Show kathleen norris norms says the much younger husband Hu bell creatures Fea Irea turca tures a pl u 1 I lit 0 1 what can I 1 do to hold this young husband ol oj mine whom despite all has tin kindnesses I 1 love so passionately by KATHLEEN NORRIS HE problem of marigold marit T THE aged 39 is that of a clever successful woman who has married a man 12 years her junior they have been man and wife for less than two years and already larry shows signs of restlessness marigold is frantic ic with helplessness and despair P all the more acute because she keeps everything bottled up inside her and manages to keep a serene exterior before the wa aching eyes of tho world when gewere we were married writes marigold 1 I was a different I 1 am healthy an out of door sort of type and at 37 1 I looked at least 10 years less than my age some years ago my parents left me a small farm 11 I 1 was just home after glorious college years when they were killed in an accident and idly in the i first summer of loneliness nass aej and grief J I 1 ie secured cured a few small girl boarders from this grew my a school for so called difficult and problem cases I 1 have been unbelievably successful not only in a financial sense but in the fact that I 1 love this work it Is easy and natural to me and repays me richly in friendships with children and parents A very handsome man larry came to me three years ago as physical culture director I 1 knew he a was less experienced and less useful than chehad ho had represented himself I 1 built him up we studied his work together he improved he become became a different human being he Is magnificently made and very handsome and I 1 fou fell in love with him long before he dilwith did with me if he ever did we were married and immediately larry began his attentions to other women he opened adult classes in gym work long country hikes that took place during hours when I 1 was not free after the first weeks of blissfully deceiving myself 11 I 1 saw that no one woman ever could hold him but I 1 hoped to bebis rock of safet safety yand and understanding through all the storms of his fits undisciplined nature after ohp loss boss ot of my baby a y year ear ago I 1 was ill for or a long time not sick in bed but rather dragging myself about through my school duties dutle ij and not able to keep control as 4 1 I should larry drew large sums from feorg our joint account find and on one occasion signed my name to a sale of property without my authorization at that time he moved to another ro room omand and he has not returned to nine mine now he tells tella m me e he ha wants to be freed to bilye about the country looking up pupils bior or a much enlarged school and dreadful as 23 it sounds I 1 am afraid that hat he would not be alone I 1 think V I 1 know the charming young companion of 19 who would accompany him although he tries to quiet my suspicions by saying that miss M has an agency for childrens books and would be stopping in many of the towns he would visit so that accidental dental encounters would be very f natural what can I 1 do to holda this young husband of mine whom despite all his I 1 love so passionately I 1 know I 1 am not young and charming any more I 1 was never glamorous but I 1 am slim and tall i I 1 1 school for or suit sirls and clean looking and my yellow hair Is untouched by drugs or grayness yet there must be something to me the children love me and so do their families I 1 am well again now im not ready to be a broken crying wakeful failure allure as a wife help me to get back again Dont Take hl him m seriously help my dear marigold ha has to come from within when you make yourself a whole woman ag again ain absorbed in other things than larrys physical perfections and love conquests get him back when you are always happily busy amused planning picnics tor for your charges dressing with the old charm enjoying the same old books and music Lar carryll ryll see you as he used to see you stop the crying reproaching ly ing awake nights analyzing nothing Is so fatal to married beace peace as the long reasonable talks in which a maman woman hurt hur each teach others feelings deliberately and systematically forget larry yes forget him listen to tits his complacent recitals absentminded absent minded ly have other things to think about if he goes off with the car see that he too much money suggest casually that he find a job as physical culture director in so some me other school explain that his flirtations flirtation i are undermining yours laugh about it warn prospective students that he Is youthfully amorous another in other words become yourself again a charming capable sue woman who knows how to live and help small unfortunates 0 live on happier terms who dresses well and has many interests the sooner larry drifts away to impose upon some other heart hungry older woman the sooner you 11 ll regain your moral mental psychological and physical bi balance lance |