Show 8 Kathleen Norris Says s. s That Too Late Feeling t Bell Den Syndicate Features Z I I f I I M 4 I i I Ir 4 r 44 rt Older persons try to advise hot headed youth it is the tIIe tragedy of all the I A Ib that hot headed youth never net will listen WY rBy KATHLEEN NORRIS SiT F A GIRL could only see I things now as shell she'll surely surely surely surely-surely surely e them a few years from row w wails Rosamond's 1 Other The man admits to Rosamond is almost 18 i jie h e e says she will be married her birthday He has been I- I before he has sons 1 der than she is he must defend de de- de- de fend end on her small fortune for has none of his own and no 3 J Ili D and yet she is completely with him and noth- noth g her hr grandmother and I Isay Isay 1 say is of any use u Well ell poor Rosamond must be ft to her fate if she feels like i at and allowed to ruin her life lie inS in iE S sr own way We parents cant can't 1 iv ive v our children from their follies love and advice and example ve e no effect then sometimes theys they s ve to be allowed to go over the and swim to shore after- after i fard ard rd as best they may i jt But Id I'd like to know more of Rosand's Rosa Rosa- r tg nd's ends background and satisfy m my r j that something was lack- lack gig rg in her training that she can be bej lJ j utterly beyond influence and it Control n rol now Where did her mother J ln hl her Somewhere you may be ry sure As for seeing things in youth as see them a few years later later later- h DW w different this world would be if ife Po e could How many miserable oung mistakes would be avoided pw w w much we could save ourselves 1 I persons try to advise hot- hot Beaded youth it is the tragedy of generations in turn that hot- hot Beaded youth never will listen M Now Wants Baby Back j Marie Louise a college girl in P liE town went on certain free-and- free sy parties house a few years ago agod rfd id d did what all the others did words she entered into a ve affair with a man she hard hard- m knew and didn't care about par- par The result was a heart- heart family in Minnesota to toh h ich h she returned in disgrace and small baby's concealed arrival pd id h hasty sty disposition for adoption d S i ie e girl married discovered that it Itce tp could not have more children 1 d a went to the town where her S Ud lived She saw a small fairy fairy- i r 1 little girl with a wistful search- search ag ag g little face The neighbors said her parents foster weren't too nd d to her And Arid the mother was g She came back home as asS ast t S i c e had come In the beginning to me for having advised Adoption And yet adoption in inIn jn hese icse se cases certainly gives a n baby t better etter chance than to be raised In A an unmarried mother and J with the still inescapable J igIna of Illegitimacy This was sias the girl who told me meat at irregular sex relations in her herl l ool days didn't concern anyone ut herself I en there Is Betty another I young mother who had a ally 14 lly quarrel with her brother when y were young Just a few hot about the girl be he loved and z Jt illy married and there was r barrier barrier between them forever ride rde on neither side would break wn and Jm cant can't break breal down even r r w when they need each other tA For Jim has been widowed and w two small girls to raise and andr r etty lost her husband in the war lS Td id d is hungry for maternal cares st a n phrase of apology and regret oud 1 have ended this 10 years 1 go brother and sister dont don't know other now floW J But Marie Louise and Betty 2 er I She returned in disgrace RASH WILLFUL ACTS Few people like to take ad ad- vice This is particularly true of the young and headstrong A girl who thinks she knows bett better r than anyone else cannot cannot cannot can can- not be reasoned with sometimes some some- times there is nothing to do but to stand aside and let her hergo hergo hergo go through with her foolish plans Miss Norris tells of 0 an 18 year old old ear girl who is determined determined determined deter deter- mined to marry a man 47 years old with two tivo 1 own sons II He lie e has no job nor any income income It is hard to see why she size is so infatuated with this middle-aged middle man but so she sIze is Nothing her mother or grandmother can say has bias any influence on her bier It is obvious to everyone that Rosamond is in for a heartbreaking ence Many other foolish willful people are suffering needlessly needless needless- ly continues Miss Norris because because be be- cause of stubborn pride For instance a woman quarreled with her brother years jears ago She is now a widow and her brother a widower He lle has two small children This brother trot and sister would like to help each other but pride stands in the way teay Quarrels over wills divide many ninny famE lies The occasions for flare- flare ups are arc numerous and l longstanding longstanding long long- ng- ng standing feuds develop all too often from trivial circum circum- stan stances ces On the ic other hand concludes concludes con con- Miss Norris everyone everone has frequent opportunities to tomake tomake make mahe amends for the harmful acts of life by little deeds of kindness and though thoughtfulness arent aren't the only ones Which one of ofus ofus ofus us doesn't look back at some foolishness foolishness fool fool- some indiscretion some mistake of youth with bitter regret Just to have been ordinarily polite to mother as she worried and plead plead- ed Just to have gone back that evening eve eve- ning and surprised dad by spendIng spending spend spend- ing an hour beside his sick-bed sick reading to him Just not to have written that angry letter Just not notto notto notto to have cultivated that dangerous friendship against everyone's ad vice Just to have forgiven and forgotten forgotten forgotten for for- gotten the unintentional slight or orthe orthe orthe the accidentally overheard crit crit- To have made less of the tangible thing Grandmas Grandma's opal pin breast or Aunt Lizzie's Canton set set and and more of the spirit of giving giving ing and sharing It is a strange heart indeed that does not remember scores of these omissions and stupidities some of them seemingly slight some of them affecting our whole lives But what we must also remember ber in hours of compunction and remorse is that all about us are arc other opportunities for kindness and thoughtfulness chances to save ourselves ourselves our our- selves fresh reason for regret in inthe inthe inthe the years to come Sometimes I Ifancy Ifancy Ifancy fancy that generosity today actually actual actual- ly wipes out those old mistakes and that to have learned the lesson is ismore ismore ismore more important than the painful way in which we had to learn it To say I was wrong and that that Is past I start from here to go right is to have mastered a n very important important important tant mystical secret There is no blunder stupidity sin of youth that may not be wiped out and forgotten forgot forgot- ten and if we will have it so may not be turned from loss into gain |