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Show Kallilecn Norris Says: ICs Time, for Us lo Crow Up! nl) SynrfleuU. WNU l'Vfilurna. Tun make yourself more attractive uhrn ynu forget that there are other attractive women in tlie world all tryiiiK to net Kay uway from you." FACE THINGS BRAVELY Tlirre are plenty oj ivorries and problems besetting most oj us. Many oj them are small and passing, but others are real enough. Some of these we can change by vigorous, courageous cou-rageous action, and some will clear up oj themselves if we are only patient. Some are concerned con-cerned about their children; others about debts; still others about philandering husbands. Some are annoyed because their mothers-in-law live ivith them. Miss Norris advises everyone to settle whatever difficulties they can. For the rest of our troubles, there is nothing to do but to face them with as much bravery and resignation as possible. pos-sible. For those who have loved ones in battle zones, there is no solace but prayer. B it in the fu(ure, as well as the present, warns Miss Norris, Nor-ris, women will need to be strong, able to cope with the many grave issues that the postivar world will bring. Right now is the time to develop de-velop fortitude. good, EXCEPT the woman who Is always behindhand with her bills and short of money. It doesn't matter whether your income is $1,500 a year or $5,000 if you are slipshod and unsystematic in your handling of it, if you live in a constant state of neglected bills and money shortage, short-age, you are destroying every chance you have for happiness in the new postwar world. End Money Worries. It's no excuse to say that you don't exactly know how much money you'll have, from month to month. In that case reduce your outgo to the minimum income, and save whatever is over. Or, if it is the man of the family who wastes, is extravagant, won't fall in line, then get a job, use your own money, and know where you stand. These are not days of trifles. The By KATHLEEN NORRIS MRS. A. is fretting herself her-self sick and spoiling her life because her husband admires a young grass-widow in his office. She says she trusts him and that he is a fine man, but you know what these widows are and if Roy should go off the track, with a lovely mother like his, a devoted wife, two splendid boys Mrs. B. is beside herself because life could be so perfect if only Harold's Har-old's mother wasn't with them. She's been with them seven years. She's a perfectly darling old woman, she watches the children and does wonders won-ders in the kitchen, but, oh dear, there are times when one would like to have the house to oneself Mrs. C. worries about money. Where does It go to? Why ire vlie C's, with Just one child to worry about, always behindhand with bills, always in debt, always unable to do the pleasant wasteful things that other oth-er people seem able to do? Mrs. E. is sober and silent because be-cause of Cass and Jim; Crss st-ing st-ing his wonderful twenties in dim, grim Aleutians, Jim now starting start-ing his third trip to the dangerous southern seas. She can't lift up her heart, she can't be gay. Their father, fa-ther, as silent and sad as herself, was gassed in the last great war; it would take a series of miracles to bring sunshine to the D. house-bold house-bold now. Mrs. F. worries about her children; chil-dren; she has two girls and a boy. She worries about their eyes, teeth, table manners, clothes, futures. They are normal, - attractive children chil-dren to everyone but Mother. Mrs. G. but why go on? The list is endless. Everyone of us is beset with anxieties and responsibilities, little and big, and when one vanishes van-ishes another jumps np to take its place. Unfortunately, some of these, in these sad days, are legitimate troubles. trou-bles. When a beloved son or husband hus-band or brother is away in the service serv-ice our hearts may well be heavy; the only cure for this worry is prayer, and by a divine paradox only prayer will help us to find prayer so the start on that road is hard. Issues that face us are titanic. What a shattered world can do at a peacetable is an inchoate and far away thing; hundreds of voices will be heard at that table, and they may begin quarreling again over the peace itself. , But YOUR household may be a little oasis of peace and order; a place of hospitality, happiness, harmony. har-mony. By making it that you lift just so much of a burden off the great burden of the world. Yet set an example of charity and kindness, when you make an older person an honored member of your family. You relieve your husband of his deepest anxiety when you convince him that you can live happily, without debt. You raise better children when you don't worry about them all the time. You make yourself more attractive when you forget that there.are other attractive women in the world all trying to get Roy away from you. We're going to need strong, wise women to the postwar world, and children raised in an atmosphere of simplicity, economy, reasonable sacrifice, sac-rifice, affection. We're going to need GOODNESS. The more you can assemble as-semble under your roof the better for us all. Put Aside Trifles. But for the rest, do let us learn something, as American women in the most fearful crisis the world has ever known. Let us try to develop de-velop character. Let us put aside all the trifles that annoy us, face our problems and solve them, remember re-member that children do grow up; that plain girls and stubborn boys turn into quite attractive grownups, and marry, and start worrying in their turn. Remember that even if Roy goes pretty far with the grass-widow in the office, he'll not be the first, and your course is just to face the humiliating hu-miliating truth and survive it and grow stronger for it. Remember that it's a good thing for everyone to have Grandpa or Grandma living in the family. It trains everyone in self-control and good manners, to say nothing of the inestimable value of an assistant cook, always-reliable nurse and general gen-eral housekeeper in these servant-less servant-less times. And as for money. Well, I can summon up a good deal of respect for almost any type of woman be she smart or stupid, good or not-so- MTU HA ii "An oasit of peace and order ..." 1 |