Show I Kathleen Norris Says A Plan for or Fathers Father's Day DayBell DayI a aBell I Bell Syndicate Features Feature I J Jt Jr r t how t 0 72 Y Yr o 00 r- r r V oa i o 7 Dad Sis Si and really need a little money She's She still paying paring for lor her fur and toe we got our hats hal last week By KATHLEEN NORRIS Y A PLAN for Fathers Father's BY B day I dont don't mean asking asking asking ask ask- ing the Cousin Willys to dinner and having strawberry ice cream for dessert or even having his chair covered as a surprise I mean that every family shall make a plan that immediately immediately immediately im im- im- im mediately concerns fathers father's comfort and security Because Because Because Be Be- cause while my heart is aching aching aching ach ach- ing now for practically everyone everyone everyone every every- one in the world it really does ache especially for fathers Mothers I may say in a hurried hurried hurried hur hur- ried aside are more resourceful resource resource- ful more independent and more able to heal the wounds of change and absence than fathers are Twenty million women in America young wives and old are doing things they never dreamed of doing three years ago Whereas for twenty million fa fathers fathers fathers fa- fa life lie is unchanged except that the office routine is harder there Is an nn empty place at nt the dinner table expenses are higher and everything everything everything ev ev- he once hoped to make certain certain certain tain and sure for his loved ones has been torn up by the roots Most wives dont don't realize HOW HARD LIFE IS FOR FATHER In thousands of households he is taken for granted Of course his place is set at the table and if it theres there's a girl girlIn girlin girlin in the family he isn't expected to help with the dishes but too many times life in the household goes on with almost no reference to him at atalL atall alL He Is there the good man who gets unreasonably cross sometimes and has to be soothed even at the cost of truth who is allowed to read the paper before anyone else at breakfast and who hands out money for everything One Man Alan Bank Meets Appeals Daddy how about my five How about my allowance Toms Tom's shoes dear The plumber Dad The man was here again about the garden hadn't we better tell him to go ahead Dad you said you'd pay its me me its it's Its It's the Community Chest dear the Re Red Cross Crass its it's Betty and the Scouts darling its it's your sisters sister's anniversary its anniversary its it's Saturday and we told them they could go to the movies Id I'd like to make a payment to the dentist we have to have hats Dad Dad plods along year In and year out In these days he travels in packed trains crowds his way into busses Hes He's getting older and hes he's getting nowhere fast fasL Sis is making money at the rationing board Mother Mothen Moth Moth- er en chatters of her nursing course- course good all good But he pad fad dreams long ago of retiring some day of having a little farm and maybe a afew afew afew few chickens and a pup too pup too bad to togo togo togo go on paying rent all this time Some fellers tellers own their homes and have an apartment or two to rent besides Baker and Miller have about the same pay as Dad but their wives have everything all clean cleaned cd up no bills war bonds salted down in the I bank bank Nell well a man must sleep better better bet bet- iter ter when his family stands back of him like that The boy will come corne comeback comeback back from Italy of course and they'll I all pull out of this mess but sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- someI I times he thinks that tha t It if young Bill t r Make him comfortable I MAKE IT HIS DAY During these war days Father Father Father Fa Fa- ther is the forgotten man even more than usual He lle has hasto hasto to meet higher expenses with the same salary he must buy war bonds bom and contribute to the Red Cross and all that Now that his son Is gone Into service he feels lonely and depressed for he knows the hardships o of f military life and its dangers The son who was ivas his pride and hope is gone gon at least for the time being and Father cant can't say anything Mothers get the sympathy but Fathers are supposed to be strong and silent So on this Fathers Father's day Miss Miu Norris suggests the f family family fam fam- amily am- am ily that is mother and the girls let girls let up on their constant pleas and hints for money and let Dad have a little peace o of f mind The day should be given over to making Father comfortable getting comfortable getting his pipe and slippers preparing his favorite favorite favorite fa fa- fa- fa dishes and letting him have the car These attentions will ivill please him trim a lot more than titan a party part or an expensive present doesn't come back and anything happens to him to Dad himself it'll be hard going for Hatty and the girls However whenever he says a word to Hatty about trying to catch catchup up she and the girls simply go crazy Does Docs he mean the few servicemen they have in now and then for dinner and Bettys Betty's new suit and buying a second hand car Good gracious isn't it enough to toha ha have ve Bill overseas and not helping out with expenses any more and food and everything else just about doubled in price and Mother and Sis so tired every night that if ft they can get Mrs Moore to come in and clean up goodness knows that they ought to feel free to do it What do a few bills matter when any day they may have the news of something something some some- thing happening to Bill and half halt the families they know are in mourning I Time for Economy Dad knows they are all wrong that this is the time to shorten sail and get every household in the union into shape for the coming changes and crises but he cant can't argue three women down so he retires to his radio and his newspaper and hears the murmurs from the women in the dining room the matter with him lately lately lately late- late ly his daughters ask cautiously as they press frills or pin up curls Hes uHe's so cross Mother Iother you ask him l if we cant can't go to the tile lake with the gang for the week weekend Tell him its it's really to amuse the boys from camp About five dollars each ench isn't it ft Sis So Betty comes in and asks him if ft hes he's tired arranging her pretty curls in the mirror while she talks and finally dares break into it boldly Dad Dad Sis and I really need a little money She's still paying for or her fur and we got our hats last week but this weekend week |