Show salt lake- tribune Hie 10 - Sunday morning December ' HEART TO HEART TALKSWorried Woman Seeks Husband For Her Daughter an Invalid-Lawye- I 5 1937 By Kathleen Norris - T BELIEVE IT OR NOT By Robert L Ripley r Scores Alimony Racket Dear Mrs Norris What would you lay of the case of a girl of 25 gifted intelligent who never Jjad '"‘“"I i beau and 1 whose life ap- ' Iparently is t0 J go on end without real loving and living? She was the victim beautiful three years of a strange accident While with a party of ago friends whom she was a lcad-and favorite she was riding on a railroad young imong er Kathleen Norris a handca”orT curve when It got out of control Two of the party were killed and the handle struck my Marjorie In the spine As a result school work friends good times ended She can walk but only a abruptly few feet at a time she spends her life on a coucn in a sunny bay window She has books her violin study and the kindly visits of the few who do not But sweethearts no I forget her am English born widowed and have lived for this adored only child For months after her accident I moved heaven and earth for a cure and when after exhausting and expensive trials It was declared impossible both she and I sank Into a state of despair from “which we have only partially emerged nqw she is as sound as "Organically ever There is no reason why she should not be a happy wife and mother She tries and I try to maintain a cheerful attitude toward her s plight but It is hard to have as call upon her chatter of their tennis their hiking trips their dancing and to have my beautiful girl such-friend- ought to thank God that she was not killed Marjorie ought to feel that fhe can construct a full and satisfying life for hcrself In her books music home the comfort of her mother’s care and love She ought to begin to give to less fortunate lives Many a woman lives happily without marriage and marriage and motherhood even If possible might well be fraught with great anxiety for Marjorie If her mother can draw a ' few friends about her encourage her to divide her day Into hours for study for violin practice for letter writing for reading for solitaire she will do more to help her thaij any outsider could And to ask an occasional man in for a meal and help Marjorie find a new set offnenda whose Interests -rare other than dancing hiking and sports will be to solve the problem It won’t be what they both expected and planned But life never Is and our only hope Is to adapt ourselves to changed circumstances and wring from them their inevitable satisfaction The Alimony Racket Today’s second letter Is from a nan a Montreal lawyer Ho was married to the wrong woman"fir four years she was extravagant cold shallow undomestic in every way and finally Indulged in so many light love affairs yet without involving herself In any actionable manner that he consented to a divorce Her alimony U about $250 a 'month Now he "has married again and has three small children His expenses are heavy arid that three thousand a year is a great drain "Is it fair or civilized that I should go otf paying to the end of my life for four unhappy years In which my partner never lived up to any of her promises or obligations” he asks ‘“Ida is a healthy woman of 32 intelligent and popular She goes about has endless affairs apeverywhere pears perfectly content At the time of our divorce I was so unhappy that I would have consented to almost any arrangement but I supposed of But course she would marry again when my sister who still sees her occasionally asked her why she did not marry she answered with a gleeful laugh - “Why aa utelder to all this Like all nor- girls MarJ rle dreams of a home husband and children But there seems small chance of her finding them under these circumstances "Do you know of any fine young man or young men who would like to correspond with her? I would make Should I?’ It a condition that they have good “We live comfortably enough If very records of c se come from known My wlfe has am elderly wo- nase pf ft "‘‘‘man in as -- As'b® general servant But I am friendship developing into love to to obliged deny her and the babies support her She can never assume little pleasures that otherwise many entire household responsibility would I could affflrd just so that I may always have to have a good servant continue to support a woman who Please assist me In helping the person has repeatedly asserted that she never I love most in the world Indeed my cared for me Is this civilization or all the center of my world Both justice? Is it the same in your counMarjorie and I will be eternally gratetry? Do you know any solution? ful” My sister In Bridgeport sends me This letter is signed "Marjorie’s your articles I will be deeply grateMother” She has evidently been some"DAVID” ful for your opinion what demoralized by the tragic acciDavid: Dear Many years ago My dent to her daughter and has lost her the opinion thaf intelI expressed bearings or so cultured and Intelligent ligent men could easily establish a a mother could hardly forget that the alimony law by which diminishing world Is full of girls wrho are handia woman who was still young and In one capped way or another and healthy would be paid something like that even the most devoted parents five hundred a month for one year cann-oorder their lives for them arthree hundred for another year and range happy marriages atone to them one hundred for the following three for the Injustices of life yeast And then no more Matrimony Can Wait Conditions Worse In V S To encourage Marjorie to correspond foil are a lawyer you could at with unknown men "object matrileast set such a movement in motion mony" would be to bring a very unYou ask me if conditions are the satisfactory — not to say dangerous — same in my country Indeed they element into her life Marjorie ought I know of two Reno are and worse to forget matrimony for a while It marriages both second marriages may be many years before the right In which before taking their vows man understanding gentle sufficiently tha brides stipulated exactly what pro“ prosperous to care for her sufficiently' vision must be made should there unselfish to meet the requirements of be another failure I know three men o unusual a marriage comes along: — who are paying three women apiece Meanwhile Marjorie and her mother — nine women! — large alimony In one case that of a New York newspaper man payment has been going The on for more than 30 years woman lives in France has had various lovers now is supporting a m&l RINGTheANGELUSofTHEJR OWN ACCORD w MORNINGNOON andNIGHT The SPEAKING STONES ISTHATOFA SONOROUS Som good pipot bring you ltd Dvko of Dundoo you both Horo it tho now In I tdontifc combination ‘TT’ no ghros f $ V” W r"1 ir - ? 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IUAI All D— Cigar rotoilfr'i m (0 r T you ALL” The PET SOUTHERN PHRASE £ ‘ ROMAN EMPEROR WAS OFTEN USED 'lit BY THE ANCIENTS “VOS OMNES" f BOOK PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK -- 11 32 DRANK 10 INC Cigrtt UOOKmt anl N V JO ' Philosopher and Physician 15911655 BORN in GREECE of WINE RED SHEEP A DAY live in the ’small mtH’-townwhef ” -- STUDIED MEDICINE itHTALf-u- m STUDIED THEOLOGY IN TURKEWMJVLiV QwneA by A KABBI 30HN MCKINNEY Fairbanks lad IN HOLlANP AND GERMANY HIS BOOKS in EGYPT MEDICINE nRQUMm-WAAND DED IN S BOHEMIA a EXPLANATION FOR TODAY’S CARTOON The Rock Bells —Eten Is a town in the province of Chiclayo Peru It Is famous for the Rock Bells near by which are called “Bells of the Miracle” by the natives Tho rocks measuring about 12 feet by 3 feet are precariously balanced and emit a metallic sound when the wind strikes them The is Intensified morning noon ana night and resembles a sonorous church bell The natives then associate these sounds with the Angelus A The Tallest Roman Emperor — Maximinus 1 was born of humble parentage In nSr1 He was a shepherd when he attracted the attention of Septimius Severus by his extraordinary height and strength He joined the Roman army where he was gradually promoted to a position from which the Legions raised him He ruled from 235 to 233 to Emperor of Rome He was the tallest of all Roman ri’I"rs measuring 8 feet 2 inches in height His feats of strength are incredible He could wrestle 20 of the huskiest Roman soldiers in succession and throw them all Ho could break tho leg of the strongest horsa with a single kick His thumb had the circumference of a normal wrist His anpetite was enormous He ate 40 pounds He was as- of meat daily and drank an amphora of wine (about 10 gallons) — in Copyright 238 1937 for The Tribune she My advice my dear Retta Is for loyalty to them and to him adores her children you to unite your life to' your husband's life as you promised to do for "But until ho became so angry and Once finances ars or better or worse not restless and sleeping wqrrled adjusted bills paid and hts anxietes eating as he should” he writes "Norended he will return to his normal man was a good fattier and a kind I feel myself partly to good nature and content husband Lay down ut y natural--lnever to the law is that dad for the 18 situation her fiTan firmly junior-bblams'jior chaining ytars be criticised and that unless the the chlldrepy love me 'and I 'am has steadily refused the marthree children accept liome life on his the one to arrange that they shall riage that would stop that eight terms with sweetness and cooperation have the pleasures clothes' oufings thousand a year The alimony racket they may expect to be severely treated they so love Their fathbr 14 always is a definite livelihood for thousands In a very few years the children the crtic and disciplinarian of women And until men do somebe grown and gone Their ideas I went “I out to i (Milllown will flourish like a about it it thing of money economy gratitude human give up much that 'MalJaJife plea'sgreen bay tree values are all being twisted now by ant here such as teicflfcqua refrig- And a third lettcrfrom Retta who th fact that you are trying to give erator electrio appllindqs ftadio-ion- ' has three children boys of 14 and more luxures than you can Tiie factory houses' are comfortable 10 and £ girl of 17 Her perplexity tk coin'd v'' “ford “This is n6t just to them or to btit ugly “hhff’bkr arises from the fact that their housesave money as expenses you Bring them down to earth with hold expenses are too high and yet jidwever 'ft good healthy bump ""They’ll be In- wMld'be cut-iWlfi7 '' because of srhoois-neighborhood —- - gry and dissatisfied but I —Husband Needs Cooperation — gather that friendsxonvenicu(:e8—she- fede-s- he despite all you can do they are disought to carry on the city apartmmt satisfied now They’re only children for a few more years The children UL laftef nd you’ve let them get the' constantly qurrrcUwith the father and-hthat sne ceuld finish per high school whip hand For all your sakes walk has now threatened to go out to term Tho boys 'would have to ’go' over their whining and roughshod he works and expects his wife to- accompany him Ste is torn between DELflEDIGO GALLONS to K4 ssswssfe e At oil good dtaftn or nomo and oddrou tot life Texas -- & V WITH NATURAL EYES AND LEGS e- t sound produced by these miraculou: 'fe"thMnR6Miscbt)l! that they dislike as all their friends are her Will you AdvisV me?” ' ydAMtitifr'Jind'iiylltii fftrfAi tht‘ characters while yet there is time Copyright 1937 for The Tribune V |