Show kathleen norris orris says ays standing behind the breadwinner bell syndicate features Fea turea 1 t r I 1 f f i ll 11 ile ht grew more irritable with each passing week and finally stepped at yos von because she and her mother and the tb boys spent all the money that hs be slaved to earn by KATHLEEN NORRIS T ALWAYS gives me the I 1 IT creeps when a married woman says fearfully to her husband pete what would the children and I 1 do if you died it seems see ms ghoulish and unfeeling somehow to put this problem to a normal cheerful man who is just starting off for the office a after a good breakfast or settling down for his evening paper under the lamp and yet it has to be asked sometimes because the thought behind it is one that haunts even the most loving wife and mother when every cent the family spends comes through 9 h the efforts of 0 one man and that man Is only human and subject to all the ills and accidents of day a living then despite her healthy optimism and faith in the future a woman has her anxious and puzzled moments on this particular subject there was a san francisco woman who met and conquered th this Is dragon a few years ago with really exciting results her husband was a newspaper man nervous unreasonable his rest and his system upset by the irregular hours and snatched downtown meals that are a part 0 of f his calling there were three small boys in the family and a good strong helpful grandmother and the house ran smoothly and happily and economically too whether philip was jealous of Us his home and nursery world or whether an increasing tendency on his part to ward toward drinking and card playing upset his common sense Is uncertain but certain it Is that he grew more irritable exacting and ill tempered with every passing week and finally began to snap at vori because she and her mother and the boys spent all the money that he slaved to earn if they had to earn it he said feel differently about it she bought big old home veronica graham knew perfect perfectly aly well that this was a phase that phil was overworked tired headachy and fretted because two younger men had been given office promotions ahead of him she knew this would pass but she also realized that to be the one bread breadwinner winner in a family of six really Is too much of a strain in for any man to bear and she quietly completed a nursing course during the war she made her steady 8 tor for an eight hour day not sensational money compared to phils a week but she banked it and added it to other money she had saved and two years ago she bought for a roomy handsome 0 old id place on the edge of 0 town real estate was low priced then and tor for her 11 sunshiny rooms and big garden von has been offered just three times that sum since however she did not sell she and her mother have with them now six delicate children and could have many more but they stop at six the gross income from this venture is a month mother who was a teacher is carrying forward the education of the four our older ones one of whom Is a bone case and another a lovely girl ot of seven almost blind the three year old twins orphans run tree free this means an income tor for the older woman as well a chinese couple do the heavier work and philip is steadying al i Y an vw watt wh would osila become becom of 01 samp EXTRA INCOME most families have to spend most of the fathers earnings earning s to maintain even a fair standard of living there is little left per over 0 to save mrs grahan graham was 0 one tie of those women who worried about her husband he was earning a comfortable salary as a newspaper man inan but his health was suffering from the strain of I 1 his s work ile he berame became more and more ir irritable and suffered frequent sick spells with her own small savings she bought a big old mansion being a former nurse she knew that there were many sickly children who would benefit by a stay in a well run convalescent home with her mothers help she now operates opera 1 es a home borne that takes in a 4 month this extra income has changed the whole outlook for this family philip realizes that he does not have to struggle so furiously to earn every cent he can veronica knows that she now can face the future unafraid down into a much more normal and agreeable husband in the relief ol of lessened strain faced problems early veronica had to do this against the prejudices of both husband and mother but from the beginning she seemed to see her way clear and went straight ahead there were 11 many hard and puzzling moments of course but in any worthwhile worth while effort there are those and von only faced them in time rather than waiting until need and grief and panic were making any fresh start doubly hard when a man invents a new dog food or ice cream sandwich or radio program and sells it for four million we hear of it with wonder conderi and envy such a simple discovery and such a rich reward but there are thousands of obscurer successes all about us successes that dont bring in millions but do bring in the comfortable thousands that mean a good home and pleasant work and sufficient recognition and best of all security there is no being over the age of eight who want security A humble home perhaps simple meals 10 cent movies and catalogue dresses at but security kings have lived long liv lives Is without ever being sure of it m millions U of men and women are seething about in the oriental countries in europe itself today longing only to be sure of the next meal of shelter for the night never daring t to 0 dream of a permanent sense of ha having ving always enough enough food enough shelter sufficient clothing freedom from persecution what heaven that would be today to six out of 10 of the worlds peoples people sl I 1 just a chance to work madam said a starving european t to 0 me 20 years ago just to be able to show what I 1 could dol this chance is yours as an american woman it might pay you to consider first and what you would do should the head of the house be stricken down and secondly whether the time to do it perhaps is now |