Show I KA KATHLEEN NORRIS One Phrase Can Transform Life u T Y DONT DON'T SEE HOW anyone can cansay say Happy New Year this year writes an irate woman from Brooklyn I suppose you will give us all your usual advice about being good and we will be happy continues Mattie Mattle Fields Its easy to advise about problems you never have had to face your your- self selL We women who lead dull and monotonous lives are all to become become be be- come good managers be grateful for 3 dresses and cheap entertainment entertainment enter enter- love everyone and say our prayers and everything will come out right Jim is 47 41 and I am 38 38 the letter goes on He Ile works in a aleather aleather aleather leather plant and I keep house In five rooms with three outside win dows lows Our daughter Beverley 17 11 lives with two girl pals and works in a dress shop in New York Myson My Myson Myson son 14 has bas an bedroom when Beverley is at home she sleeps Inthe in inthe inthe the sitting room My husband served as a veterinarian vet during the war my mother was with us then and I had a Job and made good money We invested this unfortunately and pur circumstances were not improved when the war ended I am not complaining the letter let ter finishes But when anyone who happens to be successful and andrich andrich andrich rich tells me that all aU of us could I go and do likewise and attain beauty and security in our lives the only thing it does to me is make me hopping bopping mad The Kingdom of 01 leaven Heaven My dear Mattie I say in answer I dont don't blame you Advice is almost al ale most always unpalatable and the adviser always sounds smug But when I tell you or any anyone one of theother the theother theother other thousands of women who r make It m me ho bopping in mad mild write to me every year that the kingdom of heaven Is within you I am quoting the wisest voice ever beard heard in this world In this little phrase lies the secret secret se se- se cret that can transform all our lives and what better time line than a anew anew anew new year to study It it and try to discover its mystical meaning The truth hidden in those few few words could bring brine content to the most feverishly wretched fabulously tabu rich multi divorced heiress in the world and It actually does account for the laughter and the courage and the the confidence one finds find sometimes in the very darkest dark dark- est eat and poorest corn corners era of 01 our OUI whole social odal structure Nobody likes likel poverty poverty as as pone pavel u Lj i But Out the word has baa very different values value in 10 America and in well well I say ay the westernmost reaches of China And If U what we call caU poverty pov poverty erty demands anxious care enforced enforced en en- forced simplicity sacrifice it also aiso supplies opportunities for sharing haring for service and for tor family love that wealthy person persons almost Inevitably ably miss Express Lo Love Lov and Interest You dont don't have to change yo your r rUfo life Ufo in this new year of ot 1950 Mat Hat tie You only have bave to change your yourself seU self to the point ot of expressing love bye and content an end and interest in tn everything everything every every- tl thing n you do beautifying and enriching en ene life W. in that Brooklyn flat at and the change will come of themselves themselves them selves Beverley Deverly will begin to look took forward to end end visits visit to berold her ber herold herold old home shell she'll feel tet the tho change the tho Increased Interest between lath fath er mother and son the new talk at table the new tone of affection And eventually 1950 will seem to you a year of opened doors enlarged enlarged en en- vistas multiplied interests The world is in a very discouraging discouraging aging state Every tiny Uny unit like your home and mine that lifts itself it itself It it- self even into the smallest services to the commonwealth at large that solves its own problems plans for the greater and wiser America of is h helping solve the worlds world's great problems Never was was there a new year that gave us all so much about which to think to plan and to do There is no man or woman in all America who could not make a constructive resolution for all aU the days of at 1950 One man I know could make his wife happy and win back his bis two baby sons Another woman woman and and her name is legion would legion would save her marriage if she would sit down and seriously discuss their financial situation with her husband and abide by any plan that kept them solvent Parents might make a resolution to take their growing children Into a family partnership Daughters might resolve upon a. a respectful considerate attitude toward home rules made only for tor their own pro Married men might reconsider the office danger presented present d by the new red-headed red stenographer |