues tlIlues tinues to show nothing nothmg but com corn complacency cornplacency cornplacency placency and h gh spirits SPlIlts He tes tells tesme tellsme tellsme ! me that > H 11 t he and the girl had re reslsted resisted resisted slsted sisted temptatIon-or temptatIon or temptation - - or love as he hecalls hecalls hecalls calls It-then It then it - then all three of us would wouldbe wouldbe wouldbe be unhappy As it is I am the onlymiserable only onlymiserable onlymiserable miserable one and they don t ex e'c ec expect e'cpect expect ' pect me to understand The girl girlcame girlcame girlcame came to see me and was tearful tearfuland tearfuland tearfuland and explanatory and heroic I don t tthInk tthink tthink thInk I spoke at all ui m in the 10 m n nutes nutes nutes utes I endured her companyArthur companyArthur company companyArthur Arthur would be dropped from fromthe fromthe fromthe the faculty if i1 this were known H s sfine sfine sfine fine old father president emeritus emeritusot emeritusof of another university would d e of ofgnef ofgrief ofgrief gnef grief And how would my children childrenbe childrenbe childrenbe be bettered by the shame ot of the r rfather rfather rfather father ? ' ' ' But I can t go on as th ngs rigs ngsare rigsare ngsare are These few weeks have hown clown clownme "shownme shownme " hownme me that . . Tell me what to do dodvlcc doldvice doadvice \dvlcc dvlcc ldvice \ to lIarJoneMarjorie MarjorieMarjorie \ Marjone l\IarJone l IarJone Marjorie MarjoneMarjorle Marjorle Marjorie the first th ng rig to do IS ISget isget isget get out and take the ch ] Idren ldren dren w th thyou thyou thyou you But not with any b tternessor tterness or threats Say to your few close closefnends closefriends closefriends fnends friends babyto that you are tah tak tax ng the baby to the mountains Or that the small smalldaughter smalldaughter smalldaughter daughter had two chest colds last lastyear lastyear lastyear year and you think thmk it wise to try trythe the shore Not far from you there thereare thereare thereare are lakeside summer cab ns which whichrent whichrent whichrent rent in winter wmter for as little l1ttle as $10 10 $10a 10a $ a month Find Fmd one and moThIs mo\ mo mot moe moThis \ eThis e advantageIt This will have a triple tIlple advantage It WI will ! get you away from the 1m im 1mmedIate immediate immediate medIate contemplation of an msuf instil msufferable instilferable insulfcrable ferable state of affa aIra alTa rs It wIll wIllscare willscare willscare philanderingArthur philandermgArthur scare the complacent comrlacent comI = licent : philandermg philandering Arthur out of his wits he lie WI will ! be lonely belonely biybrought blybrought d sorgan zed and poss bly brought to a real zat on of what whatWealth whatwealth whatwealth Wealth he had and has done all aU he hecould hecould hecould could to destroy And lastly it win wall willterrify winterrify wallterrify terrify the g rl She may suddenly suddenlyawaken suddenlyawaken suddenlyawaken awaken to the truth that she has hasgiven haSgiven hasgiven given everything everythmg for nothing nothmg and andis is in a fa r way to lose Rose posItion positionand and reputationWhen reputation reputationWhen reputatIOnWhen When Arthur comes to his senses sensesor sensesor sensesor or verylittle veryhttle rather having bavmg obviously very httle little sense when he apprcclates appreciates appreciatesthat apprcclatesthat andfool that he has made an expensive e-penslve e penslve " - and fool sh mistake then come back forgive backforgive him and resume the outer outershe outershell outershell she shell ! of the old happy fcYou IeYou loving 1 I Ie fc You may never want to share his hisroom hisroom hisroom room or his affection atrectlon aga n he hecould hecould hecould foithe forthe could hardly expect e.pect epect e\pect e pect . \ tha that t But fOI for the rest take the blo v that fort ne no has nehas nohas dealt y ) ion Oll oia as every woma woman womanmust womanmust " must in 10 one way or another p clt ck up ckup cltup the p eces and face ( ace tho the futUl future futurestronger futuiestronger e estronger sadder stronger tt In m your own sou- sou soul soulu souII ] ' - ' * II if sad der in your heart |