Show kathleen norris is says wife should ignore other woman bell Pe feature attres 57 11 1 IX I 1 Z 11 td keep a happy house with mill happy children iv in it cultivate a down dooen thin thing s at home flowers panics games hospitality for the chil children drin books by KATHLEEN KATHLEE N NORRIS fyhen we were married WHEN VV we were poor 11 writes elizabeth bates from st paul it only that we were happier appler then I 1 knew we were happier people dont often admit that happy when circumstances are hard and uncertain but we did lee and I 1 met in a great disaster a flood it was when we lived down south we were both flooded out and nd both began to help feed the refugees I 1 was in a big food center combining beans soup hash and everything else into great gre a t hot gou lashes buttering buns pouring hot toffee coffee lee organized the distribution I 1 dont think either one of us was ever happier than in those days of change and terror between us with an army of helpers we got everything running so smoothly that our unit was considered far and a away wn Y the best after that I 1 lived with an aunt to took ok ajob a job lee got a job and we were married quite in the spirit of our first meeting our new home was a small abandoned garage the cemented main floor was our sitting room the he t three small rooms up aft stairs t a irs our living rooms it was such 45 wi w adventure it was all such tun I 1 then when lee sold a piece 0 f property destroyed by flood and no n longer in a residential district we w went vent abroad for fo two marvelous wars r our e expenses x pen s es tor for those 25 keiths months averaged a month ind and we came cam e home with michael thrown in for good measure lee joins law firm while lee finished his law cou course rs we lived in one room oft off a ditc kitchen hen in a big house I 1 cooked and waited on table for our room and board and sheila came to join michael lee and me sundays lee washed the cars tal raked ed the lawn cut wood and I 1 worked in the kitchen from early orning morning until 10 at night we saved money and presently a fine law firm asked lee to join it and were we proud id never finished high school but of course he had had lust just about 20 years of schooling well then we had to stop with the domestic position and we e tools took a flat managing so easy on oil one salary and I 1 began to sense even then what I 1 know now so well that I 1 keeping up with lee ills his pay was small but his firm thought the world of him and he began to be noticed politically and to make speeches then tour four years ago he was sent to a pig convention as a delegate and actually was nominated tor for state office but the fine offer from st paul came then and we moved here now I 1 have three children 8 6 and 3 we are prosper prosperous ous I 1 have a good girl to help me but lee has left me behind there Is another woman noman I 1 think I 1 always knew that there would be but now that it h has come it is hard to take she is handsome rich of high hig h social standing and politically liti cally active lee and I 1 are 31 she some six years older she fascinates him telephones him takes hint him off to meetings and they have dinner at some little place or on an the train she has been married twice widowed once divorced once we IOB were happier then 4 A HARD COURSE dyste systematic and unflustered planning wis will help win back a husband who has strayed from his wife A woman oman w beleaguered beleaguer ed by a home breaker of her own sex win accomplish nothing with divorce threats tearful pleadings and a n d separation cautions miss bliss norris the only remedy for a wife in these t lb e s e unenviable circumstances is to ignore the affair pretty herself up and strive to be a sweet interesting person it is a difficult task which many have endured in their battles to retain that whick which rightfully belongs to them the story of elizabeth bates is a typical tale of the rags to riches variety the gulf between elizabeth elisabeth and vier her hiis husband band is growing wider and wider and site she frantically appeals to miss bliss norris for aid perhaps lee fully sense it but she must that I 1 am ignored iam I 1 am left alone I 1 am sent brief messages that my husband must be here and there it bewilders me I 1 cant can t tight fight back I 1 cant pretend that I 1 too am having affairs im not I 1 dont want other men I 1 could be the happiest happi eit woman in the world I 1 am the most lonesome and sad once he needed me life was as one long joke to together ether now he forgets me tor for d days ays at a time asks lor for advice would threats of 0 divorce threats of naming her be any good this disconsolate letter concludes would you advise separation and my going to mother in memphis should I 1 talk to the woman herself and ask her to let lee go which of 0 these courses shall I 1 take betty dont take any of these courses you have a hard bit of 0 ground to cover and have to remind yourself that you ou cant have everything in this world you cant can t have youth success devoted husband fine me children wealth not all at once youve lost lee yes but it be for long my advice is neither for lee nor tor for his new love it is for you keep a hippy happy house with happy children in it cultivate Cul a dozen things at horn home e flowers games hospitality for t the h e children books drawing knitting radio puzzles cooking raising kittens or pups or chickens for the market whatever appeals to you dress prettily and picturesquely in a fashion that sets you off if you DU can move to 0 o the country expand c physically as well as mentally in ah an absorbed contended joyous sort of 0 way ignore lee and his at fairs slake alake yourself a sweet pretty interesting person you would not be the first arst wife who won her husband back completely and turned out to be the personality of the two but before you win lee win yourself become your own ideal w woman mi mother friend citizen and find youre his ideal too |