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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH i Kathleen Norris Says: i No Money of Her Own Bell Syndicate. WNU Features. "Cookies, bread, jams have a big sale in these times, and catering is prisingly simple. GARDEN CHAMPION . . . Wayne Delventhal, 15, Brighton, Colo., winner of national youth and high school gardening honors present ed by the National Garden institute in the national green thumb KING AND QUEEN OF THE WEST . . . Beautiful Margaret Wooten and Husky Wright Bomford, who were chosen hy fellow students of the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, to rule as King and Queen of the West, for the next 12 months. They are shown joining the ranks of western royalty by getting friendly with Question Mark, undefeated grand champion Palomino stallion, owned by Tom Cates, Tulsa. This is the first year that such a choice has been made in Oklahoma. contest for best gardens. By KATHLEEN NORRIS A HUSBAND is a wonderful man in yTY I 1 Vlevery other SWEDISH COIFFURES . . . Two of the outstanding coiffures shown at a recent exhibition in Stockholm marking the 40th anniversary of the Swedish hairdressers. Norwegians, Danes and Finns took part in the display. At left model shows an evening coiffure. At right, another evening coiffure of swirls and a high bun. How to get a hat over any of them is anybodys problem, or perhaps they do not wear hats in the evening in Stockholm. children and a brother recently discharged from the service because of poor health. Gordon likes a generous table and wants his children nicely raised, pays dentist, school, department store and grocery bills willingly, but he checks every item, and makes me feel like a beggar as call or a I explain a charge at the florists. He never lets me know how we stand financially, but about twice a month when I ask for it, he gives me $5. If I ask oftener I dont get it. This money CONGRESSMEN WARNED . . . covers carfare, childrens ice Rep. Carrol Kearns (Rep., Pa.), cream, library books, stamps, a told the house labor committee hundred small I am always that he had been warned to change conscious of notthings. having money, for his views about labor, after he a casual telegram, a lunch downdined with George P. McNear Jr., a town, magazine. murdered railroad president. Before my marriage I earned put my brother money, good through college and supported my parents. My father was never a successful business man, and my mother was of the old school that knew nothing of management. I was a fitter in our smartest frock shop, so that today I can make all my daughters clothes and most of my own and mothers. We do all the housework and manage the vegetable garden and chickens. Of course, it is true that all the necessities of gracious living, clothes, food, laundry and so on, can be managed on charge accounts, but that never gives me the pleasure of spending. Pride Hurt by Dependence. Spending!" this letter finishes, It is a real pleasure, isnt it? To feel that you can have a book or a taxi or a lunch downtown without that feeling of utter flatness and WINS TITLE . . . Pauline Betz, emptiness in your purse. Ive arLos Angeles, who defeated Doris gued with Gordon about it, but Hart to win the womens single while he is perfectly amiable he is title in the national indoor tennis inflexible, too, and treats me as if championship, held at New York I was merely a child. My children, City. Miss Betz also holds the by the way, are aged 8, 6, 5 and 1, national outdoor tennis title. so that there is no question of my earning money again for some time. For years I was the main port of my father and mother; as I say, my father was unfortunate in his business affairs and became completely dependent some years before his death. I miss the sensation of having money of my own. and my pride is hurt by complete dependence. I feel that a wife is a money-earnetoo, especially when she gives a man the four children who will some day be such a comfort and delight. Other women surely have had this problem; can you give me any hint as to how it may be solved?" Other women many hundreds of other women have indeed has this problem, Madeline, and as it usually rises from a certain situation. It is often curable. Your husbands attitude indicates that he is conscious of being heavily burdened; is the only support of an elderly he The FRANKLIN WINNER a young wife, a sick man woman, 1947 Franklin medal, highest honand four children. He is afraid. or of the Franklin institute, has Afraid of waste and debt and exbeen awarded to Dr. Enrico Fertravagance; afraid of some day permi, 46, physicist at Nuclear Rehaps having to leave you and the search institute, Chicago, for outchildren helpless. standing work in the field of atomic energy and physics of neutron. r, ... GOVERNOR GETS HIS VITAMINS . . . Gov. Millard Caldwell (Dem., Nance Stilley, queen of Fla.), accepting a bite of Florida orange from the 24th annual citrus exposition held at Winter Haven. She was selected from a group of 22 girls to reign over the orange kingdom for a year. The annual exposition attracts thousands each year. HAND ON THE PURSE STRINGS A FIRM re- spect, writes a Texas wife, but he never lets me handle any money. We live in my old home, an enormous old place, which Gordon recently has freed from a heavy mortgage, so that strictly speaking my mother might feel him the rightful owner. Our family includes Mother, my four long-distan- sur- The only thing Madeline her husband is that has against he doesnt let her handle money. Everything she buys must be on credit. At the end of the month he scrutinizes every bill carefully, and questions her about any item that seems to him unnecessary or extravagant. They have four children, so Madeline cannot work outside to earn pin money. Her mother and brother also are living with them for the present, so there is a large family to care for. They live in a big old mansion in Texas, a roomy and comfortable house. Gordon has paid off the mortgage on it, so he is virtually the owner, although title is in Madelines mothers name. Madeline says she feels like a child without any spending money. Gordon gives her about $10 a month to cover everything stamps, carefare, candy for the children. Before she was married Madeline earned a good salary, and with it she supported her father and sent her brother through college. Miss Norris replies that Gor-don is conscious of the heavy burden he must bear. He is aware that Madeline is in- clined to he a free spender, so he has taken the only 'means he knows to preserve the financial stability of his household. There are many ways, Miss Norris says, for a woman situated as Madeline is to earn a little money at home, such as making home-mad- e jelly and cookies or some novelty like rag dolls. He Fears Extravagance. Bills he will pay, because he can glance over these and check items that seem unnecessary or wasteful. But, inasmuch as your father was improvident, and you, evidently, spent all the money you made as fast as you made it, he is apprehensive that things will get out of hand. When he moved into your old home he had a mortgage to handle; his married life began with heavy obligations. It would seem that in so large a house you and your mother might find a source of income that you might rightfully divide as your own. Fitting up an apartment, or taking in children for overnight board are two easy ways of making money, but other very profitable things are being done by housewives today in their own homes. Two old sisters I know weave beautiful table runners in peasant colors; a California family is supporting itself making cloth dolls. sturdy, Cookies, bread, jams have a big sale in these times, and catering is surprisingly simple when handled in ones own neighborhood. A mother and two daughters here have all they can do at $2 a dinner, delivered hot at any hour. Even with your four children you can find time for one of these activities, or one of a hundred others, and at once save your own pride and lighten your husbands anxieties. rosy-cheek- |