Show KATHLEEN NORRIS Wife Rues Early Indiscretion GIRL who has been an absolute A fool in her teens may grow up eventually to be a useful But the trouble Is that while she Is still acting as a fool she commits herself to various and when she wakes up to common sense and something like balanced she finds herself so entangled in difficulties that the result Is often a state of deep discouragement and This is Ethel Nevin's Ethel writes me from Wilkes on curiously her husband's Inasmuch as her greatest difficulty stems from this very same the situation is to say the She says that her husband thinks my advice may help Ethel writes that when she was a girl she what all the other girls We went through grammar and high school grades and at about 13 or 14 began to get pretty intimate with When I was 17 I already had had lovers I know this sounds but I am telling you the truth and that year I took my first job and got and of course got myself Into Learned a Lesson Mom and Dad got me through and I learned my The lesson was right there for me to learn all my mother was a fine and she did her best to warn but nothing could already baa lovers keep me from making a fool of The boy behaved like the little scared rabbit he got his aunt to send him west to got into the and died in an army know I had no right to feel so humiliated and so but somehow the thought that he and I had thought ourselves in and might have had a little boy or girl of our sickened It really sickened and for about six years love affairs meant nothing to I I had a year a and I had a book published about Then I married We had known each other three and he knew all that he would let me tell him about myself long before he asked me to marry here came what I never dared dream of In my ugly A fine admirable and earnest in every a fine old home set in a deep a fine family all ready to welcome To make the picture perfect Gerald told me of his own infatuation for a married woman in and most of the whole bad This woman killed He told me this of course to balance what I had told He is like Feels Unclean have a beautiful daughter of and five younger going down to of three My problem is I don't feel fit to be this man's I feel that one of his sisters would be a better mother to my I feel the past staining and spoiling everything I try to teach them of purity and Now that Gerald may have to accept a high public I feel that something about and all that old weakness and may come up to hurt want to go away away away from persons and scenes that have always been higher and finer than anything I knew as a I am a woman has to have some some to live certain parts In and I'm not fit for this I'm stamped with sordidness and commonness and associations with boys as ignorant and headstrong as I was Help me to see this in a right Help me to find courage to do what is of course I wrote this who is only 33 that she was not different from the rest of us in feeling that whole passages from the past might well be wiped from our and that we had behaved as as as and sometimes as harm fully and wrongly as |