| Show KATHLEEN NORMS You Can't Beat Code of Morals T YOU DO something about scandalous and the disgusting way women have of suspecting the worst of each writes one Hartney George of wife and I were happily married for nine his letter goes we had two now 5 Jean died three months ago In a motor At that time her sister Constance had been living with us for more than a their parents both being We three were extremely and Jean was grateful to have as we call for a companion and Con is now seven years younger than and has always been a sort of Jean's death Connie has gone on caring for the boys and keeping the household The death of my wife was a terrible shock to I am not likely to put anyone in her place for a long was devoted to her and finds her greatest happiness in caring for Jean's So Just why gossiping tongues have busied themselves with our affairs is a But they to an extent that makes us both extremely Causing Scandal elderly friends of Connie's have called to say that the matter is causing and yesterday our who has always been a close friend of the came in to talk frankly to us and to say that we must try to get a elderly In to make things if we could find the kind elderly woman we couldn't afford Connie has no help except a man for cleaning once a and help I give her now that Jean is On Sundays we clean and for the rest we the boys and to spare My salary of a year does not run to pay of gossiping tongues a kind elderly woman who would expect at least of Everyone in this neighborhood reads your weekly and a good strong reproof to these evil-minded folk might do some Is there no such thing as a safe and honorable relationship between man and especially In circumstances like Connie is cut to the heart and I am plain mad over this sort of I would like to punch somebody in the You are punching somebody in the my dear I m taking especial care to disguise location and your name because yuu are flouting that very important old lady and conventionally speaking you haven't a leg to stand From the standpoint of that code of morals and character and self-control and social responsibility that we are all desperately trying to uphold in these difficult you and Connie are proposing to do something that simply can't be An attractive man of 31 and a charming unmarried girl some years younger do not keep house unless an older person is somewhere in the Outsiders not only suspect something irregular but more often than not their suspicions are quite Unless a man and a girl under such circumstances actually dislike each other and are burning with resentment and they are growing steadily nearer and nearer the moment when propinquity gets in its deadly Find a Solution is this must either move out or find someone to come and lend dignity to the Surely there is some mother or aunt or Cousin Lulu who will fill that place until Hartney either finds another as seems asks Connie to step into her sister's The laws that control these romantic situations are based on long experience of the weakness of human If Connie insists on defying convention she may easily find herself in the position of another girl who wrote me some years This girl call her Sally lived on in her sister's house after that sister had mothered two and shortly fell so deeply in love with her brother-in-law that she was easily won to give him her full trust in a complete The first year went and Sidney made no mention of Another year was well advanced when Sally saw the beginning not only of reproof in the eyes of her but Sidney was in love with a fresh young thing who was quite confident that she could manage the house and the |
