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Show GIRL OBJECTS TO FRIEND POINTING OUT MOTHER'S FAULT IN HER PRESENCE By BETTY BLAIR !3T)o. app1 f"n far trnm ha tree" Young people inclined to cast reflections on their parents should remember this adage. Ech generation expecUsomething better of the generation that follows it But none should forget that however far they have come they owe much to those who paved the way for their advance. Dear Mia Blair: I haven't aeen this problem In your column and-so I wish you would answer it for m. I hsv had a girl chum for more than a year bow and I think ahe'a just fin with th exception ef one thing. She has a habit of coming com-ing to m and complaining about her mother. She tells me all her mother's fsurts and fallings, what ber mother says and does. Moat ef these things ar what almost any mother would do under the same circumstsnce. but my friend em to think her mother is to blame for everything that happens. I hsv said to hsr. "Oh, never mind, all mother ar Ilk that" But ah doesn't atop grumbling about ber mother to me. I'm aur ah can't have much lov in ber FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES Mast people have them: Do they" kill love ia marriage, or I there a solution for this problem? Writ yours la not moa than 100 word and mall to Batty Blair, Salt Lake Telegram. All latter must be poet-marked poet-marked before midnight Saturday. Satur-day. Aa award of M will be given th letter which In th opinion of th Judge beat answers th problem. Winning letter will be published, but real asm will net be used. art for ber own mother or ah wouldn't say theae things to m. It ia very embarrassing to me to have her talk this way. I may aot always agree with everything ev-erything my mother doe and say, either, but I wouldn't go around talking about It to other people. I would be ashamed to do this, as R seems more a reflection reflec-tion on a daughter than on a another to do thla la there anything I can aay or do to get my friend to stop telling her mother faults to other people? I don't want to offend of-fend her ar lose hsr as a friend. Sb la a vary good friend to me and w bava good time together, going te th movlea, skating, eta Thank you for any help you an give ma, "BETH." I am aarry aot te b able to share year best regard for th girl who eeeaplain of bar mother to her srhand. I am embarrassed for her aa you are. Any gtrt wbo criticise a her another to ethers criticise herself her-self much more severely than ah does her parent .aVmPatwaaraadta Adolescent young people are par- Mcularly eapeble of seeing the fault ' la their parents without ever ob-, ob-, tainlng a glimmer of their own shortcomings. But many of them are to well bred to after criticism abroad, even though they may do e at home. Why don't you aay quit frankly . te your friend aom day: "Ella. I , don't want te offend you, but let' . aaake a bargala with each other never to apeak ef er mothers to each ether again ia a fault-finding way." setlaa CMUeiaaa Ells may not remember at th ' time that yoa have never found fault with your mother, but it will eftn the criticism offered her for y to saake it that way. Maka the . additional remark that mother aa ' rust have ae many fine qualities you think It much better form for you to speak of their good qualities than ef those ef which you dlaap-ptwva. dlaap-ptwva. "After all. It reflects d little glory aa eur heads te have mother whom we, as well as th world, think are okay." Offer thla last remark to clinch your paint that mothers need boosting and not "knocking," particularly by those Who know them beat NOTE TO "O. P." "Heaven WIU Protect th Work-' Work-' Ing Girl" la the nam ef th aong from which your quotation was taken. who writes msTr Dear Mia Blair: I knew you have answered thla qaeeUea In your column before, bat aew that I need the Inforaae-. Inforaae-. ts , I cent reeaasabar th nwer yj gave. When a boy with whom yoal . hsv beea going out is going away and wants you to writ to him, ' which should writ first? He claims that I should, and I say it . la bia place to write first Plesae ' toll m which should. Thank you, "N. N." It Is th boy's place to ask th . girl If he may writ to ber, and if aba give her consent th boy ia th ' one to write first Friends who un- eel-stand each other well and don't are toataad an eeramony with each other ooat always hold to this rule, bat substitute another which aay that th one going away aenda th flrat card or latter. VALENTINE PARTY Note to A. J. Kindly send IS cents to the- horn aervice bureau, ' T rl buae-Telexraav for th booklet : "Horn Parties" Tou will find Valentin Val-entin party and refreshment, aa 1 'well a ether parties treated. |