Show Kat kathleen bleen norris says say dont get out of trouble get through 11 it dell bell syndicate features feature r IA A 4 75 7 5 r RYAN thousand Thou sandi of 01 american women are living litins gallantly in in these changed conditions thanking god cod only that int the lic a 0 their lives dies dont compare coni pure m in hardship to those thos of 01 women everywhere five else by KATHLEEN NORRIS ARNA WILKINS thinks M MARNA she needs a more considerate si husband more money more domestic hel help P less nerve strain less housework to do fewer children a kinder mother more sympathetic sym a friends what she really needs is a finer character marna like almost every other CF woman in the world today his gotten herself into a sort of jam what with the war and high prices and short supplies shortage of help and nerve strain when she and mart married everything was different they had a baby immediately find ud thought it would be nice to have another baby to play with the first baby but the second baby turned out to be boy twins and they were born just as america went to war not yet three years old they are a constant caro care and marylyn the older child is barely of school eige age oven even now marna mama struggled for some months to handle the situation getting a helper now and then never quite caught up then she collapsed and was sick her mother who is running a boarding house took little marylyn for awhile her sister in I 1 law who is a nurse put the twins somewhere and everybody was wretched marna almost in spite of herself recovered slowly from a case ot of flu that was very close to pneumonia gathered the children together staggered on resents husbands happiness but she hates her life and she care who knows it she resents her husbands health and independence as ho he whistles in his shower every morning comes down to her disorderly kitchen shaved and resh fresh goes off to the office in the family car lie he has to have the car for lie he is a salesman she loves her children grudgingly but she hates the trouble they make the spilled things and broken things the whining the constant cleaning and consoling they bore her no intelligent woman she rays ays should be condemned to the company of three babies she hates to read about movie stars and their triumphs or fur coats and jewelled clips and most of the time she really hates mart ile he at all different from the man she once loved so much but circumstances are different and he seems now to be having all the fun and she all the drudgery A large pact part of marnas mamas trouble and the trouble of thousands of women who are in the same fix is that they think they console themselves by believing that there is a quick dramatic way out marna broods over her wrongs and wonders if there an escape there simply must be a way of getting more money more freedom more glamour and daf dignity anity into her life she would be happier if she accepted once and for all the fact that the way out is through she cant dodge around these conditions or an original little song A WAY OUT its so easy for a woman to feel sorry for herself these lays days the difficulties that the war ivar has raised are arc wearying and the future doe doean doesn n t look much brighter no matter latter what the burdens however any woman cart can make ink in k her lot bearable if riot not positively y happy by going at her problems lents with determination instead of 0 trying to go around or away front from them A 1 I young wife and mother is is the subject of this article slie she has three babies her fler husband is is a sales salesman mari ile iio is is active and hc healthy althy while she is is often sich sometimes she gets so tired of caring for the three little ones that she she sic could get out of it all sonic some way she is is en eions vions eions vions of bonten with careers plenty of money and servants of women without children she wants fre freedom edorn exciter excitement nent dignity what she is looking ing for i is ii a quick way ivay to escape front from drudgery and boredom bor edorn abandon these people who depend on her she has to work out her problem on these terms and take the family with her when she starts toward her goal once realizing that her whole attitude will change she will begin to plan along quite different lines she will dramatize the housework find new ways to make it easier and more fun she will dramatize the situation of having a small daughter and two baby sons simplifying their clothing their meals inventing short cuts and adaptations she will see herself in a new light a woman with a hard job A woman who has to makel make that job a sort of daily game doing i everything she can for her children and husband and household not worrying about what she cant can t have and time or energy to do one womans comans success thousands of american women are arc living gallantly in in these changed conditions thanking god only that the terms of their lives dont compare in hardship to those of women everywhere else scores of them have already proved that the way out is the way through not around their troubles A sunburned simple pretty young mother of four small children has a three acre farm some miles down the highway from where I 1 am writing on saturdays and sundays she and the boys sell tomatoes and peaches potatoes and corn right at their own gate the husband and father is away in the south seas when he comes back a substantial substantial bank account will be ready for him iles hes always wanted to be a vet er inary the wife told me bait b it we married young and the babies came fast and he never had a chance now WP we have this little place and he can an take his training and well all help with the animals this wife was raised in a city orphanage never saw a growing vegetable until she bought the farm two years ago for 1400 1 1 I wish marna mama could meet her |