The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, April 19, 1940 Page: 2 of 8
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THE WEST NEWS
Kathleen Norris Says:
Young Wires, Beware!
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Grantland Riot
Warning to Wives
Here is a wanting to young wit'**
of 1940, who think they ran rat their
cake and have it to. Many young iwttex,
according to Kathleen Norris, teem to
fed that once the security of a home
and husband is their't they can put
that security on the shell and start
looking around for new playthings.
But that style of living doesn't at
wars work out. Sometimes the little
lady gets burned. Mothers still insist
that their young daughters who are
married should pul friend husband
frst rtl their hearts. But the daughters
often think that Mother it old-fash- j
toned and doesn't know about “mod-
em" men.
Usually though, they learn that
Mother it right, \aturally it's all right
to know men other than your hus-
band but "affairs"—no matter how ui-
nocent—are out.
And if the mistake is eter made—if
Mrs. Young Wife does engage in an
"affair"-she had better tell Hubby
and start all over again. Unless she
does tell him she isn't playing lair
and soma day she’ll get caught. Then
it mey be too late to forget.
Yesterday a leurer from BilTt town called on me. He says that BilTs wife has
gotten possession of these letters.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
YY THEN the mother of a 16 or
Wf 18-year-old girl advises her
™ » against doing something, or
virus her about it, she is usually
actuated by pure affection and loy-
alty to her daughter.
She knows that the years between
16 and 25 are the years when a
woman who is indiscreet, reckless,
inexperienced, can throw away all
the happiness of her later years.
Thousands of girls do, and live to
regret it for the rest of their lives.
But somehow they never will be-
lieve that their mothers are right.
‘Mother Old-Fashioned.’
"My mother hasn't the least idea
ef how things are today,” they write
me "Mama is so old-fashioned
that it’s perfectly maddening.
Mama thinks the most innocent
things are dangerous. Mother
doesn't want me to have any fun.
My mother is always afraid of what
the neighbors will think.”
Any explanation of her anxieties
will do, except that she is your
mother, and loves you, and wants
you to grow safely to honorable and
happy womanhood, and not make
mistakes.
"My mother talked to me the
night before I was married," writes
a Pennsylvania woman, “and if I’d
taken her advice seriously I might
have spared myself the misery I’m
in today. But 1 always thought of
Mother as straightlaced and fussy,
and I didn’t pay much attention.
She told me always to put Len first
in everything, and like all brides,
I did make a great fuss over him
at first. We had a dear little boy
and were very happy for the first
few years.
Anew BUly as Girl.
“Then a man I will call Billy
turned up. I had known him as a
girl, and we had had a pretty ex-
citing love affair, of which I had
told Len. Nothing wrong, but we
had been engaged, and 1 thought
Len ought to know.
"Mother had never liked Billy,
partly because he is divorced, part-
ly because he is quite a sport. But
he is very attractive to women, and
when he showed that he still ad-
mired me I didn't mind making Van
• little jealous. This worried Moth-
er terribly, for she adores Van.
"When BUly went away after a
short visit he asked me to corre-
spond with him. He sent me books
and articles, once a beautiful hand
kerchief, and once perfume. His
letters were amusing and admiring
and I answered them, saymg a good
deal more than I really felt This
was about a year ago. We wrote
each other about every 10 days, so
I suppose he has at least 30 of my
tetters.
BiH’s Lawyer Appears
"Yesterday a lawyer from Bill’s
town called on me with a great deal
of discretion and secrecy that drove
me nearly mad. He says that Bill’s
wife has gotten possession of these
tetters. Never having dreamed
that he was married at aU, I was
shocked beyond words. ? said that
I had not known that Mi. D. was
married, whereupon this horrible
man said, ‘But you knew you were,
didn’t you?’ She wants $1,500 for
the letters or she will sue for di-
vorce, naming me. Some of these
tetters I signed ‘Your-little-wife-
that-should-have-been,’ and others
the pet names (he had given me in
his tetters. Our actual lelationship
was always strictly with.n the bonds
of morality, of course.
“I did not close my eyes last
Bight and 1 am half frantic today.
At first this lawyer said he would
he here until I decided what to do,
but he telephoned this morning to
say he is going back to Trenton,
and will wait to hear from me. What
maddens me was that I have never
been in love with Bill, but only
enjoyed this correspondence as a
•art a1 romance. My husband and
child are my very lifeblood, and any
thought of trouble at home breaks
«iy heart. I do not even know
that Ball is married; it may be that
he needs money and trusts he will
get it this way. For the sake of a
borne, a good husband and an in no-
cant baby do, do help me find aotne
out’ ’
Thrills at an End.
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the thrill of a secret love affair, she
has made nothing of Len’s rights
and Len’s dignity, and now she ex-
pects to be extricated from it in a
few minutes! The mischief has j
been far too long in building for
that.
Her only way out is one of hu- j
miliation and courage and risk, i
Joan has been stuffing greedily on
poisonous sweets for 12 whole
months. Now for emetics and cas-
tor oil and general wretchedness.
For she will have to tell the whole
story to her husband at once, and
have him get in touch with some
friend in Trenton, or some city
authority, who can find out exactly
what the engaging Billy’s marital
status is. If he really is married,
then Van, Joan’s husband, might
write him, remind him that he has
some letters from Joan, and ask
their return. This may work, in-
asmuch as Billy may not want
trouble with his wife over them,
should Joan turn the tables and in-
form her of anything that has been
going on. If Billy isn’t married,
the matter is comparatively simple.
Joan’s husband may ask for the
letters, thus showing Billy that he
knows of their existence, and so
spiking Billy’s guns on blackmail.
Then forget the whole thing.
Joan Mast Confess.
Whatever the outcome, Joan's
complete confession to her husband
must be the next step.
“And is it a crime to write to a
man when you’re married to an- ;
other?” many a young wife who is
playing with the same sort of fire
may indignantly demand. No, but
the advice of Joan's mother was
good advice. Put your husband ;
first. Don’t do anything that you j
wouldn’t like him to do. Keep your
men friends, of course. But keep
them as a wife, not* flirt. Act like
a woman embarked upon a serious
business, not a free lance still in
the market for affairs. There’s no
law against writing letters, affec-
tionate, romantic, emotional, to a
married man. There’s no law
against making a complete fool of
yourself. There’s no law against
living on chocolate cake and sleep*
ing to a bathtub.
Terrible Alternative.
For a long time after this scald,
ing experience Joan will be a very
meek and devoted little wife. She'll
have to be. The alternative, di-
vorce, and the surrender of her
child, as being an unfit mother, is
too expensive. A few of those
“Uttte-wife-that-should-have-been”
letters would convince any court of
domestic relations that Joan was a
pretty flighty parent. She’s now put
a strong weapon into Van's hands.
For months, perhaps for years, he
won’t believe anything she says. If
she demonstrates affection for him,
if she cuddes the small boy, praises
her home, expresses herself as hap-
py, Van may look on with a cold
and unconvinced eye.
So don’t‘despise mother'* sugges-
tion*, you younger girl*. They have
been won from that same hard
school of experience that you have
to face. They form that most valu-
able possession that a wile or any
I otoer woman can have. The ’
hole i palpable. _..
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AVING drifted around from the
* * starting spring camps of Cali-
fornia to the closing spring camps
of Florida, some poltroon has asked
me to work out the surer spots and
the big guesses of baseball’s two
big league shows.
My guess would be there are three
clubs in each league which can be
removed from the
guessing division.
They are the Yan-
kees. Red Sox and
Browns in the
American league—
the Reds, Cardinals
and Phillies in the
National league.
The Yankees and
Red Sox should car-
ry the pace alone in
the American. The
Reds or Cardinals—
the Cardinals or
Reds—should have the main jump in
the National. Til let you guess
where the Browns and Phillies will
probably wind up in the long pa-
rade.
This leaves us twelve clubs under
both big tents for the main guess-
ing act. They are the Dodgers, Pi-
rates, Cubs, Giants and Bees in the
National—the Indians, Tigers, White
Sox, Athletics and Senators in the
American. I don’t believe any of
these clubs can run 1-2 and I don’t
believe any one of them will finish
last.
The First Division Clubs
Starting with the American
league, as the Yankees are still on
top after four years, we have the
1 Yankees and the Red Sox almost
certain to run 1-2, granting the fact
there is nothing certain in sport.
Cleveland with Bob Feller is un-
doubtedly the best bet for the next
first division berth.
After Mr. Vitt’s In-
dians we have the
battle for fourth
place left among
the Tigers, White
Sox and Athletics,
unless Bucky Har-
ris can pull off a
miracle.
The scramble,
tangle, or general
upheaval Is much
more pronounced in
the National league.
After the Reds and
Cardinals wfe have the MacPhail-
Durocher Dodgers, Cubs, Pirates
and Giants battling for the two open
spots. This Is where the guessing
begins to steam and emit smoke.
With two places open, I like Dodg-
ers, Cubs and Pirates as the best
bets for these upper berth loca-
tions. Both the Cubs and Dodgers
might just as well keep an eye on
the team Frank Frisch is bringing
to Pittsburgh from the coast. It
will be the hardest-hustling Pitts-
burgh team the Pirates have known
in a decade.
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measurement
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I NOTE; The new 32-page edi-
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Home Decorator," shows three
other interesting styles of dress-
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for making. Also slip covers,
draw curtains: and numerous
household articles. Write Mrs.
Spears for a copy, enclosing 10
cents to cover cost. Address;
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A man is not educated until he
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the top, is something worth know-
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smartly tailored affair of white
pique with pink bindings and but-
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an under lining for a full skirt of
transparent material.
The diagram shows how to
make a pattern for half of the
skirt. The center front may be
placed on a fold of the goods in
cutting if there is no front open-
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A in 14-inches from ’ the upper
left comer. Measure up from the
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equaling the length of the skirt
from A to the left edge of the
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The Biggest Guess
The Giants are a still bigger
guess. As usual a large part of it
all depends on how
the pitching works
out, how many vet-
erans cave in, how
many rookies blow.
Bill Terry says his
Giants can bag
around 90 victories
this season. Bill
also announced in
ringing tones last
April that his Giants
would finish 1-2-3.
Bill remains an op-
timist. He will need
all the luck that Dame Fortune, that ,
cock-eyed wench, can dish out to !
finish as good as fifth.
In my haxy winter book the battle
for fifth place will be between the
Pirates and Giants, with the Pirates
having the better chance to displace
the Cubs in the upper set.
You’ll usually find the manager !
with the better team trying to pick
someone else.
For example, Head-man Blades
of the Cardinals asked me rather
sharply why so many were picking i
his Cardinals to beat out the Reds,
An Odd Angle
“The Reds beat ns last year,” be
says. “The Reds have improved.
We haven’t. The Reds are all set.
We are not.”
Here is one answer—the Cardi-
nals, being a young team in many
ways last season, should improve.
There is still no substitute for ex-
perience.
In a season loaded with fate, luck,
chance and the rest of it, my guess
at this spot would be New York,
Boston, Cleveland and Detroit for
the top division ip, the A. L.
There are many more kinks when
it comes to acting as a National
league soothsayer. You can name
SL Louis. Cincinnati and Brooklyn.
Then you pause abruptly as you
stumble over Chicago, Pittsburgh
and New York tor the next notch
below. From this unchartered med-
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Hartnett** Cubs. Frank Frisch is
building for the future. Frisch is
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Webb, Leonard. The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, April 19, 1940, newspaper, April 19, 1940; West, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth589162/m1/2/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting West Public Library.