Show KATHLEEN NORMS Charity Can Cure Restless Wife T AM A FRIGHTENED WOM- writes Mary from in the midst of a modern with good a good and plenty of this world's I am beginning to be sick with When I married 19 years I would have said that what I have today would have fulfilled my highest I only wanted one I got a fine boy now In high I wanted to love my husband and to have him love and that difficult wish was Frank is a wonderful man In every what's the I wish I I've even been to a out as ne nis sympathetic questions I suddenly began to laugh and then to cry and I unceremoniously and didn't go symptoms of my trouble and believe it is trouble are I feel a terrible distaste for in sudden fits and Making a discussing meals with my part-time dressing to go out with lunching with women I will find myself suffocating with a terrible restless as if I wanted to tear things to rush out into the open Often I find tears running quietly down my a book seems out of the question and things like card all the amusements that once meant something to me just make me ache with told the psychiatrist that I needed self-expression and as I said it sounded so adolescent and Immature that I was When Frank asks me what I mean by tears running quietly I don't All I know is that 1 am letting my nerves get out of control and I am afraid of the says Mary's don't advise me to take up Red Cross or hospital study a go off on a trio by take up upholstery or church work It me mad to think of substituting busy work for raging dissatisfaction deep me Sometimes for as much as two consecutive days I will be contented and then this hunger for something I can't define seizes me and I feel is if I should fly to This last sentence reminds me of one of those capable old ladles who sends for a doctor and gives him a diagnosis of her disorder and tells him what to prescribe For Mary here mentions several actual for her unhappy but them as busy work And ridiculous as It is for a woman as forme if as she to fall into this it Is just our apparently carefree wom en who do go Into these neurotic and find it almost to get their feet firmly on the ground and once more breathe the air of healthy living and serving and enjoying perhaps the interests of a woman's life are like a Put love and interest into your life from the from the happy days when everything goes and later on you can draw out that love and Infinitely increased in Spread your sympathies and activities from the golden days of first new new new Live fully and generously In those and when the first flush of zest and enthusiasm begins to fade as it must you will have a hundred outlets for your energy that are not essentially dependent upon youth and crossword Red charities all have their place In a balanced Obligations to the less fortunate should play a very important part In our lives as American and unless you are and sharing on a pretty generous It is not surprising that you feel possessions and privileges sometimes fall rather In your case I would pick the lowest slum in the and the dirtiest Your organized charities will find it for I would go there every take care of an cook children a school send filthy bedding to a wash dishes and wipe kitchen There would be small and romance In this but there would be and just to get home to a hot an affectionate a good and loved an appetizing a freshly turned-down a fat book and a long night's rest would begin to seem to you the miracles of wealth and comfort that they |