New-York tribune. [volume], January 30, 1920, Page 7, Image 7

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"I Simply CANT Let Him Outgrow Me
SHE LIVES IX A LITTLE HOUSE IN A
suburb of New York and makes that bouse a
home.
He too lives in the little house for a part of his life.
but the rest of it is spent in an office in the city.
All sorts of men ride with him on the suburban
trains, or visit him in his office, or meet him for
luncheon at his club.
His life is full of stimulating- contacts. Every day
brings him new experiences that mean larger growth
and more assurance. He is a far bigger man to-day
than he was last year, and ten times bigger than when
thev were married ten vears aeo.
"Somehow I must find a way to keep my thought
and interest constantly fresh, constantly expanding,
.-tep by step with hi-. / simply cant let him out?
grow me."
How many million women in America have been
troubled by that thought? Mow man)' of them have
t'elt a vague resentment ?at the conditions of modern
lite, which make menta! growth so easy for men and
so frequently difficult for women ?
Mow many couples have sel forth into lite with
every thought ami interest in common, only to find
themselves at the end of ten or twenty year- living in
wholly different mental worlds?
If the talk veers to the lighter side of life?the
best ni the season's plays and operas; the inspiring
gem- of modern verse; the best and most talked about
hook-?they are equally at home. In fact, these
far-seeing women have a well-rounded knowledge
of the great developments of life the world over.
They keep up with the times !
Men lind their conversation stimulating: their
children turn t<* them confidently, knowing that on
the subject which has that day been discust in
school ? perhaps some current problem of great
importance?mother can he of help.
j#?. And she?
Her life, too, is filled full; but the experiences that
come to her are neither so various nor so stimulating'.
There are the older children who must be hurried
oft to school each morning. There is the baby to be
bathed and put to sleep. There arc meals to be
planned, and bills to be paid.
So, day after day slips by with hardly a spare
moment. Happy days?she would not change them
if she could'. Only a single cloud crosses the horizon
of her.happiness.
In the evening sometimes when they sit on their
little front porch, and he tells her of the experiences o?
the day. of the men he has met and the topics he has
discust, of the problems he has solved?problems that
a few years ago would have been far too large for
him?at such moments the cloud is there.
Xg such experiences have come to lier that day.
The problem- that lie and his friends discuss are
strange and far away. She had meant to know more
about them, but there was no time.
"Suppose he should outgrow me," she says to
herself. "Suppose that ten years from now should find
him bigger, broader, abler because oi his experience-,
and me, no longer his mental companion, merely the
mother of his children."
The thought cause
inore tisrhtlv.
her lips to- close a little
No one can know the answer to this question.
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ican women have faced this difficulty frankly and
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that their husbands or their children will outgrow
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