Show KATHLEEN NORMS When Enough Is Not Enough IS no bugaboo more potent THERE In destroying the happiness and security of a woman's life than the fear of what is called The is that time when she with the passing of the loss of a good many other ns well She has heen married an unromantic number of 18 or 23 or 27 as the case may No more reams of what her life may be are coming her she has got what she is going to in There aren't going to be any Very often she has enough of worldly But it isn't Rooms full of of which she Is of china and beds and towels she knows by She has dusted and polished and washed them all for A good husband But by this time whenever she speaks to him she knows exactly what he is going to if he answers at Sometimes when a man is comfortable with his his his his he only needs It isn't that he doesn't love but the surprises and expectations are over for He's pleased with a good there isn't a better cook in Madison county than He's proud of his children the boy isn't going to set the river but he's smart And the girl has married married a fin fellow a fine and there'll be grandchildren So Dad's evening conversation is comprised in a any more gravy be back at anu the radio fixed did And this Is not enough to satisfy She's a plain woman who was once so Her clothes no excite Cooking has lost its except when there's She likes occasional radio she likes to plan for a she likes certain visitors and she doesn't get much any of So she falls Into languor and life lores its and she convinces herself that she is going through that experience that all women ha e been taught to fear and Men go through the same painful emotions when youth and dreams are and this Is the moment when any flattering young woman can get hold of This is the time they tell the office clerk that they are misunderstood at But Min has no such A Tennessee woman wrote am frightened by a growing mental I can't force myself to write a read a concentrate on I used to take do a lot on our little put up But now one son is and far and the other stays with his grandmother in town all and some week ends for I've gotten rid of the I dread dread any It's not no sign of that My husband is a but a quiet we live well inside our Am I going mad in spite of This like many thinks that this uncomfortable thing Is all It That's why so much of it can be lessened or obliterated It merely that her old her proud usefulness and importance in her own with the beauty and gaiety and ignorance and confidence of are But interest in energetic welcome of each successive thankfulness for deep sweet sleep at these are all |