Show KA KATHLEEN N ORRIS NORRIS new start Is always available one ot of the blessed miracles of life is that we can always make a fresh start in moments ot of depression ot of course that is exactly what you feel you cannot do one reason why by they are moments ot of depression but the truth Is J that no matter how hopelessly tangled how fixed and unchangeable the circumstances in which you find yourself may be there is always the divine right to start all over again you begin this process by a little clear thinking you ask yourself what do I 1 want my life and myself to be and what Is the first step toward realizing that ideal you may not be able to see the outcome e or indeed even the second step but the first is there before you if you can recognize it considers suicide take the case of lauranna jackson for example Laur annas affairs affair have become so miserably unsatisfactory that she cannot see any way out except suicide and she says she the courage to try that 1 1 I I am 38 36 healthy good looking and smart enough to have kept several good jobs at different times says Laur annas long letter at 22 1 I married the man who was immediately ahead of me in m the office and four years later our daughter now 10 was bom that year keith went to the south pacific and I 1 went back to my mother and my job those were busy prosperous years tor for my little sharon and me but when keith came back I 1 was ready to return to the old basis 7 A broken in health and spirits however he was so completely changed that alter after much quarrel ling and making up and quarrelling again we got a divorce my mother died at this time and sharon went to her other grandmother two years ago I 1 married again a man who promised me every comfort and agreed that I 1 should have my own daughter back he has two daughters now aged 14 and 11 by an earlier marriage and I 1 have tried to do my duty by them they have been badly spoiled and are difficult to handle and financial reverses have made it advisable tor for me to resume my office position my husband cheated by his partner and unlucky in investments Is ia broken in health and spirits and may have to retire not happy dappy with mother sharon has visited us but Is not happy here and assures me that she I 1 Is well treated in her grandmothers comfortable home and the most unwelcome prospect of 0 another babas arrival has just about wrecked my nerves I 1 find myself faced with the prospect of 0 stopping work stopping paid work that Is but working as an actual servant in this inharmonious household and replacing my own child with two utterly undisciplined little girls moreover presently there w will ill be the exacting care of a small baby when our finances are unable to stand the strain of present expenses what can I 1 do to extricate myself from this slough of despon despondency dency bad nights quick temper a anxiety and the drea dread d of fresh responsibilities when my baby Is born bom there must be a solution im still sane enough to bellev believe that for I 1 feel as it if I 1 could not st stand and this situation any longer here Is one more case of an impulsive woman herself undisciplined who builds up trouble through long years and expects to escape from the result of her actions in a matter of days or weeks trouble has to be unravelled the way knitting does you have to go right back to the wrong stitches and start over from there lau bannas predicament seem trouble at all to half the women of the world thousands of discouraged husbands have been helped along by a cifes courageous example to the rebuilding of fortune this is an everyday story with the right man and woman new babies arrive every day by the hundred all over the big world u under n d e r circumstances infinitely more distressing than these small girls are trained to be gentle and useful under the influence of a good example and making her home a place of harmony and interest Is the quickest and the unfailing way ay for lauranna to lure little shaw searon r on back into it the important problem in the pie picture is lauranna herself ashes been shirking all along the line |