| Show k athleen Norris Sa Says vs 01 The Despa Despairing 1 ing B BI ide Hell BeU Syndicate Features Feature fi J i jJ b bI bJ I J 1 t tr r went off to camp and Louis came home when we met aga n it to ii the kno I dge that my marriage was a m stale grow daily stronger y KATHLEEN NORRIS QU OU have never re- re received received a letter from a amore amore more heart mme mine writes Marie Mane from a great war m in tries center m MIChigan have so completely my life and my ances of happiness m in life t of e were ere face to face I Id Id d not tell you my story tI t I can write It and ask for Vice and I know you will willye ye ve me If you can Many es I have thought of end endt It t all but although I have havet t prayed for years I II II I to ra sad sed m an atmosphere of eel reI g ous belIef and I hesItate kill myself myself-It seems to me a ae atin e tin s n And I ha have hae e not actually coolish and weak as leer I am I was 18 m in June en months ago as a ater ater ter I met a young man who was ed to leave for the army last We fell m in lot 10 e a and were ed ed I have no famIly and hIs hIsm m in Oregon where they have asked to come and sta stay Louis IS a aman aman man qu et and WIthout any or cultural advantages first east letters were somewhat of a ak ak k to me for although he IS 28 Writes like a boy of ten But we ourselves In love and would watt alt to try our affectIon by de deo o absence After he left I met another man Brent erent type Th s man IS vItal J mg successful and popular He far better educated than LoUIS en I met h mId m I d d not tell hIm hims hImI s I marr ed cd It seemed a Joke It was I at a servIce dance he Died ed me to be even younger I am and as the few g rIs I dIdn t mo v anything of 01 my ate life he suspected noth ng went about together after that ayt ays may I Isay say wIth strIct pro dl and Uy d our Yes to be really in love This was Ie 10 wasIe different from the first alIa affa r cawed mt me as much mIsery as joy I knew no one ever would mean I Ime me ale what Jack d d He went nt off tip and Louis LOULS came home we le met aga n it was as to have that my marrIage a mistake grow da ly stronger frant c d stress this caused me may Imag ne Lou s suspected I g end and was vas completely happy pent every hour of hIs leave ether He was being sent to Al dhave aftel ard I d d have haye the courage to tell h m of feeling for Jack but when Jack urn bin came home he persuaded to Q wr VIr to te the absolute truth to that I 1 had been foolish to toI 50 10 Young and so hastily and I tI I freeto wanted him to set me free to Ie qUite a long letter making II 4 gentle genUe and affectIOnate as I and Jack and I began to plan by to Complicate SituatIon o leeks ago a dreadful was Confirmed by an old kind who ho la is here at the plant I g Ig BOlog g to have a baby I know knowin of babies I have never had in 1 g to do with one and I 1 am Mth th nervousness and horror at ere idea My letter to Louis Is Way may not reach him for fort forand forand t and gonet Jacy Jaci has gone gone led It ledWith one word of good by d s With me and ill no wonder kno no home and no family I Inow know Iii IgO now which way to turn I ii gO R q Christen working until after afler Christ ken en what Divorced from fromI with ith I 1 witha itha a baby to rt what b head 0 I 1 thin thin and th Ik and f spins around and I 1 reel feel Ill III 4 Y most of the time Jack s sIJ IJ b baO no aO qUon atlon when I told him le Ie t doubt of wha what t he feels he said that I Should hould have told LoUIs the m nute he got home and all thus thIs could not have happened Please advise me and save me from de despair Poor 1 18 year old you ha hae e certaInly made a sad mess of your lIfe so far But 18 IS not very old oldIn oldin In fact fact tWice 18 IS not very old and you have tIme ahead to grow wIser and bu ld Id up to happ ness and self respect again agam out of 01 th s wreckage The first cons now IS your baby and If you don t realIze that today I can assure you that you will realIze It m in March when you have havethe havethe the 1 creature I it your arms Since LOUIS Is the father and LouIs loves you the best first step Is to WrIte LouIs the truth That you met Jack Jack lIked Jack liked urn him even evento evento to the point of cons dering marrying hun him and that It was under that par particular emot onal stress that you ou wrote Lows Louis to ask a d vorce WrIte Husband About Plans Go on to say that everything IS changed now A new ne responsIbIlIty a new prospect has bas come There IS going to be a ch ld Id And for that child s sal e a you are never go ng to see Jack again agam you are go gong ng to live qUIetly planning for the baby m in the sprIng and wa ting for Louis to come home Say that you are sorry and hope he will destroy your letter and It rem nd hIm that you are very young and confused by bythe bythe the ng cond tons t ons m in wh vh ch you youat at are lIv ng In war t me He will wrIte you forgivingly I m I sure If you can poss bly go to his parents early In the ne v year I II I would do so And if ff y ou do go to the I farm and It saunas souna a comfortable place make them love you set yourself to ng them and to be being being ing a good wIfe and mother As for losing 10 Jack you are no nomore nomore more pure aure of that than y OU were of loving Louis only a few months ago At 18 you are hardly sure of any emotional reaction let alone two love affaIrs You have plunged much too young into the realItIes of lie hie and lIfe revenges Itself upon you by p you wIth Its most pOIgnant reality that of mother motherhood motherhood hood matters now except that you fit yourself to meet this challenge as worthily cheerfully normally as you can You are mak making making I ing a high salary put aSIde some something something thing every week for tor your expenses when the baby comes look about you for some place where here you can board and perhaps board the baby too and go on working afterward Girl Must Iut Grow Up If Louis WrItes you coldly nant at your as well wellI he may face that s tuat on too In I other VI words try to gro grov v up and be bea bea a woman rather than a bewildered ch ld Id stumbling from one mistake to another Don t say anything more about a d force orce should Louis louls an gr ly agree to one Instead write h m cheerful letters about yourself about his parents and h s home and eventually about the baby and let all serIOUS decisions wait alt until he comes home again |
