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Show Kathleen ! ( J . tll1een Norris Says : Just LIke a Husband HusbandSell Ben Sell Synd eateWNU CateWNU eate Cate -WNU WNU - Fealure Features . 'j j ' t 4 - / t Y 1 1Y 4 I Ir IY I'I r Y 'I I ' r ri /i i / ic c rr aaos soyj ? ; Carol Carolsquabbkd Carolsquabbled squabbkd squabbled squabbkdwith squabbledwith with Monro Monroe over dommoes dominoes ndcrosswords andcrosswords and nd crosswords I 1 fl1as was fl1asdttlghte4 wasdelighted dttlghte4 delighted delightedat , at thIS new newnend /nend nend friends / s congenialIty with withmy my husband It st rei rel reieved releyed eved eyed Ih the thestrain striUn strain for m me I By KATHLEEN NORRISSOMETIMES NORRIS NORRISOOMETIMES I OOMETIMES a husbanddoes husbanddoes husband husbands husbandI SOMETIMES s does something somethmg thatmakes thatmakes that thatJ I * -J J - makes his wife wild wildwithout , Without giving glvmg her the sabs sates satesfaction sabsfactlOn satisfaction factlOn faction of either ignoring Ignormg the thematter thematter thematter matter or changing changmg the situ situa situation situation a abon bon tion Such a husband eVident eVidently evidently evidently ly is Monroe White Wlute whose whosewife whosewife whosewife wife Edda writes wntes me from fromBuffalo fromBuffalo Buffalo BuffaloMonroe Monroe has a dear woman womanfrIend womanfriend womanfriend frIend that s the gist of the mat mat- matter mat- mat matter matter - - ter writes wntes Edda That sounds In Innocent innocent innocent nocent enough doesn t it ? Nothmg Nothing Nothmgsmlster Nothingsinister Nothingsinister smlster sinister everything everythmg happily open openand openand openand and above board but there it Is IsCarol isCarol IsCarol Carol Is everything he needs in gay gay50phlstlcated gaysophisticated gaysophisticated 50phlstlcated sophisticated companionship he he5ees hesees hesees 5ees sees her every day Or if It he mIsses mIssesseeing missesseeing missesseeing seeing her tor for a day or two he gets getsrestless getsrestless getsrestless restless last summer Carol went wentInto wentinto wentinto Into the mountains for a month and andtRree andthree andthree tRree three times In that month Monroe Monroewent Monroewent Monroewent went up to see her on one pretext pretextor or another Once he took me and andyou andyou andyou you may imagine what a lovely lovelytime lovelytime lovelytime time I had'This hadThis had hadThis ' This 'This Carol is a about bout 30 I am 38 38Monroe 38Monroe S3Monroe Monroe Is 39 and we have been beenmarrIed beenmarried beenmarried marrIed 15 years We have two twodaughters twodaughters twodaughters daughters Phyllis 11 and Mary Maryann Maryann Maryann ann 9 Monroe Is a cheerful easily easilypleased easilypleased easilypleased pleased man not fussy about aboutmeals aboutmeals aboutmeals meals very popular in buslDess business buslDessand businessand businessand and club circles He has al alvays alvaysbeen alvaysbeen vays vaysbeen been a model husband as far tar as I II IImow Iknow Iknow I Imow know and a conscientious father fatherWhen fatherWhen fatherWhen When my mother was with us a along along along long pull with three years of help helplessness helplessness helplessness lessness and illness Monroe was wasgenerosIty wasgenerosity wasgenerosity generosIty ! Itself tselt I think It was at atthat atthat atthat that time that I began to hear a agood agood agood good deal of Monroe s dear old oldfrIend oldfriend oldfriend frIend Carol widowed WIdo\\ed WIdo ed wdoaed \ and back In Intown intown intown town Carol often came carne to supper supperIn supperin supperin In those days and squabbled w th thMonroe thMonroe thMonroe Monroe over dominoes dommoes and cross crosswords crosswords crosswords words Absorbed in my mother s stragedy stragedy stragedy tragedy I was delighted at th s new newI newfriend newfriend newfriend I friend s congeniality with my hus husband husband husband band it rel reI rdl eved eyed the strain for meUnconcealed meUnconcealed me meUnconcealed Unconcealed UnishamedIt UnshamedIt UnlshamedIt Un\shamed Un shamed Unlshamed ' \ It went on Nothing Nothmg to conceal concealevidently concealevidently concealevidently evidently noth ng rig of which to be beashamed beashamed beashamed ashamed Carol telephones meevery me meevery meevery every day or two t.o to . to say that she shesaw shesaw shesaw saw a hat clowntovn downto vn that would be beIdeal beideal beideal Ideal for me or that she is send ng rig ngthe rigthe ngthe the girls books Monroe says qUite qUitecasually quitecasually quitecasually casually I 111 II ll not be home for d n nner nner nner ner Carol Is crazy to see that show showand showand I and I m taking takmg her Or he says- says saysThe saysThe says saysThe - The Masons have asked Carol and andme andme andme me up for the weekend I told them themwe themae we \ e had measles at home and they theysaid theysaid theysaid said it was 0 K tor for you to beg 01YSomet offSomet off 01Y offSomet Somet mes he says that Carol Is Isthe isthe isthe the most intp intI inte ' lectual woman he heever heever heever ever knew Imew If I say that she is not notparticularly notparticularly notparticularly particularly pretty or has rather a aheavy aheavy aheavy heavy figure he says with amused amusedauthority amusedauthority amusedauthority authority that men find her per perfectJy perfectly perfectly fectJy fectly fascinating fascmatmg Once or t vice he hehas hehas hehas has said to his friends that he has hasa hasa a sens sons ble wife wlie wile that Edda never nevermakes nevermakes nevermakes makes any fuss about bis his platomc platonic platomcfrIendships platonicfriendships platomcfriendships frIendships with other women He Heputs Heputs Heputs puts it in m the plural I put it in the thesingular thesingular thesingular thesingularI singular singularI I am good lookmg looking I dress well wellnothing wellnothing wellnothing nothing sensational but quite up to tothe tothe tothe the mark Wl W1 WI at s the matter wIth wIthme withme withme me that my husband is perfectly perfectlycontent perfectlycontent perfectlycontent content to let me cook finish the theIroning theironing theironing Ironing keep house entertain his hisfriends hisfriends hisfriends friends drag him off tor for an occa occaslonal occasional occaslonal slonal sional dmner-but dmner but dinner-but dinner dinner - but that tor for eompan compan companlonship lonshlp lonship eompanlonshlp companlonship and glamor he goes else elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere where And the letter finisbes finishes finisbesdesperatelY finishesdesperately finishesdesperately desperatelY Can a man and a awoman awoman awoman woman have a platonic frIendshIp frIendshIpanyway friendshipanyway friendshipanyway anyway ' She Thinks It s a Fair Play PlayMy PlayMy PlayMy My answer to that Edda is isno isno Isno no Not under these circum J 0 0t : ; t \ J Jf f \ ' t te1 e1 e1am " 1am 1 ( sm am good looking lookmg dress well - - NOT SO PLATONICPlatonic PLATONIC PLATONICPlatonic - Platonic Platomc friendship frtendshrp frtendshrprarely friendshiprarely rarely rarelyeXtsts rarelyexists rarelyexists eXtsts exists , , declares dedares Mtss MISS Noms NorrIs , , fftanswer HI tit HIanswer titanswer answer to a per perplexedwife perplexed le\ed le ed leedwIfe \ wIfe wIfeEdda wifeEdda wifeEdda Edda White IVhite W htte writes wNtes that her herhusband herhusband herhusband husband Monroe M01lToe , , is gooda11d goodand good a11d and a11ddutsftll anddutiful anddutiful dutsftll dutiful dutsftllm dutifulin in m every way but bUI one oneHe oneHe oneHe He likes ltkes the company ofa ofWIdow o of f fa fwidow a awidow WIdow whom he be has known knownfor knownfor knownfor for a long time Their com corn cornpanonship cornpamonship panonship amonshl : tsnt ISn sin I t the ordmary ordinary ordmarySOI'l ordinarysort ordinarysort SOI'l SOIl sort ' ofrelatlonshtp ofrelationship of relationship relatlonshtp Edda &Ida Ida & belieies be belte belies lte lies es that Monroe M01lToe 11 IS ss farthful faithful faithfulto farthfulI I to her He often sas says ) he tsglad IS ss ISglad ssglad glad that she is so sensible thaI that thaIshe thatshe thatshe she understands his platonicfriendship platomc platonic platomcfrte1rdshlP platonicf platonicrtendsbi frte1rdshlP frte1rdshlPwtth f rtendsbi p pwith with wtth CarolHe CarolHe Carol CarolHe He takes Carol to dmners dinners dmnersand dinnersand dinnersand and plays plas ) She often comes 10 to 10the tothe tothe the house Sometimes she goes goesto goesto goesto to a party partyIn in company withMonroe wltb with wltbMonroe withMonroe Monroe and Edda Two orthree or orthree orthree three times tnnes a week weekshe she calls up upEdda upEdda upEdda Edda and tells her about some somebargain somebargain somebargain bargain or some other frtend friend frtendly friendly fnendly ly lymessage message She sends presents presentsto to the little girls It is dlffimlt difficult dlffimltfor difficultfor difficultfor for Edda to repulse these thesecharmmg thesecharming thesecharming charmmg charming charmmgattelltrons charmingattentions attentions attelltrons attelltronsEdda attentionsEdda attentionsEdda Edda is tS getting gettl1lg annoyed allnoyed allnoyeda1w annoyedand a1w and a1wuorrted andUorrred andu uorrted Uorrred omed This Thist Thistfriendship ' friendship frte1ldshsp between be between between tween her husband hmband hmbanda1zd husbandand and a1zd Carol Carolis IS becoming becomsng embarrassing embarrasssng Itseems It Itseems itseems seems to be grouin grourn grourng insteadof t1lstead instead t1lsteadof insteadof of diminishing dlmsnrshsng Edda is ask ask11lg asking asking 11lg ing Miss Msss Noms NorNs Norris what to do dotinder dounder dounder tinder under these tbese peculiarly trl11g tring trl11gCtrcumsances tringcircumstances tryingcircumstances tryingcircumstancesstances ) } Ctrcums/ances Ctrcums ances circumstances circumstancesstances / stances no With Monroe at his hisage hisage hisage age Carol at hers and your mar marnage marrange marnage nage range at this point pomt th s frlendsillp friendship friendshipis frlendsillpIs Is not platoDicrl platonicTli platonic platoDic platonicTft Tft rl Tli rls Tlis s Is not to say that matters mattershave mattershave mattershave have proceeded to the po nt tech techmcaIIy technically techmcally mcaIIy nically known as infidel ty Moralikely More MorelIkely Morelikely lIkely Carol is happy to play it italong italong italong along safely having havmg all the tun fun of ofa ofa ofa a man s admiration admIrahon and attentIOn attentIOnand attentionand attentionand and companionship but not sacn sacri sacnficmg sacrificing sacnflcing ficmg ficing anything that would make makeher makeher makeher her feel guilty of d sloyalty sloyaIty to you youIt youIt youIt It is a fond illus on with women 01 of 01her ofher olher her type that everything everythmg short of ofactual ofactual olactual actual surrender to a love affair Is Isfair isfair isfair fair play She is holding holdmg Monroe all allthe allthe allthe the tighter by her refusal to enterinto enter enterInto enterinto Into a serious relationsh relatlonsh p with the thehusband thehusband thehusband husband of her friend fnend He probably probablydeeply probablydeeply probablydeeply deeply admires her strength 01 of 01character ofcharacter ofcharacter character and purity punty of motive But ButIn Butin Butin In truth she is as low as any other otherwoman otherwoman otherwoman woman who comes del berately be between between between tween a man and his w fe Le and andthrows andthrows andthrows throws dust in his eyes wh Ie le doing doingso doingsoMy so soMy My advice to you is to wake up upand upand upand and realize that th s is dIsloyalty dIsloyaltysugared disloyaltysugared disloyaltysugared sugared over w th the claim olbe of ofbe ofbe be ng rig merely an intellectual and andhonest andhonest andhonest honest friendship Such a th ng ngrarely ngrarely ngrarely rarely exists between a man and a awoman awoman awoman woman even when both are en entirely entirely entirely tirely free to marry It certamly certainly certamlydoes certainlydoes certainlydocs does not exist hereYou hereYou here hereYou You will win in the end if you youcan youcan youcan can rise above all this Keep busy busyhave busyhave busyhave have as little httle to do with these hIgh hIghminded highminded highminded minded friends fnends as liS you can don dlJn t tdIscuss tdiscuss tdiscuss dIscuss it with Monroe and don I Isee Isee 1see see Carol at all Ask her qu etly etlynot etlynot etiynot not to telephone don t argue don t 1 tmake 1make tmake make scenes Just ] ust let them both bothImow bothknow bothknow Imow know that you are perfectly aware awareof awareof awareof of the fun they are hav hay ng at your yourexpense yourexpense yourexpense expense The shock to Carol may maystop maystop maystop stop the affair right there Monroe Monroewill Monroewill Monroewill will be shocked too But whether 11 it 11takes ittakes iltakes takes only days or takes months monthsthat monthsthat monthsthat that s the way to end It and the theonly theonly theonly only way Don t forget prayer |