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Show Kathleen Norris Says: Don't Get Out of Trouble; Get Tlirough It Bell Syndicate. WNU Features. fW- Thousands of American women are living gallantly in these changed conditions, condi-tions, thanking Cod only that the terms of their lives don't compare in hardship hard-ship to those of women everywhere else. By KATHLEEN NORRIS MARNA WILKINS thinks she needs a more considerate husband, hus-band, more money, more domestic do-mestic help, less nerve strain, less housework to do, fewer children, a kinder mother, more sympathetic friends. What she really needs is a finer character. Marna, like almost every other woman in the world today, to-day, has gotten herself into a sort of jam what with the war, and high prices and short supplies, shortage of help and nerve strain. When she and Mart married everything every-thing was different; they had a baby immediately and thought it would be nice to have another baby, to play with the first baby. But the second baby turned out to be boy twins, and they were born lust as America went to war. Not yet three years old, they are a constant care, and Marylyn, the older child, is barely of school age even now. Marna struggled for some months to handle the situation, getting a helper now and then, never quite caught up; then she collapsed and was sick. Her mother, who is running run-ning a boarding house, took little Maryiyn for awhile, her sister-in-law, who Is a nurse, put the twins somewhere, and everybody was wretched. Marna, almost in spite of herself, recovered slowly from a case of flu that was very close to pneumonia, gathered the children together, to-gether, staggered on. Resents Husband's ITappiness. But she hates her life and she doesn't care who knows it. She resents re-sents her husband's health and independence in-dependence as he whistles in his shower every morning, comes down to her disorderly kitchen shaved and fresh, goes off to the office in the family car. He has to have the car, (or he is a salesman. She loves her children, grudgingly. grudging-ly. But she hates the trouble they make, the spilled things and broken things, the whining, the constant cleaning and consoling. They bore her. No intelligent woman, she says, should be condemned to the company of three babies. She hates to read about movie stars and their triumphs, or fur coats and Jewelled clips. And most of the time she really hates Mart. He isn't at all different from the man she once loved so much, but circumstances are different, and he seems now to be having all the fun and she all the drudgery. A large part of Marna's trouble, and the trouble of thousands of women wom-en who are in the same fix, is that they think they console themselves by believing that there is a quick, dramatic way out. Mama broods over her wrongs and wonders if there isn't an escape; there simply must be a way of getting more money, mon-ey, more freedom, more glamour and dignity Into her life. She would be happier If sne accepted ac-cepted once and for all the fact that the way out is through. She can't dodge around these conditions, or abandon these people who depend "An original little song. . . A WAY OUT ! It's so easy for a woman to fpel sorry for herself these days. The difficulties that the war has raised are wearying, and the future doesn't look much brighter. No matter ' ' what the burdens, hoivever, 1 any woman can make her lot bearable, if not positively hap- , py, by going at her problems t with determination, instead of trying to go around, or away from them. j i A young wife and mother is i1 the subject of this article. She has three babies. Her husband is a salesman'. He is active and ' healthy, while she is often sick. Sometimes she gets so tired of i caring for the three little ones that she wishes she could get t out of it all some way. She t is envious of women with ca- I reers, with plenty of money ' and servants, of women with-out with-out children. She .wants freedom, free-dom, excitement, dignity. What she is looking for is a quick way to escape from drudgery ' and boredom. an her; she has to work out her . problem on these terms, and take the family with her when she starts toward her goal. Once realizing that, lier whole attitude will change. She will begin to plan along quite dif- ) Eerent lines. She will dramatize the housework, find new ways to make it easier and more fun. vShe will Iramatize the situation of having a small daughter and two baby sons, simplifying their clothing, their "neals, inventing short cuts and adaptations. She will see herself in i i new light; a woman with a hard lob. A woman who has to make :hat job a sort of daily game, doing everything she can for her children ind husband and household, not wor- ' rying about what she can't have and lasn't time or energy to do. One Woman's Success. Thousands of American women ire living gallantly in these changed j :onditions, thanking God only that he terms of their lives don't com- t 3are in hardship to those of women . everywhere else. Scores of them lave already proved that the way )ut is the way through, not around lieir troubles. A sunburned, simple, pretty young nother of four small children has i three-acre farm some miles down he highway from where I am writ-ng. writ-ng. On Saturdays and Sundays she ind the boys sell tomatoes and reaches, potatoes and corn right at heir own gate. The husband and ather is away, in the south seas. Vhen he comes back a substantial ank account will be ready for him. "He's always wanted to be a vet-irinary," vet-irinary," the wife told me, "but we narried young and the babies came ast and he never had a chance. Now ve have this little place, and he can ake his training and we'll all help vith tlie animals. This wife was raised in a city irphanage, never saw a growing 'egetable until she bought the farm wo years ago for $1,400. I wish Jarna could meet her. Applesauce Easily Made Apples will retain their best flavor vhen they are peeled, cored and looked the shortest possible time n a tightly covered pan with no nore water than necessary to pre-'ent pre-'ent scorching. Applesauce can be nade by using only a small amount if sugar or a sugar substitute. One-third cup sugar to 1 pounds if cut and cored apples yields about ine quart of tart sauce to accom-3any accom-3any meat A dessert sauce will iced more sweetening, part of vhich may be honey or syrup. |