Show kathleen norcis says blessed are the meek bell syndicate features Feat rea if I 1 1 I dore my bill lut but that mean that I 1 want to swallow his is family am ily hole by KATHLEEN NORRIS letter comes from a bride of only a few months marjorie married her flier when he came home honorably discharged after 22 months of hard service they were engaged for a year but in that year saw each other only twice for a tew lew days interval bill is handsome clever devoted and rich marjorie arjorie ia know how rich until now 11 ow when they are going to his home city philadelphia to live this Is my trouble she writes my people are poor but we come of good stock my mother tor for many years supported my grandmother and myself by teaching she Is not strong now lives with my grandmother and there Is almost no money but tor for fineness and goo goodness d there never were two more genuine saints bill and I 1 are to have one ot of the family houses to live in we are to have uncle phils house which he says is filled with old revolutionary lutio lutlo nary junk or grandpas house which is handsomer but smaller his mother writes me that old emma will come to us at once as cook and bring two granddaughters to make themselves useful aunts and cousins of bills write him that they want to know when dear marjorie would like to be entertained would I 1 like a tea or a formal reception cep tion too much class all this appalls and annoys me I 1 hate that sort of thing bill takes it all seriously he has three brothers one sister and countless cousins and other relatives he hopes his grandmother will give us the revere porringers por ringers and wants me to be painted by the teller feller that has painted us all 1 I begin to feel that no wealth or position will make up tor for the independence pen dence I 1 have enjoyed tor for years as a newspaper new r woman and am sure already that I 1 want my mother and grandmother to go east with me I 1 will be lost and strange in that big family obliged to grin and bear all sorts of things that are absolutely unnatural to me and ill need support and confidantes confidant es I 1 adore my bill but that mean that I 1 want to swallow his family whole this business of having a house picked out for roe me and servants too Is a little thick bill BIB says well have plenty of room tor for mother and gran but is afraid they wont like it mother is dubious but gran says s a ys shell hell do anything I 1 want they both love our san diego cottage and their life here but neither is young and I 1 simply cant bear to leave them bill wont promise to come back and altogether I 1 dont know what w hat to do my dear marjorie I 1 say in answer you are trying to pour old wine into new bottles and it wont succeed more than most young wives your place is to follow bills lead now and accept the situation la in philadelphia wholeheartedly go on there determined to be good tie natured aured adaptable friendly in every way dont have much to say good natured adaptable adapt abl friendly tri endly WEALTHY WE FAMILY PINS HER DOWN most girls would envy marjories position she is married to a man she adores tie he is handsome clever ri rich ch ile he loves marjorie devotedly after two years of service in the air corps lie he is coming home for good tito the trouble is bill has too much marjorie ath who 0 is 18 accustomed to a simple life is not willing to adapt herself to the customs and traditions of a proud old philadelphia family E every very detail of marjories affairs is taken care of before hand a house furnishings servants all are provided what marjorie like is this paternalistic system she is just expected to fit into her place and like it nobody seems to think she might not care for the social mold in which bills family exists listen and watch and make them like you by sweetness and amiability give this experiment a year in which you criticize nobody agree to all arrangements take this new sort of life as it if it were a book you yop are reading with yourself as hero in ine lucky in many blany ways heroine you are of course the young western wife of a person whose wealth and family connections make him important beloved and lovely rich and kocl socially il by secure there Is a position m many any girls girl would envy you that you are smarter quicker more amusing more independent than the men and women you are going to meet I 1 am taking tor for granted those fine old long established families have wonderful characteristics bul bu they can be dull only it if be patient enough to endure the sur face dullness for awhile find under it a wonderful dignity and in teg rity characteristics that be glad someday to hand on to youl children As for taking your mother and grandmother with you that would be a fatal mistake komove to move from the fresh sea air and riotous gar dens of san diego where the cli mate Is the most equable in the whole world to eastern snows and summer storms might seriously at af feet the health of them both they would both feel Intruder sIn fact they would actually be intruders and in attempting to reconcile thell claims and those of the big family you would jeopardize your married happiness perhaps irretrievably play your part with dignity and patience always remembering thal thai blessed are the meek and find yourself most enviably placed one ol of these days in the heart of the very finest of our american culture your YOU children will have a background as fine as any in the world and tunIt les and advantages worthy of a good name dont throw these things away because of the shallow shallo satisfaction that assertiveness sen siti veness pride resentment will wil give you now make your new family love you and pres antly find end yourself loving them |