The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-14
BY KATHLEEN NORRIS
Bell syndicate-wNu Features.

THE world is full Of persons
who fool themselves; most
i ly women. They think they
are deceiving others, but their
families and friends see through
them as though they were panes
of glass.
We all scoldthe small girl who
says glibly, IT didn't tell you I'd
broken your vase because I hate
to tell people bad news, Moth
er!" Or, 81 took the candy
away from Betty-Lou because !
thought it might make her.
sick"
But there are lots of older self
foolers to whom I'VE can't address
reproof. For example, the pretty
young wife who says that her hus-
band really doesn't want to 60 with
those men on a fishing trip, he'd
take her to visit her mother. Or
the woman who tells you that she
would love to do her own work and
help poor George with the house
keeping bills, but that he really
wants her to take it easy and rest
a lot. Nobody but herself, of course,
is fooled.
Perhaps the field in which women
deceive themselves most often is
that of love affairs. When she loses
her charm for the man she adores,
the beloved woman won't admit it
easily. She fights along for months,
perhaps for years, trying to per-
suade herself that he still cares, that
he will come back, that the old
glow and thrill and glamour of the
beginning of their love will certain
ly return.
Loved a Man Six Years.
Frances is such a woman. She is
20; she has loved one man for nearly
six years. Their affair seems to be
no nearer to marriage, as the years
60 by, and her heart is sick with
waiting.
Carlton came to our small town
six years ago." she writes. "He is
everything the heart of woman
could desire, tall, good-looking,
amusing, handsome and successful.
There was not girl in my circle
who didn't perk up and take an i'm
mediate interest when he came
along, but it was only matter Of
weeks before he and I were aware
of the deep sympathy and congenial-
ity between us. It was Franc and
Carly from the first when anything
was planned. We were in theatre
Gals together; we were always
paired off on picnics and parties.
Best of all were the many evenings
when he would come to talk books
or politics with my invalided father;
and afterward he and would go
into the kitchen for coffee and toast.
my mother died suddenly and my
father did not long survive her; I
thought then that Carlton would
surely say that we must be married.
But he did not, although he was all
sympathy and wonderfully dear and
helpful. Two other school teachers
came to share my home with me.
I bore it as long as could, and
then faced the music, told him how
felt, reminded him that for three
years we had been going together.
''He said he felt that my parents
death had rather pushed our affair
into the background and asked for
one week to think it all over. Be
fore that week was up he came to
me and asked that we be engaged,
but it must be a profound secret.
He gave me ring of his mothers,
but asked me not to wear it pub
icly.
Wants to End Delay.
''That was three years ago, and
nothing has changed since. Carlton
said last year that until we could
be married he felt that we ought
not to see each other more than
twice a week. He comes Wednesday