Show PRACTICAL GIFTS ARE HUSBANDS HUSBAND'S IDEA OF A PERFECT REMEMBRANCE Boy Stayed With Despised Job and Later Won Girl Vacation Time Hangs Heavily Dog for Gift i By BETTY BLAIR 1 L. L It j is the little extra thought bestowed by husband or wife on each other that serves as a symbol of or love and renews its fervor Routine measures such as having the plumbing fixed or ordering the coal could scarcely be considered in the category of special remembrance unless times were so hard that they could be considered as such Dear Miss Blair When I 1 was wac first married we were so 0 poor It was all we could do to buy food an and keep a roof over o our heads JI But now v my husband hiss hus e band is a determined deter A U mined man and andI I I ILIR kUI throws himself WI- WI K f rv lt Ii into his work II I I. I U with all 11 his hc heart rt I I K and soul He has hasI I i f i managed to hold bold N 1 his job a all 11 H M J t through the depression de de' deI I Il III II and by byI being careful e we f ei I have b been able to save a little Now he has s had a raise raise rale he had some promotions promotions promo promo- tion with corresponding ra raises in salary before the depression came along and along and we feel very well to do considering the fact tact that we have known what real privation means In our hard years ears I didn't mind the tho fact that my husband was unable to buy gifts gUts at Christmas or any other time If It he heM was M Mable able to bring home a ham for Chr Christmas or add a ton of or coal to the winters winter's supply I felt that Santa had visited us Now however I feel a little bit different I would like ike to have e him remember me with flowers or a box of ot candy on my bIrthday birthday birth birth- day on Valentines Valentine's da day And lest last Christmas I was so angry I went to my room and wept when he laughingly said it was WM a shame to depart from the good old sensible sea sen en- en sible days and informed me that he had bought three cases of di different erent kinds of canned vegetables vegetables vegetables vege vege- tables for our Christmas gill gift He just couldn't understand what made mad me so quiet all day as other years I had been so jubilant over th the r fact lct that we were able ablo to provide the necessities Of Ot course I have spoil spoiled him but I 1 would like to undo what I have done and make him hEm really remember me with the little things a woman loves and which she he regards as a sign that her Letters questions n It n d requests requests re re- re quests for advice should be addressed to MISS BETTY BLAIR HEARTS HEART'S HAVEN TELEGRAM SALT L LAK LAKE A K E. E Write legibly upon only one side of the paper It I. I is necessary that you ou append append ap ap- ap- ap pend pond the right name and address ad ad- dress but these will oe De held hekl in strict confidence and will vill not appear in print Questions inI involving in in- I vol vine advertising information tion lion cannot be answered I husband still loves her It will willbe willbe be b our seventh wedding anniversary anal anni ver next month Do you think I can COln change him in time without coming right out and asking him for lor this kind of ot re reo re- re He isn't a stingy man It is only that he is a very practical man Thank you ou for any help you ou may give HELP MATE MATS You might just leave the printed cop copy of your letter to me carelessly about where your our husband would see it and r read ad it I cant can't promise what the reaction would be but at least it should da do this much that he might begin to wonder if It he hadn't been a little tittle too practical minded for certain times ana nna events What seemed so right during the pinched times your times your happiness over his nb ability t to provide necessities necessities- is still right as a matter of routine But a whole ham and plenty of coal were not matters of routine in those days They were the surprises Now that the they have become the routine it takes an occasional bouquet a box of or candy an unlocked unlooked for personal gift to constitute a surprise today And it is the surprises that become to toa toa a woman the symbol of or love lo It Il takes real remembrance and not mere routine to give the unexpected kiss the little gift But I should be saying all this to your our husband Suppose se you clip the answer from your letter and use the former as a book mark in the magazine maga maga- zinc zine or book your husband Is read read- ing lag Your very practical matter of fact energetic substantial husband needs his attention jogged over a small matter that creates a large disturbance disturbance disturbance dis dis- dis- dis in tho mind and consciousness conscious conscious- ness of the wife who has helped him achieve his present success liE HE WON TilE THE GIRL Dear Door Miss Miss' Blair Isn't it funny runny how things change I was just thinking of ot a time four years ago when I wrote you oU a letter I was just 16 years ears old then and had got a job shining shoes My girl had quit me because she didn't like the I idea of going with a fellow who was as a shoe shoeshine shine Maybe you ou would be interested interest interest- ed to know the climax to that story I married the girl and today today today to to- day Im I'm the top soak in the littie little little lit lit- tle tie shoe shining parlor where I work And what I earn keeps us When so man many fellows got out of work and couldn't land any kind of ot job she was glad to go goback goback goback back with the boot black and to marry him Weve We've only been marrIed married mar mar- ried ned a n few months but we get along swell together and we ho hope soon to set up another hole In the wall For awhile It Jt wasI was pretty prett tough as nearly everybody every every- I bod body started shining their own shoes But I managed to stick sUck and now business has picked up upa a lot lol lotI lolI I want to thank you OU for tor the encouragement you ou gave me not notto notto notto to be ashamed of any kind of work because it sure kept me mc from going hungry and I think it made my girl see sec things right too loo MARRIED AND LIKE IT Well now that's nice We like to get the problems we dote on answering answering answer answer- ing them in our own peculiar way but were we're in ecstasies over the aftermaths aftermaths after after- maths that too Infrequently are known cnown to us That is when the they turn urn out as well weB as yours We congratulate you not on taking our advice exactly but for tor having the good sense to stay with the work that hat came your our way and for having won the girl After all it isn't so M much the advice that practical minded peole people peo- peo pie le need as it is just a little utile encouragement en en- coura gement ALL AT SEA Dear Miss Blair My boy friend has gone away for a month and I am so lost I dont don't know what to do with my my- self He al a always s 's came to see ee me two or three times every week and now that school is out and there Isn't very much of anything to do time just drags I know how to sew sev w and I make a lot of my own clothes but I cant can't even get interested in doing that I sleep late in the mornings and read quite a bit but the more I 1 sleep the worse I feel I cant can't go awa away on a vacation as I the mone money Please tell me what to do to enjoy myself so every everyday everyday everyday day wont won't seem like two or three days I think my mother is getting getting getting get get- ting a little bit disgusted with me meas meas meas as I r cant can't even get up enough interest interest in in- terest to want to help much with the housework TIRED Suppose you change your whole routine Try getting up at 6 or every morning taking a brisk bath and a few setting up exercises tomake to tomake tomake make your blood circulate swiftly through your body This Thi will get rid of that sluggish feeling you have Ill I'll 11 just wager on the side that you have a very bad complexion with all this late morning sleeping when you should hould be up and moving about helping your own body to throw off oU its ts accumulated poisons Offer to get breakfast every morning morn morn- ing ng for a week and let mother lie lien ie in n bed a little little- later for a change It would do her good as her tired bod body ody needs a change and a rest Yours is tired from Irom too much rest Help do up up the morning work get lunch and put things out of the way and then plan something very interesting in in- cresting for the afternoon Use your our talents whatever they are for this work With WIlh your our ability to o sew you could make lovely under- under things for tor yourself as well as attractive attractive at- at cotton cotlon dresses for tor the hot days ahead For your recreation creation call up some of your girl friends and go swimming swimming swim swim- ming or take in a movie that you like ike or prepare a picnic lunch and go to one of ot the attractive resorts to toen en eat cat tit it No girl Irl can be really happy unless she makes her life liCe useful to herself and others You are living such a useless existence that you can neither be happy nor well but you can change all aU this if it you really want to I DOG FOR FOK GIFT GUT GIFTA A half collie half balf police pollee male do dog doff 18 IS months old and a wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- pet pel for children is offered offered of of- to someone who will give him a home homo in the country See Sec him at 1476 Michigan avenue |