Show KA KATHLEEN NORRIS S O One Phrase Cap Can Transform L Lade fe sr r DONT DON'T SEE HOW anyone can cansay cansay 1 say Happy New Year this year writes an irate woman from Brooklyn I suppose you will give us all your usual advice about being good and we will be happy continues Mattie Fields Its easy to advise about problems have had to face you never your your- self We women who lead dull and monotonous lives are all to become become become be be- come come good managers be grateful for or 3 dresses and cheap entertainment entertainment enter- enter love everyone and say I our prayers and everything will come out right I Jim is 47 and I am 38 the theetter letter etter goes on He works in a aleather aleather leather eather plant and I keep house in inive five ive rooms with three outside win win- dows dow Our daughter Beverley 17 lives ives with two girl pals and works in a dress shop in New York My Myson Myson Myson son 14 has an all bedroom when I Beverley is at home she sleeps in inthe inthe the sitting room My husband served as a veterinarian vet vet- veterinarian during the war my mother was with us then anc and I had lad a job and made good money We invested this unfortunately and our circumstances were not improved unproved when the war ended the letter letter letter let let- I am not complaining ter finishes But when anyone who happens to be successful and andrich andrich andrich rich tells me that all of us could go and do likewise and attain beauty and security in our lives the only thing it does to me is make me hopping mad The Kingdom of Heaven My dear Mattie I say in answer I dont don't blame you Advice is almost almost almost al al- most always unpalatable and the adviser always sounds smug But when I tell you or any anyone one of the theother theother theother other thousands of women who J Jr J r fY l f i n Mv make mak me bopping hopping mad write to me every year that the kingdom of ot heaven is within you I am quoting the wisest voice ever heard in this world In this little phrase lies the secret secret secret se se- cret that can transform all our lives and what better time than a anew anew anew new year to study it and try to discover its mystical meaning The truth hidden in those few words could bring content to the most feverishly wretched fabulously fabulously rich multi divorced divorced heiress in in the world and it actually does account for the laughter nn and the courage and the confidence one finds sometimes in the very darkest darkest dark dark- I est and poorest corners of our whole social structure Nobody likes poverty poverty poverty-as as poverty But the word has very different values in America and in well wen S say the westernmost reaches of China And If 11 what we call poverty poverty pov pov- erty demands anxious c care enforced enforced en en- forced simplicity sacrifice it also supplies opportunities for sharing for or service and for or family love that we wealthy persons almost inevitably inevitably ably miss Express Love and Interest You dont don't have to change your life Ufe in this new year of 1950 Mattie Mat Mat- tie You only have to 10 change yourself your s self to the point of expressing love and content and interest in everything every thing you do beautifying and enL enriching en L' L life In that Brooklyn flat t and aud the change will come of them themI themselves I selves Delves Beverley will begin to look t forward to week end visits to her herd herold herold d old home shell she'll feel eel the change the increased Interest between fath lath er mother and son the new talk I at table the new tone of affection And eventually 1950 will seem to you a year o of opened doors enlarged en en- arged vistas multiplied interests The world is in a very discouraging discouraging discouraging aging state Every tiny unit like your home and mine that lifts lilts it itself itself itself it- it self even into the smallest services to the commonwealth at large that solves its own problems plans for the greater and wiser America of is helping solve the o I worlds world's great problems Never was there a new year that gave us all so much about which to think to plan and to do There is no man or woman in all America who could not make a constructive resolution for all the days of 1950 One man I know could make his wife happy and win back his two baby sons Another woman woman and and her name is legion would legion would save her marriage if f she would sit down and seriously discuss their financial situation with her husband and abide by any plan that kept them solvent Parents might make a resolution to take their growing children into a family partnership Daughters might resolve upon a respectful considerate attitude toward home rules made only for their own prote pro pro- te Married men might reconsider the office danger presented by the new red-headed red stenographer |