Show s I II II I I Fickle Maidens Are AreLong tong Long Way W n From Being in Love DEAR EAR DORIS DOlUS DENS DENE I am eight eight- eighteen I een cen and have been seem seeing seeing- one on particular boy bo regularly lie He is qui quiet et ct steady and anel and very vey serious lIe He is also jealous of OIl me so that I have I given g- g ven up all other fellows to please him lum He lIe has no car and anel we do not go out very cry often I could easily have a lot of dales and could get around more than I do I did care for fr this boy bo but am frankly getting tired of him now that I see him so much Shall ShaU I be true to him and refuse to go out with others others others-or or I shall shaU I break A. off off A. A G. G ANSWER Obviously ANSWER Obviously you arent aren't being true to the steady serious youth I who is plodding along determined on marriage Already youve you've made one or two plans for tor the future I which would shock and grieve the steady admirer if he could read your mind So why not come right out with the truth and get it over The chances are that you dont don't want to part with an absolutely sure thing in favor or of lance free philander philander- ing But unfortunately you cant can't have your freedom and hold on to toa toa toa a serious-minded serious suitor too You must make your our choice choice- and under the circumstances the only fair decision is to tell your ad ad- admirer admirer admirer the straight plain truth When a maidens maiden's fancy begins turning to thoughts of popularity with swains who own cars and go places and do things things then then she is a along along along long way from being in hi love and the sooner she advertises the fact the more merciful shell she'll be bc to the unfortunates who really love her DEAR D T EAR MISS 1 DENE What should I do We have all aU the makings of a happy home We two are arc funda funda- fundamentally fundamentally mentally congenial although opposite opposite opposite site in temperament We have two delightful children and a nice home we ne worked for tor The bugaboo is friendly drinking Only a wife who vho has known the anguish of wailing waiting until daybreak for the husband who went out on some small errand at 7 p. p p m m. m can understand what I have gone through The excuse he gives is always alwa s 's lame and He lie simply cant can't keep away from his friends and his drinking It isn't fair There are many times when I have ba ve needed him when the children were sick but always friends and liquor have won G. G G. G A. A A.M. M. M ANSWER ANSWER No No habit is more insidious insidious insidious ous nor more capable of lasting harmful effect on any home life than the cheerful little business of friendly drinking Simply because it all seems so harmless and cosy and natural it is allowed to get by where other more spectacular sins are condemned I Actually the pangs of anxiety a aI woman suffers over the constant I semi-inebriation semi of her weak good- good natured irresponsible husband are areas areas as great as those she endures over overa a major catastrophe And it is the height of cruelty for her husband to go on pursuing his rus carefree way at the expense of a 3 womans woman's in intense in- in intense intense tense suffering and fear One woman woman once dealt with her hut hut- hUband husbands husband's bands band's acid drinking by indulging in inthe inthe inthe the same sport On those evenings when hen she knew him to be in a wandering mood she carefully invited a Jew fLow friends to come over and help her through the etc etc- ning Not an experienced drinker herself she put up a fair air imitation of her huS huS' huSbands IW husbands husband's bands band's own otin behavior be Jal or after an evening of harmless harmleS merriment merriment and and the tho spectacle proved so uninviting to her heT suddenly tir- tir t virtuous r. r lUaus spouse that he gave gale up his hi sprees in order to stay home and reform her Other women have found that I punishment did no good and have I tried kindness instead instead giving giving their whoopee-making whoopee mates a free eve eve- evening evening evening ning a 3 week in which to take care of their sprees It has often hap hap- happened happened happened that the man who enjoys his stolen liberty finds freedom dull when it is eagerly offered him Many a 3 wife has written to tell me that her lenience has proved a n more effective means of curbing uncontrolled uncontrolled uncontrolled trolled drinking than any punish punish- punishment punishment punishment ment ever devised There is always the possibility that the going easy-going social drinker doesn't realize fully how important his chief vice is to his domestic happiness Faced with a wife's tears and reproaches In the early hours I of dawn with himself in a befuddled condition he doesn't understand just how acutely his bad habits are affecting af af- affecting affecting his peaceful home Perhaps if his wife demonstrated this to him by clearing out for a awhile awhile awhile while and going home to mother with the children the children the amiable drinker might take life more seri- seri and might cease to include his favorite sport in the class of harmless amusements II I LEE I believe that your BH B romantic interest in the past by bythe bythe bythe love is caused almost entirely the lack of sex appeal you ou feel in inamorata present your our woman woman and and a ayoung ayoung aone It is so like a n one at to that-to search des des- desperately young for some trace of the the ten ten- tender tender in her own conscious conscious- consciousness passion der Finding that her steady teadY atTini- atTini ness cut and and dried nd pin pla- iv too ty is i s all she Inter Interesting to be even tonic the service of her hastily least it Y enlists her locate some so e to help memory particularly devastating love affair i S she he has enjoyed NU ser to C hell nu I |