| Show kathleen norris says the invisible 9 woman bell rea features tures t I 1 hartley is better in nerves and spirits spirit than ever before in his hi tile life if my marrying m a crying him in the beginning was the result of youth and passion I 1 think I 1 havo have atoned by KATHLEEN NORRIS HER you were a small WHEN edid reader of fairy tales did you want to become invisible did you think that was about the most fascinating cina ting thing that all the old Mt witches elies charms or the magic walnut shells could do I 1 did I 1 well here isa letter from a woman who became invisible She wrote me four years ago a letter snarled so with troubles freidin j doubts despairs that there seem any way out for her I 1 advised her to become invisible and tt it worked the cure totals a part ofa very long letter ivo ive had from her this leek eek 1 I told you od it if you remember i writes susan that my situation was I 1 had been confidential fide fitial secretary to a man whose position whose krather wor was of an extremely delicate delitia te na ture he was wag and Is one ol of the heads pi of a hospital for mental cases ho he was ai the tha time 40 years old married and father of two children a ot 9 a boy of 14 mis wile ag agreed r bedi to a dIvorced divorce and iidA wished fied the boy the girl had never been sympathetic to her and she wished to have her come tome my own was so distressed at the circumstances of my having broken up a home as they considered consider edIt it that they dropped me completely disillusionment comes however with hartley and myself it was the so c called ailed gra gr aride fide passion I 1 was this waw 10 years year ago after a year or two when our first ecstasies of possession and novelty had bad worn away we found ourselves a normal man and woman both with faults both a I 1 little t U e disillusioned ned but with new complications sonya my step daughter was a strange and dim cult child and we had a daughter of our own karin a splendid child but wil with a serious defect in eyesight requiring cry special care we later had a boy who died in month my struggles struggle with sonya anxiety for karins state and grief over my wonderful boyk boy resulted in breakdown for me and hartley and I 1 reached the j point of discussing a separation my ape special cial arl grievance evance against him devotion to his son by his first elfei and his constant visits to them but everything was waa a grievance and more than once I 1 contemplated suicide you advised invisibility and I 1 tried it I 1 dropped all thought of myself you sold said for a period of three months month 1 made it six awalt I 1 waited on sonya quietly and considerately like a perfect servant you said become gods good servant andi and I 1 tried to I 1 never had anything but thing welcomes for my tired I 1 man I 1 to took ok my baby through the long that gave her after two operations perfect eyesight sight I 1 bore a daughter I 1 call joy tor for joy she is to us all I 1 never eom corn pla ined never asked lied hartley where he hd was going thoroughly happy now well how to summarize all this the letter concludes sonya has become it a different child and sometimes when her mother is trying angor or her father irritable she tries the invisibility game too hartley Is better in nerves all and d spirits than ever before in his life and andia if my marrying stirn him in ili the beginning was the result af pf of youth and passion k I 1 r 1 1 11 sonya wu and d difficult I 1 I 1 think I 1 have atoned we have our own home on the institution grounds now and my mother Is with me tills this letter cornea comes from that rare creature a thoroughly happy it if invisible woman like all professional and home w omen I 1 have many problems in my own oven life many small humiliations many disappoint disappointments mintz and sometimes deep grief but a letter lakethia lik like ethia this one Is like 6 sunshine uns hine breaking through a heavy gray sky and Ir radiating everything it touches to know that a much younger wom woman an has learned where all safety and all security ile he and how to reach them Is a heartening tiling thing in this world where coit cou character and sober common sense are so pitiably needed possibly you can solve your home problem lern by entire forgetfulness forgett ulness of self by complete subjugation to the needs of others silence rarely does any harm all the women of all the ages who ever reached anything uke like true serenity of mind haye re reached a ch ed it through ion long g hours of tha that t silence in which god speaks to tile the soul make your homo home a place which husband and children hate to leave in tho the morning to which athey the return eagerly at night A place of ceacil and silence these beautiful words are as true as they were a when they were first spoken wo thousand years yeara ago who eq sq loseth his life shall gain it |
