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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Kathleen Norris Says: Who Suffer in Divorces Its the Children Feature. Syndicate.' Bell Denis coaxing. COMMUNISTS DANGEROUS . . . FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover told committee the house an that the Communist party in this country seeks to overthrow our form of government by bloody revolution. He is shown before committee. ... UNCOVERED IN MYSTERY HOUSE In the rubbish in the brown-ston- e Fifth avenue mansion of Langley and Homer Collyer, recluse brothers who have lived lifce hermits for almost 40 years, was this poster of more than two decades ago, urging the election of Alfred E. Smith as governor of New York. Police were digging through the d mystery house in search for Langley Collyer. junk-packe- CHERRY BLOSSOM QUEEN . . . Nancy Anderson, lovely daughter of the secretary of agriculture and Mrs. Clinton P. Anderson, who will reign as queen in the 1947 Cherry Blossom festival in the national capital. BABE RUTH DAY . . . Young Danny Grieve, left, and Shelley Davis, to their hero, Babe Ruth, after a visit to his New York say good-b- y apartment. The King of Swat, recuperating from a serious operation, accepted the invitation of the boys to attend Babe Ruth Day ceremonies set by baseball commissioner, Happy Chandler for April 27. The ceremonies will take place simultaneously in all baseball parks throughout the United States. SIXTY DOLLARS AT SIXTY . . . Rep. Gerald Landis (Rep., Ind.), is shown with 25,000 reprint copies of his bill which provides $60 a month to all citizens 60 years of age or over under income taxing status. He is ranking member of house labor committee. WNV bad hysterics, left the table, and refused to return even at Bettys By KATHLEEN NORRIS UNHAPPY DAUGHTER was always a deep devotion between X my first husband and our daughter, writes Marian Lent, from Chicago. When Armand and I were divorced, Denise felt it bitterly, although she was only 8. I immediately married again, and she disliked her alstepfather, although he was two had Bruce to kind her. ways daughters at that time, 13 and 17. The elder has since married, but the younger, Betsy, and my own daughter, are continually quarreling. The family has in-of creased since by the arrival another girl and now a baby boy, and we could be ideally happy but for Denise, whose wretched disposition, jealousy and resentment spoil everything. Betsy, now 18, is a charming girl, pretty, musical and full of fun. Denise is too tall, too heavy and at the ' clumsy, shy, difficult stage of adolescence. Betsy is like another mother to the younger children; Denise resents being asked to do the slightest thing for them. When parents are divorced, the children are divided in loyalty, bewildered, embarrassed, A sensitive girl, like Denise in todays story, suffers a great deal, particularly during the trying years of rrHERE I Armand, my first husband, has married again and has two boys. Denise wants very much to live with her father, but for several reasons that would not be practicable. His second wife is a flighty and hysterical woman who had had two previous unsuccessful marriage experiences before she married Armand, and if Denise cannot be happy here with me, the chances of her being happy there are certainly slim. If we could afford it we would send her to a boarding school, bub beside the expense there is the consideration that we need her here to help out with the housework and baby care. Denise Moody, Difficult. My husband has been all patience and kindness up to now, but now he is beginning to suffer from Denises moods, as we all do. Last night he spoke to her sharply at the dinner table; it had been a cold, long dragging winter day for everyone, the house for some reason was chilly, dinner wasnt quite a success and all these things contributed to shorten tempers and cloud the atmosphere. Anyway, Denise had hysterics, left the table and refused to return even at Betsys coaxing. Moscow, told the house an activities committee that the Communist party in the U. S. is an agency of Russia working for an ultimate assault by the Soviet government. Denis is 13 and lives with her mother, who has remarried. The girl quarrels with her stepsister, Betty, who is 18. Two younger children, a brother and sister, complicate things further. Denise does not want to help with the g work or the and is moody, resentful, jealous and unhappy. Because her father is married again, this time to a "flighty, hysterical woman," there is little likelihood that Denise would be any better off with him and her stepmother. Denise is getting to be a serious problem. Her stepfather is beginning to lose patience with her. Miss Norris suggests a way out, however, that should be satisfactory to everybody. Miss Norris advises that Denise be allowed to board at the home of some schoolmate. Here she would have companionship and would e free from the constant frictions that are now besetting her. She would have a chance to develop her own personality unfettered. baby-tendin- 1 father rave over the baby daughter and son; meanwhile poor Denise forgets things, breaks things, falls over things, blots things, burns things and of course feeds hate and resentment all the time. Let Her Visit Father. Possibly a visit to her fathers home might help her see this situation in a saner light, but that is unlikely. She and her stepmother would not be friends, and domestic slavery for the two there would repeat the miserable situation of your own nursery. If she became desperately unhappy under her fathers roof, and felt that she could not return to yours, it is not improbable that she would take her own life, causing you a lifelong rehalf-brothe- rs I myself am a writer, the letter morse, no matter how justified you and I realize you know concludes, some of my books. But my imagination refuses to cope with a situation in which a mother and daughter are completely out of sympathy. This child is only 13; she cannot leave home, and apparently she cannot be happy in her home. I reason with her, I ask her to make it a matter of prayer, and she looks at me with a long, bored yawn and says patiently, Oh, please, Mother. Will you pretend that this is one of your stories, and .bring it to your usual happy ending? My dear Marian, I dont think this is a matter for imagination to solve; it is a question of supreme diplomacy on your part and character on that of Denise. Denise is suffering from jealousy; first of the man who took her loved fathers place, second of the charming and third of the babies who replaced her in your affections. All these feelings, infinitely ramified, are making life intolerable to her, and being 13, she cant see any way out for what seem to her ages and ages. Quite naturalstep-siste- rs AMERICAN KIDS IN GERMANY . . . Children of American army personnel are looking at the ruins of the German Reichstag, which might now serve as the tombstone for the Nazi hopes of world domination. It was the burning of the Reichstag (now known to have been an inside job a party job) that gave Hitler the excuse to grab power. ATlied bombs wrought the real destruction of the building. adolescence. ly you admire the pretty musical Betsy, quite naturally you and their feel now in the course you have followed. So I suggest that you look over the list of her school associates and find one whose mother could take her in as a boarder for a while. This means that you would pick a humble home, with housework to do. But Denise would be on her own, and if I know anything of these shy awkward, youngsters she would blossom forth in colors that would amaze you. With a constant companion of her own age, with no painful contrasts between her and an older girl, with no burning jealousies to poison everything she says and does, Denise will develop far more normally and happily than she can in your care. The charge for this sort of young boarder is light; perhaps as low as $7 or $8 a week. It will be worth it to you to make this experiment; she and her housemate will cro their homework together, chatter of school affairs, bake cookies, go to Saturday movies and live their own satisfied lives. I have known several cases where this plan worked a real miracle, and I heartily recommend it to you. |
