Show kathleen norris says nancy Is the most unhappy of wives MR syndicate Irea features tures N A I 1 k 0 f I 1 met at a canteen dance the man who seemed everything wonderful wonder lu in the world to me our attraction was mutual paul was a second lieutenant handsome and an popular by KATHLEEN NORRIS ANCY ROBINSON considers NANCY herself the unhappiest young wife in all the world she that but she has indeed a sad problem to solve and one that probably wont be the only one of its kind as these war years go by last february she writes 1 1 I met at a canteen dance the man who seemed everything wonderful in the world to me ibur our attraction was mutual paul was a second lieutenant handsome and popular old friends ot of my family knew all about his people and there seemed no reason for ou our r delaying our marriage which took place in april I 1 was then the happiest girl in the world as I 1 am now the most miserable blell h shortly afterward paul was sent away to central america it was a hard parting for we had had five wonderful weeks in a little beach hp hame e borrowed from a friend and felt ourselves an ideally companionable couple but I 1 had expect expected d it and bore it as he heroically as I 1 in a few weeks a long letter came from paul then a shorter one and I 1 several cards and notes in my heart I 1 felt that something was wrong but nothing to really p prepare me for the ahe shock I 1 received this morning when a long letter arrived in it iny my husband writes me that he feels that our hasty marriage was a mistake that we were both too young he is 26 1 I will be 21 in december that does not seem too young to me wants ills his freedom he assures me that there is no other woman in the case but says he would like to be free he says that since our marriage was a very quiet one ane and I 1 live in a small nevada town there need be no publicity as he has not told any of his new friends that he is married and I 1 live alone with my mother things can be sort of hus hushed hed up until every one loss loses interest paul has met some friends at his new post they are evidently making a great deal of him for he speaks of dinners and dances and that in one spanish american family there are lots of brothers and sisters and cousins and they keep things moving beach parties and singing every weekend week end that sort of thing he says h he e is very glad that a little scare I 1 had about a baby coming turned out to be nothing and that he will always think of mother and me affectionately I 1 will give you the actual words with which he finishes his letter 11 it is up to you of course nancy to do as you think best but under tinder the circumstances 1 I 1 can feel that nothing but divorce is the solution you may be sure that chati I 1 will send you all the money I 1 can is as much as your lawyer thinks right and more and always remember those happy days at beachwood we surely had a terrible crush on each other but as we grew older we would ubold be sure to grow apart and the th best thing is freedom tor for both now no matter how badly we wa feel at breaking up things this way so take a big kiss and a hug from your ex hubby bubby and write me that you think this is the wisest way it if I 1 had been at home it would have been different but as it is I 1 feel that my whole interest should belong to my country without any distract distractions ioni from home after the war I 1 intend to settle somewhere down here so we may not meet again for a long long time PASSING FANCY when the tk first thrill of far places has been dulled by the reality of their distance from home when the seductive deductive effective of soft tropical moonlight is sharpened by the conflicts of war when the memory of fried chicken and church on sunday and thick clear ice on the neighborhood pond cannot be shaken by the sights and sounds of a foreign land then paul robinson may understand why kathleen norris has told his wife to refuse him a divorce he may see the things he thinks he wants to for r what they really are mere passing fancies f A bitter blow to a loving lonely woman only six months a wife this letter might well be a thunderbolt nancy I 1 to be blamed tor for almost collapsing when she received it somehow Pome somehow how she is keeping its contents from her mother who works in a garment fact factory bry and somehow she is managing to act beford herb friends and neighbors as if nothing was wrong my advice to nancy Nandy is to put her chin up summon her dignity to her aid and write paul as if she were twice her 20 years he has so evidently lost his head in an atmosphere mo sphere of tropical sunshine leisure and enjoyment that all his values of honor obligation decency character have gone up in smoke or rather evaporated in silver moonlight and the music of the sea she must write him that talk of separation or divorce eis is ridiculous I 1 that she will wait for him as his wife of course and that she has entered into correspondence with his mother and father who live in kentucky it seems that out of shyness and diffidence nancy get in touch with them lafter her marriage but that then they wrote her cordially glad that their boy bouhad had found it a good young wife it if she can she ought to visit them in every way she canche can she ought to strengthen strength eri the tie that paul would break make blake marriage a Sue success cess it is highly possible that these two really are not congenial mates that their hurried young rii marriage arriage was a mistake but even so when the war is ended they may decide to make it a success as any man and woman may by resolutely building a life together and with patience and courage learning to depend upon each other but it is more likely it if nancy can be strong enough to forgive to overlook this youthful cruel selfish letter that paul will come home to find that he loves his young wife after all that the glamour of the southern beaches and the charms of the dark eyd enchantresses enchant were not permanent things that after the war he wants to come back to his own country and live the life his father andrii and his ancestors did before him if paul had a sister and some man wrote to her the letter he just sent nancy he would perhaps be able to letsome get some idea of just how brutal it was if as I 1 definitely suspect paul ts Is in love again and had the courage to tell his new friends that he has been less than a year the husband of a girl in the united states then he may be in for a rude awakening for span ish american mothers have their firm religious convictions too and pauls conchita will be locked in a remote upper bedroom and himself forbidden the hacienda entirely the moment the family gets the news |