Show nathleen kathleen norris says girl infatuated with middle aged married man with children dell bell syndicate features feature V J an 7 14 A T bettys father promptly grabbed him by the collar and thrashed him thoroughly by KATHLEEN NORRIS HE browns have one T THE daughter diana aged 19 their two sons ore are in the navy always been normal reasonable people they dont know what to d do 0 now that real trouble has struck them the trouble is diana and Kron schmidt baker kron is 42 he called on diana after meeting her at a dance he has called every night for three months diana is madly in love the man says he is deeply devoted to her but he has a wife and three children when dianas mother discovered that he was married she almost died of shame of pity for poor little diana gently tactfully I 1 she told her daughter the dreadful truth diana answered composedly that she had known tor for weeks that kron was married and had called on his wife asking her to grant him a divorce and from that moment things went from bad to worse dianas father anxious overworked tired ordered her from th the e house dianas mother fearing she would go to kron went with her after two days at a hotel they went back home diana furious silent stubborn misery reigns in the brown blown household diana slips out every day and meets kron when he goes to new mexico on duty she is going with him she persists married or not love like theirs says diana is too rare and too precious to be thrown away on conventions case requires patience all ali I 1 could advise dianas mother was to go on treating the case with patience and love I 1 told her that girls to whom love comes as a fever of infatuation could not hear reason the wild flames burning in dianas heart wont be put out with words ashes too old to lock up in tier her room too big to spank so I 1 told her mother to be understanding be sympathetic try to overcome by affection what could not be changed by force that was vas some weeks ago I 1 think that now I 1 might give dianas moth er a more mother from an opposite end ot of the country wrote me what she did in a similar case and im not sure ut what she was right it seems that this other girl aames betty was also infatuated with a middle aged married charm si r and also stubbornly determined 0 to o wreck her life for his sake bettys mother like dianas reasoned with the girl sent for or the man and talked to him severely and cnally went to see the wife the girl in both cases was adamant the charming man airey airly airl Y unconcerned and rather proud of himself and the wife helpless so bettys mother allowed I 1 her to ask as k her stanislaus to the house bettys father grabbed him by the collar and thrashed him thoroughly and the policeman on the beat having been warned in advance to be on the spot saw a suit or rush down the front steps and took both father and lover to the police station the next morning one masher was waa marked for life as an unfaithful husband who had been thrashed by a girls indignant father stans wife then threatened divorce she like the newspaper notoriety and betty left at once for war work in another city but recently betty now happily en IV t too precious lor for conventions has been home for a visit and stan divorced so perhaps these drastic measures were justified lesser disgrace preferred but you disgrace your giell a mother might say shrinking away from the mere idea of such arn an exposure well she is heading for disgrace anyway perhaps this way is the lesser evil in dianas case I 1 am informed that the man and the girl are admitted lovers have lived together in bettys case the affair had not gone so far these are on everyone perhaps nowhere harder than upon the girls who go out to work at mens work among men any girl may manage her affairs to evade the watchfulness of even the most careful mother so a shocking awakening to the scurrility of a middle aged man who wins the love and destroys the honor of a girl of 18 is some sometimes times a good thing if she get that awakening in the sensational form planned by bettys angry parents she certainly will get it later and much more painfully when she realizes that the man for whom she cried and fought and threw away everything valuable in her life is just a weakling vain untrustworthy selfish to the core when a boy puts his hand into the cash register or forges some ones name on a check he is brought up with a round turn in the juvenile court and all his life long his record is against him unfaithful husbands may well he be forgiven occasional lapses but when a man who is responsible for the welfare of a woman and children pushes theia claims aside and destroys the purity of a passionate child of 18 promising bising that he will g get et a divorce and marry her that 0 ought to be actionable and he ought ht to be thoroughly beaten |