Show KATHLEEN NORRIS Grand Passion t FIRST KNOWLEDGE of what real love is came only after I had been married nine writes Jessica Cady from was going along quite not realizing that I was missing the most wonderful thing in I had married at feeling all a girl's foolish pride at being the first of my to marry my was then 27 j and seemed a very important per I son to That we were badly matched certainly to Ul both in the next few we were not we had no common Interests in but we were the parents of two lovely and there seemed no purpose in any course but the usual quiet mar ried while Carleton was In the south I met a man 1 will call We had worked together in an assembly plant for almost a year before quite suddenly the earth shook beneath us and Wf discovered our Fred also the father of two older than Between himself ano his wife at this time there was hardly more than love was all the ecstasy the rapture and delight of all the books and all the songs and We were swept off our and for almost a while giving the world no evidence of our we lived in a Paradise of our When Carleton came home I told him quite simply of the tremendous change that had come into my and askea for a was one year and it has been the most terrible year of my My love for Fred is like a tearing fire inside I cannot go back and wipe it out as if it had never But several circumstances have made divorce seem less than a discovered our love the first place Carleton insisted that everything should go along in our home as it had been before he went He says that if he ever sees Fred anywhere near me he will shoot for the nothing is to He will not consider a and threatens me with open disgrace and separation from my daughters if I insist upon For the girls' sake this is out of the for my lawyer tells me that he could claim the girls it he brought the matter to Is anxious for me to leave establish myself in my old beauty-parlor and wait until matters at his house clear uj when he will also ask for a But this seems to me so lonely and uncertain a plan thai I hesitate to take the Free will give me written promises tha the moment we are both free wt will and I know severa women who have managed their fairs this breaking all first and trusting to If I hao no children I undoubtedly would dc but they need me now ano depend on All Wrong surely it Is all from every standard of real morality and common for Fred to be in his house with a whose affection for him died years and for me to be chained here with a man who despises and the empty shell of a Is this and is real love so wrong a thing that it must be penalized this you help me with some of your own philosophy to find a happier way out than I feel as if I should go meekly settling down to a life so so lonely and after having had just a few months of glorious Fred I never and although I have sometimes broken my and have written he has kept to his word to have no further communication with me at Tell me what to do to maintain my own ami be happy Of course there is no answer to this When trouble breaks out In marriage a woman has many bulwarks to uphold Society recognizes her she has her place and her responsibility to steady she can with perfect dignity wait for the skies to But the illicit affair gives a woman no such There is no limit to the the the unsatisfied desire that a love-affair such as Jessica's when the glow of It has She has absolutely nothing in the way of or the sympathy of |