Show I 1 kathleen norris S says shortening sail at your home deli bell syndicate rea feature tures f 01 11 you are lucky to have a country retreat where he can and find peace and quiet quie put putter ter with farm machinery raise chickens milk cows sel sell lewt where here w he can take he his loved wile baby girls books and forget the world for a while thank god for it by KATHLEEN NORRIS 6 4 T T OW long must we put P I 1 up with my husbands ds JL X postwar di disillusionment sillus on m nt and d discontent writes mrs harry kling of chicago he came back four months ago and after the first delight at having him home again honorably discharged it has been nothing but difficulty and ana gloom he was always a well balanced man affectionate steady and contented he is now nervous critical or worse than all darkly silent for hours he has gone back into his old firm of claim adjusters and is making good money with good pros prospects T acts ahead but I 1 can cant t stan stand this sort of home life much longer no harmony no conversation no plans no fun ile he is is 35 1 am 32 our daughters are I 1 5 and 3 harry wants to give up our comfortable for table apartment where I 1 h have ave a part time maid break up all our pleasant associations upset the girls schooling they go to allday all day nursery schools and move to the country he has his eye on a sprawling farm 35 miles out house in bad repa repair 1 r 5 52 2 acres partly cultivated tenant house ot of three rooms the farmhouse has about seven rooms electric light fix fixtures tures and plumbing 40 years old and everything imaginable in the way of refrigerator telephone gas stove cur curtaining ta ining painting yet to be done here he prop proposes oses we live for years year 3 perhaps forever for ver I 1 adore my husband I 1 have not loved any other man since imet I 1 met him at 20 but do you think it wise to pull up all oui our roots simply because he has been emotionally and nervously upset by the war wont he out outgrow grow this in time it be wiser to wait tor for the girls sake and ancl for all a II 11 cur sakes my answer to this Is my dear mrs kling dont make the mistake of thinking that this fearful war some of whose phases have ended enclee Is like any other war that ever was after peace negotiations with the powers of savagery and lawlessness are signed sealed and delivered we still till have a titanic job ahead of us service ervice folk and civilians alike this postwar job will not only be to preserve world p peace bace it will be to preserve world sar sanity aty A shattered world it will not be only to keep a few I 1 hundred thousand depressed and mentally affected men sane it will be to h keep beep us all sane this war has bitten too deep into the equilibrium of humanity too much that is unthinkable and unbearable has happened europe will be peopled by millions of folk who have known what it was for weeks months years to be homeless hun ban gry desperate the sacred thing that la Is a mans right to work to love to serve erve his family to build his big home ho baa been outraged and destroyed barren wastes of ashes and ruins will be wearily searched and combed by vaguely wandering hordes children whose first experience peri ence of life was fright fear hunger women who have looked upon death death in the mass heaped hundreds of innocent women N N ell I 1 I 1 his loved wile his baa girls MOVING TO THE after returning from service service harry was able to return to his old position as a claim adjuster he is earning a good salar salary and seemingly should be alz glad to get back into the old ways his wife says she loves him as much as ever they have two daughters five and three who are attending day nursery school yet with all this harry is is moody unsociable and restless he no longer is well balanced and light hearted something weighs him down ile he wants cants to get away from his J job ab the alsoc assoc association batton I 1 of family and a nd friends the familiar scenes lately he has fixed his mind on goi going cinto into farming he has I 1 found und a 52 acre place some wha t rundown n down and only partly cultivated at present there are two tivo houses on it one of three rooms the other seven both are in poor condition it is here 35 nales miles front from town that harry wants nants to move his family harrys wife doesn doean t like the prospects and children slain and lying un burled buried in what once were gra grassy assy parks and splendid streets nothing like this ever has happened in the world before try to realize that we will not only be fighting in these years to come for or those alien peoples overseas we will be fighting with every humane and scientific weapon in our power for ourselves that honor and charity and service maj may live on in the world that diomes and fi resides books and schools and tree shaded towns may still exist that our hearts and souls shall not be ravaged again by the fearful cruelties cruel ties man may ma y inflict upon his fellow man will take all that we have of courage and vision and hard humble labor A country retreat your maril roan tag has done his share he has jeopardized his reason in these years when you and the babies waited tor for him sale safe and snug in protected america now you three persons whom he loves must give him back those years if you are lucky enough to have hava a country retreat where he can find peace and quiet where he cat cal putter with farm machinery raise chickens milk cows sell fruit where he can take his lo 10 loved V ed w wife j fe his books his baby girls and forget the great world tor for awhile thank god tor for lt it take it gratefully and as he grows stronger and saner see how he longs to share it to let other wounded souls and bodies rest under his big trees to let other bewildered soul scarred men fish his stream help harvest his corn sleep deep in the country guest room shaded by the pear trees we are going to find some big words for what we have to do for our men now teaching helping cheering healing beg began in with your own forget all the past as europe must think only of a better tomor row and do your share to make it come true |