Show KA KATHLEEN NORRIS MORRIS Pretend Fickle Lover Is Dead LINETTE T INETTE ROY is la 34 Her younger young La er years were spent in the care of invalid parents and in holding a responsible post office job which sho she still sUll has Two years ago she met one Robert Francis a medical student two years younger than herself Robert also had had family fam fame I ily responsibilities and was only as far tar as his first year in medicine He lie has now been obliged to interrupt interrupt interrupt inter inter- rupt his studies and is driving for fora a doctor in a city some miles mUes away hoping to save enough to get started in another year Robert gave Linette her first thrilling love affair To her hardworking hard working conscientious lonely it was a miracle of delight To have havea a fine mans man's companionship to talk over their respective trials and responsibilities to listen to his first words of admiration and to feel her own heart respond respond well well perhaps only a woman placed as Linette was knows what that means They were never formally en en- But they became lovers Robert using the old arguments of appealing to her trust her belief in his promises Linette was not a girl in years then but she wascom was com completely pIe tel y inexperienced her father was dead her Invalided old mother was bas far past the point of advising On the contrary she i lr pip i k 4 ur r 51 V I Y ti S r r h be first thrilling love air affair had bad returned to childishness and Linette had bad to make her own deci slops Ions Carried off oU her feet by the passion and ecstasy that had come too late to her she gave way to the emotions that are too strong trong for almost any woman so 10 ignorant and so isolated Miserably Unsatisfactory Like any other self respecting woman she he found this arrangement arrange arrange- m men ment e n t miserably unsatisfactory and when Robert went off aU to take his bis job In another city they decIded decided de de- tided up upon n an understanding that would lead within the year to marriage mar mar- siege no matter what their financial finan cial or domestic situations might be A part of Linette's LInette letter follows fol fol- lows low This was the way wy things were at New Years Dab Bob went away and we wrote to each other dally daily daUyat at first then his letters tell fell off oft as asI asI I l' expected they might At Easter he was at home three days and andI andl I l' saw laW him there three times but bu butI I l' felt that thit things bad changed I There was wa no po love talk and no talk of at marriage But Dut he was workIng work work- In tag Ing terribly bard hard and looked and acted tired That Iha was wa all aU until this week when I discovered that at be he has 11 been home borne was wa here for tor two nights about abou 10 30 days ago alo wl without with out a word or telephone message to me Mrs Mr Norris Nord Linette's letter goes roes on on I f was wa stunned I have bare been unable to ta eat e t or sleep since Lovin Loving and trusting him hint is as i l do I l' know that something h. h bas baa happened hap bap pouted h he 11 Is angry with me ane or someone has told him something that has changed him I telephoned him at once but it was most un un- satisfactory He Ire pleaded that his mother and sisters had absorbed his time that he had tried to caUme call caU me and so on He said to watt walt for his letter there has been no letter and inasmuch as I cannot live I live I feel I actually will die die die- if 11 things are left this way I am appealing to you Of one thing Iam I Iam Iam am sure Robert loves me If It I did not know that I would try to put the whole thing behind me But Robert loves me How can I win him back Love Is Gone Linette I say in reply the one thing of which I am sure and of which you are yourself sure deep In your o r heart is that Robert doesn't love you An Any man who loves a woman wont won't be in the same town with her for three hours much less three days without with out cut telephoning rushing to see her dating her for every possible in stant Your love affair is over Accept this terribly hard bard dictum and start fresh tomorrow Act as if it Robert were dead many a brave woman has had to rise to that situation sit in the past few years Plunge Into three or four different activities make yourself do it Every Every fibre of soul and body will revolt at first but that's that the only cure Study a language that is always al al- ways my first suggestion Then get a puppy to spoil and be spoiled by My own predilection is iJ for a cocker They are happy in an apartment and very loving |