| Show kathleen norris says mind your own business bell Syn diette features feature rg t p 0 V opp 10 she is running around with one ol of the th town boys and whatever she feels he is deeply in love by KATHLEEN NORRIS HESE are good days in THESE which to mind your own business for one reason because business is going to be complicated and hard under postwar conditions and for another because interfering in other persons affairs is a harmful wasteful and of often ten useless employment here is a letter from a woman who feels that she very decidedly ought to be minding other persons ms business even while she gives me a distinct impression that her own 0 t being too well managed my position is a very painful one writes carolyn miller from a texas town 1 I live with my husbands mother who Is a dear S she he Is only 52 62 active and capable and we manage the house easily between us I 1 have a baby six months oi old d the trouble Is my twin sisters inlaw in law whom I 1 will call joan and jean they are 20 joan married to a captain of 0 marines and jean J ean engaged to his brother who Is in the air corps i this marriage and this engagement took place before I 1 moved in here my husband bert has been away for almost a year not his baby joan the married one had a baby 10 months after her husbands departure tor for the south seas she did not notify him of this babas arrival rt va I 1 until u n ill it was five weeks old then a joyous cable was sent fine little girl both well his answer to this was so pathetically eager and happy that it made me sick tor for in the family we all know that it Is not his baby joan admits herself to a time of indiscretion immediately after his departure with one of his friends since killed in the pacific the whole family expects me meto to be e a party to this outrageous outi ageous de deception cep tion of which I 1 never would have heard if I 1 had not unexpectedly arrived here at the old home my own instinct is to try to persuade joan to write rite the truth to art and if she will not and her mother will not to write wr te him myself jeans bean a case is of course less serl serious ous but she is running runn ing around with one of the town boys and whatever e e s she eels s he is deeply in love this seems to me terribly unfair to her h r absent fiance but her moth mother er will do nothing but look worried and say that time will settle all these hese 1 1 s personally I 1 dont believe ui leaving such matters to time human beings have responsibilities and our duties to our absent soldiers are surely the most sacred among them my husband is now returning honorably discharged and we will move back to our own home in a town some miles away my dear carolyn my advice heads this article mind your own business button up your up lip about joans affairs and jeans affairs and concentrate upon managing your home fortunately in another t town own and keeping your husband and baby happy h appy I 1 let joan tell husband you dont know and you have no business busine to know what the relationship tion ship Is between joan and art perhaps she has written him the full truth already perhaps she Is waiting until he Is horns home again and at work normally again and in love she will tell tau him when hs he returns with the little girl baby to say to him art I 1 dont know what weakness or craziness came over me I 1 never loved tom as I 1 did you I 1 was lonesome and he was going awa away y to his death as it happened and we were carried away can you forgive me and love her for toms sake too because he gave everything that he had gave life itself to keep her world safe for her i perhaps if something like that hat happens art never need be disillusioned lusio ned arts heart need never be broken perhaps there will be other children and the little oldest girl not the least dear but whatever happens your putting your stiff moralizing moral izing clumsy hand into this affair can only ruin everything and do you no good leave joan alone and leave jean alone jean the only pretty young flirt chos amusing herself in the absence of her hearts true love jean will probably meet her sweetheart with inocent eyes and a royal welcome and to all the world joans mistake will remain hidden and joans daughter will have her honor and her place in the world untouched in a word carolyn caroln mind your own business |
