Show KATHLEEN NORMS Wife Cherishes Tiny Grievances WIFE does a lot to make us all but she's so darned unhappy writes a husband from a Colorado Is his letter goes she is devoted to me and our five But I honestly don't think she has another friend in the suspects distrusts and criticizes She has bad quarrels with practically every woman in our This one said something mean about her when they were in high that one didn't come to see her when she had her first and the third rented the house she and I looked at when we wanted to live in town one Someone else borrowed a book and never returned and still another criticized Daisy for giving our girls permanents while they were in grade One of her oldest friends hasn't spoken to Daisy for years because she sent Daisy a Christmas and Daisy found a card sent to this friend from another Daisy never forgave Has Never Forgiven family and mine would be glad to make much of our especially the who are now 16 and But my wife has never forgiven my mother for something Ma said to a friend when I was first to the effect that she didn't believe Daisy wanted chil- bus bad quarrels With my sisters Daisy says she has nothing in And with her own only a married she has not been on since his wife gave a part OB the night we were giving a the tragedy George Ingalls' letter Daisy really hasn't any idea things are this She is so devoted a wife and mother she can't see that she is cutting our girls off from all the pleasures natural to their by ruling that they never can enter certain houses and that she doesn't want them to be friendly with this family and that means constant arguments and disappointments for the Their mother tells them that they will have plenty of friends and good times as the years go but that she simply will not forgive old slights and One of my sisters as boys a few years older than my she is resents nothing forgives and she wants our Sheila and Donna to Join their cousins for all sorts of good My wife forbids We could have fine parties of own out on the for ours is a grand old house and there is a good deal to amuse but the same reasons hold you suggest some argument or course that will solve this problem and give my girls a chance to live somewhat They are both natural girls who laugh off their mother's worries and But they naturally can't accept Invitations against her And gradually It has been dawning on them that it is not in one case or but that her dislikes embrace practically our entire social What can I Wrong Moral Training Your didn't have the right moral training when she was She may have had But she hasn't been taught to She hasn't been told to be to put herself and her little petty pride and vanity and sensitiveness to wipe the slate gloriously clean of old hurts and grudges every little while and start she has nursed her precious little her slights and the forgetfulness of her their Innocent mistakes or hasty It your mother said Daisy didn't want 16 years the mere fact of having five lovely children doesn't heal the hurt in Daisy's pitiful little narrow She has reveled in her ineffectual little which have hurt only and you and her and never have reached their real target at Of the good times she has the happy summer camping and the holiday the pride she might have felt In showing her children to old neighbors and Daisy will never She is too deeply wrapped In her own righteous Hers is a very extreme case ol a common Lots of women nurse one or two grievances all their rarely does anyone make quite so thorough a job of it as Daisy What they all needed was a good mother or |