Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-02-15
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
Bell Syndicate.-wNU Features.


M reader of fairy-tales did
w you want to become in
visible? Did you think that was
about the most fascinating thing
that all the old witches charms
or the magic walnut shells could
do for you? I did.
Well, here is a letter from a
woman who became invisible.
She wrote me four years ago, a
letter so snarled with troubles,
fretting, doubts, despairs that
there didn't seem any way out
for her.
I advised her to become invisible,
and 1t worked the cure. This is
part Of very long letter I've had
from her this week.
II told you, if you remember"
writes Susan, that my situation
was hopelessly complicated. I had
been confidential secretary to man
whose position-whose work, rather,
was of an extremely delicate ma
ture. He was, and is, one of the
heads of hospital for mental cases.
He was at the time 40 years old,
married, and father of two children
"a girl of and boy of IA. His
wife agreed to divorce, and wished
to keep the boy. The girl had never
been sympathetic to her, and she
wished to have her come to me. My
own family was so distressed at the
circumstances of my having "broken
up a home," as they considered it,
that they dropped me completely.
DISBURSEMENT Comes
However, with Hartley and my
self it was the so-called 'grande pas
sion.' I was then %; this was 10
years ago. After a year or two,
when our first ecstasies of posses
sion and novelty had worn away,
we found ourselves a normal man
and woman, both with faults, both
little disillusioned, but with new
complications. Sonya, my step
daughter, was a strange and diff
cult child, and we had a daughter
Of our own, Karin, splendid
child, but with serious defect in
eyesight, requiring very special
care. We later had boy, who died
in his third month.
my struggles with Sonya, anxiety
for Karin's state, and grief over my
wonderful boy, resulted in a nervous
breakdown for me, and Hartley and
I reached the point of discussing a
separation. My special grievance
against him was his devotion to his
son by his first wife, and his con-
slant visits to them. But everything
was grievance and more than once
I contemplated suicide.
"You advised invisibility, and I
tried it. I dropped all thought of
myself; you said for a period of
three months. Imade it six. Iwait-
ed on Sonya quietly and considerable
ly, like a perfect servant. You said,
become Gods good servant and I
tried to. I never had anything but
soothing welcomes for my tired
man. I took my baby through the
long convalescences that gave her,
after two operations, perfect eye
sight. bore a daughter I call Joy
for joy she is to us all. never COM
planned, never asked Hartley where
he was going.
Thoroughly Happy Now.
well, how to summarize all
this?" the letter concludes. "Sonya
has become a different child, and
sometimes-when her mother is try
ing or her father irritable, she tries
the invisibility game, too. Hartley
Is better in nerves and spirits
than ever before in his life, and-if
my marrying him in the beginning
was the result Of youth and passion,
! think have atoned. We have our
own home on the institution grounds
now and my mother is with me.