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Show THE LEHI SUN, LEIII. UTAII Kathleen Norris Says: fiat's Wrong Willi Daughters, Ash Dad Bell SyndlcaU.-WNU Features. I ' f -Fran, one tfte twins, u worried t baby boy, couldn t stand rhu m minute By KATHLEEN NORRIS HERE is a letter from the father of three girls. It would make me laugh, with its peppery dissatisfaction, if it did not come nearer to making me cry. "What the heck is the matter mat-ter with girls nowadays?" asks Paul McAllister. "My wife and I had three we wanted a boy, of course, but we got three pretty, active girls, who grew up to keep the place in an uproar with their dates and their clothes and their boy . friends. There wasn't a day for five or six years that someone didn't want a dress, or to give a party, or was crying over some invitation that didn't come through or some boy who didn't like her.' "That was bad enough. Then all three married; the little one first and the twins at a double wedding a year later. That set me back about five grand, but no matter the girls were settled. "Settled! My gosh, they don't know the meaning of the word. Fran, one of the twins, was married mar-ried two years when she came home with a baby boy, couldn't stand Phil a minute longer. Eight months later Barbara landed back on us; she has no child. We thought he would marry again, but that was five years ago, and she hasn't "Now, six years married, with two little girls, Eleanor is home. Well, there's some excuse there. Her husband is lazy, doesn't make any money, says he is tubercular and wants to live out on the desert Discordant Household. "Fran gets a hundred a month alimony and gives her mother 30. Barbara gets 300 and says she'll go on this way forever, partly to spite Ross. Here we all are, mother, father, three daughters, three small children, and a good deal of refined arguing and criticizing goes on we're too big a family, that's the truth. The girls cry over their marital mari-tal troubles, blame each other, make up surely this isn't the way people ought to live, one old man and a lot of detached women who don't have homes or husbands 1 Eleanor has no ' money to spend, and talks of a job. Barbara is pretty pret-ty well pleased with her settlement settle-ment and her freedom from responsibility, respon-sibility, and the contrast makes it hard for the other girls. It's the darndest situation I ever saw. They Wp, of course, and we all love the but it means that my wife, getting on in years now, is running family boarding-house. Aren't marriages supposed to ck any longer? Barbara hasn't 8ot a thing against Ross; Eleanor ffi'ght have gone out with her sick husband to Arizona and stayed with to the end; Fran says now , pM who has married again one of the finest men she ever ew- I've known folks who weren't married who stuck to each other a better than this. Rents and housing shortages in town make it impossible for y f them to find inexpensive Partments anywhere. Our house is roomy and comfortable, and Bar-tll Bar-tll tts of fofldini on a big room rseii when it is possible. But nOllSP aiHL ti hous e with three young wives in no young husbands seems to and 2. 24 and 22. This could go on for a Ions timA T'm n At cur lo " fi claim, to t Uomulgr . . too year, sa, came home with lenger." PARENTS FAILED TOO A perplexed father, whose three daughters have all obtained ob-tained divorces and returned home, asks Miss Norris what has happened to the "old-fashioned' "old-fashioned' attitude toward marriage. He says the girls are all young under 25, and that they had no real grounds for divorce. They simply came up against some difficulties and disillusionments, normal enough, even in the happiest unions, and they quickly determined de-termined to get out of situation situ-ation that wasn't entirely satisfactory. satis-factory. Now they are in their father's house, with their babies. ba-bies. While it is a big house, there isn't room for four families. fami-lies. Bickering and criticising is unavoidable. He goes on to explain each girts situation and the history of her marriage. Then he tells Miss Norris that he isn't exactly ex-actly asking for advice, but he wants sympathy. If modern mod-ern girls had a little more endurance en-durance and courage, he says, they could stick it out, and make successes of their marriages. mar-riages. The fault, replies Miss Norris, Nor-ris, lies as much with himself and his wife as with the girls. If these daughters had been impressed all along with the seriousness of marriage, its trials and difficulties, they would have been better prepared pre-pared for the great step that they took, perhaps too young. that I want your advice," this letter let-ter ends, "but I want sympathy, lots of it" You have it, Paul. But don't forget for-get that much of the responsibility for this situation rests with you and with your wife. These girls were not brought up to a realization ol the seriousness of marriage, and the danger of the delusion that divorce di-vorce is an escape from its incon veniences. They felt, as young wives, that marriage was like' s school, or a house, or a hat. If you don't like it, change it Don't pul up with the inevitable disappointments disappoint-ments and disillusionments thai are part of even the happiest marriage. mar-riage. Just get out, the way you'o get out of a job that suppressed anc displeased you. Can't Get Out Painlessly. Marriage isn't like that. Its rooti go deep deep into a woman' t life. She cannot tear them up anc throw them aside without injurini many lives, especially her own. Years ago I knew a girl namec Elsie. She married at 18 with th statement that she didn't care foi Herb, but she wanted to be mar ried at 18. At 27 she had been sever years divorced, had grown. older wiser, better. She fell in love, whil on an ocean voyage, with the sor of a distinguished, conventional wealthy Baltimore family. Thej were married and went to his hom where she was cordially wel corned. No one knew of her divorc until one night at a dinner party her first husband appeared, dmnl and truculent The episode wai passed over somehow, but her baby born too soon as a result of agita tion, died. There never has beet another child. Don't blame the girls, Paul Blame the parents who didn't trail them to be strong women and gooc wives. Wants Opera Career Margaret Truman, daughter o the President has decided that sh. wants to make music her profes sion. and for more than six year: mv,,vh chu has been studyini uuruig - . ... quietly she has not sung in public She is almost sure w a tic has and concert career, wargare a voice that needs no Whit House oenmnaniment ana sn " " F- ns to have her career on her owi pla merits. its She intends to sing unae tame of Margaret Wallace, lie the mother's family name. A' I 73 ENLIVENING CHILEAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION . . . Here is shown one of the numerous fights that marked election day in Chile, when the people went to the polls to vote for a new president. Communists Com-munists and Socialists were rivals in the brawls. The tackier here seems to be trying to haul his opponent Into the ditch. Gabriel Gonzales Videla received a majority of votes over bis opponent Edwardo Coke. L lxiv lvllr?is i if 4 ill WWWWIMir1ly ...... , , , n jj iftf'r y MMttlKiilrMlliiimii ITALIAN ORGAN GRINDER LURES CROWDS . . . Banned from the sidewalks of New York by edict of former Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, now the boss of CNRRA, the hurdy gurdy survives In Italy, and this particular street organ in Palermo, Sicily, was used to attract crowds when the American representative of UNRRA wanted to announce the distribution of relief supplies. I ill i ? . . 9, FARM RELIEF HORSES MENACED . . . These government-owned horses bought by the V. S. department of agriculture for European farm relief, faced possible death because they were unable to be transported trans-ported to their destination as a result of strike-delayed shipping schedules. UNRRA officials say that a death toll of over 10 per cent resulted in shipping yards at Savannah, Ga., doe to pneumonia and lack of nourishment. The horses were from the West and could not stand mud. ri try; QUADRUPLETS BORN TO FRENCH MOTHER . . . Four nurses feed the Quadruplet daughters born to Mrs. Margaret Walza, 3?, of Paris, France. The four little girls, who are thriving in an incubator are Jacqueline, Danielle, Anne-Marie and Nicole. With food and clothing cloth-ing scarce, Mrs. Walza will have a problem to provide for her new fam-i:?. fam-i:?. Mary offers of ration cards and food have been placed at the disposal cf the new quadruplet girls. 1 J ni t y ,y 1 , 1 -n Jinr " t J t v ,4 V s St. IK A. i. .... . - "i 'saw f, ..vmwAm ,4.-. n i mii fs:'f.i,-iil;Su. ""Tfiwu TOMATOES ARE mGHER . . . Louis "Corky" Grimes, 2, Chicago, knows that tomatoes are plenty high In the local stores, but finds that they come even higher in bis neighbor's yard. This giant tomato to-mato plant in the yard of Frank Grimaldi, is XA feet tall, believed to be a record. A -i .:; HEADS V.F.W. . . . Louis E. Starr, Portland, Ore., newly-elected national commander-in-chief of Veterans of Foreign Wars, which held its 1916 convention at Boston. Bos-ton. The convention favored extension ex-tension of draft and universal training. 1 rr? i N Lr fa " 1 fuuin ' a in J i L. hi fr: IF ' (if zf Belaaaed by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE BOB HOPE and Paramount have done it again. In contrast con-trast to some of the much-blurbed much-blurbed pictures that have lured the public into theaters, 'Monsieur Beaucaire is even better than the ads for it. It's as funny as anything Hope has ever done, maybe even funnier. Of course, the story doesn't bear much resemblance to "Beaucaire" as played by Valentino a long time ago, but who'd expect any resemblance, ill BOB nOPE with Hope replacing the erstwhile Great Lover? The cast is excellent; excel-lent; It includes Joan Caulfleld, Patric Knowles, Joseph Schild-kraut, Schild-kraut, Cecil Kellaway, and two actresses who've long been famous on the stage Constance Collier and Mary Nash. 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