| Show kathleen kathlee n norris says married love affairs conte come high ucal syndicate service Servi ceJ A la 14 Z io 6 N aa I 1 bia V I 1 T remember he ha used to call you my little duchess Duch esa and moon wound around places chero you were wera dining with dill bill by KATHLEEN NORRIS F MARRIED men with IF good if unexciting wives could get it through their heads that the fascinating sweethearts they want so much to marry after a divorce are just the some as other women and will make wives no better and no worse how simplified simpli fled and stabilized marriage would bet bel and if attractive young women mildly bored with seven or eight years of wife hood could possibly foresee the complications into which tempting illicit affairs on the side would draw them one of americas most serious social problems would bo be lessened but a husband will continue to that the lovely eager sympathetic girl in the tha office has no faults and his wife will go on dreaming of the perfect lover like that man she met at jarkes janes so polita mollte so handsome so bo attentive and so th tha mischief goes on breeding incalculable heart breads brea ka disillusionments tor for all con tim lern ed fid same situation over again when mildred divorces dlvore ca bill and marries george things usually go wonderfully tor for a few years per chapm three but then it any woman friend is mean enough to remind her of ft some of her sentiments at the tha time lime of the divorce she meets a cold stare from mildreds eyes mildred mald red remember things exi exactly acely that way TU never forget how you and george adored each otherl babbles the friend alend do you reme remember raber you two used to meet at chez louis and simply store stare at each other for hours remember he used to call you ou amy my little duchess and moon around places whore where you were dining with bill noe na mildred remember that thal she admits that blu bill was such a brute she had to divorce him or go mad and that george had been crazy about her herfor tor years and so she married him further i arther than this she go the subject seems to hold bold no interest tor for her sensible viewpoint no na marriage retains after the first few months or year the trembling glamour of the honeymoon sensible women know it and resist the illusions of the now new affair and sensible men remind themselves ahn that the girl friend all sympathy youth fragrance lure today will turn after a few years of marriage into just another faulty unreasonable selfish and extravagant corn com p canlon anion as was the dis discarded carde wife which bring us to bobbys bobbye Bob bys letter which came to me a few weeks ago this Is part of it it after a few years of marriage when our two girls were seven and five writes bobby my wife and I 1 dratted apart we seemed to have no interest in common and life became a dull and dragging affair for us both I 1 was then traveling for my firm and met a woman I 1 will call hazel she was a most sympathetic and understanding friend and we became lovers hazel giving up her job and maintaining a little as establishment in a town some 20 miles iles from my he home bobbye bobbys Bo libys complicated problem when my wife discovered this sho bho left use me but did not immediately apt app r tor for a divorce A year passed q ani and I 1 was promoted moved to another city and had an opportunity to meet some unusually interesting people one of these a young radio actress is everything I 1 ever dr dreamed earned of finding in a 0 woman of fin fine a family beautifully educated lovely in every way we are deeply in jove I ovel margaret the radio actress ansi tor for the first time me CHARM flits FAILS the third time lime itsie it ia charm runs an told sold saying but it failed to work in the case of this ausband husband arad and lather father taho seemed unable to make up his mind regarding a suitable mate read the observations of miss aliss norris as obtained from his first irs letter plead pleading for a solution then an urgent 11 agen 1 telegram telegram ile he haa had solved his own P problem my problem Is hazel who insists upon my marrying her as soon as my divorce is granted which will be late in june she has changed completely so that my original feeling for her Is wholly destroyed she Is critical bitter threatens a law suit indeed her lawyer has been in touch with me naturally in my notes to her in tho the beginning of our affair I 1 mention marriage and she proposes to take advantage of them she can hurt me very much with my firm and of course with margaret should she pursue this course please advise me as to any obligation I 1 may have in the matter and as to the best way of handling it my advice to bobby might have been that he ha did have an obligation to hazel in the matter or I 1 might have suggested that he marry no one tor for awhile having complicated the lives of three women so thoroughly answers own question but before I 1 had time to answer this letter it was answered by a telegram from bobby which ar rived this morning the telegram reads please disregard and destroy letter hazel and I 1 married last night bobby so this abow now loveless and stale relationship lation ship has ended with a wedding after all but weddings begin something as well abend as end something and it Is a grim sort of contract into which hazel and bobby have entered ile he is paying his first wife alimony and ho he will soon bo be paying a doubled alimony to his second wife a seriously crippling situation financially if margaret decides to join this fascinating gentleman as his third wife she will have to retain her well paid position and contribute substantially to the family budget not real heal marriage Marr lape not real marriage this sort of thing and women in their hearts wont want real marriage they want the richness of that t pd and tested relationship lation ship that tant shares api upi and downs good times and bad I 1 that weathers the long years builds up a thousand memories of breakfast table talks nursery cares kitchen crises scares and relief from scares emergencies changes and long serene periods of happiness and companionship it is a foolish man or woman who jeopardizes all thip for a fleeting passion siz a deceptive time of flattery and delusion that au all experience all history au all good common sense pronounces pronounce 3 to be just one more will o the wisp over and over again the victim of the married love affair emerges a sadder and wiser man or woman the home that once seemed so no dull appears to the divorced wife a very haven of safety and content her heart aches tor for her children whether she has them with her in hi the chaos of wreckage or whether they are staying for awhile with jims mother the discovery that her new mate has human fa faults ailts abruptness and selfishness and lack of understanding is a bitter blow she sha has caused all this trouble on the ground that darling leonard was the perfect man it is rather flat to begin to say of leonard the same bored critical things she said so recently of jim take a look at the couples who threw discretion to the winds and startled their respective circles with the revelation of a grand pis slon a few years ago before you take the leap |
