| Show KATHLEEN NORRIS Plan Together Stand tand Together TIIE FAMILY that prays together together to- to to-I to gether stays together Is a sayIng say say- Ing lag as beautiful as it is true trite I have another saying to match it The family that plans t together gether geth- geth er stands together If you and your husband and children dont don't plan together yours isn't a real home and it isn't a real marriage These are days of planning revolutionary revolutionary revolutionary rev rev- planning We all have to get new viewpoints in these days Never in the entire history of the world have peace-loving peace countries faced such catastrophic ties Ues There isn't one of us whose life isn't going to be to touched ched by bythe bythe bythe the onrush of events in the next few years and the survivors survivors and and therell there'll be millions of ot quite prosperous prosperous prosperous pros pros- and secure survivors survivors are are the ones who look ahead today Marcia Connelly is a forward looker She writes me a n most heartening letter from which these are excerpts My husband Frank began to tobe tobe tobe be tired overworked and depressed about three years ago Hes He's always been a hard worker but since the war hes he's had all sorts of troubles strikes in our very small business difficulties in getting inventory high Ugh prices high wages He became became be be- came very silent anxious about me and the boys but never ugly or interfering Lost Her lIer Job Id been a dressmaker when I married and I tried to g get t in with witha a big shop but my styles weren't today's and I lost that Job Then I went into a hotel as noon waitress waitress wait waft ress but noon wasn't their big hour and they wanted me at night which I couldn't do Both these efforts efforts efforts ef ef- ef- ef forts distressed Frank and he was glad when both failed I tried to make him tell me where we stood financially but he N Ir n w rua r h bedau to 10 h bt be tired quietly refused my housekeeping money did less and less and he gave rave me less Jess and less But his shamed hamed sorrowful look when I served Inexpensive meats or no meats meau at all went to my heart One night the boys boya and I had bowls of oatmeal with raisins and a shortcake short cake which we wo love and I put one chop on Franks Frank's plate with a baked pot potato a tolie to lie He cut the chop and the potato In n two and divided them between the he boys got ot up and went out and andI I learned afterward that he had no dinner at all but just walked the streets that night Well then I got mad I told him that hat I could manage manale well feed teed the family well get iet through whatever was ahead yes and enjoy it It too but mt that I wasn't going oln to go 10 on onn onto to In n this unbalanced way I wanted us u. all aU to be In on it it and agree and face it together No Steaks I told him bun that if U hed he'd eat his dinner every night before he ho looked at it 11 despairingly hed he'd always be bewell bewell bewell well filled But that U it thick he bet soup and a tomato salad and apple dumplings didn't look good rood to him just because there wasn't a three three- Inch steak teak dripping In among them hed he'd ed have to get another cook I asked him to eat what he liked at noon downtown but to let me see what I could do with meatless meatless meatless meat meat- less suppers for one whole month Well weve we've had shellfish salads and sometimes a chicken salad for supper since but meat has never been the main dish on our table for three years We sleep better better bet bet- ter our bills blUs are negligible and we eat better too Then we moved We moved from the city to an abandoned outlying outlying outlying out out- lying shabby old place that we bought for It had electric light but antedated plumbing and it ft hadn't been painted for about 40 years Labor was high but Franks Frank's a laborer and he worked right along with the men The house is divided into five small apartments now and If I had 10 I could rent them all tonight We have a bank balance the boys flourish in country country country coun coun- try air and best of all Frank is isa isa isa a younger and more confident man manthan manthan manthan than he was even when I 1 married him He has moved his business to some little sheds in our back yard The boys help week ends That Is Marcias Marcia's letter and what Marcia did other women can do doo So dont don't be satisfied with silence evasions even irritable snubs from the man mad man of the house win him somehow to a mood when all aU his anxieties are brought out in into to the open and bring out your own assortment Perhaps something something something some some- thing that you have been doing doing- Shirleys Shirley's dancing lessons Bills Bill's school marks marks have have been fretting him out of all proportion You may be sure that his worry is all for you and the children as yours is for tor him |
