Show kathleen norris S says ays you cant get back bach what you never had beu bell syndicate creatures Fen rea turea tures M IS 1 0 r 01 clay is sale safe from trouble he will have havear or has had no d difficulty cully in explain ing to so his wife that one of the office girls is cracked about him by KATHLEEN NORRIS TOVE E does not last not all by itself love all by it L self is like a bottle of pure rich milk leave it alone for a few days and what have you A bottle bo atle half filler w with ith sour curds and half of evil smelling water but mix milk with flour yeast butter salt and you have the fine bread that is indispensable to the growing bodies of boys and girls unless you mix love with service companionship mutual interests mu mutual ambitions honor honesty and common sense you have the bitterest drought draught in life to drink it wont stand alone no matter matte how deliciously exciting and satisfying it itis Is in the tha beginning nothing Is ia so hard on a woman as the grand passion that peters peter 3 out into loneliness bewilderment shame crushed pride and vanished illusion E specially especially it if that grand passion Is illicit and it usually is the sweeping breathtaking breath taking absorbing sor bing dizzying type of loving rarely comes into your life by the pleasant well worn trail of friendship engager engagement nent marrin marriage je there agali again a great many elements enter to stabilize matters getting clothes kitchen showers house hunting acknowledging presents colling calling on jims people making arrangements for bridesmaids church music reception all these things are delightful in themselves an and d they help make a girl feel that she really is getting married but they dont go hand ln in sandwith hand with the mad sweetness the agony and joy of love completely unsupported by material everyday practical common sense loves her boss take evelyn peters affair tor for ex example ample evelyn Is an office worker of 28 she writes nit me that she has loved clay for or seyen years clay to Is 40 he be is her office boss how shall I 1 know knowl it fhe he no longor longer cares writes evelyn avelyn there is no question of this being the real thing for it has survived every possible dI difficulty and handicap in the first place clay is married and although he no longer loves or even likes his wife they have a daughter of 12 whom he adores four years ago clay went to officers camp emerging a captain I 1 was intensely proud of him even though the long separation was hard on us both up to this time I 1 had held our friendship to strictly platonic platon lc lines but the pressure of war tragedies and partings made me feel I 1 could refuse him nothing and during the first war year when he was in various american camps we wa managed to meet very often far from being ashamed of having surrendered I 1 was proud of his love when he finally sailed tor for south seat seas duty it was with the implicit promise that when he returned lie he would make ou our r relationship legitimate he has now been home seven weeks and I 1 count the days in growing uneasiness I 1 dont doubt his bis love but what Is keep keeping inglus us apart it may be that he is going to surprise me by arriving suddenly to announce hla his freedom but so tar far I 1 have had only one unsatisfactory telephone call which terminated with his casual pron promise ase see you soon but on that occasion his bis wife MUY may have been within hearing M its iera became daa a captain itan x during the war I 1 took a much finer position in a nearby town which astill I 1 still hold this of course makes me less accessible Alu mutual trust our affair wasby no means trivial ial it was entered upon witha deep sense of but it was not supported naturally by any recognition tion from my family or his or our fr friends lends nor any normal opportunity for meeting it was only ahen hen he could get away tor for brief leave often then to discover that between betwee ri his fam ilys claims and mine we had but a few stolen hours together now I 1 bantit want ailt openly admitted 1 I want to take my place beside him kwit without hout this prospect we life would be insupportable to me shall I 1 call on him indis office write requesting a talk or go see his wife who Is six years older than he and tell her frankly how matters are Is as wretched as I 1 am under this arrangement I 1 am as sure as I 1 am ofay of my own feeling i you yoli mearl mean Ilas ahyou you wish you were of your own feeling evelyn you know very well in your heart that this affair Is cold cold as the ice land snows dclay clays to is sate safe from trouble he will have or has had no difficulty in explaining to his fils elderly wife that oneff one of the omee office girls Is cracked abou thim I 1 would bet even money although far from a betting woman that there Is an other woman not in the tha cifes place but in yours he and his wife may have had their upset times but she will provest one fine buffer be tween him and any disturbance you can create there theres Th ereIs Is only one piece of advice for you it Is contained in two forca ful words forget it |