Show kathleen norris says companionship P dorsit just happen bell syndicate features feature 14 7 ap C rl 1 f jill J 1 7 it off 1141 truly a I 1 girl irl of 19 may have a wonderful V U I 1 companionship with avith a man of 38 even as is his wife W A but only when he cart can pet pas her ter spoil her treat her as a doll by KATHLEEN NORRIS NE of the richest blessings 0 ONE life can w win n any one of us is companionship never underestimate it no matter how burdened your life is with duties responsibilities bili ties interruptions distractions financial and doMe domestic stid worries dont complain as long as you have someone with whom you vu can share them certain professional and business women hornen are enormously successful some oi 1 them are rich but it if life brought them companionship they have nothing worth having alid they know it they go in for nervous disorders for bitterness for strange extravagances they keep reaching blindly about for the precious the inestimable treasure that la Is companionship with kith some other human soul and they never find it ii they cannot find it they have destroyed the secret of possessing it of winning it ita yes ves I 1 used the word Pw winning twinning in this connection because a part of that secret 1 ot of companionship Is that I 1 it never comes ready made you have to work for it to preserve it why letters like this one from Franc francoline Francol olinell lne are so pathetic in their innocence and so sad in their certainty of disappointment francoline Francol lne la Is 19 she la Is going to be married this Is part of her letter mother objects to ito paul he I 1 Is just twice my ago age not that 38 is old tor for marriage but mother thinks its old tor afi chenman man who wants to become marhul my husband and he has been married beforehand before and he says he has learned consideration the hard bard way lie ile j has two Ws boys aged 10 and 8 1 1 and he ha adores them and so do I 1 their mother has moved away ind and left them hero here in n school I 1 Com complete sympathy 1 awe we will not have much money and that worries mother I 1 tell her I 1 am not marrying paul for money I 1 am marrying because of the corn com we laugh at the same things we like the tha layng sam shows wo we love to plan what we will do someday when we are rich our feeling tor for each other la Is based on something much deeper than amere a mere crush and we have known each other ever since paul was in fri college and I 1 was born 4 you feel eel and youve youve often said th the letter concludes that companionship Is the real base of a happy marriage ye we bre bare surp sure ot of it I 1 am not taking paul away from his wile except for her monthly alimony check ha has no correspondence with her at bat au all ile he says he never has really loved before 1 I know I 1 never have ha kcf and that I 1 never will again leeel much more capable of giving advice about marriage than accepting it but ut I 1 would like to know if you yow dont this may be a successful marriage 4 0 0 francoline Francol Frn coline lne is 19 10 but she sounds younger she sounds about 12 she is re velling in her first rapture of young love altime a time ot of dreams and delusions beautiful inevitable but pitiful too it asp aul that Ib laroo for this situation paul who has two boys and a divorced wife and who la is twice age my answer Is certainly you may make a success of this marriage there Is ia no marriage that may not bo be turned intra success amstrong self controlled sensible woman I 1 ea aul 44 47 I 1 I 1 love jha boys |