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As a mother, Esther has been termed, "A Brahms lullaby played by Stan Kenton!" All of her free time goes to her kids — and Ben.
Saying a temporary goodbye to Susie, Esther and Ben took the boys with them to Bakersfield for a full-day family excursion!
Ten years of marriage —
plus motherhood — have made Esther
an old hand at playing
the Gage home show for laughs
■ When Esther Williams first started to go out with Ben Gage, she used to do some planning about him — to herself. For instance, she would study him out of the corner of her eye and take in the big, black cigar that usually angled out of one corner of his mouth. "You don't know it, Ben," she would think, "but that cigar will have to go." That was ten years ago.
Well, the other day they were driving out toward Palm Springs, and sharp words suddenly developed, as they will occasionally among the marrieds (and the unmarrieds, too, for that matter!) In the course of the debate Esther, as if seeing it for the first time, noticed something about Ben that carried her back to their courting days. There was that cigar again!
"Take that filthy thing out of your mouth and throw it away!" she blazed, and trained her eyes pointblank on him, as is her way when angry.
"Yes, dear," he replied soothingly, and made utterly no move to comply.
Having had her say Esther felt better, as wives will, and with serenity returning, found herself thinking about her marriage.
The fact that Ben still smoked cigars was symbolic of certain failures in her marriage, she realized. But then again she knew of certain satisfactions. Together they gave a pattern to her position as a wife and mother; a pattern that meant to her that she was living a pretty happy life.
She had not only married the man she wanted, but she still wanted the man she had married. She had the children she had always dreamed about having as a young girl, and, what's more, her real-life children outdid their dream counterparts in filling her heart with the warmth (Continued on page 70)
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