| Show Ia Kathleen Norris Says Every Ercy IT Woman oman Should Matte Malic Some Plan Plait to Avoid Dullness Dell CDell Syndicate fen rJ 7 11 rI t rz J r SOl a i dullness com comes ft into inlo married lilt life for lor the woman Site She remembers other oller days elys eager jay joyous out days dayt of girlhood girl Now conies a pause palue By KATHLEEN KATHEEN NORRIS a dreadful dullness SOMETIMES comes Into married life for far the woman waman Not Net illness not nat trouble trouble trou trou- ble not nol money manty worry warry but just insufferable in sufferable dullness Life for far Betty Detty goes galS gal'S on an without excitement excitement ex ex- without thrill The kitchen kitch kitch- en routine proceeds placidly the children go to school schaal Ed comes cames home hame and has his dinner and goes gaes out to his lodge meeting Betty Detty helps the boy bay and girl with homework home home- work wark turns on an the radio yawns mends a sweater and then decides to go to bed Sometimes this even flow of af uneventful un un- eventful days frightens an intelligent intelligent intelli gent woman waman Earthquake flood fload or ar fire lire might horrify her but at al least they would find her active adequate adequate adequate ade ade- quate swept oT oft her feet in the sudden sudden sud sud- den new demand But Dut monotony scares her She remembers other ather days eager joyous days of af girlhood dances laughter the glory of af her engagement and marriage the fun of af showing oil off the new house hause of telling her friends that she and Ed were expecting a baby The baby's coming too taa was an occasion never to be forgotten the flurry of getting him started the happy wearying absorption in his needs and the needs of the second baby All this might have b been en tiring anxious responsible responsible re re- re- re but it was satisfying and triumphant too Ten Years Later But Dut now naw 10 years married with the thirties beginning to slide by with Ed taking everything quietly for fer granted and only articulate when dinner isn't satisfactory or ar little Ned sleeps too taa late in the mornings now mornings now comes a pause And somehow the wife wile and mother mather knows that it is a dangerous pause and that something must be done dane about it or ar it may have lasting and and serious results Floyd leaves the house hause at eight eight- thirty writes a Kansas wife I Iga Igo Igo go ga to the door doar with him and kiss him good gaad Then I get the two boys bays off aff for far school schaal and turn back into my quiet house for morning dust planning of af meals At noon naan I 1 have a cup of af soup or malted milk and a sandwich and afterward lie Ill down dawn and rest for far awhile Then perhaps shopping a movie movie a club meeting a hospital call At AI At five I am occupied in the kitchen with the table to set Floyd is home hame and there is quiet talk of af what he did all day and what I did not naL either Interesting or ar important to either hearer and then we settle down dawn to evening paper and radio or or on an rare occasions have guests for dinner and bridge very bridge very poor peer bridge all round with nobody sure of af the scoring or scoring or Floyd goes gaes out aut and I am alone alane Goes GotS On On So No Change Everything pleasant friendly just as it was last year and will be next year Our income is small but enough we all have good health questions of ef budget and allowance were long ago adjusted My husband husband hus band Is a trusted employee in a rubber firm his salary is a week Recently he asked for far a weekly raise of and was re reo fused It would have made some same difference to us us but not an Important important Imper tant one What can I do to make our aur lives more mare exciting and glamorous I am a home woman waman I know I should be more mare than satisfied with what I have But Dut Im I'm not net Im I'm restless and bored Floyds Floyd's people peaple are straight American My grandfather grandfather grand grand- father was a general in the Spanish army 30 years ago my mother mather Swedish Is it the mixed blood that makes me at once ance shy and eager pager I did not net speak English until I was eight years old The obvious answer to Lola is that she has more mare now naw than tenths nine of the women wamen of af the world have and that ninety nine hundredths hundredth of them would feel themselves rich with a steady husband a steady income two small sons home hame garden gar den car perfect health and that security from fram aerial bombardment that is becoming a luxury in the world Suggestion for Lola But Dut that isn't fair For Far she admits ad ad- admits mits herself that she OUGHT to be content and really wants to cure herself if it Is her fault that she is not net So Sa instead of reproaching her I am going to make to her several suggestions that may help her extricate extricate ex herself from the rut into which she has fallen To begin with there is an inner spirit or er subliminal consciousness or ar soul saul or ar entity in every woman waman It is a correspondence with elements elements elements ele ele- ments that are supernatural Call this thing whatever you yau like like like-Kar- Kar Karma ma Yogi mental healing the Infinite infinite in In- finite Oneness Oneness Oneness-It it means that you recognize some seme In influence higher than a merely earthly influence and your values in life are formed farmed on an something higher than a purely earthly scale Most Mast of us call this imponderable infinite intangible but very real presence God Gad We dont don't attempt to analyze Him work Him out aut on an charts and graphs we merely go into that stillness called prayer now and then and await with perfect confidence a renewal of life within us a new sense of cf f potentiality trust and above all delight and eagerness in the outwardly dull routine rou rou- routine tine of every day The Tile Happiest People The happiest persons in this bewildered be world in fact the only enly happy ones anes arc are those thase who have found faund this secret for far themselves and revel in that unbounded glory of living which the orientals call bliss You Yau can live in three rooms roams in a crowded tenement and possess it iL You Yau can be the wealth wealthiest est cst woman aman In the world and miss it completely Yet its it's open apen enough to find and it costs casts nothing Ask and you yau shall shaU receive it It and to tare tare- tareI re repeat repeat re- re I peat it costs casts you nothing It can be yours Once this Is achieved a thousand interests and indeed fevers possess you ou You want to live forever so that you yau may have time to read a thousand books a thousand thousand thou thou- sand prison refo refa i t and live to see them work wark est ili Hoh h a Spanish class at 25 cents a lesson lessan and watch it grow graw until you yau are besieged with class and radio engagements plan plana a garden and glory in its beauty build a backyard grill and entertain entertain enter enter- tain tarn the boys and their friends there find an old country place and move mave into it and have chickens and anda a cow raise fine bred Persian kittens kittens kittens kit kit- tens gather a circle of af their friends about your boys bays and be sure that the group in which they grow graw to young manhood is a safe group graup study beekeeping astronomy bookbinding bookbinding book book- binding put up fancy preserves and sell seU them Or Or under state supervision super super- vision take three or four faur small children children chil chit dren to board The state slate pays much more mere than they cost cast and the work of building little citizens is a one ane Or go into politics by the simple process of cf attending a meeting or er two accepting a position lion tion on an some same committee and contributing contributing con can your mite toward a better and wiser administration of af your local lacal affairs The country would be better off oft if more women did this A Ilan Plan Is Necessary Some months ago I 1 was walking through a dark Boston Daston slum with a ayoung ayoung ayoung young professional man It was broiling summer and the high tenement tenement tene tene- ment meat rooms were like so many little littlehat hot hat boxes glaring into the crowded night To my exclamation of af pity and concern the young doctor said IBid It all depends upon whether you yau have a PLAN or ar not nat People without without without with with- to be pitied matter matter mat mat- out plans are no matter ter where they are |
