Show kathleen norris says moving into paradise rell bell Irea feature tures j V the atmosphere of the household changed was a smiling beloved avile tvile again by KATHLEEN NORRIS F YOU knew of a country I 1 IF without move there care would you if beyond the ocean borders or far south toward the pole there ther e was an ideal land of eternal spring a land whose people were simple and good a land without money worries without the nagging fears and disappointments that make up our daily lives h here ei ref without hate and war how busily and with what energy and determination nt thousands thousand of war weary and worry weary families would plan to move there 0 any sacrifice would be worth while any effort made easy by such a hope for ourselves and our children for life on terms has grown too hard and too complicated aad in a sense too hopeless for or mabyon many maby of us to face with courage cour aee Mini cind aga been busy for years creating all the evils from which civilization ought to rescue us u I 1 ruin hate despair fear hunger g r disease debt row when optimistic ti voices tell us glibly how we shall over overcome coine these evils we feel a deep discouragement overcome them why they never should have exIst existed edat at alit well there Is that ideal country and it Is close to us all but very few women find it ii when they do when they live in that placid sunshiny climate loving life as ts beloved and happy children do aking to wake in the morning welcoming the restfulness of sleep at night wo we look sit at them with envy they live la in reace peace these women are rare some of them are homely and poor and grizzled with years most of them have faces that show signs of post past crises agonies sacr luces despairs but these things only show enough to make brighter the peace and beauty of their present lives mille poster foster Is one such woman I 1 know ivo ive never seen her perhaps never will but she writes me a letter that tells the old story the story of a soul harassed with fears of a body troubled with aches and pains of a situation so complicated by mistakes and faults that there seemed to be no way out of it rollie wrote me from Om omaha afia neb some four years ago she mid had then been divorced tor for some years and was living with a second husband and two stepchildren step children all of whom made life ille extremely difficult tor jor her she had been so anxious to divorce van nan and narry marry bruce that she ceded to van the ahe custody of her own child a boy iter her babyboy baby by bruce died at a barth she sha said because of the nervous condition nto into which the unmanageable step chil dren and disappointing husband had thrown her she had backaches headaches sleepless nights she wrote rne me that she had long lost every vestige of charm every scrap of attraction for bruce who iswalt ing his money en cn other women already 11 prayer was wa answered meanwhile her own boy went into a long and dangerous illness the scourge of infantile paralysis seized hiti him and he needed actual years of kenderest ten derest care sick over i diw stepchildren worked jealous nervous what had haelle baille to spare 0 tor for him she saw him only ablong at long intervals and his baby loyalty and devotion went to hla his grandmother and aunts what baille did you can do I 1 it Is the cure it Is theolen the open sesame to the land of peace and plenty she tn in her own words cast her burden upon the lord 1 I went on my knees says her second leiter letter which came to me only a few days ago and sald sad oh lord I 1 am wrong ive made all the ahe mistakes a woman can make ive done all I 1 could to wreck my life and fhe lives about me seame set me right show I 1 me the the prayer was waa answered of course that prayer always is not by any sudden miracle but by the slow shifting and changing of lifes colors from dark to light hallee got up from her knees confident and refreshed and began to do the thing nearest her with all her might washing cooking managing the children she sha did it all humbly waiting tor for guidance Gul guidance dance came her aching head cleared she began to sleep deep 1 I felt like wings were under everything ell all of a sudden she writes it if braces children were cranky id say in my heart lord you help them I 1 was praying all day long in my heart well to make a long story short the sick small boy boain in a wheel wheal chair was presently transferred to his mother and financial old aid was given tor for his care the small cheerful sufferer had an immense influence upon the other children the atmosphere mo sphere of the household changed halite was a smiling beloved wife again she went on praying n no not praying exactly but lifting her heart continually into that clearer purer air that Is the realization of god and good she lives in that atmosphere always that Is the he one great miracle of life greater than the atomic bomb Is the discovery that shatters the hardness of human hearts and wins thern them this peace that can face change poverty hard work with a confident smile the discovery thai tha the Xing kingdom dorn of heaven ts Is within you |