Show kathleen N orris norris says this gentlewoman should wed ted chauffeur chait freu iben bell syndicate service 10 A ilk 44 amov 0 my father for several years hoi has had a chauffeur named tony benito hy is 4 4 ima simple man who has a wonderful mother and family tony and I 1 love each other my mi mother would be crushed il if she knew this by KATHLEEN norris T TERE is a letter from a HERE ll young girl that might make some mother thoughtful linda sends me her picture with her letter and it is the picture of a sweet sensible pretty creature she makes no complaint she only wants some advice but I 1 think she has been badly treated and that it is the fault of a selfish father and mother when I 1 was quite little mother and dad made much of ml me 1 1 I felt that they loved me writes linda but when I 1 was 10 another man appeared in the family was there continually taking mother to lunch or dinner or dancing I 1 like him very much and neither did dad soon mother explained to me that dad was going away it made me feel strange and lonely but of course I 1 was only a child and when mother married the man I 1 will call van she explained to me that it only meant that ahad I 1 had two homes now and three persons to love me instead of two for a year dad and I 1 and my nurse lived together mammy and I 1 did the cooking and we were all very happy but then dad married and although elise was kind to me and gave me presents she talked about my mothers treatment of my father said she had been cruel to him and worried me so that I 1 was really ill mother was expecting a baby then and could n not ot have me s so 0 I 1 went to a hospital and from there for years to boarding school my father has always been careless about money and every quarter I 1 would have to write and remind him to pay my bills which I 1 think accounts for the fact that I 1 am pretty shy to this day I 1 hoped to be with my mother in vacations vacation but instead they arranged for me to go to t camp every year inherited money please dont think I 1 am complaining pla ining the letter koes goes on but I 1 loved my parents and my home and I 1 used t to 0 feel very lonely my father was divorced di voiced again last year and a nd as I 1 pleaded to be able to be with him and make a home for him he agreed at 18 1 I came into some money my grandmother left me that meant that he ha and I 1 need have no money troubles I 1 came home christmas a year ago and for a few weeks I 1 was completely happy going downtown independently having my own car and feeling free but my father has chasi changed ged is rarely at home and so I 1 see little of him but my mother was very much a annoyed at this arrangement she said that having sacrificed me all these years for my education she felt that I 1 should be with her and help out with the family finances my little half brother was a strong beautiful baby but he got infantile paralysis and will always need care van my stepfather is not much of a success in business and ancl my mother misses the luxuries to which Z she had been accustomed altogether she is in a nervous state and yet she cannot get another anoche r divorce because this time she would get no alini alimony ony love comes to linda now here is I 1 my question my father for sev several eral years has had a chauffeur named tony anito he is a simple man who has R F wonderful mother and family he was married widowed 10 years ago I 1 have been to hiu ni mothers others home several times they have a restaurant which the father daughters and a nother another son manage they are uneducated people I 1 suppose talking very i little english and living avery a very natural home me ida with babies dogs old grandparents plenty of good food and good wine and plenty of love tony and I 1 love each other we a are re happy together my father probably would want to kill him if hi he knew this and I 1 know my mother would be crushed it if we married I 1 would take what money I 1 have and invest it in a ga rage which tony has long wanted to buy we could go along for a few years comfortably on what was left until he began to make morey money we both want children for all the benitos begitos love them and I 1 could never be happy without them shall I 1 refuse tony and ask dad to let him go join my mother and become a nurse to my little hall had brother whom I 1 would come to adore I 1 know or make this marriage please help me parents want her now now you parents who submit loving sensitive small girls to the miseries eri s of your own marital failures and the wretchedness of partings and changes among those who seem to them faultless what do you tho thu of the father and mother who shoved linda about without any consideration for her loving little heart her bet childs love cf stability and security and her childs confidence in her family now that she is no longer a responsibility and a bother they want wan her now that she is an heiress both dot father and mother could use tier money and now she has sought companionship and love in strange strang P places laces and is likely to go 90 out of 0 their lives forever my advice to her is to marry tony she will be many times embarrassed barr assed by his limitations she s may have to apologize for him od for her family 1 but she will have love I 1 a real real mother and real sisters arid and broth bro ers amusement distraction con pan panion ship and probably adoration from her husband she will have rot children children born good strong build of peasant stock and she will a home around them and have the i picnics and trips and birthdays and a mothering that her own childhood was denied |