Show KATHLEEN KA NORRIS Plan T Together Stand Together I THE THE FAMILY that prays together together to- to J. J gether stays together is a saying say- say tag ing ng as beautiful as it Is true truc I have another saying to match it t The family that plans together er stands together If II you and your husband and children dont don't plan together yours isn't a real home and it isn't a real marriage These are days of planning revolutionary revolutionary rev rev- planning We all have to o get new viewpoints in these days Never in the entire history of ot the world have peace loving countries faced aced such catastrophic ties les There isn't one of us whose life ife isn't going to be touched by bythe bythe the he onrush of ot events in the next few ew years and the survivors survivors and and therell there'll be millions of quite prosperous prosperous pros- pros serous and secure survivors survivors are are the he ones who look ahead today Marcia Connelly is a forward looker She writes me a most heartening letter from which these are excerpts My husband Frank began to tobe tobe tobe be tired overworked and depressed about three years ago Hes He's always been een a hard worker but since the war hes he's had all sorts of troubles strikes in our very small business difficulties in getting inventory high prices high wages He became became be be- came very silent anxious about me and the boys but never ugly or interfering Lost Her Ber Job Id been a dressmaker when I married and I tried to get in with witha a big shop but my styles weren't today's oday's and I lost that job Then I went into a hotel as noon waitress waitress waitress wait wait- ress but noon wasn't their big hour and they wanted me at night which I couldn't do Both these efforts efforts efforts ef ef- ef- ef forts distressed Frank and he was glad when both failed I tried to make him tell me where we stood financially but he I asked him to eat what he liked at noon downtown but to let me see what I could do with meatless meatless meatless meat meat- less suppers for one whole month Well weve we've had shellfish salads and sometimes a chicken salad for supper since but meat has never been the main mam dish on our table for three years We sleep better better better bet bet- ter our bills are negligible and we eat better too Then we moved We moved from the city to an abandoned outlying outlying out out- lying ling shabby old place that we bought for It had electric light but antedated plumbing and it hadn't been painted for about 40 years Labor was high but Franks Frank's a laborer and he worked right along with the men The house is divided into five small apartments i inow now and if it I had 10 I could rent I Ithem them all tonight We have a bank I balance the boys flourish in country country country coun coun- try air ah- and best of all Frank Isa is isa isa a younger and more confident man manthan manthan manthan than he was even when I married him He has moved his business to some little sheds in our back yard The boys help week ends That is Marcias Marcia's letter and what MarcIa did other women can do So dont don't be satisfied with silence evasions even irritable snubs from the man of the house win him somehow to a mood when all his anxieties are brought out into into in in- to the open and bring out your own assortment Perhaps something something something some some- thing that you have hav been doing doing- Shirleys Shirley's dancing lessons Bills Bill's school marks marks have have been fretting him out of all proportion You may maybe maybe maybe be sure that his worry Is all aU for you and the children as yours is for him |