Show KATHLEEN NORMS But Plan Where You Are I WANT Is a fresh says a tear-spattered letter from wife of Bill Taylor of gone wrong with she goes somehow we can't think how to get It I am Bill we truly love each we don't want a But for two years since my mother died it's been nothing but bad being sorry for each and being caught In a We have two who is 6 and confused day like continues this discouraged feel I have nothing to show for eight years of My dancing my once pretty my house and farm all a My father and mother lived with both and Bill was wonderful to until Dad died In 47 and Mother the next They left us hospital and doctor bills of more than BiU's salary is when taxes are and of that we pay a month or a little more on the Managing on what's left leaves me no room for anything pretty or Now Tony has an eye trouble that will take years to It means clinic visits and of anxious Wants New Start I want a new I want to go back to my old office board the children with some good see them week and find a room where Bill and I can live for a year or Finding an apartment is out of the I want to wear smart shirtwaists and go to a show now and I want someday to start housekeeping hasn't been farmed with a new a gas stove I feel as if I had to get out or go The place hasn't been farmed since Bill's father stopped work 10 years Just the sight of these run-down barns and sheds and orchards makes me year you wrote an Vera's letter all of us who find ourselves bogged to make a To look beyond the and spread Imaginary and lift ourselves on a this is Can you help me talk Bill over to I'm all for a plan for But not your Your plan already Is clearly it was outlined when you married a country boy and went out to live on a small You've let the your and everything else go to and completely new splitting your family Into pieces and practically abandoning the wouldn't work at Wonderful Record You say you've nothing tn show for eight you've everything to And with some realistic planning you can have a lot Railing two caring for two dependent old being nice to them that's a wonderful But with a shabby piled-up anxiety about and a wood you've been beaten and you don't see things as they At 29 you still can use a year or two in and discover that the dancing the pretty the washing machine and the new stove can all be and undreamed of fun and achievement beyond To pay off a month on a debt is and even in your discouragement you must see that that's going to clear off the four thousand In less than two Congratulations on your courage on that Then I wouldn't let 42 acres He If BIU doesn't want to turn there are many couples in our country men and women trained for farm work in longing for a chance like the one you could give to retrieve that Government will help them and help and who knows but when the man is farming the woman could sometimes help you You may be pretty sure she Is used to a wood and thankful to God when she can get wood for it For the anxiety over Tony's eyes I have no except to say that thousands of small children go through that and instead of growing up half blind or squinting or cross-eyed as the earlier generations they actually get A nephew that I love had what looked like hopelessly bad at had two many years of weaker and weaker and now uses no glasses at all and hasn't for Plan of But plan with what you've not with what you haven't |