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Show KATHLEEN NORMS New Start Is Always Available as if I could not stand this situation any longer." Here is one more case of an impulsive im-pulsive woman, herself undisciplined, undiscip-lined, who builds up trouble through long years, and expects to escape from the result of her actions in a matter of days or weeks. Trouble has to be unravelled the way knitting does. You have to go right back to the wrong stitches, and start over from there. Lau-ranna's Lau-ranna's predicament wouldn't seem trouble at all to half the women of the world. Thousands of discouraged discour-aged husbands have been helped along by a wife's courageous example ex-ample to the rebuilding of fortune. This is an everyday story with the right man and woman. New babies arrive every day by the hundred, all over the big world, under circumstances infinitely more distressing than these. Small girls are trained to be gentle and useful under the influence of a good example. And making her home a place of harmony and interest is the quickest quick-est and the unfailing way for Lauranna to lure little Sharon back into it. The important problem in the picture pic-ture is Lauranna herself. She's been shirking all along the line. One of the blessed miracles of life is that we can always make a fresh start. In moments of depression, of course, that is exactly what you feel you cannot do. That's one reason rea-son why they are moments of depression. de-pression. But the truth is that no matter how hopelessly tangled, how fixed and unchangeable the circumstances circum-stances in which you find yourself may be, there is always the divine right to start all over again. You begin this process by a little clear thinking. You ask yourself "what do I want my life and myself to be, and what is the first step toward realizing that ideal?" You may not be able to see the outcome, or indeed even the second step, but the first is there before you if you can recognize it. Considers Suicide Take the case of Lauranna Jackson, Jack-son, for example. Lauranna's affairs af-fairs have become so miserably unsatisfactory that she cannot see any way out except suicide, and she says she hasn't the courage to try that. "I am 36, healthy, good looking and smart enough to have kept several good jobs at different times," says Lauranna's long letter. let-ter. "At 22 i married the man who was immediately ahead of me in the office, and four years later our daughter, now 10, was born. That year Keith went to the South Pacific Paci-fic and I went back to my mother and my job. Those were busy, prosperous years for my little Sharon and me, but when Keith came back I was ready to return to the old basis. . .' broken in health and spirits." However, he was so completely changed that after much quarrelling quarrel-ling and making-up and quarrelling again, we got a divorce. My mother died at this time, and Sharon went to her other grandmother. Two years ago I married again, a man who promised me every comfort, and agreed that I should have my own daughter back. He has two daughters, now aged 14 and 11, by an earlier marriage, and I have tried to do my duty by them. They have been badly spoiled and are difficult to handle, and financial reverses have made it advisable for me to resume my office position. My husband, cheated by his partner and unlucky in investments, is broken in health and spirits and may have to retire. Not Happy With Mother . "Sharon has visited us, but is not happy here, and assures me that she is well treated in her grandmother's grand-mother's comfortable home. And the most unwelcome prospect of another baby's arrival has just about wrecked my nerves. I find myself faced with the prospect of stopping work stopping paid work, that is but working as an actual servant in this inharmonious household, and replacing my own child with two utterly undisciplined little girls. Moreover, presently there will be the exacting care of a small baby when our finances are unable to stand the strain of present pres-ent expenses. What can I do to extricate myself from this slough of despondency, bad nights, quick temper, anxiety, and the dread of fresh .responsibilities .responsibil-ities when my baby is born? There must be a solution, I'm still sane enough to believe that. For I feel |