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Show A WORD TO THE WISE .. What a pity we are so reluctant re-luctant to heed good advice! Children don't like to hear about such disagreeable things as "duty" and "morality." And when an older woman tells a younger one that the way to insure the happiness of her marriage is by patience, tolerance and forgiveness, the younger woman is likely to say something about not want-ting want-ting to be a martyr. But the prevalence of this attitude does not alter the fact that only through obeying the rules of morality can we achieve that larger freedom which is so different from mere willfulness will-fulness and which is the only real basis for a lasting happiness. happi-ness. Let Kathleen Norris tell you why she might have helped the Georgianna of this letter if she had known her mother twenty years ago. |