Show KATHLEEN NORMS She Married the Town Beauty has always been the man in writes Arlene from don't get your but I see them now and and I've been wondering what you would advise me to My husband is so vain that it's perfectly began to be admired when he was less than her letter goes All of at our kid admired In thin silk tennis shirts and white tossing his heavy mop of gold hair magnificently always acting as if he was completely unconscious of watching eyes though I know now that he wasn't he was simply His family had his home was one of the handsome old show places of our little all the girls in town were mad about and although it was expected that he would marry me I was the person who never dreamed it could come An Only Child was expected because our house was another old show place I was also an only child and my father was partner of Earl's In a law But I am not I was slow to grow keeping up clumsiness and shyness long after most girls We both were 26 when we I was really delirious with happiness in possessing the man I and Earl I in my His appetite for cious of watching eyes and talk about himself generally is the most astonishing thing I have ever It seems incredible to even after 12 that any sensible human being can be so cherishes his beauty as if he were a screen He he he rubs in suntan creams and brushes his and he wears an arrangement of whalebone and canvas that is a lot more like a corset than anything 1 ever Hot Love Affairs listened to other women's praises of Earl's and I've given him all the adulation I honestly and and I've ignored some pretty hot love partly because I know that he simply has to have adulation and takes it anywhere and But of late things are worrying him Into a nervous and he's passing the breakdown on to is thinning Most of his friends have bald and bottles of tonic and two treatments a week and assiduous massaging by me can't hide Earl's any The other thing is that he has a bridge with three teeth on minor car accident knocked out three front teeth a year His smile has completely he is so afraid someone will notice the and his hand goes continually to the crown of his his hair I've never been but I've got my hats and and a good and Earl actually seems to resent and that our three and 3 years are all He turns over old albums of pictures that are mostly of and will ask callers if he has changed much since the college I have to go on living with this professional beauty Arlene's letter ends on a long wall of She doesn't say what she will but if she is a sensible woman she will put up with what is really a time suffering in Earl's Like that of all beauties his reign is coming to an and he knows Arlene Is going to mature Into the first beauty she ever has a beauty enhanced by a cluster of Earl is going to watch every every every half-pound until even the handsomeness he might have carried into middle age and old age will If Arlene has any real rancor left for the years of enduring his she will have a quiet revenge In watching him face one of the most painful experiences of the decline of the professional Whether in man or woman it is a pitiful the loss of the evanescent thing upon which he or she has based all his complacency In Old ladies who once were beauties go on with the crimps and the laces and cameo pins and velvet bands and the simpering trying to convince themselves that youth isn't all But when the beauty Is a man somehow the tragedy takes on an amusing and ridiculous and I suspect that part of Arlene's problem is that she really liked Earl's |