| Show I Kathleen Norris Says Y Young Wives Dell Inell Syndicate Service I I 1 9 1 Yesterday a lawyer from ram Bar bun toun called coiled on me inc lie lle says soya that thaI Bills Bill's e wife ha hal gotten otten possession oj of these Fiese letters letteri By Dy KATHLEEN NORRIS lIEN the mother mother of a 16 or W WHEN year 18 old girl advises her against doing something or warns her about It she Is usually actuated ciliated by pure affection and loyalty loy by alty to her daughter She knows that the years between 16 8 and 25 23 are the years when a woman who is Indiscreet reckless Inexperienced can throw throwaway away all he the happiness of ot her later years Thousands of girls do and live to regret egret It for the rest of their lives But Dut somehow they never will beleve believe believe be be- lieve leve that their mothers are right Mother Iother Old Fashioned My mother hasn't the least idea of ot how things are today they write me Mama Is so old fashioned that hat its it's perfectly maddening Mama thinks the most innocent things are dangerous Mother doesn't want me to have any fun tun My mother is always afraid of what the neighbors will think Any explanation ot of her anxieties will do except that she is your mother and loves you and wants you to grow safely to honorable and happy lappy womanhood and find not make mistakes My mother talked to me the night before I was married writes a Pennsylvania woman woman and if It Id I'd taken her advice seriously I might have lave spared myself the misery Im I'm ImIn ImIn Imn In n today But Dut I always thought of Mother as and fussy and I didn't pay much attention She told me always to put Len first firstin firstin in n everything and like all aU brides I did make a great fuss tun over him himat himat himat at first We had bad a dear little boy and were very happy for the first fist few lew years Knew Dill Dilly Billy as a. Girl Then a man I will call Billy Dilly turned up I had known him as 81 a girl and we had had a pretty exciting exciting ex citing love affair of which I had told old Len Nothing wrong but we had lad been engaged and I thought Len en ought to know Mother had neier neer liked Billy partly because ho hit Is divorced party part part- ly y because he U Is quite a sport But Buthe Buthe Buthe he is very attractive to women and when he shied led that ho he still admired admired ad ad- mired me J 7 mind making Van Vana a little This worried Mother Moth Moth- er terribly for she adores Van When Billy Dilly went away after a short visit he me to correspond correspond corre corre- spond with him He lIe sent me rae books and articles once a beautiful handkerchief hand kerchief and once perfume Ills His letters were amusing and admiring and I answered them saying a good deal more than I really felt This was about a year ago We wrote each other olber about every 10 days so soI soI soI I suppose he has at least beast 30 of my letters Dills Dill's Lawyer Appears Yesterday a lawyer from Bills Bill's Billstown town toun called on me with a great deal of ot discretion and secrecy that drove me nearly mad He lie says that Dills Bills wife has gotten possession of these letters N Never Nver ver having dreamed that he was married at all I was shocked beyond words I said that I had not known that Mr D. D was married whereupon this horrible man said But you knew you were didn't you She wants 1500 for forthe forthe forthe the letters or she will sue for divorce divorce di dl vorce naming me Some of these letters I signed wife Your that been and others the pet names he had given lIven me in his letters Our actual relationship was always alway strictly within the bonds of morality of course I 1 did not close my eyes last night and I am om half halt frantic today At first fist this lawyer said he he would be here until 1 I decided what to do but he telephoned this morning to say he is going going- back to Trenton and will wait walt to hear heat from inc fie What maddens me was that I have never i been in love with Bill Dill but only enjoyed this correspondence as a sort ot of romance My husband and child are my very lite lifeblood blood and any thought ot of trouble at home my heart I do cia not even know that Bill Dill is married it may be that tha he needs money and trusts he will get It this way For the sake of ot a ahome ahome home a good husband and arid an Innocent Innocent Inno Inno- inne- inne cent baby do do help me find some someway someway someway way Thrills at an End Poor Joan she he h hav hll had a whole year of flattery and excitement and Warning arning to 10 Wives tiers litre is It a warning naming to 10 young ol of 1940 think they tIey y can rat fOot their cake and have half j it to 0 Many young wives titles according to fa Kathleen Kath teen leen Norris Norr J item seem to fa feel that once the security of 01 a home and husband ii is J they can put pu that ha security on the shelf and start arf looking around for lor or new neto playthings hut But 10 that mat style eyle oj of r doesn't doesn work out Sometimes the me little lillie lady gets gelt burned Mothers still in must insist that their young younS daughters daugh dough er ers tho are married maried should hould put pus friend husband nd first in their heir hearts heartt Hut hiss the daughters dau often think hink that hal Mother is old fashioned and doesn't know about alOu modern men Usually though h. Ih they y learn that sisal Mother is ii right Naturally itt its all allright allright right riS' to 10 Know Inow men other than llian your our husband but bId a affairs no no aill no matter mailer how houi innocent are are out our And Anti if le j the mistake is j. eier made il if if M Mrs rj Young OIS 1 Wife ife does engage le in irs an a affair she air the lOci had better tetter tell Ill Hubby and start 0 all 01 0 again in Unless the she Ie does dol tell him she isn't im playing fair lair and the she ly gets get ets caught cough it j. may be too 10 late Ie he the thrill of ot a secret love affair she has las made nothing of ot Lens Len's rights and Lens Len's dignity and now she ex ex- peets to be extricated from it in a afew few tew ew minutest minutes I The mischief has been far too long in building for tor that Her lIer only way out Is one of ot humiliation hu hUt and courage and risk Joan has been stuffing greedily on poisonous sweets for 12 whole months Now for emetics and ond castor castor cas cas- tor oil and general wretchedness For she will have to tell the whole story to her husband at once and have lave him get in touch with some friend in Trenton or some city authority who can find out exactly what the engaging Billys Billy's marital status is If It he really is married then Van Joans Joan's husband might write him remind him that he has some letters from Joan and ask their heir return This may work inasmuch inasmuch inasmuch in in- as a. Billy Dilly may not want trouble with his wife over them should Joan turn the tables and Inform In form her of ot anything that has been going on U If Billy Dilly Isn't married the he matter Is comparatively simple Joans Joan's husband may ask uk for the letters thus showing Billy Dilly that he knows vs of ot their existence and so spiking Billys Billy's guns on blackmail Then forget the whole thing Joan Must lust Confess Whatever the outcome Joans Joan's complete confession to her husband must be the next step And is it a crime to write to a aman aman aman man when youre you're married a to another another an an- other olber many a young wIle wife who is playing with the same sort of ot fire may indignantly demand No but the advice of ot Joans Joan's Mother ther was good advice Put your husband first Dont Don't do anything that you wouldn't like him to do Keep your men friends of course But Dut keep them as a wife not a flirt Act like a woman embarked upon a 0 serious business not a free tree lance still in inthe inthe inthe the market for Theres There's no law against writing letters affectionate affee romantic emotional to a married man Theres There's no law against making a complete fool tool of ot yourself Theres There's no law against living on chocolate cake and sleepIng sleepIng sleeping sleep- sleep Ing in a bathtub Terrible Alternative For a long time after atter this scaldIng scalding scald scald- ing tag experience Joan will be a very meek and devoted little wile wife Shell She'll have to be The alternative di divorce dl di vorce and the surrender of her child as being an unfit mother is too expensive A few of those wife tha wife that have been letters would convince any court of ot domestic relations that Joan was a pretty flighty parent She's now put puta a strong trong weapon Into Vans Van's hands For months perhaps for tor years he wont won't believe anything she says It If she demonstrates affection for him if It the she cuddles the small boy praises her home expresses herself herselt as happy happy hap hap- py Van may look on with a cold and unconvinced eye So dont don't despise mothers mother's suggestions you younger girls They have been won from that same hard school of ot experience that you have to face They form tOrm that most valuable able pos possession that a wile wife or any ony other olber woman can have The impalpable im Un palpable Indispensable thing called con COPE CODE |
