Show KATHLEEN KA NORRIS Daughter Pamela Sows the Wind TY TV DAUGHTER is 22 writes liMY LL Mabel Blake from a small I Illinois town She is tiny wears size 10 clothes and looks about 12 She has always been a great favorite favorite favorite favor favor- ite and much in demand by the nicest crowd here At 15 she was having young admirers very much in earnest and last year she announced an an- her engagement to one of the finest men we know Her father tather and I were very happy about it Pam has always had a very steady little head on her shoulders and she chose a man of 29 who passed the bar with honors and is already established with a fine legal firm in Evanston In every way Clyde is the ideal mate for her Four months ago a man came to town with an unpleasantly free manner no job and a bad record That is at 21 he is already being divorced the father of at a small child for whom he apparently cares nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing and altogether an undesirable person Dreamy State However he sings he fills in on radio programs he is handsome and Pamela has fallen completely under his spell She has broken her engagement to Clyde and all aU we hear is Hal Hal Hal She seems to be in a dreamy state utterly unlike unlike unlike un un- like her old self she has an answer answer answer an an- for everything nothing we can cansay cansay say seems to penetrate My husband has made Hal feel that he is unwelcome here Pam meets him at the corner and they go of off oU together almost every eve eve- ning That she has seen him the I worse for tor alcohol I 1 know and we also know that she has lent him money for my son who works in inthe inthe the bank has had an opportunity to I ascertain this I Weve always had bad a happy home my husband is the best of men and a most considerate father X fi i 1 I ft h be he is unwelcome there seems to be no reason why Pam should turn away from us all and jeopardize everything she has ever known for this boy Clyde Clyd came from the city to talk to her about it last Sunday Pam would do nothing but laugh and joke and instead of ot driving him to the train as she always always always al al- al- al ways has done went of off with Hal and left us to handle Clyde This morning she tells me that his divorce which his wife is getting getting getting get get- ting in California will be granted in a few weeks and then he and she will be married and she asked that we dont don't argue arguo about it Is there any accounting for tor this foolishness and andis andis andis is there any way in which she can be stopped Wither l Natures Nature's J Job b bIts bIt's Its It's Mother Natures Nature's job to account account account ac ac- ac- ac count for the foolishness Mabel not mine Its It's on nn expensive form of foolishness but Mother Nature never never nev nev- er did bother about expenses It means that that curious chemical I 1 I prefer the word reversed myself and call it alchemic alchemic insanity has gotten hold of Pamela whether Its It's all physical or all mental or both nobody to know But it seems produces produces produces pro pro- duces the grand passion that ephemeral feeling of lightness and ecstasy that absorption in the presence presence pres pres- ence of another person that heady intoxication that makes only what he says important and makes him ones one's entire interest He may be as in this case far from an admirable person Pamela may be headed for bitter disillusionment disillusionment disillusion disillusion- ment and probably is But that doesn't mean that his lightest word his lightest touch doesn't thrill her heras heras heras as she has never b been en thrilled in her life before As for warmer signs of ot affection praise in his magical voice the pressure of ot those handsome handsome handsome hand hand- some lips the firm hold of those manly arms well arms well she is living ina in ina a world colored by those and nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing else and for the moment it Is Isa Isa isa a glorious world It is hard for tor you It will be harder hard hard- er for tor her She will find herself in ina a few years possibly in a few months in a small cheap apartment apart ment with breakfast fishes dishes hanging hanging hang hang- ing on unwashed until noon because Hal hates to get up with a flat fiat pocketbook with even margarine and frankfurters beyond the budget because there is no budget and every pound of coffee a problem |