Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-02-18
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
Bell syndicate.-wNU Features.

w 7HOEVER said "mar-
M riage is lottery" said
w it long time ago, for I
can't remember the time when
l wasn't familiar with the
phrase. Naturally it doesn't
mean anything to children, nor
even to youth, for young lovers
feel perfectly confident of each
other-no lottery about it, they
know.
But later on, after few years
of matrimony, wise women rec
ognize the truth of the old say
ing. For every wife gets good
and gets bad out of her bargain,
but the good isn't the good she
expected, and the faults she
presently discovers even in the
most perfect husband, aren't in
the least the faults about which she
so lovingly and jokingly leased him
when they were only engaged.
A woman named Tania Quinn
writes me about it. Like a million
other American girls Tania married
serviceman last year; she had
known him only seven weeks when
she became his wife, and at that
time didn't think that he had any
faults at all. He's f1ier, and while
all servicemen possess a romantic
attraction for women, fliers have a
special glamour. Tania admits that
she has been unusually popular, that
a great many of the boys wanted
to marry her, and she says she
made special stipulations before she
would consent to say Eyes" to Judd.
She must have her own separate
room. He was never to be home
for lunch They weren't to have a
baby for five years. At the end of
the first year they were to have a
frank talk, each telling the other the
10 qualities or habits he or she most
disliked in his mate, and if they
we're not able to come to fair
agreement then they were to sep
arate.
Filler Agreed to Terms.
Judd, rather weakly it seems to
me, but perhaps he was too madly
infatuated to be reasonable, agreed
to these absurd terms; he and Tania
were married, and he flew away.
Now he is home again, to stay.
Because of a foot injury he can't
fly any more, but has been placed
as an instructor at an important
post.
"Of course was perfectly delight
ed to have him safe at home," says
Tania's letter. But everything
came out differently from what
expected, and I want to know if
l haven't the right to claim the old
promises from Judd. Space is ter
ribly short here; we have one room
and a bath and tiny kitchen. Prom
Use one. Judd is home for lunch
every day and have no help. Prom
Use two. 1 am expecting a baby,
which makes me simply furious al
though / have no doubt 1 will love
it when it comes. Promise three.
And when in June I proposed that
we have that long talk and see how
we really felt about things Judd only
laughed. He hasn't the slightest no.
ton that he is failing me so terribly
and has broken every promise that
he ever made me. think that if
he was sympathetic I would not
care Sc much, but am away from
home, lonely, not a very good house.
keeper and feeling miserably sick
all the time, and l just go about
reSentinp things and CRYING MOT NV
idea of marriage at ALL"
Well, this letter, with its uncon-
scious revelation of prolonged ado
lescence, would be funny if it were
not so pathetic. Life has taken hold
of Tania and made her a woman in
spite of herself, and she doesn't
like SO abrupt treatment. But one
can't quite blame Judd, after his
scalding experiences in the war, his