| Show kathleen norris says you have to take something bell syndicate features feature 1 rl 0 V 1 r be happy h py accept the dark with the bright and rejoice if you can lift your problems aherns up and out of the great national na t ional sum 0 trouble by KATHLEEN NORRIS is not a woman in bof the length and breadth of america at this moment who is not putting up with some circumstance that is almost unendurable the world for many ye years ars has been very sick we bore up pretty well when the fever was high a and nd the lymp symptoms toms so dangerous that it seemed a as s if we recover now were in for the tying trying exacting pettish quarrelsome bored tedious time of convalescence and its going to take whatever we can muster of courage and character young wives with small babies are absolute slaves these days da tys either tackling the herculean jobs of dishes and dadles playtime and mealtime marketing and cooking beds and dust telephone and nose colds all by themselves or paying a good round dol dollar lar an hour for or not too effectual help mothers and fathers of boys just back from service are learning kearnin 91 with heartache how deep the world poisoning penetrated into the young hearts how hard it Is for the boys boy 8 to take up civilian jobs to fit themselves quietly into civilized living again everyone Is worried doctors are overworked to the dropping point business managers are harassed by the irreconcilable margins between ceiling prices an and d rising wages strikes are darkening thousands of households hospitals are full of physically wounded boys boy struggling back to life and to usefulness ful ness and of boys more seriously wounded wounded in soul an and mind who in puzzlement and darkness must somehow work their way toward the light so tor for goodness sake pick up your own share and carry it and ma make ke light of it and help us all get through dont complain that your husband never praises you or that he tell you about his business or keeps you short of money or takes an interest in ther other 0 women or talks rudely to yoa when 1 hes had a drop too much or does 00 0 or 0 r do a thousand 0 ther other things that nag at you like midges all daiy diy d ly and keep you from being happy be happy accept the dark with the bright and rejoice if y you ou can lift your problems up and out of the great national sum total of trouble and establish a household financially sound affectionate capable harmonious we need a million of them we need 10 million milli we co could u id use 40 million it if 10 million women suddenly waked up to their blessings decided to ignore ig nore their trials or disadvantages 0 or r privations or unsatisfied desires decided to shoulder the load and go straight ahead uncomplaining toward the goal of prosperity and happiness that Is right ahead of us how much taster faster wed reach gloomy grandma betty van tor for example betty is all hot and bothered because vans mother lives with them betty has babies b aged five and three and eight months she Is wonderful with the children writes betty and of course does a lot in the kitchen and hon ertly I 1 think I 1 could be fond of her xa I 1 she balki of sick beds and sorrows LAUGH OFF TROUBLES practically every woman in the country has to endure some difficulty sometimes it is a little tiling thing like a small crowded apartment or lack of help or it may be a crushing burden like a mentally or physically sick husband who lias has been ruined by war there is a tension everywhere a sense of bitterness among large groups of frustration and disillusionment illusion ment women who have only minor troubles should count themselves among the blessed betty van for ei example ample has almost everything a good home home loving husband three hildren children her husbands moth er lives with them and helps a lot in the kitchen and with the children this is all splendid except that the old lady has a sad outlook on life she wants to tell dreary tales of sickness and death handsh hardships i ps and accidents betty is afraid she will depress the children and make them morbid and Q neurotic miss aliss norris assures betty that there is little danger that youngsters three to five years old will be affected by gloomy tories stories s the little ones cannot understand and care ij if they could at that age they are interested only in them selves on the other oilier hand they will benefit greatly by their grandmothers care and instruction betty is fortunate to have such a willing and able helper adds miss hiss norris s it if she so gloomy im afraid it will affect the i children she wants to talk of sic sia k beds and sorrows ind and what happened to her friends in the way of sudden death and dreadful accident and every morning she sighs and reads van the names in the list of deaths do you suppose my children will catch this dismal outlook I 1 am naturally cheerful and optimistic and so is van but sometimes im afraid she will pull us all down to her level and yet it would be frightfully hard to tell granny that we wanted her to uve live elsewhere no betty it wont a affect the c hildren children and its tor for you yot rather to cheer the old girl up with attentive interest in her sad tales and hopeful comment wherever you can put it in you have in her a devoted cook and nurse one to whom the C childrens hil drens safety is dearer even than to you and any young mother you know would envy you we had a nurse years ago who used to take us to the nearby graveyard and let us play there month out and in while she worked on a special shroud that she was eventually to wear and that was supposed to have some mystic merit we took deep interest in the shroud and loved the gravestones where we played house ship pirates circus and everything else that suggested life and youth its a lucky man who has his bis mother under his root roof living in harmony with his wile wife and keeping a loving watch on his bis children hold on to your luckl 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