Show KA KATHLEEN TI-ILEEN NORRIS When Hubby Finds True rue Love Y HUSBAND is insane Ray MY Runyon opens her letter abruptly There is no other word for it it Outwardly he is what he has been for the 13 years of our marriage marriage mar mar- a quiet devoted husband and father a successful professional man popular in business and club circles But actually he is inflicting upon me and upon our aur children Mimi 11 and Charles 8 as cruel a persecution as any torturer of old could devise He has fallen completely com com- under the spell of a woman two wo years older than he a twice twice- married and twice-divorced twice woman a woman whose dyed hair coarse talk alk and low associates ought to repel him as they do all self re people Chuck invests her with every charm and virtue on an the list can hardly speak of her for the reverence and emotion her name evokes in him and proposes to tear our lives to pieces so that he may place alace her in the proud position of his ils wife He wants me to give him a divorce divorce divorce di di- vorce accept a third of his income which would not be a year keep the children allowing them to come and stay with Daisy whenever whenever when when- ever he decrees and that I keep friendly with Daisy and never say anything that reflects on her Never Loved Mo Me MoHe He says he has never loved me methis methis methis this this after years of at such companionship companionship compan compan- and happiness as few women women wom worn en know He says Daisy will be a aar afar afar far ar more intelligent mother than I to his children and he told his own devoted mother that he had never had aad much respect for her judgment He continues to live at home seizes every opportunity to win the childrens children's sympathy telling them kindly that Mother isn't well and that's hats why she is so nervous and tearful He never speaks to me at atall atall atall all declines all invitations that in in- v s s V. V ll 4 1 If th the tho childrens children's sym sympathy athy N elude clude me and to my request in a moment of desperate anger that he move to his club he returned calmly calmly calm calm- ly that he could not afford it as he expected l his s expenses to be doubled shortly For Daisy's birthday he ordered I a white cake frosted with daisies inthe inthe in inthe the center of which he placed a ring ringI I worth thousands that he had been holding up to that moment for Mimi some day When he took Charles into the mountains fishing for a week she went along If It I force him to sp speak ak he says patiently patient patient- ly iy Why dont don't you act as Daisy docs does She has never done a small or a mean thing in her life And he told me that if he threw her down now it would kill her and brought out the old argument that it would be better to have two of the three afus of af ofus ofus us happy rather than all be miser miser- able Heartbroken Of O course I cant can't eat cat or sleep or pretend I am not heartbroken This horrible thing vaguely suspected suspected sus sus- at this time last year is reality now This morning for the first time in months Chuck was loving and coaxing with me He begged me to be kind to be nice to Daisy to realize that she was taking taking tak tak- ing nothing from me because he and I had lost all love for each other ather long ago This last is completely completely com com- untrue And finally as I did not yield he hinted what I have known must come that no household household house house- hold bills would be paid and that the children end and I would have no money at all until I agreed to his arrangement When I said I could claim support under the law he said by all means to do so All this is like a nightmare What shall I do Help me and tell me what to do What you must do Ray will be bedone bedone bedone done for Chucks Chuck's sake as well as yours and the childrens You must stick it out Even if the woman were a finer type and there were a faint chance of ot his really loving her you would have to pursue the same course You cannot fail the children because he does If you have to take boarders or a job or move back to toMother's toMother's toMother's Mothers Mother's no matter Stick to your guns You cannot lose And the person person per per- son who will be most deeply grateful grateful grate grate- ful tul to you in the end will be Chuck himself But the eternal mystery of af it to toa toa toa a woman Not that a man can be attracted to another woman or want a divorce Those things i if indicating indicating in in- a weakness for flattery lattery and self-deception self are natural enough But that the man should want to insult insult in in- sult and hurt the woman he loves sweep all the value of the happy past aside injure his children as no enemy could injure them and add to all this the bland assurance to everyone concerned that he is acting acting act act- ing wisely generously and with a cool head His wife he be assures her never really loved him |