Show KA KATHLEEN NORRIS Wife's Phone Binges Important pERHAPS this isn't too serious r a 8 situation writes Jack Nolan Nolan No No- lan of ot Trenton but Ill I'll bet it goeson goeson goes goeson on In lots of families and maybe it makes some other fellows as triad ad adas as It does me My wife Gussy has hasa a pal named Cicily who lives about half a block away They see each other practically every day and as Cicily's husband Is an old friend of mine we often get together for an evenings evening's amusement We have two boys and a girl Cicily and Dan two girls and a boy we have about the same Incomes tastes tastes really really a alot alot alot lot In common I Z dont don't telephone Dan three times a year But Gussy has to call Cicily every morning and almost al al- almost most every evening Every bit of news she news she gets has to be rushed to Cicily the kids' kids school marks a aletter aletter aletter letter from her mother someone having a divorce or a baby or a anew anew anew new house or a visitor And they'll go on about them for hours 1 I I am ama a court stenographer and one night I took down a 20 minute conversation conversation conversa conversa- tion and I showed it afterward tomy to tomy tomy my w wide e. e Here they were saying three times when do I see you and I dont don't know darling and andOh andOh andOh Oh arent aren't we going tb to Rosamond's tomorrow of ot course we are and arel and t I and then In five minutes they were at it again But when do I see you dear I dont don't know dear Ill I'll call you and Oh goodness were we're going to meet at Rosamond's of ot course coursel courset I Passing the Word Does that sound like sense It Isn't But when I call my wife down she only laughs She calls It U passing the word and says shed she'd simply burst when some tidbit of gossip comes her way If she could not pass It ft along Cant Can't you say something sometime about the time women waste at the telephone Ask them what they'd think If their 3 It V ovary morning evening husbands had to call caU each other up every everT night and giggle over the events of the day I dont don't come ome home at night to listen to that murmuring murmuring mur mur- going on in the hall all aU eve ring ning Its It's about the only thing that's wrong with my wile wife so why the heck cant can't she stop it Jack It seems to me that you are the one who ought to stop Stop trying to o take out of at your our wife's life what is really an integral and important part of or it She is evidently evi evidently dently a live human woman Interested Interested In ins in all aU that goes oe on about her and at present her only steady companions are three small children chit chil of at age dren sit all under seven Jeven years ears All AU day l long ng their demands difficulties needs their incessant babbie babble babble bab bab- cuI tie ble bie and weeping and their unanswerable unan unan- why goes loe on on and nd she be meets meeta it with love and patience and laughter because it is her Job familiar Spirit But aut when th they y are Ire in bed and with your h hive have ve come com home budget you of or news cwi and th the da days day's mall mail and the evening paper per gad and t 1 the radio have all aU contributed ther tc to her saga of events she just cant can't help calling a familiar spirit out o oi of another kitchen and nursery anc and passing the word She cant can't do 1 II It Itin In the daytime she and Cicily are art too busy but how they do love that evening Interchange that thai and What did I say sal shed she'd do and My dear if this one isn't a boy Mary says shell she'll throw It back and Oh she go gothe got gol the tweed She says shell she'll wear I 11 It three years and In that time Joel Joell forget it ft cost sixty And believe me me Jack these things are important just Important just as Important important important Im im- as the cases you hear Incourt Ir it court every day You hear of lawsuits law law- suits property squabbles contract contracts broken delinquencies felonies Anc And they all stem out of the kitchen kitchens that were slovenly mothers who were not interested in their job wives who didn't watch budgets budget and consult experienced elders asto asto alto as al to nursery discipline and the latest methods of child analysis They stem from divorce from household quarrels from debt and dirt and disorders three dangers from fron which your good wife evidently keeps her household free All day long you are entitled tc to discuss what interests you with your associates Gossip goes about the court about the lunch table where when you and an always always shifting shifting group grout of clerks discuss the Judge the crowd the criminals the morning newspaper and a thousand other things These things seem to you Infinitely more significant than Gussy's enthusiastic description ofa ol of ola a bride she happened to see ol of little Augustas Augusta's tooth of the jelly jell that didn't harden and the way the linoleum curls up under the bath bathroom bathroom room door But they are not |