| Show KA KATHLEEN NORRIS cifes phone binges Im important t PERHAPS TERII ArS this too serious a situation writes jack nolan of trenton but ill bet it goes on in lots of families and im maybe arbeit it makes some other follows fellows as mad as it does me my wife gussy has a pal named cicily who lives about halt half a block away they see each other practically every day and as Cic ilys husband Is an old friend of mine we often get together for an evenings amusement we have two boys and a girl cicily and dan two girls and a boy we have about the same incomes tastes really a lot in common 1 I dont telephone dan three times a year dut but gussy has to ca call 11 clelly every morning and almost every evening every bit of news she gets has to be rushed to clelly cicily the kids school marks a letter from her mother someone having a divorce or a baby or a new house or a visitor and go on about them for hounsl I 1 am a court stenographer and one night I 1 took down a 20 minute conversation and I 1 showed it afterward to my wife here they were saying three times when do I 1 see you and 1 I dont know darling and oh arent we going to rosamonda Ro tomorrow of course we arel are and then in five minutes they were at it again hut but when do I 1 see you dear 1 I dont know dear ill call you and oh goodness were going to meet at Ko Ro of coursell coursel passing tile the word does that sound like sense it but when I 1 call my wile wife down she only laughs she calls it passing the word and says shed simply burst when some tidbit of gossip comes her way it she could not piss pass it along cant you say something sometime about the time women waste at the telephone ask them what think it if their r r tw f aa VU tl U CA 4 4 IL aa COW r every morning evening husbands hid had to call each other up every night and giggle over the events of the day I 1 dont come home at night to listen to that murmuring going on in the hall all evening its about the only thing wrong with my wife so why the heck cant she stop it jack it seems to me that you are the one who ought to stop stop trying to take out of your cifes life what is really an integral and important part of it she Is evidently a live human woman interested te in all that goes on about her and at present her only steady companions are three small children all under seven years of age all AH day long their demands difficulties cul cult ties les needs their incessant babble and weeping and their unanswerable sw erable why goes on lind and she meets it with love and patience and laughter because it Is her job familiar spirit but when they are in bed and you have come home with your budget ot of news and the days mail and the evening paper and the radio have all contributed to her saga ot of events she just cant help calling a familiar spirit out 0 of I 1 another kitchen and nursery and passing the word she cant do it in the daytime she and cicily are afe too busy but how they do love that evening interchange that and what did I 1 say shed do and my dear it if this one a boy mary says shell throw it back and oh she got the tweed she says shell wear it three years and in that time lime joell forget it cost sixty and believe me jack these things are important just as important as the cases you hear in co court urt every day you hear of lawsuits property squabbles contracts broken delinquencies felonies and they all stem out of the kitchens that were slovenly mothers who were not interested in their job wives who watch budgets and consult experienced elders as to nursery discipline and the latest methods of child analysis they stem from divorce from household quarrels from debt and dirt and di disorders orders three dangers from wh which ich your good wife evidently keeps her household tree free all day long you are entitled to discuss what interests you with your associates gossip goes about the court about the lunch table where you and an always shifting group of clerks discuss the judge the crowd the criminals the morning newspaper and a thousand other things these things seem to you infinitely more significant than gusses enthus enthusiastic lastic description of a bride she happened to see of little augustas tooth of the jelly that harden and the way the linoleum curls up under the bath room door but they are not |
