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’ i PAGE TWO THE LONG ISLAND TRAVELER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1940 IN K L IN G S EDITKD BY JEAN HALLOOK \ •• From “The G h e tto» by Lola Ridge Lights go out And the stark trunks of the factories Melt into the drawn darkness, Sheathing like a seamless garment. And mothers take home their babies Waxen and delicately curled, Like potted flowers closed under the stars. Lights go out And colors rush together, Fusing and floating away. Pale worn gold like the settings of old; jewels — Mauve, exquisite, tremulous, and lu-; minous purples, And burning spires in aureoles of light; Like shimmering auras. They are covering up the pushcarts—' Now all have gone save an old man] with mirrors— Little oval mirrors like tiny i>ools. He shufOes up a darkened street And the moon burnishes his mirrors till they shone like phosidiorous— The moon like a skull. Staring out of eyeless sockets at the old men trunking home the push* carts. Usually we like best the kind of po etry that rhymes, and that’s lilting and gay. But today we put in this little story of the pushcarts because it re minded us of so many of the pushcarts we’ve seen on the uptown fashionable bnd downtown not so fashionaUle streets of New York. And somehow, those pushcarts always took our eye, though many a time their rendez-vous offended our nose. The uptown pushcarts are filled with flowers, and the downtown pushcarts are filled with most^ anything at alll There are the vegetable ones, and the fruit ones, and others with most any kind of odds and end. And there’s Just something about them and their gar rulous owners that we admire. Per haps it’s their Jauntiness — and In dependent spirit. After all, pushcart vending’s ideasant work on a balmy spring day when the customers flock along the walks — but it’s something else, again when the frost becomes more than a nip and there’s rain be sides to make the customers cross. A Nice Factory Probably a factory building would be surprised to hear itself called “nice\ —if it could read. But we’ve discov ered one that looks nice to us. We’ve seen all sorts of factories from the im maculate ones that can foods for youngsters who reckon their age in months, to the ones that flaunt their yards and yards of grimy smoke bunt ing above their smokestacks. Some fac tories sit calmly alongside the busy streets of the biggest cities, and some look sort of surprised to And them selves in the country. The factory that we’re speaking about today, though, came to our no tice one day this week as the result of buying some Bird’s Eye food. .The gro cer who sold it to us asked if we’d seen the new factory for frozen food pack aging at East Marion. We hadn’t so we promptly started off to locdc at It. Maybe you’ve already seen it and know what a modern, airy building it is. We’ve this to say — the executive who sits in his glass sided office over- losing a pleasant Bay and a pier lined with oyster boats, breathing the nice salty air, is cptainly getting a grand place to work I Particularly if he walks down the nice quiet lane leading to his factory, on all the bright Spring mornings, the sunny Summer ones, and the peppy ones of Winter and I^U! and then we remember the grand and glorious colors of the Fall and aren’t quite so sure. For T^U is one of the best of all seasons in Suf folk. This really is the grandest time of all for sho\^g off our Bays and Sound. The water takes on its pretti est blue, maybe because the rest of nature is getting darker, by contrast. And the air has a snap and sparkle all its own. This is the time of year we wish we could paint pictures. We’d like to do one Of two racing dallboats heeled over against a S^tember blow. ‘ It would be aU water, sky, and the two boats, with Just a hint of our favorite comer of the Bay shoreline as a back drop. And the clouds would be mov ing across the sky as they do these days, in snowy white groups. Wie’d like another picture of the land and the level acres of a Long Island farmstead, with the farmer and his sons busily reaping their harvest. The dunes of the Sound would frame the distant horiaon, and the Bay wa ters would roU up within a hundred feet of <the farm field, with a sail or two on the far horizon. In the Spring we always think “this is our favorite season, here at the Bay,” Walls Become ITsefnl Nearly every book we pick up these days tells us what to do with our walls to make them really useful. ’The comer cupboard is getting lots of cousins these days. For instance, the movie actress, Myma Loy builds tOielves all around her dining room doorway as a closet for her beautiful dishes. It’s an idea you can adapt in your own room for young nicknacks, in the library for the books, and in the childrens’ rooms for toys. It’s really a frame for a door way, as well. Then we’ve seen other rooms with whole walls made into show cases for hobby items. These cases might have glass 4oors, but they’re more apt to be left plain, with ia bright paint Job done on the wall side to show up ef fectively the gims, pottery, copperware, or candlesticks that may ibe placed in them. It’s a grand way to dispose of a hobby, having a hobby room with .shelves ranged all around it. Just what work it will save, in putting all the hobby objects back again, after they’ve been displayed to admiring guests. ’There won’<t be any work, be cause the cases are open to full viewl From a IVIagadne We’ve always thought ourselves pret ty lucky to have been given a gift sub scription to Fortone, fOr we think, it’s a grand magazine, and the articles in it, now and then, are not only inter esting, thought provoking, and grand, but help us with our work. We like the magazine and we like the way it does X things I Just for instance, every now ; >nd then it send* letters to its sub- • scribers before a new issue is to reac^ ; [them, a sort of advance warning of - ;what’s coming next, Just like the ad- ; [vance warning the circus forerunners give when they cover the town with : [posters telling about the Greatest Show ; on Barth, well illustrated with lions, ^ trapeze artists, and so forth. : One reason we admire the way this ; particular magazine tackles things is . that they go right ahead and say what ; they have to say, no matter how many . .words It takes them to say It. The let- ; ;ter sitting on our desk at present is - nearly four pages long. Now we’ve ; [been told by all sorts of teachers that businessmen don’t like long letters. In- ; [asmuch as Fortune is primarily a mag- ' azlne for businessmen, this is interest- ; [ing. In fact, we think it’s the length of the letters that gets them read. A : [one page letter, ot a two page letter ; could say nearly as much. But a one ; [page letter or a two page letter might -\get carelessly tossed aside iby a busy executlye. When a magazine in which he believes enough to subscribe be cause he knows it will give him what he wants takes time off to write a four page letter, evidently expecting him to read the same, ati executive will probably read it. And once he’s read it he’ll want to read his magazine Just as soon as it gets to him, for the let ter tells him what’s coming in such a way that he feels he’s got to read the articles to be even halfway equip ped to run bis particular big business or little business in the diffictflt months to come: “Hiese imoertatai times,” to quote directly. Because we believe women are in terested in the world a t large, and be cause that world a t large has a direct effect on each womaa and her house hold, |et’s look for a moment at the list of topics this particular magazine intended primarily for men and busi ness is going to discuss in its current and future issues. Any men readers who wander to these columns will find it enlightening, too. There’s an 18,500 word report about The War Indostries Board: 1917-18, an article on U. S, National Oefense, Hemisphere Co.Operatloli, and an At las for Americans. We’d suggest your looking a t a copy of the magazine for that map alone, (we’ll be glad to lend you ours), for it shows the world as it really looks — afld it’s mighty differ ent In some rei^)ects from the Way we remember it looked after our casual glim p^ at ^ e atlas in our geograj^ book, way back when. Future issues are to bring articles about Canada To The NorOt of Us, on Alaska, and What Happens in the Car ibbean. Maybe you’ve not found a topic as yet, that seems to apply directly to yow home (although ttiey really all of them may in this unpredictable fu ture), but wait a minute. The article on Prices and Price Control in Wartime should mean something to every house wife, from what I ’ve heard said about the last war years. And certainly the story of Fashion, will interest even the most frivilous of us. For, as we’ve al ready said or implied, the American dressmakers and designers are finding this war to their advantage in that they must busily create enough dresses to take the place of the ones usually imported from Paris, even though they must do without the buttons, faWcs, and trimmings they usually rely on from Europe. The list of subjects goes on and on, including even soap makers — “be cause soap makers produce glycerine for explosives as a by-product.” It’s an interesting list because It express es the desire of the editors to enlight en their public, and to assure the de fense of America. That’s what we all want. Your Dollars Have More Cents at Shore Cleaners 27 PECONIC AVENUE RIVERHEAO, N. Y. NEXT TO RIVERHEAO SAVINGS BANK ME N ’S SU I T S WHITE AND TUXEDO MORE MEN’S TROUSERS WHITE AND SUMMER WEIGHT MORE LADIES’ PLAIN DRESSES o n 2-P liC lt, WHITE, TAPFCTA QOWNf; CHIPPON AND PLKATID MORI PLAIN SiCIRTS & WHITI AND PLIATID tK IIITt MORI 11 11 1 » »»»»» 1111 » » » ! | | M SWEATERSIQ^ mrs MORI I w V Kat^ileen Norris Says: Whati Is This Thing Marriage, Anyway? (Bell Syndicate—w m r Servlee.) By KATU l EEN NORRIS O NE of the most disillu sioned and discouraging letters. I ever received came to my desk some weeks ago from a woman named Mary Baker. She is 32, has been married eight years, and she says she is scared. “Dan and I married for love, and for six or seven month's we revelled in our love and home and plpins,” she writes. “But before the first anniversary Dan was deeply attracted to one of the nurses in his uncles’ office. He works with two dentist uncles. The affair worried him, made him ashanned and unhappy; present^ toe girl married and Dan got over it. But it shook the. ground imder my feet, and I never felt quite the same confidente.in again. “He vrasl tKriBed vrhen ouir little boy was bom, and said he hoped we would have thr^e or four cl^dren. But Peter was not a year old, when I went away to the country for three weeks and during my absence Dan carried on an affair with a divorced woman, who had always said she was my friend. When I got home he confessed that he had been car ried away by temporary emotional excitement, and that it was ovejr, but Mrs. B. came to see me, show ing me a letter in which Dan had written that if I would give him a divorce they could be married. Bears Sorrow SUeintly. “This disgusted me, and I had a time of despair. For weeks I did not speak to Dan, and as I would not’ tell even niy own mother of what had occurred I had a lonely and uncomfortable time. Eventual ly we were reconciled in a sort of surface fashion, and after some moBtlfis, convinced of his reform, I returned to his room and enjoyed a short time of confidence and happiness. Our second son was bom, and Dan was so devoted to all three of us, and so helpful and patient that 1 thought myself a for tunate woman, and that our troubles were over. “My boys are now six and three. And Dan is again in love, this time wi^h a woman so cheap and ordinary that it is unbelievable to me that any man could fall for her, least of all Dan! Marriage in the Modem Manner. “Now, I know your advice. I’ve been reading your column all my married life. I know all about being independent of anyone else for my happiness, and building a life around myself and my boys. But what I want to ask is, what is marriage? If it is a relationi^ip that nine tlnies out of ten grows iiksome and stupii to both parties after a few years, and is maintained only because of children, or society, or family dig nity, or business considerations, isn’t it a failure? Most of my friends are already taking a sort of serio comic attitude toward their mates. To a great many of them the sud den ending of the m arried state, through aoy cause, would be a great reli«f. Don't you believe this is true of all but the exceptional m ar riages? The husband enduring all sorts of defects in bl« wife, the wife setting her teetli to force herseU to put up with lier m an's limita tions, peculiarities and general oussednest. “WhaVi the answer, if this ii tnwT Ii • wife to go on for 30 more years, blandly Mcepting, as in my eue. the fset that any tet* teriof untcrupukMU woman can mak* • foal of her buabaad, braak 19 vrtMlaver hsppinaii rtmains ter liome, give ter friaods • dieeee to pity or Isugb ot ter. aad ttioB. DIVORCE Social change* which hove occurred in the put hundred yean seem to ^e removed the iUgma from divorce, iMlMeen Norrit obtervet. She i$ con- fronted by a young wife who has an unfaiUiful husband, asking if divorce M tM only solution to her problem, or if thife is any better way she can find hapfitwss. Miss Norris advises her not to seek m-divorce, but to develop other interests. when the infatuation is over, blandly forget and forgive and go on as if nothing had happened? V ^ere is my dignity, where is that future toward which all women want to build, a future of security and peace, with children growing up, and gar den, home, friendships, trips, vaca tions all shared with a retd com panion? And is it my fault that Dan has no desire to plan for such a fu ture, but pays me attention only when he is not interested in some one else? A Five Year Plan. “My own idea is that all m ar riages ought automatically to be cancelled at about five years, at which time the man and woman should be forced to live apart for six months or so, to see how each feels about resuming the relation ship. It is frightful to feel that the step you took confidently in girlliood is holding you in prison for life.” That is only p art of the letter, but sufficient to show that Mary is one of the great class of wives who feel a childish despair upon discovering that husbands are just human be ings after all, selfish and stupid and subject to flattery and apt to get bored with home ties of wife, chil dren, familiar dinner table, domes tic routine. Stigma of Divorce Removed. Truly today’s husband is a little mere trying along these lines than his father was, because of social changes in the last 50 years. With divorce so common an escape, mar riage has indeed come to be some thing of what Mary hints, at least to those whose religious scruples do not prohibit divorce. Many a marriage breaks up in its fourth, or fifth, or seventh year, and many state laws insist upon a period during which the couple, who seek divorce, may have a chance to think things over in cool blood. Fifty years ago a husband had to stand by his wife, and a wile by her home and children, for divorce carries a bitter stigma, and few women could become self-supporting. These re strictions are swept away now, an enormous percentage of the names in the Social Register aVe those of divorced men and women, and what the Social Register does the less- prominent circles think it right to do. So that the flirtatious detached woman your husband meets in his business may well feel that she is free to win hini and hold him. Cure Same Today as Yesterday. There were abuses and difficul ties and domestic m artyrs in the old days, of aourse. But also there was stabiUty, there was security, and both those things are very valu able. ^ e disappototed wife turned h« spurned affections to other things, she grew all the stronger ^ moreelf-reliantsheban s a s a doned the futile chase toward “hap piness,” and learned to make other people happy instead of herself. 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