Show IFf Kathleen Nl Norris Horns Says The Wife Who o Is s Left Behind a Bell Syndicate Features z E t cIz cI- cI z I r rS S r 1 tg i Jr b 1 1 t l 1 Ij k Above all keep in mind the word lovely That it is your key word 5 B By KATHLEEN NORRIS TORRIS 4 s Y HUSBAND has left M left me behind behind oh oh he is generous he is iso o 0 d and loyal writes May R Wiler Biller from Kansas but just t. t t the e same I know and he that he lie has outstripped out out- Q Et stripped ripped me socially mentally mental mental- ly 11 every way I began to feel j this is some some three years ago but butChas has Chas taken some time for me mejo jo to realize it fully Now that I Ido Ido do realize it I believe I am the past lost miserable and feel myself myself my- my self the most useless woman 0 to in the world j Roy was a struggling young law clerk rk rk when I married him 17 years IP ago bo the letter goes on I was a arZ rZ In a shoe store and I Imy In kept my job Roy earned 40 a fet worked daytimes in hi the office tidied died all day Sundays and every I evening helped me cook wash dishes and save Our baby came store before we were ready for him but butto to re re n managed somehow though how I t re n did it I dont don't know Both Roys led bd d pneumonia one winter and I Int tent rent nt from rom to pounds Modest But Happy those and But were happy years Roy was vas asked to join a ahw I liv hw firm finn at a very modest salary I fat Bit it meant a start and I gave gavet t It cp my job and devoted myself to toi tora i It ra home That's the way things sere rere when the big war started seven sevens is rs s ago Roy went into a naval g camp made splendid recI rec- rec for himself came home a com- com I cinder mader der and settled down to law lawI I again But how changed he hc was it Most Host of or the thc time hed he'd been in ft England had been invited to tor f r Join a fine club had had a aI aJ J chance to study international ate arI af- af I I e lairs fairs and international law He HeRas i iris Ras s no sooner home than he hei hens i was ns drawn into politics and j now sow as I write the chance of an anI j I important nomination seems to tobe be drawing very close iI I 1 am 38 always have been a al 9 feet l et woman fond of home hus- hus had child neighbors I do not toss eS smartly play bridge frequent parlors I do not know how howe I to talk to men at dinners nor to e Tomen either for lor that matter I late lite purely social affairs and political political political poli poli- meetings Roy of ot course is tow tW in a whirl of ot them 1 It does not seem to me fair that I Roy Boy who was v perfectly satisfied me for far so many years should l k te constantly making suggestions I tow about my figure clothes manner manter man man- I Iler ner ter the words I use and my re- re to undertake hospitalities and lad en entertainments for which I really ally am not fitted Yet I feel I Iannot annot entirely withdraw there are too many attractive women about nth ith th their eye out for second or third bird husbands Am I justified in inking king idling Roy to to give up his political or shall I just go ahead king being my natural self the self the uninteresting uninteresting drab little wife of the theof Iran Inan of the hour t tl e et I t My answer to May Miller would e neither It is just as foolish d shortsighted to ask Roy to sacS sac- sac S Brice his life Ufe as it is to subside Into lato to a snubbed little forgotten outrider outrider out out- rider looking meekly on at his successes suc- suc ce and letting other women enJoy enjoy enoy en- en Joy oy his friendship and his triumphs I f f Revamp Your Life LUc What you have to do is rise to toe tot t the e situation take yourself in hand and d catch up with Roy I suspect that at t you have been putting on Weight height be begin in unobtrusively to take toke It t off oft Dont Don't talk about it all the thee tone time e or moan over tempting dishes at t dinner but gradually get a good figure back Get good corsets and keep your hair waved and brushed et simple clothes that fit you c 1 1 y pi p l You have to rise to the situation t RISE TO SITUATION Dont Don't be the drab uninteresting uninteresting uninteresting esting wife of the man malJ of the hour Instead rise to the situation situation situ situ- and catch up tip with your husband That is Miss Norris Norris' advice to May fay Miller er of Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas who complains that her husband has left me behind That situation has its parallel in many mallY homes today Countless Countless Countless Count Count- less women overburdened with everyday tasks have hat allowed owed I their husbands to outstrip them socially mentally and in countless countless count count- less other ways The Millers ers were married when he was a struggling young law clerk Now after making an enviable record inthe in inthe I Ithe the navy he has been drawn l I linto into politics and has the chance chalIce of an important no nomination May who admits that she hates bates purely social affairs and political meetings asks i if f she is justified in requesting Roy I to give up his bis political ambi ambi- Miss Norris Norm insists that it is just as foolish and shortsighted to ask Roy to sacrifice his life I as it is for May fay to subside into a snubbed little forgotten out outsider sider Allow Roy to hold bold the spotlight spotlight spot spot- light Miss Norris Norm advises but revamp yourself into a fitt fitting helpmate Simple clothes good health reading of good books and magazines will aid As a final hint she suggests prayer adding that there is no weapon on all in hJ the armory of an all amorous amorous amorous amor amor- ous grass widow that can touch it for potency I and are becoming and above all have them comfortable a a becoming neckline a gracious sweep of sleeves and skirt You'll be more apt to tobe tobe tobe be at your best with this combination tion tron than with anything too striking striking striking ing and too modish Read Head one good magazine Do a little thinking and learn to ask intelligent intelligent intelligent in in- questions and to listen But above all keep In mind the thc word ord lovely That Is your key word Be lovely In appearance appearance appearance appear appear- ance be freshly groomed simply simply simply sim sim- ply dressed gentle In manner Be lovely In voice lovely In In Interest Interest interest In- In terest sympathy understanding If 11 you keep thinking lovely lovely lovely U lovely you cant can't by any possible combination of or circumstances circumstances circumstances cir cir- cir cir- events changes be kept long from your goal Dont Don't ape chattering women sensational sensational sensational sen sen- women flirtatious women They'll circle about the new hero flatter him slight you you for for a while But go steadily on your way and you cant can't lose Learn to Live Again True he has outstripped you Whatever you do you cant can't get the spotlight now But just as thousands of our magnificent men from all the services have had to learn to live all over again so you start all over again too This boy is managing to be happy and useful without his sight that one is fitting himself to toa a job that can be handled with just justa a left hand A third veteran never will hear a sound on earth again a n fourth is fearfully disfigured and sees his own children shrinking back from his patched face Your task doesn't compare to theirs Get to work Two hints Keep in good health light and ready for plans and changes and secondly dont don't forget torget prayer There is no weapon in the armory of an m amorous grass widow that can touch it for tor potency |