Show kathleen norris says should her husband be told bell syndicate features feature X 0 1 1 S here is u a wife uie of 28 with two small sons and a devoted hut husband band who carrying on like a girt in her teens should her husband be told by KATHLEEN NORRIS T T THEN a sold soldiers aers wife wy is unfaithful faithful to him and he is far away in the south pacific should he be told or he writes aubrey davis from an eastern capital my sister in law and I 1 have been living together since both our men went away to war her letter goes on and I 1 am intensely distressed at annes conduct im not hot moralizing moral izing I 1 have my my own faults I 1 know but here is a wife of 28 with two small sons and a devoted husband who is carrying on like a girl in her teens anne is extremely pretty and she goes out with men all the time I 1 accepted that situation she sleeps late laughs over the flowers and ca candy ady that arrive regularly claims that bluy billy my brother would be the first to want her to flave a good time she Is if out all bight g I 1 it practically every night she stays home for the childrens supper I 1 have two little girls dresses afterward and is gone at about seven soldier lias has confidence in wife the real tragedy is that billy adores anne and she evidently writes him most affectionately tor for his letters are filled with gratitude she sends him snapshots of the boys books presents he has the utmost confidence in her his wife the mother of his two loved little boys his anne the truth would shatter him he be could never trust her again and yet is it right to let him go on writing her of his love and longing while she is wasting alt all her emotions on another man there Is a fine group of service wives to in this particular town we meet read sew get into canteen and red bed cross work enjoy our children our victory gardens movies and radio programs my own life is filled to the brim with interests many of which I 1 ww will carry on when my own john gets home because they broaden my outlook so much but none cone of these interests anne she lives a mysterious life of her own she says she loves billy as much as ever and simply cant help attracting men to her and that when billy gets home shell tell him herself that ashes been foolish and that hell forgive her but if I 1 know my bro brother ther he wont and it makes make me go on and on and have her apparently feel herself quite beyond the reach of the law what should ido my dear aubrey you should do nothing except to ta go on en with your own reasonable and well ordered life and stand ready to extend friendship and help to anne when the crash comes say ay nothing of her affairs to anyone ignore them for the time is approaching when they cant be ignored and having sowed bowed the wind she will reap the whirlwind i should your brother brothe r ever reproach you for having kept him in the dark you have the perfect excuse it is nob odys business hus ineis to interfere between man and wile your tattling would only lower you in his esteem and in your own HeI he needs everything that affection can do for him now even ifft is only annes rather shallow affection let the situation rest as it is tor for the time being you are the one to be made uneasy now presently it will be billys turn anne anna will pay for Foolish foolishness neis but in the end it will aul be anne who pays the piper life att has a way of catching up with such women they PROBLEM PROBLEM OF A CHEAT ING WIFE anne is married to a soldier in in the file pacific they have two tivo children she is pretty and through her natural ability to attract men is disloyal to her husband she is out almost every night and lately her ter time is being taken up by one particular man while this is going on she writes affectionate lette letters ys to her husband and he suspects nothing ile he continues t to think of her as his loyal wife and loving mother of his two children her sis ter in law asks if the husband should be informed of this deplorable plo rable condition kathleen norris tells her not to tell the husband at this time think that they are just having I 1 good time yielding to the ins temptation to an illicit love affair doing as they love to say wha every woman would do if she hac ha the chance what they really are doing Is pull ing down the very structure of civi Ilza gatlon tion and social responsibility and never in the world did we ve geee a strong moral force in our dor domestic nesti 11 affairs as we do now we need true women faithful t the vows they made faithful to th claims of their children faitha faithful ua tc t the highest ideals of wifehood anc motherhood we need service these lonely wives service or 01 the battlefront and the home front we need honesty honesty in the letters we write in the markets and shops in every social contact wi make Eu ropes civilization Is going R t be in ruins for a while after thi war over central europe demor allred bands of women and childr er will wander not knowing aher I 1 their country Is or if they havi a country libraries museums schools hospitals already lie ile it ir ashes nations are split in half na hopelessly intermixed inva slon slave labor evacuations exile have all had their fearful hour now noa will come famine and pestilence ane anc homelessness beyond anything oui imaginations can reach america must stand firm in th early years of readjustment stu must hold tight to her own civilized self controlled humanitarian ways if the world Is to be saved at all she will have no place for sl ackers tor for vain weak women who are un able to appreciate the incalculable benefits of a mans love little soni son to raise the safety and plenty of oui own wonderful country anne wil find herself alone superfluous un wanted in the new day that stron men and women will build |