Show ileen Raff orris says i platonic friendship Is impossible bell features P y V Z J I 1 ai the anan pia is is unmarried successful an artist he has done various magazine agazine in illustrations with winnie innie as model by KATHLEEN NORRIS I 1 AS a wife 33 with two ysmall tl small sons any right to a so called platonic friendship with an attractive man who se sees esher her all the time but is almost a stranger to her husband asks judd mcleod from philadelphia winifr winifred d his letter goes on iiii used to talk things over with me at dinner and review the events of the day nowadays she lunches with he her women friends or with Us this particular man coming home dreamy and silent her interests are no longer mine and mine evidently are not hers herh she Is always kind and a good housekeeper but she insists that a woman does not become a mans property or chattel as she puts it by marrying him and that she has a right to any friendships that she chooses she argues that a man and a woman may have a perfectly sate safe friendship with self re rc on both sides shi she quotes this man to me as agreeing with her which drives me wild neild theman the man is unmarried successful an ar artist aist he has done various magazine a eions with winnie as modele she admits that she likes hirn him thoroughly but denies that there is a word or look between them now I 1 am not judd goes on a jealous mah man but it Is slowly driving me insane this dl dividing a wife she comes home to me at night sure S she he pours my breakfast coffee kisses the boys and me goodby good byln in the morning then r she he gets the house into perfect order telephones telephone i to market laflor writes checks for gas or dentist and then makes herself look smart and lovely and Is oft off for the real business of the day lunch at the studio chatter with the other women who come in and the constant companionship of the man I 1 will call max I 1 know she does a certain amount of secretary work for him darns his socks rocks deposits his money in the baril bank discusses his plans they are only friends she has told me more than once that there 1 is nothing actually wrong between her and max they are just good friends and ive said I 1 stand tor for it and I 1 wont but what can I 1 do ive always loved my home my wife and my children am I 1 to give them all up now and live alone I 1 feel so helpless for winnie a child she knows exactly what is wrong shed leave me it if I 1 tried to pu pull U anything tike like this on her and yet she goes on as it if it were a game I 1 want to save my home and happiness if I 1 can the answer unfortunately judd the answer lies in the terrible power we have over those who love us and the power they have over us if anyone hus bus wife child mother chooses to abuse that power the injured per son is helpless A cruel or neglected mother a gambling drinking or as it iii this case a cold and selfish wife can wreck as many as her husbands or her own mine come in contact with and there Is little ittle to be done that there Is no mere physical much affect the situ 9 9 01 1 I 1 am not a jealous man SE SELFISH WIFE winnie an attractive model insists upon her right to maintain a friendship with an artist for foi whom she poses she informs her husband judd that she likes the painter but there is nothing to mar the platonio platonic relationship between them winnies contention is that a wife has the prerogative to choose her own friends even though they are of the opposite sei sex her husband argues that while he believes winnie is faithful to him it is a source of discomfit ting uneasiness to know that the woman whom he loves spends a good portion of the day dail in the company of a man whom she admittedly likes miss aliss norris plots a dras drastic t ic colt course arse for judd the only way she sate advises in which judd can obtain peace of mind is by bringing the issue to t 0 a dramatic climax climas I 1 atlon winnie shames hurts in jures you just as completely in th ati course she is 13 following showing yo you u every hour how little she cares either for you your dignity houi rights and your childrens future dont make threats threats of divorce here would be wasteland wasted waste dand and very probably an appeal to max would be wasted too it would only make winnie feel once more her own power and max more sure of his irresistible charm but I 1 knew ot of one case of the kind that was dissipated like summer mist when the husband went to the lover and suggested that he promise to marry the wife as soon as divorce freed her the lover precipitately withdrew in another quite similar case the husband insisted upon a meeting with the other two told his wife in the other man mans presence that he was w willing ill na to s surrender ur render her but not his young daughter and startled the lover into a series of weak admissions to the effect that they never had meant anything serious that this was ridiculous that nothing had been wrong it was just friendship eventually Event nally the husband took home a wife raging with nger anger not against hir him n but against the wavering lover who would not face the results of the supposedly harmless platonic pla tonie friendship there Is no such thing as a platonic pla tonie friendship between an attractive young woman and a sentimental artist but also judd there I 1 is n no cure tor for the vain shallow wie eife w who ho acts as winnie Is acting if it I 1 is not max it will be someone else she if not trying to build up shared I 1 interests with you with her boys these have lost all flavor for her she ww will continue to seek more sti stimulate mulat ing contacts ano and since she has no conscience in the matter it is no use to appeal to her conscience and since she has no heart there Is no nc use in appealing to her heart |