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Kathleen Norris Says: What's Wrong With Daughters, Asks Dad B?ll Syndic at*.?WNU F#atur?g. mFran, or e of the turns, was married two years when the came home with a baby boy, couldn't stand Phil a minute longer By KA THLEEN NORMS HERE is a letter from the father of three girls. It would make me laugh, with its peppery dissatisfaction, If it did not come nearer to mak ing me cry. ? ? ? ' "What, the heck is the matter with girls nowadays?" asks Paul McAllister. "My wife and I had three?we wanted a boy, of course, but we got three pret ty, active girls, who grew up to keep the place in an uproar with their dates and their clothes and their boy friends. There wasn't a day for Ave or six years that someone didn't want a new dress, or want to give a party, or was crying over some invita tion that didn't come through or some boy who didn't like her. "That was bad enough. Then all three married; the little one first and the twins at a double wedding a year later. That set me back about five grand, but no matter? the girls were settled. "Settled! My gosh, they don't know the meaning of the word. Fran, one of "the twins, was mar. ria* two years when she came home with a baby boy, couldn't stand Phil a minute longer. Eight months later Barbara landed back on us; she has no child. We thought she would marry again, but that was five years ago, and she hasn't. "Now, six years married, with two littlg girls, Eleanor is home. Wall, there's some excuse there. Her hugband is lazy, doesn't make any mgoey, says he Is tubercular and waMs to live out on the desert. j ' Bisaarilsnl Household. f "Frah, gets a hundred a month alimony and gives her mother 30. navkoM SAia onJ ak.Ml -a rkaaaaaswaw ?cm> ?wv niiu oaj a auc u gu on this way forever, partly to spite Ross. Here we all are, mother, father, three daughters, three small children, and a good deal of reAned arguing and criticizing goes on ? we're too big a family, that's the truth. The girls cry over their mari tal troubles, blame each other, make up ? surely this isn't the way people ought to live, one old man and a lot of detached women who don't have homes or husbands! Eleanor has no money to spend, and talks of a Job. Barbara is pret ty well pleased with her settle meat and her freedom from respon sibility, and the contrast makes it hard for the other girls. It's the darndest situation I ever saw. They belp, of course, and we all love the kids, but it means that my wife, getting on in years now, is running a family boarding-house. "Aren't marriages supposed to stick any longer? Barbara hasn't got a thing against Ross; Eleanor might have gone out with her sick husband to Arizona and stayed with him to the end; Fran says now that Phil?who has married again? is one of the finest men she ever knew I've known folks who weren't married who stuck to each other a lot better than this. "Rents and housing shortages In our town make it impossible for any of them to And inexpensive apartments anywhere. Our house Is roomy and comfortable, and Bar bara talks of building on a big room for herself when It is possible. But a house with three young wives in It and no young husbands seems to me pretty queer. The girls ages are only 24, 24 and 22. This could go on (or ? long time. I'm not sure that I want your advice," this let ter ends, "but I want sympathy, lots of it." ? ? ? You have it, Paul. But don't for get that much of the responsibility (or this situation rests with you and with your wife. These girls were not brought up to a realization of the seriousness of marriage, and the danger of the delusion that di vorce is an escape from its incon veniences. They felt, as young wives, that marriage was like a school, or a house, or a hat. If you don't like it, change it. Don't put up with the inevitable disappoint ments and disillusionments that are part of even the happiest mar riage. Just get out, the way you'd get out of a job that suppressed and displeased you. Can't Get Oot Painlessly. Marriage isn't like that. Its roots go deep ? deep into a woman's life. She cannot tear them up and throw them aside without injuring many lives, especially her own. Years ago I knew a girl named Elsie. She married at IS with the statement that she didn't care for Herb, but she wanted to he mar ried at 18. At 27 she had been seven years divorced, had grown older, wiser, better. She fell in love, while on an ocean voyage, with the son of a distinguished, conventional, wealthy Baltimore family. They were married and went to his home where she was cordially wel comed. No one knew of her divorce until one night, at a dinner party, her first husband appeared, drunk and truculent. The episode was passed over somehow, but ber baby, born too soon as a result of agita tion. died. There never has been another child. Don't blame the girls, Paul. Blame the parents who didn't train them to be strong women and good wives. - Wants Opera Career Margaret Truman, daughter of the President, has decided that she wants to make music her profes sion, and for more than sis years during which she has been studying quietly she has not sung in public. She is almost sure to have an oper atic and concert career. Margaret has a voice that needs no White House accompaniment and she plans to have her career on her own merits. She intends to sing under I the name of Margaret Wallace, ber | mother's family name. PARENTS FAILED TOO A perplexed father, whose three daughters have all obtained di vorces and returned home, asks Miss Norris what has happened to the "old-fashioned" attitude toward marriage. He says the girls are all young?under 25, and that they had no real grounds for divorce. They simply came up against some difficulties and disillusionments, normal enough even in the happiest unions, and they quickly determined to get out of a situation that wasn't en tirely satisfactory. Now they are in their father's house, with their babies. While it is a big house, there isn't room for four fami lies. Bickering and criticizing is unavoidable. He goes on to explain each girts situation and the history of her marriage. Then he tells Miss Norris that,he isn't exactly asking for advice, but he wants sympathy. If modern girls had a little more endurance and cour age, he says, they could stick it out, and make successes of their marriages. The fault, replies Miss Norris, lies as much with himself and his wife as with the girls. If these daughters had been impressed all along with the seriousness of marriage, its trials and difficul ties, they would have been better prepared for the great step that they took, perhaps too young. ENLIVENING CHILEAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION . . . Here Is shown one of the nnmerons fights that marked election day in Chile, when the people went to the polls to vote for a new president. Com munists and Socialists were rivals in the brawls. The tackier here seems to be trying to haul his opponent into the ditch. Gabriel Gonzalez Videla received a majority of votes over his opponent Edwardo Coke. ITALIAN ORGAN GRINDER LURES CROWDS . . . Banned from the sidewalks at New York by edict of former Mayor Fioreilo H. LaGuardia, now the boss of UNRRA, the hardy gurdy survives in Italy, and this particular street organ in Palermo, Sicily, was used to attract crowds when the American representative of UNRRA wanted to announce the distribution of relief supplies. FARM RELIEF HORSES MENACED . . . These government-owned horses bought by the C. 8. department of agriculture for European farm relief, faced possible death becaose they were nnable to be trans ported to their destination as a result of strike-delayed shipping schedules. 1JNRRA officials say that a death toll of over It per cent resulted In shipping yards at Savannah, Ga? due to pneumonia and lack of nourishment. The horses were from the West and could not stand mud. QUADRUPLETS BORN TO FRENCH MOTHER . . . Four Bines feed the quadruplet daughters bora to Mrs. Margaret Walsa, St. ol Parts, Fraaee. The toar little girls, arhe are thriving la aa Incubator, are Jacqueline, Danielle. Anne-Marie and Nicole. With food aad cloth ing scarce, Mrs. Walsa will hare a problem to provide for her now fam ily. Many offers of ration cards aad food ha to been placed at the disposal of the new quadruplet girls. TOMATOES ABE HIGHER . . . Louis "Corky" Grimes, 2, Chicago, knows that tomatoes are plenty high in the local stores, but finds that they come even higher in hit neighbor's yard. This giant to mato plant in the yard oI Frank Grimaldl, is SV4 feet tall, believed to be a record. HEADS V.F.W. . . . Loots E. Starr, Portland, Ore., newly-elect ed national commander-in-chief of Veterans of Foreifn Hart, which held Its 19*6 convention at Bos ton. The convention favored ex tension of draft mad universal tralminf. * ___ _ - - IN THESE MITEP STATES Picturesque Wilderness Becomes National Pailc * City-weary Americans will have an opportunity to step into the past to see the northern forest as It was centuries before Colum bus stumbled onto a new world through dedication of forest-green and rugged Isla Royale, "the jewel of Lake Superior," as the na tion's newest national park. The island, jutting boldly from the blue Superior waters, 55 miles from the mainland, stood for centuries before its discovery by the Indians. French explorers followed the Red Men across the lake to the island, a virtually untouched laboratory of nature where rich mineral deposits lie buried deep beneath the grandeur j of the surface. I Mecca for Thousand*. Centuries later the modern sportsman and tourist rediscovered Isle Royale, and now it has become a mecca for several thousand per sons each year. Dnbbed the "Lake Superior Icebox," Isle Royale is Isolated by the ice over Lake Superior i for seven months a year?No- , vember to May. It is the per manent winter home of only . fishermen and trappers. In the ( summer months the population is increased greatly when more fishermen arrive and when va cationists Bock to the pictur- c esque wilderness. i Years ago the state of Michigan e took initial steps to save the island ? from the pulp loggers, already start- ' ing their operations there, for a cut- I over Isle Royale would have been ' such a bleak and barren wilderness c that probably not even the moose s would have liked the place. ? Came in 'Big Freeze.' e The famous Isle Royale moose, a incidentally, are not native to the island. They have been there only r since the very cold winter of 1912 ii when that part of the big lake froze f so solidly that the herds' ancestors f migrated from Canada 10 miles t across the ice. The island proved a f perfect place for the moose, the c herd thriving and increasing. L The caribou and white-tailed deer, t which were native to the island long 1 before the moose came, are no long- t er found there. But of other wild life there is a good variety and an . abundant amount: mink, beaver, | coyote, brush wolves, rabbits. . The island is the home of a great ] many water birds that fish on its - shores and streams. Like every well | watered wilderness, Isle Royale is a forested area with groves of white and black birch, sugar, red and e mountain maples. Black ash, moun- 1 tain ash, quaking aspen, alders and ' willow trees also thrive. 1 Because the winters are sub- * arctic and the nutriment for trees 0 is meager and the summers short, some trees are more than four cen- 8 turies old and only five feet tall. h The area abounds in wild flowers, c including 30 varieties of orchids. v Starts Campaign. j. The man who made the modern s discovery of Isle Royale was Dr. Wil- t liam P. Scott, who in 1890 was sent there to look after the miners and v their families. He made leisurely ii explorations over the place, fell in s love with the rugged island far out in the cold, cold lake and was the I first to campaign for its nationalize- e tion. r Fishermen, meantime, built huts, y groups of them clustered into tiny shoreline villages, and worked the o rich waters around the island, tak- o ing out whitefish by the ton. Life c n the summertime there was pleas-, int and profitable. But Ufe on Isle Royale In the winter was always ruffed, bleak, lonesome and danger ous. Once a winter worker had an eye pecked out by an owl made so desperate by hunfer that it dared attack a man. Formerly there was no communi :ation between the island and the ?est of the world from the time the ast boat sailed away in November intil the next one broke through the ce in May. In late years, of course, here has been radio. Compared to Battlewagon. The big island is 46 miles long, ontains 205 square miles of area ind has a number of small islets iround it so that it is sometimes ompared to a battleship escorted ly a flotilla of destroyers. Trans lortation around the island is by ?oat from port to port, or by foot ver the moose or old miner trails, ome of which were cleared a bit nd marked a few years ago by the ICC. There are no railroads, not ven any wagon roads on Isle Roy Je. In 1931 congress voted to make a lational park out of the area, and a 1933 President Roosevelt ap iroved the spending of $750,000 of ederal funds to purchase land of he island in danger of being logged or pulp. By 1939 all claims were leared and the department of nterior took over administration of he area, making it a national park, 'he war intervened to delay dedica ion of the new park until this fall. factors Abandoned iope?Bnt Injured fet Now Can Talk JAMESTOWN, N. Y. ? "'He'll nev r talk again," doctors agreed after tichard J. Werner, 20, of James own, was wounded in action on a attlefield in Germany March 25, 945 ? but now Werner plans to try ut for his school glee club. Seriously injured by a blast from German howitzer, Werner had a ole in this throat, severed vocal ords, fractured larnyx and severed windpipe. After lying in an army ospital for more than a month, reathing through a silver tube in erted through the wound in his hroat, Werner heard a doctor say: "We're going to try to suture your ocal cords, fella. Not much chance will work, but we may get a quawk or two out of you." Three months in a hospital in England and another at Fort Dev ns, Mass., passed before a doctor emoved the tube and asked: "How ou feeling, boy?" "Okay," Werner rasped with ut thinking?and then, in a fever f excitement, he croaked: "Hey! I an talk!" ? MOBILE X-RAI BOOM . . . Designed particularly for use In sparsely populated areas, a powerful new weapon against tuberculosis and other ebest diseases has been acquired by the C. 8. Public Health service. It is a bus-mounted x-ray room which can be taken to people In their frames, factories, stores and schools to make routine chest examinations as a phase of the program to "nip TB In the bud." The dread disease has no symptoms in Us early stage, yet In that stage It is most easily curable. > Even Beavers Occasionally lire too Eager UKEELEY, COLO.?Even beavers occasionally become too eager, county road workmen insist. Called to repair a flooded section of county road, the workers at first thought some farmer had been care less with irrigation water. Later they discovered that beavers were building a dam across a nearby irri gation ditch, causing water to run onto the road. The road workers pulled out the dam. That night the I beavers put it back in. The battle continued, the roadmen working like beavers taking out the dam dur ing the daytime and the beavers liv ing up to their name at night by putting the dam back. Finally Sheriff Gus Anderson *aa called into the rase He refused to take legal action to dispossess the beavers, but he did notify Game Warden W. O. Adkins, who wffl - trap the beavers. i
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