Show KATHLEEN NORRIS Makers of Wills Often Duped HUSBAND'S and her Income of some a are my writes Margarita from the Colorado ranch all live my his two small sons from his first our two baby and his we call Aunt Ted's first wife was my loved so you can understand that Is a very harmonious and we always felt Aunt Sis a part of it until two years ranch was once a but the main building burned and we bought it for a small which is Ted and the girls and I occupy one small our boys and my mother-in-law and her companion-nurse a call her seemed ideally efficient and nice for Then she began to get an influence over my mother-in-law that has culminated in their living almost completely apart from the rest of Until recently they came over for and I went over two or three times a day to their Lately they had a television set put they have all Aunt Sis's and often they come out into the Aunt Sis In her Edna working among the flowers or playing with the they don't want the little boys ever to see the and as they have a small blue-flame stove and a little kitchen In the which is some yards from they are beginning to cook all their meals Ted takes their order to the village store twice a but If I go over with gingerbread or cold chicken they politely decline and I bring it Virtually Disinherited week an old friend who is our lawyer told Ted that his mother had left everything of which Aunt Sis in wheelchair she is possessed to Edna except for small cash bequests to each of even the This Includes fine old furniture and silverware and and china that came from Holland years and the jewelry that was Ted's We barely make a living for feed is the market and any seasonal accident of the weather can undo months of Last year a barn roof collapsed under and our prize bull and three fine cows were This isn't poor it is merely to make you realize that whatever money Aunt Sis has would be mighty But we learn now that except tor i a few hundreds we will not get any of should any woman pass over a good whose handling of her estate really accounts for this fine and leave everything to a complete We both hate Ted and for entering on such considerations while she Is still but she l as had three and another might well be the and we find ourselves worrying deeply about Hard to Take don't want to we want to feel that whatever comes we can take care of our boys and but the knowledge that the thing is going on with no and that Edna will be a rich and Ted still a poor is hard to Our lawyer tells us that since we are mentioned in the it would be hard to As for trying to prove incapacity on the part of Aunt she is one of the clearest-headed of at and would see through that in a Is there anything you can any similar case of which you this letter which anything Nothing except cold and that is hard to take You and Ted can only hope for a and since the end Is it may not Since friendliness on your part is and his mother apparently completely won over to this scheming It is that same mother's weakness that Is to and she Is too old to recognize her The material help of be of great value to but an even greater loss it seems to is the loss of the affection and loyalty with which Ted would regard his and which now her memory will forever The makers of wills often sacrifice the respect and gratitude of through stupidity or carelessness or as in this to the infantile need of old age for petting and spoiling and This describes the grandmother's |