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S SI Says ays . : I IAll All Is Not G Gold GoldBell 0 1 d dcate Bell Syndl Syndicate SyndicateWNU cate cateWNU -WNU WNU - Features Features'iiJ 'iiJ iiJ 'iiJI 'iiJia ' I -ia ia - iaiL ; iL iLl l / , 'fG fG 'fGI ' I / DOUGCJtiS RYAN J JSI SI SIa a was so pleased to see me so pleased to take me to her poor little flat flatcook cook lu ich for me a id talk talkold old t ties that I felt 1 ke apolog z ig By KATHLEEN NORRISIFE NORRIS NORRISM 'E E ' would be mucheaSler mucheasier much eaSler easier eaSlerfor easierfor easierfor M EFE IFE for many women if they theywere theywere theywere were not so tortured by byIdeals byideals byideals Ideals We go through most mostof mostof mostof of our lives hves dreaming dreammg of a alove alove alove love an understanding understandmg a asympathy asympathy asympathy sympathy that simply slmply do not notexist notexist eXlst exist And when we don't dont ' find findthem findthem findthem them in one set of Clrcum circum Clrcumstances circumstances circumstances stances we are apt to thmk think thinkthat thinkthat that we may find them in m an another another other We fret ourselves mto mtopremature mtopremature intopremature premature wrinkles wrmkles and oldage old oldage oldage age wondering wondermg how we can canget canget canget get rid of one set of husband husbandand husbandand husbandand and children chlldren to be free to take takeon takeon takeon on another anotherIt It isn Isnt t that a woman l Ike ke Hallie HallieRhodes HallieRhodes HallieRhodes Rhodes Is unhappy exactly but she shefeels shefeels shefeels feels that she could be so muchhappier much muchhappier muchhappier happier The Rhodes own their own ownhome ownhome ownhome home a rather shabby yet sun sunshmy sunshiny sunshmy shmy shiny place in a shabby yet sun sunshiny sunshiny sunshiny shiny street Fred has a good but butnot butnot butnot not eiciting eclbng exciting ' ! : job they have two ch ehil ehildren children dren at the freckled toothless de demandmg demanding demandmg mandmg manding ageHarlette ageHariette age ageHanette Hanette Harlette Hariette wants a ne v y sweater sweaterradIO sweaterradio sweaterradio radIO skates Ted wants a bIcycle bIcyclecamera bicyclecamera bicyclecamera camera and shoes both would like likethe likethe likethe the family to buy a new car Hallie Hallietheir Hallietheir Halhetheir their mother really reany needs many manythings manythings manythings things Hats club dues furs and andher andher andher her watch mended The house needs needsnew needsnew needsnew new curtains curtams new stove washerfixed washer washerfixed washerfixed fixed basement floored telephone telephoneextension telephoneextension telephoneextension extension side steps painted shin shingles shingles shingles gles and an extra bathHallie bathHallie bath bathHallie Hallie naturally dreams of havmg having havmga11 havingall havingall a11 all these tb th ngs and more and per perpetual perpetual perpetual petual freedom from money worry worryShe worryShe worryShe She thinks thlnhs she sees and knovswomen kno vs vswomen vswomen women who don t have these com corn commonplace cornmonplace cornmonplace monplace humiliating worries She Shetlunks Shethinks Shethinks tlunks thinks that the Warrmgtons who whowalk whowalk whowalk walk into mto church so regularly on onSunday onSunday onSunday Sunday mornings mormngs with their small smallg g rl so damt daintily y dressed are fortu fortunate fortunate fortunate nate persons personsSecret Secret GriefsShe GriefsShe Griefs GriefsShe She doesnt doesn t know-nobody know nobody know - nobody knowsthat knowsthat knows -that that - that Mrs Warnngton Warrrngton Warrington made a afoolish afoolish afoohsh foolish first marr age at 18 and has hasa hasa a little httle son of 10 living lIvmg with his hisfather hisfather hisfather father s people because John War Warrmgton Warrington Warnngton rmgton rington dignified dlgmfied rich nch prouddoesn proud prouddoesn prouddoesn doesn t want anyone to kno km v that thathis thathis thathis his wife wJfe was married marrred before and anddivorced anddivorced anddivorced divorced That Mrs Warrington Warrmgton s sheart sheart sheart heart aches steadily for little Steve Steveis Steveis Steveis is her own secretHallie secretHallie secret secretHalhe Halhe Hallie doesn t kno v that lovely lovelyelderly lovelyelderly lovelyelderly elderly Mrs White who buys all allher allher allher her dresses dre ses at the tbe Maison Malson Francehas France Francehas Francehas has had a dull gnawing gnawmg pain at the theback theback theback back of o1 her handsome head for foryears foryears toryears years and years and that only re recently recently recently cently her doctor told her what it itmeanta itmeanta Itmeant meant-a meant a - - a gradually graduany weakening weakemng of ofmental ofmental otmental mental powers unt tint 1 I she reached an anunthmkable anunthinkable anunthinkable unthmkable unthinkable end Hallie Hame doesn tknow t tknow tknow know that pretty Sylvia Brown who whohas whohas whohas has just made a sensationally sensatlonally good goodmarriage goodmarriage marriage is destined destmed shortly for an anequally anequally anequally equally sensational sensatlonal divorce and andscandal andscandal andscandal andscandalIn scandal . scandalIn In short Halhe Halite Hallie doesn t reahze- reahze realize- realize reahzeand realizeand realize realizeand - - and few of o1 us do-that do that do - - that nothing nothmg in inthiS inthis Inthis thiS bew bewildering dering world is what it itseems iseems ) seems : Every Jvery heart holds b tter tterness tterness tterness ness defeat hum humiliation ial10n frustrated frustratedambitIOn frustratedambition frustratedambition ambitIOn andsecret and secret pam pain The girl girlho girlwho girlwho \\ho ho who \ arrogantly is ordering ordermg her wed weddmg wedding wedding dmg ding silver today isn t marrying marrymg the theman theman theman man she loves after all a11 The young youngmlli youngmill younfmill mlli mill onaire onalre s wife we suffers agomes agonies agomesfrom agoniesfrom agoniesfrom from a deep-seated deep seated - - - inferior infenor interior ty com coin complex coinplex cornplex plex and the movie actress whose whoseface whoseface whos whosface < face ia is on all the fences is racked rackedWIth rackedwith rackedwith WIth jealousy because the part that thatshould thatshould thaishould should have been heen hers has Just lust ] ust been beenhanded beenbanded beerbanded handed banded to a younger wom.mHallie womanHallie woman wom.m womm womanHallie . Hallie has only to follow fo11ow the stolies sto- sto stories stories - - ries of o1 the world s a envied and ad admired admired admired mired women to find them thick thickw.th thickwith thiciwith w.th wth with . traged es and d sappointanent sappomtments sappointments sappomtmentsopenly sappointmentsopenly ; -openly openly - openly admitted traged es and anI ( 1 \ sappointments to say nothing of ofit o : : it IF rIF IFlr r\ r lr ' : ; ; . ; \ 1/ 1 / ) I Q\ Q QJ \ . 1I ) 1 . 1Rich ! ' Q1 \1 1 / J ! ! \ Rich Rch , but bul unhappy women SECRET SORROWS SORROJJ7S SORROWSEt Et eryone wants happmess happmessand hap happinessand pzness pznessand and tries tNes constantly onstmltly to attam attain attamIt attainit attainft It After Afler a u unman uoman oman marriesshe marries marriesshe marriesshe she often thinks thmks that she has haslOJt haslost haslost lOJt lost the tbe chance ban e to be really happy reallyhappy Her hllsha11dami husbandand husband hllsha11d andchil and ami chil childress children hJl hJldre11 dre11 dress seem dullat dull at best andat and at attunes attimes attimes tunes times they are positively a burden bttr bur bttrden burden den andtrNtatlon andvritatton and irritation trNtatlon v-ritatton v ritatton irritationHallie trNtatlonHallIe vritattonHalite - Hallie Halite has a good home bonne homeshabb bonneshabby homeshabby shabb shabby ) but comfortable omfor/able omfor able / Her Herhusba1ld Herhusband Herhusbands husba1ld husband s 10bIS yobis yob 10b is steady pro proImJmg providing providmg ImJmg viding a goodIncome good income for a amuldle amiddle amiddle muldle middle class dass family The two twochildren twochildren htldren children brightBut are healthy healtby healtbyand healthyand and brlgbt bright brlgbtBut brightBut But this ths , n IS not 110t enough enougb Theconstant Tbe The Tbecomtant Theconstant comtant constant desire to be free from fromall fromall fromall all allworNes allworries worries worNes of oier oter er money to tobave tohave tohave bave have anything antbmg ) she sbe wants wa1lts to tobuy tobuy tobuy buy keeps Halite Hallie m in i an emt ents emtous entsOtis entious ous Otis , dlS discontentedmood discontented 01ltente mood Sbe She Sbethmks Shethinks Shethinks thmks thinks that tbat other otber women sbe she sbeknows sheknows sheknows knows are haPPler-bave haPPler bave happier-have happier have happier - have moreexciting more moreexutmg moreexciting exutmg exciting lives ltves ltvesWhat livesWhat livesWhat What Halite HallIe doesn doem t t k,10W k10W know k,10Wcomments knowcomments knowcomments , comments Mfss MISs nlftss Norns Norris is tbat that tbatall thatall thatall all the tbe women womefl she sbe envies eflVles are arebearmg arebearing arebearing bearmg bearing secret sorrows sorrowsfarmorepoignant far farmore farmorepoignant more morepOIgnant pOIgnant than tban anything anytbmg sbe she sbebas shehas shehas bas has to bear One wealthy old oldlady oldlady oldlady lady is suffering mffermg mffermga sufferinga a mental 111mtal mentali11 illness tll i11 tllness i11ness ness that tbat eventually means wsanity t1l in t1lsamty insanity samty sanity Another Anolber wife ofa of a richman rlcb rich richman 111411 man is try trj tr ) ing mg tug to hide bide the gnaw gnawmg gnawing gnawwg mg ing yearning Carnmg ) for the tbe son S011 sou of ber her berfirst herfirst herfirst first marriage So it tt is withpractically wltb with withpractically ractlcally practically ractlcallyeterone practicallyeteryone eterone everyone eteryone ) who wbo a ap appears appears pears more favored than tban others otb oth otbers others ers concludes Ofldudes Miss IIllss tlitss Norns Norris Nornsthe Norristhe the secret griefs gnefs and failures falJures that thatwe thatwe thatwe we never seeroily seerolly see seeroily roily rolly of Jealousy JealousyI I wish I had known earl er about aboutUrsula aboutUrsula aboutUrsula Ursula Trent a woman of 50 wrote wroteme wroteme wroteme me a few days ago in m a mood halfrueful hal hall hallrueful ! rueful and half halt amused Weent We \\ent ent went wentto \ wentto entto to school together and she had hadeveryth hadeveryth hadeveryth everyth ng I hadn t . t . She had curls curlsshe curlsshe curlsshe she played the violin vlOhn she lived hved on onRlver onRiverwood onRiverwood Rlver\\ Rlver Rlverood Riverwood \ ood drive dnve she had a brother brotherwbo brotherwho brotherwho wbo who adored her her father was Q a QJudge ajudge audge Judge ] Ursula married marned at 19 in m a abower abower abower bower of roses and wedd ng sIlver sIlverand silverand silverand and wonderful frocks frochs and I lost lostsight lostsight lostsight sight of her for years1ly yearsMy years yearslly \ lly 1\ly 1 ly My mother kept a boardmg boarding boardmghouse boardinghouse boardinghouse house the letter goes on and we wewere wewere wewere were five sandy ha red freckled freckledsisters freckledsisters freckledsisters sisters We hung on as old maids maidsfor maidsfor maidsfor for some time tune but then we all an mar marrredhapp1Jy marriedhappily roarned rred-happ1Jy rred happ1Jy ried-happily ried happily - happily too Our men have haveall haveall haveall all done well we11 and there are 11 11youngsters 11youngsters 11youngsters youngsters My life hfe has been hap happier happier happier pier than that of any woman I Iknow Iknow Iknow know running a country house housewelcommg housewelcoming housewelcoming welcommg welcoming all the babies loving lovmg my mygood mygood mygood good man All my sisters are happyand happy happyand happyand and one of them lives in the old oldTrent oldTrent oldTrent Trent placeUnexpectedly placeUnexpectedly place placeUnexpectedly Unexpectedly I met Ursula in inNew inNew inNew New York last year She d lost her herone herone herone one boy in fn the war she has a mce nice mcedaughter nicedaughter nicedaughter daughter divorced teaching in m a apnvate aprivate aprivate pnvate private school- school schoolUrsula - Ursula takes care of ofher ofher ofher her sick hu'band huband huoband husband ' and her smal1 small smal1granddaughter smallgranddaughter smallgranddaughter granddaughter I can tell you I felt feltashamed feltashamed feltashamed ashamed with both my big boys boyssafely boyssafely boyssafely safely home borne and happily marned married marriedI ! ! I felt ashamed of the envy I d al always always always ways felt for Ursula the way her hername hername hername name used to ump Jump ] at me from the theSOCial thesocial thesocial SOCial columns of o1 the paper andmake and andmake andmake make me blue aU a11 all day She was so sopleased sopleased sopleased pleased to see me this woman s sletter sletter sletter letter concludes so pleased to totake totake totake take me to her poor little Itttle flat fiat cook cooklunch cooklunch cooklunch lunch tor for me and talk old times that thatI thatI I felt like bke apolog apologzng z ng I felt hhe like hhesaymg likesaying likesaying saymg saying to her You re st U 11 ll ahead aheadUrsula aheadUrsula aheadUrsula Ursula Trent because you re not notcapable notcapable notcapable capable of o1 any emot on as small as asjealousy asjealousy asjealousy jealousy or shame hame and I ve ye let iet them themrum themruin themrum rum ruin hours and hours of my lifer lit ill " . a11 all a11for allfor alltor for nothing I ! |