Show KA KATHLEEN N NORRIS ORRIS fit yourself to your own life ESTERDAY I 1 went to see a Y YESTERDAY friend in a state hospital for the insane she has been there four tour years when she first was committed on her psychiatrists advice her fam ilys heart almost broke mother father sister husband all felt the fearful shock of having this happen to marjorie Mar lorie lorle but now they are all somewhat resigned and what Is sadder mar war lorie jorie is too she drifts in the dim half life of the enormous I 1 institution she talks trivialities she never asks for her boy and girl adi afi any more the twisted life about her is all mil that interests her her weaving her fitting of blocks into holes in a board her meals walking away from this place of shadows I 1 felt very sad for I 1 have known marjorie mar War jorie since she was a pretty eager normal al I 1 knew her in her happy early wifehood and proud motherhood when mark went away to war I 1 saw with just what gallantry she bore herself hers elt elf and I 1 saw the dullness and the problems of the postwar half peace engulf her money would nave lve helped nothing has ever been the matter with marjorie that money could not have cured no psychologist ever told her that or anything like it but it is true it if at any time during the past few years mark had had a raise bills could have been paid luxuries and trips anticipated friends inspired with el envy vy of the new house car fur coat marjories Mar jorles vapors would have blown away like mist hers was the common trouble of trying to live like everyone else but DO no woman womans s problem is like those of her neighbors the tha only i arm IN drifts drilli in libe tin dim sail half lite lift successful woman woma 0 today is the one who takes lakes akes her job JOG as a thing apart and tits its herself fo to it and it to her resource resources if money is short she waste it it if living in the city forces too swift a pace upon her she moves to the country by what she has and what whai she must do she works it out and she plays her part with all the il relish elish of 0 a favorite hollywood star marjorie never solved her domes tic problem it rode h her er night and 0 day high prices dentist bills blui flowers tor for somebody a dress she had to have h ave or she simply go to the dinner annes private school a waitress in for or the corn pany rany dinner ther there e was simply no nd end to it and all the time this disturbing ta talk taik lk of another war und and ind miller being put over mark in the office and people trying to get her h er to buy tickets and patronize sales and contribute to this and that too much bluch gor for or he eler rier r it was simply too much for her she began to have hysterical outbursts and say the children and she and mark would be better bett er apart she listen to anyone and ga gave ve up sleeping almost entirely someone suggested psychiatry and marjorie leaped at it for awhile although it accomplish anything it seem to hurt hurl her then the cost of it became a worry added to all the others and the psychiatrist suggested an institution where the charges were low a month but all trial treatments ments incle included de se 10 mont id an and less than sawas paying bime hire really upset and frightened now and with good reason marjorie went into custody and she will never come out and walking home free and at peace in the spring dusk my heart ached for her and for the hundreds of other women who work themselves into nervous and emotional disorders and cant work themselves out there was nothing the matter with marjorie that she youw coula could not herself have cured simpler mals a earlier riler hours no alcohol new interests te rests 3 daily walks and above all as complete a forgetfulness of self as she could have managed all would have helped honest facing of the budget and eliminating the hundred petty ex trava gances that mount up so maddeningly would have struck at the very roots of it A decision to move away perhaps rent the present house find smaller quarters in a more modest neighborhood would have challenged quite unsuspected capabilities in her she would presently have come to realize that any life that Is full and useful is as good as any other the presidents job the film stars job is no more exciting excil ing than yours if you do yours right in fact facts from what I 1 know of the lives of the sensationally successful and wealthy your chances of happiness are better than th theirs thelris elris eiris so try home cures for the beginnings of nervous trouble as you would for the everyday physical disorders of measles or colds lots of us are tired these days lots of us are scared lots of our old securities securities as a nation appear to be somewhat shaky and almost none 0 of f us have enough money but even on this basis of apprehension and discomfort some of us manage to have a good time |