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G o O o o MEDfuftD !1 AIL .'A1ALME, .WEDl OliD, OREGON AKDNESDAY. OCTOBER 2.1. 1963 Theyll Do Ic Every Time , By Jimmy Hatfo IT 1 ' " ' ' ' asga... TOsgffj? m G.E. WASHER . I SOUND.' FIX Tpl 7 ' P'?7 E OM THc FDTZ.' 11 fM K "'.- " ucl- i n rniii - wash temperatures and 2 rinse bSo') WaR I Wr5RP7 13 imHWt WE WANT temperatures. The compact ( VBOOO-OOV jilTTU VttoA- NiCT rrS: L 1 -! . . . cabinet design is counter height t mmh Yl rrBFl g.e. appliance i 11 HIGHSPEED X ! emiW' (less HAPCO Trade) ! DRYER - V-W 'Seven Year Itch7 Not Funny To Scores of American Wives By HARRY FERGUSON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) - One contribution Marilyn Monroe made to dramatic art was a movie called "The Seven Year Itch," in which she explored the theory that a man whose wife has gone away or the summer probably is vulner able to a blonde babe, cham pagne and sweet talk at sun down. To most people it was a fun ny show. But not to hundreds of thousands of American wives who found it hit too close to home, and not to psychiatrists and marriage counsellors, who recognize it as a problem that is always grim and sometimes tragic. Experts now accept as a fact that somewhere between the sixth and eighth year of mar riage most American husbands become restless. The home is well furnished and the mort gage payments are being met satisfactorily. Promotions and raises have been arriving on schedule. The two children have survived the perils of in fancy, the wife has become an expert on scrambled eggs, the family car is two years old but still has plenty of life. But suddenly the world seems slightly out of joint. If he lives in the suburbs, he has spent 1,680 hours in seven years on commuting trains and there is a tendency to have a couple of drinks in the station before boarding the iron monster for home in the evening. His sec retary's ankle seems trimmer this year than last, and what about that new girl in the typ ing pool. Thinks About Them He ponders these matters ser iously and sometimes forgeis them. Sometimes not. Case his tory related by Dr. Benjamin Morse in "The Sexually Prom iscuous Male": Howard 0., married eight years to Rita, his high school sweetheart. Junior executive in I a big Chicago corporation. Two children, a nome in tne suo urbs. One night a business con ference was cancelled and Howard invited a girl in the typing pool for drinks and din ner. A week later he invited her again. After dinner she invited him in for a nightcap in her apartment. "I wasn't thinking of her in terms of attraction." Howard said. "1 thought she was pretty, but I just wanted company for dinner." The af fair continued. Howard invent ed a business trip to Indi ana and spent three days in a hotel with the girl. His wife found out about it. began prep arations for a divorce, but agreed to consult Morse in company with her husband. The marriage was saved. More often than not the wan dering husband still loves his wife. "Howard seemed to grow more in love with his wife than ever (while the affair with the typist was going on). Previous ly he and wife had been hav ing frequent small fights. These fights stopped. Howard became a model husband and father, bringing gifts home for the chil dren more often than he had done in the past and being in creasingly solicitous of his wife's comfort and happiness. He was attempting secret atonement for his extra-marital affair." Sonic Blame Home Some authorities blame un favorable home atmosphere for the straying of a husband, and Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford. phone 77J-(iMl: Ah land call at 41 fi Bridge st . ur phone 48-:H)IIJ; Yrrka. phone Victory 2-i!ISl8 before I .43 p m. daily and 10:30 am. Sunday. 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In their middle fifties many husbands start bringing this problem to psy chiatrists: Thev have fallen in love with a young woman and want to get a divorce. Horace L.. 54, married for 27 years, went to Morse for advise. "I'm married to an old wom an," he said. "Chronologically, she is two years younger than I am. But men and women age differently. I'm 54 and I still feel young, act young and think ' young. My wife is 52 and she might as well be 100." j Worry Over Age In this case as in almost all of them Horace wanted to marry a girl in her twen i ties. Morse says Horace wasn't really concerned about Ihe ag I ing of his wife. He was worried about getting old himself. A contemporary had just died of a heart attack. Horace was fi , nancially independent and no : longer pre-occupied with busi ! ness matters. 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