Show ni 8 am mi Jtu by Mary Raymond IF UHUlUi vuu lull INSTEAD OF FORCE TO BREAK OFF A POSSIBLE ENGAGEMENT Via a 4u cnf herself eneaeed to a most un- i v HotorminpH tr m&rrv him wants to know o'r how she can break off the match Well there are two schools of thought on have no right to lay sacrilegious handscon-erlove's young dream jwnue tne ouier thtLt it is fathers' and mothers KnunHon Vfntv to nrevent their children from wrecking their lives by making fool marriages if they can somewnere oecween these opposite poles of tnougnt lies tne '"' truth ESTEil IM XUUK UA 1 JLIV MnjM QTo-Vifo- grandmother' she has never seen Dana's half - sister NANCY WALLACE' resents Dana's com ing Dana's grandmother hopes her young granddaughter will make a brilliant marriage and is elated when rich RONALD MOORE f alls In love with her But Dana meanwhile has be r : Sometimes of course children are better judges of what they want In a husband or wife than their fathers and mothers are for them but for the most through the part those who have been know from who and mill of matrimony besides how things many experience successful a to make romance It takes i""-""marriage nave acquirea knonledre about Dickins: mates thatW v their sons and daughters do well to reT into this spect All of which boils down to them cleave will their found who have —that those while those who are experiencing merely a passing Infatuation can match be diverted from it So it is hardly too much to say thaTanysave the would off broken It be SHOULD that CAN be broken off divorce courts a lot of work later on tva Ki)onH triri whn are in love with love and slosh- their affinities in inz over with sentiment from believing that they seehas always been a into matrimony any passing stranger and rushinghad That to wrestle they have never problem with which parents have about solving have gone is because riddle to the they answer found the the it wTong way the experience of humanity didn't They have used force as If all can be coerced When father and teach that neither love nor youth suitor they forbid him in the mother disapproved of Marybell's out of the window and eloped climbed house Whereupon Marybelle the with him When father and mother objected to John marrying roused until her they imperfections Jones girl they harped upon body and rushed him into every drop of chivalrous blood in John's Is no matchmaker marriage so that he could protect her There Into the role of and forces boys it because girls equal to opposition defenders and makes them such partisans that they lose sight of the defects that they once perceived in the slandered ones — an unde- — breaking off ' i ii e i e tuc uunsw uu vi i avtr Irntvarintr that a nfifk Of tTOUDle of these Is life The most effective or her his from removed is being Arh nther's societv ' SuDOOse John for instance is in love with a pretty little Dumb Dora whose lisping ne ieeis ne coum usien to lorcvci baby-tal- k Mother doesn't waste her breath telling him that Dora would bore him to death if he were married to her She invites her on a house party on which there are no other guests and where they must the second day depend upon each other for society By the end of "Oose duckie is was asked he scream if would he feels that John ?w one more time Long before the week is over he is calling for help from his office Another way to break off a match that can be highly recommended is to take the romantic heroes out of their own environment and transthem into that of your son or daughter The cowboy who looks plant ni'ofnrocnita in i rhans Has shed his clamour when he erets on store infnoc Tho snfirmv onmehanka of the waitress that sounded so witty when she sparred with a customer seem vulgar and common across a dinner table The lack of education or culture or familiarity with social conventions that seemed not to matter- - at all- when tramping insuperable obstacles through the mountains or sailing on isthea sea loom room instead of God's to a marriage when the background drawing ' cpen spaces I knew one mother who kept her daughter from marrying a "drunkard by sending her to visit a friend who had done so One week of seeing the hardships the poverty the humiliations that a to drunkard's wife endures made Isabel break off her engagement ' a handsome and fascinating souse And I knew another woman who gently wafted a selfish high into tempered and tyrannical man to whom her daughter the outer air by continually telling him how glad she was Maud was big going to marry him because Maud was so delicate she needed ahardstrong man who could take care of her and save her from every ship that Maud had always been used to having such pretty clothes and going on trips so she wouldn't really know how to do without them Mother would sigh and say that she feared Maud was extravagant and useless but she was such a dear And by the time mother had got in her fine work she had given the suitor such a case of cold feet that he stumbled out of Maud's life forever - j " SJ S-J- - soul-mat- es u — nlnf Vi was-engag- ed ) L Psycho G£OQG£ W COAN£ UNiVfc If a child fails to make passing marks in school it is not always due to a low TQ" Be sure to un- B-18- is the Susan A 2: and-poi- 'T didn't say that" Aunt Ellen demurred cautiously "I haven't no ticed anything strange about her and sens Dana seems ible when you compare her with most of these flighty girls" "So she does Just the same she almost knocked me- over Running pellmellr down the stairs and fair ed - ly singing but7 that she was having dinner out What's so exciting about that? Hasn't she been out to dinner several times a week al most ever" since she came here? Not counting the times I didnt know about" It was the longest speech Grand mother Cameron had made in a long while Aunt Ellen stared "That sounds very much- as though the child might be falling in love" Aunt Ellen conceded "And why not? Why not? Isnt it natural she should? You couldn't find a nicer young man than Ron nie — not if you searched the world itM over" It was one of the few times when Aunt Ellen had expressed herself definitely and with conviction Neither did Mrs Cameron believe Dana would be moved by threats She planned to use --them only as a last effort Threats if necessary but persuasion first It was not a pretty picture— the picture of poverty her grandmother And there were drew for Dana of elements truth in the portrayal even such a courageous startled that She walked to the window The next minute she called sharply 'Ellep come here!" Aunt Ellen answered the peremp tory summons "I haven't my glasses" Grand mother Cameron said "But is that Ronnie's car down there?" "No" said her sister "It doesnt look like it" "Speak your mind! You know" very well it isn't Well whose car is it then?" that young mother of an boy named Harry She is very much worried about him "Harry aoesn't get along well in school" she stated "and I am wondering if hs is just naturally stupid for I've tried to help him with his eight-year-o- ld s Hasn't anything but plans and ambitions" Dana did not reply meeting her grandmother's eyes steadily "Sit down please Dana" The girl sat down She was still sitting there when Nancy passed through the hall half an hour later and for a long while afterward Nancy heard her grandmother's voice droning away muted to a strangely quiet tolerant tone Aunt Ellen had warned her sis ter "Don't drive or threaten Dana I don't believe she would stand for - - - girl "I know you're not in love with Scott Stanley" Mrs Cameron said vigorously "You're too sensible But there's danger in seeing too much of him" scamp was easy she went on to fall in love with an attractive man If he were not eligible the safestway was to stop seeing him A poor man marrying a girl without money was as much to be pitied as a poor girl who was fool enough to marry a man who was not established "Scott Stanley hasn't a change to succeed as a doctor if he ties himself up with a wife who can't help him" Mrs Cameron stated firmly It he had an Intelligence Quotient or Q of 112 which means that he is above average mentally sjnee normality is 100 This I Q is obtained by dividing the mental age by his actual or chronological age He per"But can't a girl help a man in formed the nine-yemental tests some other way —if she hasn't and is only eight so nine divided money?" She Dana ventured by eight gives him 112 usually stat- was feeling very sober very uned as 112' happy Within an hour therefore I knew "Kind words never helped a poor not that Harry's poor marks were doctor yet" Mrs Cameron declardue to defective intelligence His case ed "What that young man needs turned out to be an only child's is a number of paying patients If "grandstanding" for attention More- he married Paula Long he could over he and his teacher had not harmonized well in the second grade stop worrying" asked Dana It was the "Why?" His naughtiness was an attempt to first had she time thought of Paula get awed admiration from his in a was rememtime She long schoolmates and to compensate for now had called Ronnie that bering bethe fact that he had dropped she and hadn't Paula "Scott's girl" hind his original class liked of it the sound atwill Crane give personal (Dr "Paula is independent" Mrs tention to questions on psychological "Besides she Cameron answered In care of this him Write problems are clanwho relatives has wealthy newspaper enclosing a most us like in rethis of nish city envelope for stamped' addressed ' Just seeing that all the babies in ply) (Copyright 1936 by the Hopkins the family arrive in proper order and taking care of their bumps Syndicate) ar i 1 LOW SCHool- ALWAvVi A " if4 ARE MOT MMilCSj ti)ETO tQ LOW lessons at home "Instead of studying he just wants to cut up and play: His teacher wrote me a note only last week saying that he is naughty and teases standardized in this country by Prothe other children and will not fessor Terman and they now are study called the Stanford Binet tests "He failed last year and is taking With these excellent aids we can the course over again so he should take-- youngster aged three years really be able to make fine grades or older and measure very accuratethis year But his school marks are ly his mentality Such measurements scarcely any better than they were are a great help too for often the last year He "will be lucky if he children who fair in school are not passes into the third grade subnormal "I read one of your cases about Whenevermentally we find " a the deaf child so I have had his who is not getting jalohgyoungster well in eyes and his ears checked and there school e examine his eyes ears is nothing wrong with them I am health emotional and-homenvirgetting discouraged Is he just natur- onments and then give him this ally stupid or what is wrong Dr mentaL test We can predict very Crane?" accurately just how much intelliDIAGNOSIS: Susan was wise to gence he possesses and how far he have the boy's eyes and ears tested can progress in school At the age in order to rule out defective vision of three or four years we can state or partial deafness as causes of low that a child will never be able to marks in school Even poor health graduate- - 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If he could look into the past he would know there was more than one reason why he wouldn't be wel come in this home And then he probably would muddle things for Dana Dana was beautiful ed well fitted to rule graciously ever a splendid home "I'm growing mercenary too thought gentle Aunt Ellen unhap pily It was almost impossible to ive in a house with her sister and not be infected by the possession- virus Think of his au in coming here! Further dacity more Ive been hearing things about him He's a regular rogue among women stealing their hearts and making sure he keeps his own I haven't had my ears open for o gli sRSlTY t NOQT HW£ ST£ BN Ellen Ca- sat miserably contempiai- sister's words Why hadnt her ng Scott (she thought of the name gently) done the sensible thing and rewe v self-possess- too?" Unanswerable logic Dana assured her "I shall" Then she was gone Upstairs Mrs Cameron made her "What way ' to her sister's room ever is the matter with that child?" she demanded "Rushing down the stairs like a whirlwind! What's it all about?" She waited for confirmation of her own hopes "In my day" Aunt Ellen said primly "when girls got excited and lost their poise people said they were in love" "Humph! So you think Dana's in Scctt Stanley as e Records BY OB mouse a life NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XIV Grandmother Cameron halted Dana "Going out again?" she ask ed 'Yes Grandmother I'm going to have dinner out" Grandmother Cameron moved on up the stairs "Have a good time" she said pleasantly said 1 I to stay in Scott's cottage until the early hours of morning Ron ald Moore sees them on the way to her home and misunderstands He stays away The rift widens When Scott telephones Dana she has the feeling that a new and thrilling interest is entering her There was a brief silence Then her sister said slowly "The young man is a stranger to me" "But not to me!" Mrs Cameron Oh there are many ways of breaking off an engagement if you DOROTHY DIX will just choose the right method (Copyright-1936- - come attracted to DR SCOTT STANLEY Nancy masks- her love for Ron ald behind an antagonistic atti tude PAULA LONG desperately in love with Scott watches anxiously as his interest in Dana deepens During' a storm Dana is forced love?" WeU o : At By Olive Roberts Barton r 111' soon break this upr - voice trembled from anger Her and disappointment It was a mood that boded-ngood to anyone her sister knew Aunt Ellen's heart went out to Dana The years had changed Agatha in some respects : Aunt Ellen thought but the indomitable will the fighting fire were still there "Sit down" Aunt Ellen urged "Don't get so excited Why should you worry Just because she goes out to dinner with him?" "Why does she want to be going out with him? And why isn't he with Paula Long who's been waiting for him ever- - since he finished high school ? 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