Show kathleen katheeen Kath feen norris says girl wife plagued by mates jealousy bell syndicate feature Fea tares 11 1 1 0 0 0 01 a 0 10 0 0 0 00 0 1 6 0 0 C 0 0 0 0 0 6 10 poua T from the beginning my husband wanted to know everything i 1 was doing I 1 even eten had to read my letters aloud to him before I 1 sent them and had to show him the answers by KATHLEEN NORRIS aty HUSBAND is jeal ous writes an L v A arkansas wife 1 I knew it or suspected it before I 1 was married but I 1 know how serious it was or that it would affect every phase of my life with him now I 1 find myself made completely wretched by his watching me and suspecting me and questioning me and I 1 dont seem able to cope with the matter at all to begin with her letter goes on I 1 1 I was married three years ago at 18 to a man more than twice my age lewis was 44 then my mothers friend my father died when I 1 was a baby my mother remarried immediately her second husband being lewis older brother lewis spoiled me when I 1 was a small girl sent me beautiful presents to school came to my graduation and it seemed to me wonderful and romantic to be married that very day but now I 1 think it was silly to crowd graduation and marriage into one day I 1 was so much of a kid that I 1 regretted missing the big dance that evening even in my childhood he was jealous teasing me about liking this boy or that better than 1 I 1 did him but in those days lewis seemed to me a sort of god playing tennis and golf wearing evening clothes to marvelous parties into which I 1 c 0 even peep and adored by all his bis patients he is an eye doctor it never occurred to me that he could be serious when he said he was jealous inquisitive husband How however evor as soon a as 11 we were married I 1 found out how bow much in earnest he was from the beg beginning n n g he wanted to know every everything thi ng I 1 was doing or even thinking I 1 had to read my letters aloud to him before I 1 sent them and show him the answers we had a housekeeper now my sons nurse who was asked to td accompany me practically everywhere and was questioned when we got back she Is my good friend by the way and takes my side in everything eve ry thing when junior was born lewis r showed a new side of his jealousy he like me to gush over the baby sent him away whenever possible if junior shows eagerness to r reach each me holds out his arms armste he is 18 months old now lewis says here a re now were not going to have this mothers boy stuff and often gets the little fellow screaming all his interest in society Is dead he be says I 1 killed it by making such a fuss about other men a thing I 1 never have done and never will do he wants wand to be at home every evening sometimes having older men in for bridge which I 1 dont play one of his first requests was that neither my mother nor my sister should ever come to the house without betas invited I 1 could ask them as a often ili a I 1 liked but they must never come otherwise this has made tor for great formal ity and stiffness where there ought to be so much pleasure and easiness in tact face my mv mother has lost all patience with lewis and even her husband who Is lewis brother I 1 rarely makes any effort to see us always asking questions 1 I can charge anything I 1 uke like any where and we live luxuriously but my actual money allowance Is only 10 a month and do what I 1 will I 1 caret cant seem to make any extensive plant plans on that I 1 mean I 1 cant gi TIME TO REGRET he spoiled her when she was a child brought her expensive presents and when she graduated he was there she thought it would be wonder ful and V romantic to be married on her graduation day now three years later catherine misses the youth she gave up to marry a man more than twice her age she is unhappy and he is jealous not a pleasant situation but kathleen norris tells catherine that she will have to bear bea it why be sure to read this story of a girt girl whose hasty marriage marr has as given her a lifetime marriane iafe 0 of leisure in which to regret it in lor for charities or club work very well I 1 am studying french with an old refugee woman but on two occasions her young son came in during the lessons and after that lewis insisted that they be given here in our house which is very ry dull am I 1 making myself out a martyr you dont know what an effort I 1 make to keep cheerful and busy filling vases ordering meals playing with my baby going every day to pick lewis up in the car c ar but his continual questioning and suspicions make me nervous and of late I 1 have b been en crying a good deal ha wl ilch does oes not improve my appear anca and annoys him what prompts me to write you catherine concludes her letter is that last night when lewis was in a particularly inquisitive mood I 1 suddenly emptied a vase I 1 was filling with primroses prim roses right over his bis head he was wonderful about it but it really frightened me and I 1 thought that if there is any way to cure him or cure me if I 1 am to blame I 1 had better find out what it Is and there you luckier women W who ho are married to men without this particular form of vanity pettiness and cruelty Is a perfect example of the elderly jealous mate waking Is no fun it seems great fun to the little beauty of 18 to announce to her bei awed and envious schoolmates that she Is going to be married on graduation day to a successful doctor who is able to give her every luxury and who has adored her since babyhood it is a school girls dream but the waking up much fun catherine has cheated herself out of her happiest young years years of dancing and house parties picnics and camping and skiing trips and theatricals and beaus every girl has a right to these and every girl rich or poor manages to have a good thare share of them it catherines fault that this path was made so easy for her it if her mother sense enough to suspect what a prison lewis was preparing tor for her lewis brother might have given her a hint catherine at 18 supposed to know that the flattery and the presents the plain gold ring and the new estate were just so many chains about her will have to bear it in catherines case she simply will have to put up with it society would stand aghast at the spectacle of that dear little pampered wife with her beautiful home and two good servants her adoring husband and lovely child running away from it all and she run to her mother because her stepfather ste father is lewis brother which would make thines very awkward |