Show kathleen norris says tite the luckiest girls in town bell service T 41 44 N no girl of sixteen or d eighteen ish knows what she is jeopardizing iuni when she ft goes goei about with a reckless crowd she sh endures hay intoxicated women and men who cant make up their minds to go home she risks the return home with a sliver driver who is unfit to handle a car by KATHLEEN NORRIS who are kept at gnal I 1 T home by strict mater nal rule and obliged to obey pretty severe rules of conduct in the matters of dances and dates and late hours are the luckiest girls after all they may not see it at 18 but ten years and fifteen years later they see it and it is then in happy young wifehood and motherhood with their own potential responsibilities bili ties coming along that they turn to the older woman with an affectionate laugh and begin to repay the debt they owe her for guarding their girlhood mother was a gorgon Gorgo nl they say proudly nancy and I 1 get away with ANYTHING I 1 mother had to know an all about boys before they could even take us to movies but of course sixteen and eighteen dont see this and it if they possibly can they escape from home control good hc heavens avens they mutter as they curl up their shining locks and paint their young mouths the harm barm of dancing the harm in one cocktails I 1 never took too much to drink in my life and neither did nancy think from the way mother and dad talk that we were going right to the baal too much bluch freedom harmful but there IS harm in giving youth too much freedom the harm Is that no girl of sixteen or eighteen kno knows w a what she Is losing or jeopardizing cizin g when she goes about with a reckless crowd she Is completely in capable of judging how bow she will feel a few years later how this group of men and women will impress her even if she stops short of actual improprieties with men she has to face infinite dangers she sees men drunk she hears stories and phrases that should never reach her ears she endures the stupid delays of half intoxicated women and men who cant make up their minds to go home or go anywhere but who remain drowsily drinking and dancing hours alter after all pleasure has gone out 0 of I 1 the occasion she risks the return home with a driver who is unfit to handle a car must most pay some price many a girl quite innocently invites danger and fright and harm barm to herself in this way she may apparently patently ly escape actual injury she may not have to face the world with a fatherless child in her arms although even that hat victorian situation is not as unusual in usual as girls would could like to think but no girl gets oft off scot tree free after a few young years of recklessness and license her manner speech standards personally are all affected other women realize that the minute they lindet meet her for the young years are very important years it is in them that we lay the foundation tor for the future and restraint restrain tand and fineness and dis crimination and self control in those years bear inevitable fruit the girl who deliberately d makes herself lawless and corron common at eighteen is not going miraculously to emerge from cheapening associations and find herself admirable at 25 clean of speech clean of mind clean of soul foul here is a letter some girls might read to advantage this sunday morning it comes L east st louis WHAT PRICE FREEDOM does mother have to lo know where youre going with wish whom and how gure ions ng you Y 0 u intend tobe gone does s ahe h e object to late howl hours and dime a dance night flubs tubs you ay y the she does and you hate well veil kathleen athleen norris harris has a different view 0 on m the she subject read her frank discussion of the effect too loo much free dom has on young women a dear mrs norris I 1 am 29 11 writes anna and have been married for five years to the finest man in the orld we have a daughter of three and are expecting a new baby in midsummer this is my problem went with wrong crowd my husband la Is a doctor a year younger than 1 I he ha was recently offered a very advantageous position with a clinic in my old home town since our marriage age and indeed for two years before that my family has liv lived edlin in this city and I 1 met tom here I 1 have never been back to the place where I 1 lived as a girl nor seen any of my old associates there I 1 went with the wrong crowd as I 1 see now and I 1 was glad to leave it all behind me in that old group in those reckless days was a man I 1 will call larry he was a rough dark violent sort of fellow older by six or seven years than the rest of us coarse and noisy but fascinato fas fascinating cinat in g and we all knew be was brilliant this man it if tom accepts the flattering offer he be has bas just received will be my husli husbands ands immediate superior and close associate 1 I was never in the sense of making our relationship public or constant this mans mistress but we were always paired off together and on c ertain certain week weekend end trips either to hotels in the mountains or to some blodys cabin or camp I 1 did not feel at 18 able to behave in a manner very different from the rest the tragedy of it Is that I 1 never really loved larry he wanted me and I 1 wanted danied to go along with the others fears to move back my husband knows nothing ot of this it was long ago it was unimportant it has been completely forgotten in the realer experience of being a beloved and honored wife tom is proud sensitive and fine in every way he would be shocked to know it and I 1 would never recover my place with him and as I 1 say it Is not important enough to worry about it has nothing to do with our Hv lives esnow now but at the same time how can I 1 m move ove straight back into the neighborhood not only of this man who w will ill instantly remember all the past but perhaps other members of that group who knew perfectly well what was going on larry is a coarse man our sex is not much respected by him it was part of his charm or to in my idiotic little girl days I 1 found it so that he be boasted of his masterful ways with wom women 0 n 1 I am trying to influence to tom m not to accept this offer which bewilders and disturbs him what I 1 am writing to ask you Is whether it would be wise for me to write honestly to larry and ask him to have his board of directors withdraw the invitation aa and she encloses the money for a t telegraphic ele graphic answer face the what I 1 advised was her return to her old town an honest facing of the difficulties an explanation to larry that will not be too long or involved or tearful or penitent and a concentration upon the building into he her r life of fineness and goodness and simplicity with a complete for of thelast the past |