Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-06-20


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BY KATHLEEN NORRIS
w IHEN a man, after twen-
w ty years of marriage,
w gets tired Of his wife,
neglects her, hurts and insults
her, and openly admits that he
wants to be freed to marry an
other woman, what is the wife
to do?
This isn't a new problem,
but the shock and helpless
ness of it make it seem eter-
nally new to every woman to
whom it comes. Sometimes this
shock, coming to her at bad phys
ical moment, almost upsets her rea-
son for time.
Such a danger seems to me very
close to Emily Baker, who writes
me from a big Massachusetts, man
ufacturing town. Emily will be
fortunate if she can hold to her rea-
son and keep her balance in the
months ahead. IF she can, I think
I can promise her happiness and
serenity when this time has gone by.
A Quarter Century Of Work.
Emily is so; she has been mar
ried q years. She has a married
daughter living in the West; a mar
ried son living near her, and a
young daughter and son still at
home. She married for love, worked
hard as young wife and mother,
never had servant until a few
years ago. For a whole quarter
century she washed, cooked, busted,
made beds, dressed babies, served
meals, helped school-children with
their lessons, packed picnic bas-
kets, trimmed Christmas trees.
"Tom always came first with me-"
says her tear-stained letter. DIN
ner every night included something
that Daddy especially liked, the
children must be respectful, consid
crate Of him when he was tired,
they must remember his birthday.
They all love him dearly, as indeed
I door did.
my younger son, now called by
the draft, is closely devoted to his
mother. But my unmarried daugh-
ter, Aida, thinks her father can do
no wrong. And he is doing wrong
now, my good, patient, generous
husband of few years ago. Aida
works in his Office, and also working
there is woman some 10 years
older than she, divorced, with a boy
of five, very beautiful and unscrupu-
lous. She has my husband COM
pletely bewitched.
Feels Old-Useless.
''He began by being irritable and
unreasonable with me, and inn
patient because I was so often nerv-
GUS, tired, and sensitive. I feel my
self to be old, gray, useless and
homely these days, and what see
in my mirror only confirms the i'm
pressions. But need tenderness so,
and the security of my home! And
those are just the things he proposes
to take away. He is handsome, rosy,
strong and young at So, and seems
years younger than I.
"Tom wants divorce. He wants
to bring his young wife here and
have her keep house for him and
Aida when Don goes to camp in
June and 60 west to visit my
daughter when her baby comes. He
says am to 60 to Reno, stay with
Betty as long as I like, visit
anywhere I choose. I cannot ex-
press to you the forlornness of this
prospect without him and without
any one of the children, who have
been all my world for so many
years! I am not baby, am not
plying myself, but under no cir
cumstances could I compete in beau
ty and charm with a fresh girl Of
%, who is fiattering Tom to the point
when he Is q complete fool over
her.
'Alida d the sensible, practical,
outspoken type. Her attitude b that |