Show kathleen norris says marrying front from fear beu bell syndicate features Feat fly az rose wishes to marry a fine young lawyer who already shows signs signs oj of political advancement lip ile ts is rich handsome devoted de I 1 by KATHLEEN NORRIS coverty TO VERTy was the cause POVERTY yoi Y oi of the miserable circumstance cum curn stance of which h I 1 am writing you says the letter of a portland mother my husband died in 1932 leaving me with two children chil dren a boy of 14 and a girl of 10 destitute I 1 had to work hard for some years to support them and at 16 my girl took a job in a law office the boy buy had then won a scholarship and was living in another town tour four months after she started work ray my daughter confessed to me her love tor for the office boss her relationship with him and that she expected a child I 1 was then keeping a boardinghouse boarding house in which my oldest boarder was a man of 0 76 who had considerable property he had long wanted to marry me and in my desperation I 1 now consented to the marriage closed my house h 0 use and insisted that he and 1 I and rosemarie rose marie go on a trip to mexico where we really went was to a big eastern city where the baby was born at this time my husband was stricken with paralysis we came back to our home where all our interests were and I 1 represented the child as mine at the time I 1 was only 38 so that that statement was not ques questioned boned this man lived until a few months ago the situation now is that rosemarie rosemane wishes to marry a fine young lawyer who already shows signs of political advancement he Is rich handsome devoted meanwhile the contemptible married man who ho was rose maries boss has been widowed he Is 61 6 1 a successful business man but to me he would be personally disagreeable even if I 1 did not bitterly resent his betrayal of my little girl when she was only 18 16 the man she has now promised to marry knows nothing of her story and if I 1 can prevent it never will but the older man harold my splendid little granddaughters real father la Is quietly blackmailing me into a third marriage the thought is unspeakably revolting ting to me but by marrying ma crying this tiresome self satisfied attle man 61 61 1 I feel that I 1 can absolutely safeguard my daughters new happiness rose maries future it is great happiness it is real happiness mrs norris rose marle marie has grown has developed in these bitter years she truly loves this new man she wants to share a dignified and interesting ufa life with him she can do it I 1 know she can and she will but it will be at terrible cost to me harold knows that this darling eight year old girl is his child for my heartbroken heart broken rosemarie naturally told him of her agonizing plight he can hold this knowledge over us all he has letters to prove it can you advise me just two points more jane the little girl intensely dislikes harold and rose marte marie believe me when I 1 say this is a gentle fine cloan hearted girl tar far stronger in charac ter than many girls her age who have been more fortunate As began began by saying poverty wrought this terrible and perplexing pattern X this tiresome little man of 6 A DREADFUL PROSPECT covering up the first false step generally means that a chain of difficulties has been started so it was for the unhappy mother whose letter is answered in this column rose the daughter is engaged to on a young lawyer awyer isiom she loves dearly he is handsome rich and politically ambitious bit ious A dark secret in roses past threatens to mar her happiness however site she has a child born when site she was only 16 her mother a married an old man and passed the child off as her own to protect roses name now roses seducer a middle age aged d man rn an icho was her employer threatens to expose rose unless her mother will marry liim him and surely it is cruel to have the jene generations rations go on paying so bitterly for or what is no ones fault poverty is hard my dear janet I 1 know it well but no girl gives herself to a middle aged married man in the ferst weeks of their acquaintanceship just because 0 of poverty rosemarie rose marie should have been better armed tor for the fight with life ide your idea of marrying her seducer is fantastic he has no legal claim upon her or upon the child rosemarie rose marie can clear this whole thing up and I 1 think in justice to you she must by telling her present sweetheart the whole story harold cant do much harm it Is possible that he will break the engagement and leave leae her political careers and histories like this one dont mix or it is possible that he will look at the situation honestly and generously nobody knows these facts except harold even if he were contemptible enough to start a whispering campaign the probabilities are all against his getting very tar far with it jane is established as your child the child of your late marriage to the old man to arpak out with evidence of her real parenthood would mark harold as a scurrilous blackmailer and hurt him incurably with all decent folk the chance of hi his doing this is I 1 believe negligible that is if he knows rose marle marie has made it all clear to her promised husband it 11 she marries him keeping these facts a secret then harold really holds against her happiness and security a deadly weapon that may well ruin her life it is too bad that women must pay so high for or the mistakes of girlhood but we are made that way and everything that emancipation and independence can do cannot seem to lessen that situation for your sake and the sake of innocent little jane I 1 can only advise an honest explanation to roses young oung man and then a confident going forward in the hope that any scandal started by harold would react against himself more thin against the girl he betrayed for you to make two loveless marriages to save the situation would merely complicate everything |