| Show t L BETTY r Lettera and nd que questions io for fop th the d department t should be addressed to Va Miss MI Betty Blair Hearts Heart's Haven Salt Lake Un Write only on one on J ar paper papers It t Is II ne eaury to to append y and but F ar are hei Jn In confidence e and will not be tie published Lost loft and ond found notices or words to songs and nd poems cannot b be published In inthe the column SHIFTLESS LESS WIFE Ii Dear D e r Mi Miss Mia Blair DIar I will will try to stat state my question I briefly r fly I am a young man an 25 ye years ar 0 g My wife i f is 20 arid and cf our our lit lit- lit un un is is' 21 old Ever sin since Cince c we wo h have e been married we have had a hard struggle to to tomake make n ends nd a meet e t. t t the e entire three years year of cf our married lift If I have bi been n deeply in debt in-debt debt Therefore I have never been abl to give my Wife the tho many things she likes Because Because Be Be- I Be-I cause o of or that she sho seems to tako take spite out t on ma ms by being lazy lary By that I 1 mean eke she does doea not net t take ke in in- in terest in in keeping our little home hom lean r It i. i is very discouraging for form m to go to work and return at night to toia la a home hom that is untidy Jurt Jutt that one n. n thing spoils the whole day fo for me J I put up Lip with wit this for or two and a aa a half f ye years rs r. Then I couldn't st stand nd it it t any longer 10 o it ended in the di divorce divorce di- di vorce vorce court Before Befaro th final decree was issued We wc decided to try it over gain again for baby's babi sake anyway But during our brief separation she she- shede de decided decided de- de to ee the bright lights and andal andas andas as al a x result she he is paying a great Areat reat penalty for it it Not only that she i is ise e causing l sing me to pay also Th doctor says she will probably have nave ve to have a serious operation She Sho m. m may never flevel b bo bi In perfect health healtha a again i in Now I am am paying i big doctor doc doc- tor bill for or both of us I could forGIve for for- or- or GIve Oiva ive her herfor for that mistake but I cant can't forget and I am worrying about bout it She could help hel me some lame O of 0 this worry by trying to be bea a nood wife to o me and to keep our ur baby and home clean But she ehe will not try Do you think I should leave her herand n and nd t h hoper hope e c for happiness with another an an- other wife son zon day MISERY MOO MOON T 1 Ts there no o appeal you can make to your OUt wife wiCe that Hint will urge her ter to todo do do her p liart rt in what s seems to be bc bean an arrangement d destined for tor tho welfare wel wel- el- el fare faEo o of r the child chUd alon alone 1 And yet Jet et we wonder whether the child will be benc benefited ted in i the tho long run Tour wife has violated in the worst possible manner very claim clah c Yet you h have been able to overlook that that- and anci w would try to make life possible It if only would do her share Sup Sup- ut- ut pojo TOc h ho were to be made nu to fe fool feel l that you jou OU o x f w longer provide fo for fot h-er h if f she didn't do her share would that thai stir h her r Into action Perhaps Perham her bodily Illness keeps lH her r from performing her fun full duty ut Yet ret the whole in matter mitter fails falls to 10 elicit sympathy mp i if she sho is Js unrepentant of her folly and its terrible results and nd does oes to make mako matters bet bet- ter If Tt she ls Js allo to care for care for the Itom home borne and th the the- child child- sho he should be ell Riven h her r choice b between tween two al alternatives al- al Thither Either to take care care of or tilt child and perform perform- her household household household house house- house house- hold duties h In a a. manner satisfactory to tri you vou au or to forfeit her right to the tho child the home hom and your our support Society Cl cannot tolerate Not ot only do parasites fall to do to their pait patt of ot th the the- work that goIng poIng po- po Ing but they leave a a. trail troll of filth Jn in their pathway that is injurious to all who come in contact with it ft Wo Yo read only ana one of or this Story and wo we wonder whether or not you OU lla unwittingly lv been a ac a c contributor contributor- in inthe the making of ot this condition How flow has your our own disposition dis dis- position reacted upon her Ier Has Baa it b been en tim tho poverty ty alone that t has brought about IHs sordid and unhappy un-I un unhappy un un- happy condition Can you OU not take a Do different attitude yourself since you yotT are nrc making makin the attempt to live together for the sake sako of or tho the child that will bring her out of or the tho sloth sloth- lul ful l condition Into which her ler mind and Ind bod body have fallen It If not It is Js ismy ismy my opinion that th tho child should be betaken betaken taken Out of or tho diseased Fome some and placed under conditions condition that would 1 give I 0 him an even n break in life He Hc should not be made male to suffer as as' as he will do all through Sh life Ute If it left to grow sro up ip inder under under un un- der present conditions Yet you OU yourself would have to think twice before subjecting another w woman whom you might choose as a wife to a disease that you OU might pass |
