Show kathleen norris says girl infatuated with middle aged I 1 1 married carried man with children bell features Feat Foa tures 1 at I 1 rt grip bettys lather promptly grabbed him by the collar and threshed hirn thoroughly by KATHLEEN NORRIS HE browns have one THE daughter diana aged 19 their two sons are in the navy always been normal norf fial reasonable people they dont know what to do now that real trouble has struck them the trouble is diana and Kron schmidt baker kron is 42 he called on diana after meeting her at a dance he has called every night for three months diana is madly in love the man says he is deeply devoted to her but he has a wife and three children when dianas mother discovered that he was married she almost died ot of shame of pity for po poor 0 r little diana gently tactfully she told her daughter the dreadful truth diana answered composedly that she had known for weeks week s that kron was married and had called on his wife as asking king her to grant him a divorce and from that moment things went from bad to io worse dianas father anxious overworked I 1 tired ordered chez from the house Diana smother tearing she would go to kron went with her I 1 after two days at a hotel they went back home diana furious silent stubborn misery reigns in the brown household diana slips out every day and meets kron when he goes to new mexico on duty she Is going with him she persists married or not love like theirs says diana Is too rare and too tod precious to be thrown away on conventions case requires patience all AH I 1 could advise dianas mother w was as to go on treating the case with patience and love I 1 told her that girls to whom love comes as a fever of infatuation could not hear bear reason the wild names flames burning in dianas heart wont be put ut out with words ashes too old to lock up in her room too big to spank so I 1 told her mother to be understanding be sympathetic try to overcome by affection what could not be changed by force that was some weeks ago I 1 think that now I 1 might give dianas mother a more effective idea another mother fr from ornan an opposite end of the country wrote me what wha she did in a similar case and im not sure but what she was right it seems that this other girt girl named betty was also infatuated with a middle aged married charmer ir and also stubbornly determined to wreck her life for his sake bettys mother like dianas reasoned with the girl sent tor for the man and talked to him severely and finally went to see the wife the girt girl in both cases was adamant the charming man airly airey and rather proud of himself and the wife helpless so bettys mother allowed her to ask her stanislaus to the house bettys father grabbed him by the collar and Ah thrashed rashed him thoroughly and the policeman on the beat having been warned in ia advance to bi be on the spot saw a discomfit ted suitor rush down dow n the front steps and took both father and lover jo to the police station the next morning ig one masher was marked for life asan as an unfaithful husband who had bad been thrashed lay by a girls indignant lather stans wife then threatened divo divorce ace she like the newspaper notoriety and betty left at once for war work in another city but recently betty now happily en too precious for or conventions heartbreak AHEAD our love is too precious jor for conventions says 19 year old diana brown she means her infatuation for a man of 42 who is married and lather father of three children she threatens to go with him to new mexico where he will soon be stationed as he is an army officer she slips out and sees her kron every day and has asked his wife to give him a divorce what is dianas mother to do angry will just force the stubborn diana to more secret liaisons it if she becomes convinced that her parents are old fashioned and unreasonable clinging to outworn conventions she will leave home follow her charming middle aged lieutenant then it will be too late for dianas mother to do anything for her daughter but to try to shield her from the consequences of her folly when fron kron gets birga of her and abandons a her thore as h heartbreak ahead for duma miss norris admits the difficulty of this situation tact and patience are about the only means the browns prawns have at I 1 their heir disposal drastic and dramatic meas awes bring results however is u this article describes has been home for or a visit and stan divorced so perhaps these drastic measures were justified lesser disgrace preferred but you disgrace your girl a mother might say shrinking away from the mere idea of such an exposure well she Is heading for or disgrace anyway perhaps this way Is the lesser evil in dianas case I 1 am informed that the min man and the girl are admitted lovers have lived together in bettys case the affair had not gone so far these are hard days on everyone perhaps nowhere harder border than upon the girls who go out to work at work among men any girl may manage her affairs to evade the watchfulness of even the most careful mother so a shocking awakening to the scurrility of a middle aged man who wins the love and destroys the honor of a girl of 0 18 is sometimes a good thing if she get that awakening in the sensational form planned by bettys angry patents parents she certainly will get it later and much more painfully when she realizes that the man for whom she cried and fought and threw away everything valuable in her life is just a weakling vain untrustworthy selfish to the core when a boy puts his hand into the cash register or forges some ones name on a check he is brought up with a round turn in the juvenil juvenile e court and all his life long his bis record Is i against him unfaithful husbands may well be forgiven occasional lapses but when a man who is responsible I 1 ble tor for the welfare of a woman and children pushes their claims aside and destroys the purity of a passionate child of 18 P promising rem ising that he will get a divorce and marry her that ought to be actionable and he ought to be thoroughly beaten |