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Show Wife Resents Sister-in-Law By BETTY BLAIR Lay any conflict you have on the table, disject it from any angle you chooae, and if you look at it with the eyes of truth you will see that it has been built up and fostered in your own mind. Do a little mental- Hearts Haverr hygienic houxec leaning and your -- eonfltct-yfH vanish with other men tal cobwebs. Dear Miss Blair: I have been married nix years and we have two beautiful rhil'-f, dren. I also have a devoted and kind husband, but there is a fly in the ointment of our otherwise pleasant livea. Next to my own parents I adore my husband's father and mother, also hia kid sister and brother. But the sister just older than he has been unbearably jealous of me before and ainre my marriage to her brother. She even refuses to be aire to our children. When we take them to the home of my inlaws in-laws to visit for an evening, she absents herself in another room. She jpeaka of our children to our toward me has been the cause of our moat unhappy momenta. She ia unmarried and likely to remain re-main BO. Bread on Waters Even though she ignores me when I go to my in-laws' home, I frequently invite her to our home and give her the beat I have, both by way of entertainment and person! per-son! Mndneaa. I have done many favors for her which ahe would not requeat for herself but which ahe has my mother-in-law request for her, but never a word of acknowledgement, ac-knowledgement, praise or thanks from her. . I always pay particular attention atten-tion to birthday and Christmas gifts for my husband's family. Tdis Christmas I just haven't it In my heart to send my sister-in-law a gilt. Only the other day he snubbed me so terribly when I met her in the store with one of her friends. The friend made a f usa over me, but she barely nodded, and acted as if I had stepped on her toes because I poke. Do you think, feeling as I do, that my husband and I, ahould send her a fift this Christmas? Christ-mas? My husband resents the way aha treats me, but still wants to five her present I hop you have a very Merry Christ-mag. Christ-mag. "Hurt." By all means follow your usual custom of sending your slster-ln--law a thoughtfully chosen gift Make up your irUnd that henceforth there ahall be no conflict between you two. If she wishes to continue to make an Issue of your marrying her beloved brother, let her. But don't let It affect your peace of mind. Tou can't afford to do so. Your msntsU conflict conoernlag her la doing you great Injury, and la not doing her any good. Furthermore, It is estranging you from your husband. hus-band. r Experiences Unite Tou must remember that tha relationship re-lationship existing between a brother broth-er and sistsr who have shared experiences ex-periences of family life from Infancy In-fancy la something that even a wife's love and devotion cannot break. Nor ahould It The wife come first In a husband's hus-band's lov. But ths lov he bears his slater la something altogether different. Something that has been knit Into the web of his Ufa from th beginning. Something you ueed never fear, looked at from your husband's point of view. Be Generous Tott must praise this feeling your husband has for his sister, not resent re-sent It Ths more magnanimous you can b in regard to it tha more he will lov you and the sooner your problem will be solved, let her act as ah will. Th only conflict that really exists ex-ists for human beinga, exista in their own minds. They can get rid of It If they will. There Is a pattern of harmony and unity In ta unf-versc. unf-versc. It is the conflict that exists In human minds, because they will It so, that upsets this harmonious pattern. You should be sorry for your sister-in-law's conflict, which she Is making no effort to solve or conceal and which la csuslng her misery too. Thank you for the Christmaa wish, and I predict the happiest for you in a long time. AVIATOR'S BIRTHDATE Th answer to your question Is: Amelia Earhart was the first woman wo-man to fly th Atlantic one, and th flrat woman to fly It twice. She was born July 24. 1898. AROYROL STAINS Dear Miss Blair: You ar always so good to help us with our problems, little and big. Pleas tell me what to do to take out argyrol stains. Thank you. "Mrs. E." - Ammonia or hypo-sulphate of soda will take out argyrol stains. First wash th cloth in a solution of ammonia If this doesn't remove it, try hpyo-aulphats of soda. TAFFY APPLES Get wooden skewers, such ss arc used by th butchers, to stick into 1 leech apple. After coating apples 'well with th syrup preparation, the 1 formula for which is given below, 1 let cooL While ths apples may be 1 placed on waxed paper to drain. It ! ia better to stick ths skewer through 1 the wall of a heavy pasteboard box. so they will dry smoothly and with. 1 out flat spots. 1 i APPLE 8YRI P 1 cup granulated Sugar. 1 cup brown sugar. I tablespoons vinegar. 4 cup water. Boil until it spina a thread, or to 218 degrees: then dip applea in th syrup. This will cover 12 medium-sized medium-sized apples, and they should be Jonathan. Delicious or other bright red apples. |