Show kathleen norris says mind your own business bell ell syndicate features ad 0 0 0 0 she Is if running around with one of the town boys and whatever she aels A he 1 e is ii deeply in love love by KATHLEEN NORRIS HESE are good days in THESE which to mind your own business for one reason because business is going to be complicated and hard under postwar conditions and for another because interi interfering ering in other persons affairs is a harmful wasteful and of often ten useless employment here is a letter from a woman who feels that she very decidedly ought to be minding other persons business even while she gives me a distinct impression that her own being too well managed my position la Is it a very painful one writes carolyn miller from a texas town 1 I live with my hus bands mother who Is a dear she is 0 only 52 active and capable and we manage the house easily between us I 1 have a baby six months old the rho trouble Is my twin sisters inlaw in law whom I 1 will call joan and jean they are 20 joan married to a captain of marines and jean engaged to Ms his brother who la is in the air corps this marriage and this engagement took place before I 1 moved in here my husband bert has been away for almost a year not his baby joan the married one had a baby 10 months after her husbands husband s departure for the south seas she did not notify him of this babas arrival until it was five weeks old then a joyous cable was sent fine little girl both well weIL his answer to this was so pathetically eager and happy that it made me sic sick tor for in the family we all know that it Is not his bis baby joan admits herself to a time lime of indiscretion imm immediately edl attly after his depar departure with one of his hii friends lends Ir since killed in the pacific the whole family expects me to be a party barty to this outrageous deception cep tion of which I 1 never would have heard it if I 1 had not unexpectedly arrived here at the old home my own instinct is to try to persuade joan to write the truth to art and if she will vill not and her mother will not to write him myself jeans case is of course bourse less serious but she is running around with one of the town boys and whatever whai ever she feels he Is deeply in iii love this seems to me terribly unfair to her absent flance fiance but her mother will do nothing but look worried and say that time will settle all these problems personally I 1 dont believe in leaving such matters to time human beings have responsibilities and our duties to our absent soldiers are surely the most sacred among them my husband is now returning honorably discharged and we will move back to our own home in a town some miles away my dear carolyn my advice heads this article mind your 0 VM own business button up your up about joans affairs and jeans iff affairs lairs and concentrate upon your home fortunately in another town and keeping your husband and baby happy let joan tell husband YOU tou dont know and you have no business to know what the relationship tion ship is between joan and art perhaps she has written him the full truth already perhaps she is waiting until he is home again and at work normally again and in love 10 c she will tell him when en he returns with the little girl baby to say to him art I 1 dont know what weakness or craziness came over me I 1 never loved tom as I 1 did you I 1 was lonesome and he was going away to ta his death as it happened and we wa were carried away can you forgive me and love her for or toms sake too because he gave everything that he had bad gave life itself to keep her world safe tor for her perhaps if something like that happens art never need be disillusioned lusio ned arts heart need never be broken perhaps there will be other children and the little oldest girl not the least dear but whatever happens your put pin ting your stiff moralizing moral izing clumsy hand into this affair can only ruin everything and do you no good leave joan alone and leave jean alone jean the only pretty young flirt chos amusing herself in the absence of her hearts true love jean will probably meet her sw sweetheart et with inocent eyes and a royal welcome and to all the world joans mistake will remain hidden and joans daughter will have het her honor and her place in the world untouched in a word carolyn mind your own business |