| Show PROBLEM f i i BECOMES SERIOUS WHEN WIFE WORKS B By y BETTY BEY BLAIR M Is it false pride operating in a husband when he ha insists on supporting sup sup- p porting i his wife even at the cost of lowering their standard of liv- liv v l ing g Or is this insistence a fundamentally strong male instinct that that tha should brook no challenge from from a salaried wife Readers please k f answer Dear Miss Blair My dy husband and I have been married mar tied ried I three years yean When we wo were first t married U It was wu understood between us contInue working for at that I was to least a ft year or fUrniture Was 1 down tOa to all paid for and I could settle If a housekeeping without worry of debt My y husbands husband's salary was sufficient to keep us going once we WC were out of or debt and had the necessary equipment to start US US' Into tato housekeeping However us M yet et I have never been i Job and to to toay a able l up my II ay our marital troubles have got well wellon cn on their way b because of or It As soon as the tho N 1 H R A started my husband s salary wai M decreased while last year mine was increased making my salary higher high high- 6 er Cr than that of or my husband The fact i that I earn more marc than he be and that we have v never y yet t een seen our way clear for lor me mc to give up my Job and make the attempt to live on his salary Is the fly In the otherwise smooth 4 I My husband knows knowl how much our standard of living would have to be bo 1 cut were were I to to quit work and give up my tn mi helpful salary sl I do n not t spend my salary saty altogether on myself but on home upkeep and even on my hus bus band I was able by months of saving 4 and nd foresight to buy him a beautiful of f lothe for his birthday Even E this did didi did not i please him for to tt tho though u gh j he be needed the clothes badly he hated J the thought that I should have to give them to him yet he knew he heJi Ji 4 could not buy them for Himself and Md keep up his end cud of the obligations for the home 4 I l I am not extravagant In my own personal needs or clothes I manage to watch for bargains and I buy sub sub- I make do the t 1 things that longest possible service r f. f My husband had n a new car when married for which ho had hadi were c- c we i- i paid in full and for which we share sharer r the upkeep and the use as we do of our household expenses Shall I 1 listen to my husband and up my good Job In order to satisfy satisfy sat sat- laty his pride that h he be feels Is being BO Io completely ly tr tramped In the dirt by 4 I. my not letting his salary support PS vs or shall I 1 continue to work and p per per- r- r mt my husband to toKO go KO on suffering mentally as he does over the fact that I r. r still work It complicates m matters quite a bit that I am the only wife In our set that Is working The husbands hus- hus bands of all our friends have good Jobs and without meaning any harm barm hall hail me ma me quite frequently Uy as the bre winner breed of the t family the the I staff and prop of the house- house hold bald and arid so O on And Mid though It Is 4 all an said In fun It rankles In my busI husbands husband's hus- hus I bands band's mind Please help belp me to solve t 1 this very difficult problem I WORKING W WIFE Shall a wife who is h working and whose w Income is needed needed to maintain a a standard of living in keeping with the the tastes of both husband and Yle give up her job to satisfy the pride id of her husband whose salary I is barely sufficient to cover the s of existence Or Is the hu husbands husband's ands and's pride in this respect o which he sh should make the attempt to outgrow I This is th the problem we have ave se seleCted selected se- se looted from the past weeks week's letters t for f r our readers to help solve We Ve haye naye deeply appreciated the re- re spouse that tha has has' come to the Monday Monday Mon Mon- day problem m letters and hope you will help thresh this problem out from all angles Lett Letters rs must re Teach cach ch my iny desk not later than 10 o'clock clock Friday morning in ord order tobe to tobe be be- bep published p in Sat Saturdays Saturday's column olumn T HEARD RADIO PROGRAM Dar Miss Blair 1 I listened to your Jour radio program Friday Friday Fri Fri- day night and simply loved It I thought the play was as clever as It could be and It certainly was well acted I have a a problem that Is Is' Is trou- trou me a great d deal al ab but I have best best- about sending It In In t S It seem EO 50 0 complicated but I really believe It ItIs itis It ItI I Is one th that t could be bO acted out Please se e etell tell me what to do about It Shall ShallI I X Just write th the letter to you telling the facts as best I can or what I thought your Jour advice to the little maid mold who posed as the rich mans man's daughter was just right Thank you ELEANOR LE NOR Thank you Eleanor for tor your unstinted praise of our first radio program If It we had been the least leas bit superstitious we might have hesitated about making our venture on Friday the thirteenth but having survived that handicap we wll will present other problem plays In drama form By all nU means submit your problem to me by letter telling telling telling tell tell- ing as as' as many of the details as possible possible pos poe sible so o the drama may present as ns much of the truth of the situation as possible It If in our r dramatic version of ot Jetter letters letters let Jet ter we have to a little dont don't worry about that as it is done only to put the real problem dramatic form so the idea will wil c carry rry across to radio listeners We will vIII not the import of ot the he problem Itself And the solution tion ion which I give will wUl have nothing to o do with the make believe part but only with the real problem We must b be bethe the tte fi final al judge how how- ow- ow I ever as to Which letters lend themselves themselves themselves them them- selves best to the dramatic form We shall shan be very very glad to toh have ve your problem Eleanor HEleanor and those of others who are arc troubled in regard to 0 their own solutions We shallo shall shaH be bB o happy to hinl hink you may be lis- lis to our second program to tonIght tonight to- to night at LETTER LErlER FOR LONELY FOR LONELY Madam In looking over The Telegram Hearts Heart's Haven Eaven I I noticed your letter 1 I am era all alone In this country but I have a 11 sister and her children In En En- gland I came to 10 Salt Lake City a 0 year ago gO last April returned east In September and back here against last June I am staying at the tho shelter across from Pioneer park I have haves havea a lotto lot lotto lotto to be thankful for tor A pla place e to eat and sleep a spending money and the tho club tub where I go to read the pape papers Above Aboe all I have hv good health I I. do not pal pat any but go by myself so ao that I have no one to quarrel with and It Is surprising how time goes by 1 X like to to listen to the tho organ on Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day mornings and those little sea sermons sermons ser ser- ser ser- mons that Dick Evans gives If you care to write I will be pleased to hear I from you YOli Miss Blair has my name and anet address INTERESTED Since the writer of the letter leUer signing her ler name Lone Lonely failed to o her address with her letter let- let ter cr we are taking the privilege of printing yn your r letter Jetter to her her in the column olumn It If she wishes wishes wishes' to answer your our letter and will send me her real eal name and address together with a stamped envelope I shall shaH shalle be e gl to forward her letter to you ou Friendships thus star started ed be be- bet bet- tween any two people must be entirely entirely en en- rely at your own risk PUPPY FOR GIFT GIFTA A puppy fond of children hildren may be had by calling at American avenue below Ninth South between between between be be- 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