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Show athleen Norris Says: f, !; Men Haven t Much Sense 5. BeU Syndicate. WNU Featurea. KATHLEEN NOttatt 'our wedding night he began to tell me of his conquests. It secretly made rfc, so that we started off badly." -KATHLEEN NORRIS -iROL is a very pretty -girl who married her schoolhero; she adored "He in secret all through Tlhood, she watched him 'liotball games in college ) she cried when she J him goodbye and saw T to war, and they were EtI'ed six months ago, when !Eiie came marching would be a perfect hus-she hus-she writes me, "if he h riot so stuck on himself. "iose the right word for OH'-s 'vain,' but stuck on Sf seems to express it nT Johnnie has been a 3eal admired, he was a 11 idol in our small and he has a good war but my gracious!. ICW wedding night he began 6 me of his conquests. It i made me sick, so that we w oft badly. I listened all "f1 the honeymoon to casual ores to girls who had made 1 themselves over him and ; women who had abandoned when Irresistible Johnnie vinjlong. rally, this disgusted me a r-al, for the nature of these ?ns was rather shocking, but disheartened me more was ,ris vanity and his simplicity. illed In long quoted conver-in conver-in which this or that shy gradually surrendered to his going on to review the love fthat pestered him while in I flee, and the praises of his 4 officers, many of whom aiim, his record, and his suc-the suc-the ladies. Keeps on Boasting. aying, 'oh, please, I'm not a'd!' has no effect. Johnnie rfght on boasting. Once or J I tried a back-fire, and began ll own romantic adventures, 0 didn't interest him at all. , i dly listened and was oft ! the fascinating history of "Ol(!rilipino girl, or a little Aus-'ddhurse Aus-'ddhurse It's so tiresome that fillies I want to scream. s Beware," the letter continues, Zo& r describing a stupid, self-I self-I Id man, but that's not the lV jphnnie is kind, generous, l , extremely popular, and 4ck from service still cheer-well-balanced, and has made his way as a mem- ur best firm of architects. in)(j:e he doesn't talk this way vfo NPme' we both love tne little ' fere we live, ana jonnnie is ie' ,lever in planning for the ""sili and fruit by which we lb make It pay. He is patheti-;nC patheti-;nC fased that a baby is coming, ntop(ier touched me by saying, Jcdf1 was hoping for a boy, 'I niite 'girl, like her mother.' tion- vvith all this he can't see plu ""s hurting himself and bor-la bor-la Jg'y this Adonis-complex, this J-(i(:ompacent posing, this con-eference con-eference to himself as ja, taller, handsomer than all with whom he comes in 'She took one look at me,' U1 ' c $0iasts of his conquests. . . . MALE VANITY A girl who marries a handsome, hand-some, talented man can hardly be surprised if he is vain and boastful. Men are that way. Carol complains that her husband, hus-band, Johnnie, talks endlessly about his conquests of the heart, about how envious other men are of him, how married women falljor him, etc. This is getting pretty tiresome, Carol thinks. She is herself a beauty, and apparently completely satisfied with Johnnie, outside of his obnoxious egotism. They live on a nice little farm outside out-side the city where he works as an architect. He is successful, success-ful, well balanced despite his war experiences, affectionate and generous. They are eagerly eager-ly awaiting the arrival of their first child. Miss Norris replies that no marriage can be completely happy. There is always some flaw. In Carol's case, it seems to be merely an annoying trifle.. The advancing years, says Miss Norris, will bring Johnnie John-nie many sobering experiences. This phase of Johnnie's will pass, says Miss Norris, leaving nothing but memories, if Carol will have the patience and wisdom wis-dom to wait it out. he will say, 'and her darling Fred dy faded from the picture.' " Well, Carol, I say in answer, every ev-ery marriage has its percentage of difficulty and disappointment; some as high as 80 per cent, some as in your case, that I would rate about 10 per cent; Johnnie's vanity is innocent enough after all, for the probability is that his conquests exist principally in his own fond dreams; any man who is popular farm-loving, wife-loving, baby-loving, and who belongs to so eclectic a profession as his, is sound at heart. Defeats will Come. You may have to put up with his absurdities for a while longer, and then may have the harder trial of seeing Johnnie disappointed, his pride tumbled in the dust, his beauty Impaired and for sheer pity of him, in his childish hurt and amazement, you may feel a love and sorrow that will wipe out all the memories of younger, bumptious bumpti-ous years. , The mills of the gods often bring this to pass. And the higher they rode in their glory, the deeper these men have to fall. You married what every young girl dreams of marry ing tall and nanasome ana popu- . lar and a football hero and a war ; hero isn't that about the prescrip- ; tion? and if he is good-natured and affectionate and smart in his profession you got more than you ordered. You can do something, in this particular moment in world affairs by calling his attention to the wounded, the handicapped men who are coming home, and getting him to help them that may sober him. Anyway, sooner or later, life itself will, and Johnnie the magnificent will grow to man's estate. JAP WOMEN TO VOTE The sudden opening of the ballot box to the women of Japan marks a tradition-breaking milestone in the movement looking to greater freedom free-dom for Japanese women. About 60 years ago, a Japanese "Susan Anthony," Miss Kageyama, started a campaign for women's rights, and was jailed for her daring. Throughout the Orient the idea ot granting women a share in politi cal life made practically no pro2 rcss until 1935 when the Philippines' granted equal voting rights. |