Show kathleen norris says the Se selfish Irish dishonest wife bell syndicate features feature A 4 vow late in the alvernoon alter noon sho and her abowd are giggling at a bar in some fashionable lounge fly by KATHLEEN NORRIS is it that tha t a corrian HOW like ethel davis can cap get away with what she does how is it that while thousands of women are steadily meeting their obligations as wives and mothers ei rs ethel can break every law in the book and not be thrown out of society as the outlaw she is all wives have faults so have all men we all fall each other part 0 of f the time A wife can be irritable when she Is I 1 is tired but that may make her only the more loving and sorry when the time comes to make up A wife may be extravagant in one glaring An instance stance but she Is sorry for it and a little scared when the milliners bill comes in I 1 and she makes toms favorite dessert for dinner and resolves to wear that hat for or two solid seasons A wife may know that she Is too fussy assy ussy or too suspicious or too slipshod about getting the marketing and the dusting done promptly but if she to la a real wife she does try to improve she does feel eel sorry for poor old tom she does docs grow spiritually year by year not ethel davis ethel was completely satisfied when she ahe married ferd feid davis seven years ago and she is as smug as ever now she has two children a boy and a girl and she talks as asiano asif alino no women woman alive had gone through the ordeal of having children before ferd carries up stray a tray to ethel every morning and a high school girl comes in for or 50 cents a morning and gives the children their breakfast and starts them off fl to nursery school ethel gets up at 10 and goes downtown to lunch with friends then its a beauty parlor or a movie and late in the afternoon slie she and her crowd ore are giggling at ata a bar in some fashionable lounge perhaps then she telephones home to the woman who comes lit in at a dollar achour an hour every afternoon that she wont be home to dinner it if sh she e does come home it is to cuddle her babies give them candy and toys and shriek like a siren it ferd cames comes in hungry tired and critical the children scream too aad cling to their mother ferd fe rd is an outsider tilder ou in his own borne nates hate s to go on living ferd gives me ine this account or of his marriage in a seven page typewritten outburst ho he says hes been considering everything 1 desertion kidnapping his own children childr eri divorce suicide he wants to know it if there a tribunal where a marriage like his could be rated there any standard any graph by which hw friends could know that his rating of m marital happiness is about three per cent nursery school includes lunch and naps writes ferd and costs me 70 a month the school girl gets 12 and old minnie about 80 my salary is 75 a week and commissions missions ethel cashes small checks at the grocery and drugstore about three times a week 01 ol 01 course I 1 cant swing it I 1 swea sweat myself crazy for commas alons ive borrowed all my life insurance will c carry a rry my father left a farm that im crazy about to my bachelor brother and mi me now im going to son sell biffi my share but then what dont say talk W to ethel all she does docs Is get shrill and mad and say thata that I 1 think I 1 married a servant theres divorce of course but 4 vinta 1 4 I 1 N J she y r ake lip into real hood what of sharon and ferd id die for or my kids but I 1 dont seem to know how to live for or them Is there any way out of 0 this mess ive gotten so low that I 1 hate to go on living 0 I 1 think there Is isa I 1 a way out of 0 this mess ferd androu indicate yourself what it might be many a man could take it when faced aced with your problem but not quite so simply as you can go to the farm tell ethel that you ha have ve decided to live on the farm arm with the children any man has the right to decide that he will be a farmer instead 0 of a city clerk move out there perhaps notifying certain shops in your city that you are closing your account with them if you must borrow to get the farm paying borrow chickens and milk potatoes and apples are bringing higher prices than they ever have hi the history of the world ethel will have to come with you or leave you either way you will have the right to make terms you cannot possibly take care of babies of 5 and 4 in a city apartment but have no trouble with them on a farm the nearest farmers wife will ddn run their clothes through her washing machine and be with you all day long in a childs para 1 the tha other day I 1 was asked in a questionnaire what quality I 1 thought most essential to success that is the worldly success of fame and wealth independence and security lafter some reflection I 1 said imago nation whether its running a boarding house or writing a novel you must have imagination if you are to escape from the rut see tar for enough ahe ahead a d to disc discern etri a shining goal put spur imagination to work F ferd erd upon just what this turning 0 of I 1 the tables will mean to a selfish extravagant stupid wife get back to td the soil and give your wife ever every chance to accompany you if she wont she forfeits income position home and she cannot claim alimony it if she comes theres just a chance that she may wake up into real womanhood |