Show KATHLEEN NORRIS Plan Pia But Plan Where You Are ALL n LL I WANT is fa a fresh tresh start start says a tear tear spattered spattered letter from tram Vera yer wife of at Bill BIU Taylor of Akron Ohio gone wrong with us us she goes on and somehow we cant can't think how to get it straight I am 29 29 Dill Bill 30 we I truly love each other we dont don't want a divorce But for tor two years since my mother died its it's been nothing but bad luck being sorry for each other and being caught Ina In Ina ina a groove We have two children- children Tony who is 6 0 and Buttercup 4 A confused contused day like this continues continues con con- this discouraged woman I feel teel I have nothing to show for eight years of marriage My dancing dancing dan dan- cing sing figure my once pretty hair my clothes blankets curtains house bouse and farm tarm all aU a mess My fathey father father fa fa- I ther they and mother lived with us us both invalids Invalid and Bill DIU was wonderful to I them until Dad died in 47 and Mother Mothe the next year They left us hospital and doctor bills of more than thin Bills Bill's salary is when taxes are paid and of that we pa pay a month or a little littlemore littlemore littlemore more on the bills Managing on what's left leaves me no room for anything pretty or easy Now Tony has an eye trouble that will take years to cure it means clinic visits and doctors and of course anxious Itra strain Wants New Start So I want a new start I want to togo togo togo go back to to my old office Job board the children with some good woman woman wom worn an see them week ends and find a room where Bill DIU and I can live for fora a year ear or two Finding an aD apartment apartment apart apart- ment meat is out of ot the question I want to wear smart shirtwaists again and go to a show now and then I Iwan want wan someday to start housekeeping If hils hasn't bet hll with a refrigerator pew new linoleum a gas las stove stove stove-I I teel feel is II It I had to get ret out or go 10 crazy The place hasn't been farmed since sills DUll father tather stopped work 10 years ago Just the sight of these run run down down barns and sheds hed and orchards makes me sick lick Last year you wrote an article Vera Vera's letter concludes conclude I advising all aU of us who find ourselves bogged down to make a plan To look beyond be yond the pre present lent and spread pread Imag imago Imaginary Inal inary wings and lilt lift ourselves on ona ona ona a plan Well this is mine Can you help belp me talk BUI DUI over to it m Vera Im I'm all aU for for a plan plaza for tor you But Dut not your plan Your plan already al read ready is s clearly clearl Indicated It was outlined when you married a cou coustry try boy and went out to live oa on a small farm Youve You've let the farm the o children your our marriage and everything else go e to seed leed and a completely new plan splitting your Jour family Into pieces and practically abandoning 0 the children wouldn't work at t all U Wonderful Record You say aJ youve you've nothing to show how for eight years yurl youve you've everything to show And with some ome realistic planning you OU can have a lot more mor liaising Halting two children caring for two dependent old persons person being nice alee to them them that that's a wonderful record But Dut naturally with a shabby house piled up plIed up debt anxiety about Tony and a wood stove youve you've been beaten down and you dont don't see things as 81 they are At 29 you still II can use a year or two in readjustment readjustment readjust readjust- ment and discover that the dancing figure the pretty clothes the washIng washIng wash wash- Ing machine and the new stove can canall canall all aU be attained and undreamed of at fun and achievement beyond that To pay off a month on a debt Is magnificent and even in your discouragement you must see that that's going to clear off the four tour thousand in less than two years Congratulations on your courage on OD that point Then I wouldn't let 42 acres lie Idle If It Bill DiU doesn't want to turn farmer why there are many couples in our country now men and women trained for tor farm tarm work in Europe longing for tor a chance like the one you could give them to retrieve retrieve retrieve re re- trieve that farm tarm Government will help them there and help you and who knows but when the man is 11 farming the woman could sometimes some some- times Umes help you indoors You may maybe maybe maybe be pretty sure she is used to a awood awood wood stove and thankful to God when she can get wood for It For the anxiety over Tonys Tony's eyes I have no cure except to say that thousands of small children go through that now and Instead of at growing up half halt blind bUnd or squinting or cross eyed cross eyed as 81 the earlier generations generations genera genera- lions did they actually get cured A 20 year old year old nephew that I love had what looked like hopelessly bad badeyes badeyes badeyes eyes at eight had two operations many years of weaker and weaker glasses and now uses no glasses at all au and hasn't for tor years yeara Plan Ian of ot course Vera But Dut plan with what youve you've got lot not with what y you u haven't got |