Show F BOLISH HONEYMOON t ARGUES GROOM GROOM- GROOM ELECT ELECT r I I F BUT BRIDE OBJECTS t sif I I By BETT BETTy BLAIR BLAIRr Is the honeymoon a tiresome e expensive pe sive and frightfully inconvenient inconvenient in in- t r convenient ve i i w way y for foi two people to become e acquainted in in in the thet t most intimate contact known to human beings Readers please 1 reply Dear Miss Blair BIr I Here is 11 s a problem Z r would like Uka t to to your our column readers as so 80 many ot of them have had first hand hond experience with It My sister 1 If lit to tobe be be bc married mamed next month and she wants a big wedding with all aU tho the i. i trills Including tho honeymoon Now perfectly willing to my nil parents aro ara her the wedding with a big re- re re Sh She will have flave bridesmaids matron of honor flower girls and t There will be bc ushers and or of or course a best man But Dut says l S her Intended If If I have my way war there thereS S be honeymoon v L Now ow It Isn't that t e bridegroom bridegroom- elect eJect cant can't afford arford a honeymoon He I-fe Heun un can and my sister has had bad her heart henrt all set on the place where she wantS wanted wanted want want- S ed to go co slid and everything But her husband to says zay he has seen too many honeymoons wreck all 1111 the chances young people ever had bad for lor happiness Ho io argues tes' that It gets marriage off oft at a bad start That if started right of off to makIng making mak mak- ing their home together and began S life in the natural way ay they wouldn't wouldn t S get fed ted up on each other as they so often orten fn do when they have nothing to todo todo I do but look at the the scenery and make mace love to each I other He says that S would be Just like stuffing him all aU allday day long with honey cakes and hed he'd hedno no 0 sick of her herby by the time they got cot beck back hed he'd want to take A IL long Ions fishing fishing fishing fish fish- ing trip or something to get back to normal again t My sister thinks he Is 15 perfectly ter to talk like this She has wept and even threatened to break of off the engagement and give up all 1111 aliher her plans My y mother agrees with her but my father says J y Is absolutely right J J- J thinks the honeymoon trip S should bould come me after ter they have been I married a year He says u by that time they'll probably had enough differences differences differ differ- ence to settle between them th that t they'll welcome a chance to forget torget their troubles and do a little billing and md cooing with the scenery thrown In Now Miss Blair Z x dont don't want this J marriage to to go O on the tho rocks b before foro it takes place Im I'm sel selected ct ct to be one ona of or the bridesmaids Besides IS Z r S think my law brother Is Is A Awell well swell guy EUr and nd Z I can see his point of or S le view i I Z hope you ou and your readers can an handle bandle this problem so 50 both sides will be satisfied and happy S 'S S YOUNGER SISTER STER i. i Well wu this is b a new new d departure c. c Wh What t do y new brides and old husbands that arc are and hus hu husbands bands that are to be Shall the ancient an an- dent institution n n- n of the honeymoon on be abolished Docs Does it offer fer the proper preliminary ina y for the perfect S S follow follow up up of a happy marriage I f Would marriage offer more naturalS natural S j joys ys to begin immediately to set set- setup up the e home hom influence ence Is this yo young g f elect bridegroom merely assuming I r j an unwarranted authority before v marriage or or a are arc c his objections lions to a a aC C b honeymoon immediately after marf mar- mar f f lage instead 4 of a year later purely l v mythical l i Think hink for example of the he honey honey- f o who ers take an ocean ocea voyage and anda are very seasick as ns opposed to t the idea of their being bored ored with w I too much billing and cooing Is 15 there such a thing as an Ian ideal honeymoon o or should young people 1 begin egin gin immediately to to occupy themselves them them- m- m JJ selves lv s s' s with the responsibilities that attach to marriage and homemakIng mak home t Ing Re Readers ders the problem is yours Be reach h my desk deskS sure ur r your answers rea my S n not t later than this coming Friday I by y 10 a. a m. m S GL GLADIOLUS l MEANING G 1 t Dear Miss Blair J j S 'S In your Jour your column of at Thursday eve- eve j Abing Flora asks aski the meaning of i the gladiolus or sword Uly Illy I Z have i a very very old old book The Poetry of Plow Plow- V ers which gives a list of hundreds C of cf flowers with their their symbolical meanings The gladiolus is listed as 7 j f V meaning Ready armed j CRIPPLED POET PO l V I S And d who but a poet would have a aI b book bok ook ok of symbolical lore in his pos pos- pos pos- 5 Cession essin Thank you for t the e contri- contri Readers R ader A Attention I hope you yousA are hearing bearing the Manday Monday Monday Mon Man day and nd Friday night broadcasts in which Hurts Hearts Haven Han letters aro are b being dramatized dr and produced by an able ble cast of payers and andin andIn andin in which I am offering the tha tion It will be b. nice to lo 0 know that I I. I have hav an n audience of ot Hurts Hearts Haven fans and that thai our efforts will wilt plea please Ie you Litton Liston in tonight t at 91 5 over Poet We Ya have long tried tred to obtain such a book but find it to tobe tob b be out of print t. t NOTE TO l W. W S. S In the tho business section of the telephone tele- tele phone book boole you OU will find the tho word ord Exterminators Choose your own from the list list of of exterminating firms lUsted listed They guarantee a thorough job of getting rid of such ch pests as this with which you ou are aro beset in Your your new lew Home Jiom LETTERS LAG Dear Miss Blair Lost Last winter I Z went steady with a avery avery avery very nice young man I Z thought a lot lotof lotof lotof of him and ho told me how much he liked me and the rest of or the usual line In the early part of or the summer summer sum aura mer his work took him to another section of the state We wrote to each other twice a week for quite a awhile while then all aU of or a sudden his letters letters letters letters' let let- stopped coming I Z didn't receive an nn answer to my letter for tor about three weeks so Z I wrote another thinking that maybe he hadn't received the first And now nowa a month has hILS passed and still no let Jet ter Ho He might be bo politely giving methe me ins methe the air but it certainly didn't seem like that In the last letter Jetter I Z had bad from him I Z have been told by a friend from the same town he Is in that he Just doesn't act like the same person person person per per- son since Ince I Z haven't answered any of his Ms letters The trouble is Z I haven't been receiving themI them them- I Z hate to think of or our friendship ending Just because I Z dont don't get his letters and he doesn't get set mine But it does seem funny tunny doesn't it Now you advise me mc to write to him again to see sec If It hell he'll write But Ive I've done that so long Zm Im tired of waiting This Ibis may seem rather foolish to you but its it's awfully Important to me rae ThankIng Thank- Thank lag Ing y you If It the le boy had some of ot the letters he lie had them thorn all If he hasn't received them they w would ld have b been cn cn returned to you you providIng providing provid provid- ing y you u f followed the r rules les lesof of letter writing and placed place your name and return address on the envelope No I fear that what has happened in tho thousands of cases cases prior to yours has now happened to you as as a natural consequence of your absence from each other Lack of personal contact has greatly lessened lessened less en ened d the I lure re that formerly existed b between tween yo you The trouble exists when that Ios loss of interest happens to only one And strange to say it it- happens as a rule to the male of the species while the c female clings t to her fond hopes of r reconciliation conciliation Now either write your letter and get rid of the complex that is agitating your lour mind in regard regard re- re gard to this boy or make up your mind to root him out of the place of constancy ho he o has been holding by putting another in his his' place You will find by the latter method more more self-respect self and nd more real r-eal satisfaction satisfaction satisfaction tion providing you you choose in this other someone who h has s tastes and interests in common with yo your r own |