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____ ‘ FEBRUARY 16. 1933

{F} Dorothy Dix’ Letter Box

Shall Boy of 22 Carry Out Pledgfilto Marry Girl

of 17?—H0w Can Grandmother Overcome . Selfish Indifference of Her Grand- children?

Dear Miss Dix-I am n. boy of 22. Before coming to this city I was She lives 500 miles away and I keep thinking it is far to bring her from her home, as Do you‘think she is too young to

going with a girl of 1'1 and we spoke of getting married.

she is so young. really be in love? I am not sure that I ain really in love with her. Just fond of her because she is too young to really be in love? I am not sure that I am really in love with her. Just fond of her because she is such a nice swcct girl. I ani the oldest of a large family. 'l‘liere an: some very small children. Do you think i should help my folks or look out for myself? The girl does not go with any other boys and that keeps me (mm going \‘.'ltll any other girls. What shall I do‘!

- MR. X.

Answer:

l My earnest advice to you is to wait a while. Marriage lasts a long‘ long tlme-—or, at any rate, it should last a long, long timc—and there is no sense in being in a rush about it.

Don't let this girl, or any other girl, rusliyou into marriage against your inclination and your better judgment and before you are ready for it. Girls have a sort of marrying mania that keeps them from regarding the lllflttCi“Wll.l1 any int/clligcnce whatever. ‘Ihey think it will be so thrilling to have a wedding and that; thcy will look so pretty in a white veil and it will just be tou exciting to go to housekeeping and have their own kitchens with blue gingham clutuins at the windows and they zievei"

' stop to think of how they are to get the iood to cook on their installment- plan gas ranges or that it takes a lot oi work to keep house or that they can't run around with the boys and girls ziiici" marriage as they did before.

And that is one of the reasons why thcrc are so many unhappy mur- riugcs and so many divorces among young people, who find out after two or three years of matrimony that they have fallen out of love with each other and do nothing but quarrel. The girl literally forced the boy into marriage before he was able to support a family, and when he ran into debt and wa hounded by bill collectors and torn with anxiety, he got nervous and. cross and irritable. And ihe girl-\viie found out that marriage wasn't just having a steady date and not having to piuicli the zinie clock in an ofiice er store, but. was hard work and sliabblncss and naybe a. crying baby. So she took the baby and went back home, and mother home W115 broken up and two more young lives scarred and

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By Mari Moore. Specially contributed to The Guardian for Guardian Readers. i

Snowy White Linen-Gleaming Crystalwai-e-Correet Table Appoint- ment! are the Delight of Every

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By Mary Moore We have struck a subject that you will warmly endorse if you are Mrs. Aiveijage CltlZ9ll-—lflbl(3 linen and ciystalivare. Times without number we have received notes from our faithful readers that desire detail directions for setting the table on which on

Tbhaveaperfectly appoint“; gable for the entertainment oi’ your guests is one of the greatest sources or satisfaction to s considerate hostess If a little forethought is git/g“ u; DHUhB-ses of linen and glassware, this iostidiousness of appointment need cost no more than the medley Bmy. of water tumblers that do not match the dessert shot-beta, or

Mb lumber-lanes as cluny table-

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tllis good food we Clifilflbf! from week to week is to be served. better t” have ‘me 51mph but Most folks who have a servant or matching s” M crysmlwal“ and

linen than to try to extend yourself by buying various lots or tumblers and odd linen pieces because they take your fancy or are bargains.

servants make itiheirbuslness tot know how tables mun be set and how food must be served so that

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Nearly every house-wife has a large white damask tablecloth of which she ls proud-kept on the bot- esscs and, lamentable as a may tom of the pile for special company seem. it is she who carries on with ; Occasion-s Never lament the fact uncertainty, setting her table from thal- YW d0 11% 0W1! lace liable‘ Q week to week without knowing all is vlvlhs or dainty linen with lace 1n- (ormh sertions for the damask cloth is al-

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just a matter of indiilcrtiu-c. It

was sensitive and childish. I am n

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as long as your grandchildren ignore and show them as little attention as

saddened.

Many and many a marriage goes on the reeks that ivould be a suc- cess if only the young people had the patience to wait until they got in i. position to marry safely. For marriage, likclevcry other lllldtZll/Zllilllg. ties to have an adequate financial backing to be a success.

' I think a, girl of 1'1 is too young to marry. AL that age every‘ girl is .n love with love and just sloshing O\'L‘l' with romance and she imagines the cherishes a cieathlcss passion for (wary youth who coincs ailong. But give her six months and she gets over it and scis her affection on some one else.

Besides. at that age a girl hasn't had her playtime and if she mar- ries and settles down she soon gels tired of humdrum domesticity and .vzint.,-the 1ilcusuies that belong to her time of life and either grows peev- .41. and fretful or else rims wild. In a. long observation of my sex I have Iouncl that Llic flirtatious middle-aged ivomcn and the young wives who JZWC affairs with other men- are almost invariably women who married in ;heir terns. 1t is the women who have had all the lovemaking “my wanlrd in tlici" youlli who arc satisfied with their husbands.

ln your case tlicrc is every reason for not making a foolish young znurriage because you arc not in love with the girl. There might be some iustilication of your taking the risk ii you were the victim of an over- whelming passion, but none whatever when your feelings are merely platonic toward the girl,

So break oil the ziilair. Write licr that you arc not yet able to marry and that you want to wait until she is at. least 20, as that will give you time to know your own heart and for you to make a home for her. Both of you go around with other girls and boys because in that way only can you test your own feelings and get some standards of comparison so that you can tell whether you really suit (‘H011 0th?!‘ 01' 110l-

As. fur your duty to your family and to yourself, I think you should help them some, but it is not your duty to sacrifice yourself entirely W mam DOROTHY DIX.

Dear Miss Dix-Would it be better for .me to try to teach my Brand‘ children they should show seine attention to me or to ignore their attitude? I tilways remember their anniversaries. Christmas and Valen- tine Day with gifts, but I am wondering if it would not be better for me to adopt the same attitude toward them that they have toward me. They never come to see me. Even when I meet them in public places they do not give me a ClllillCe to speak to them. ‘They are entirely taken up with

fact that she is alive and that some

their young friends and llli‘li' own affairs.

children about the behavior of the granzicliildrezi.

There is no ill feeling. It is \\ uuld be oi‘ no use to speak to my I They would say I early 70 years old, but reasonably in-

tercsting to iny zicquaintances and not exactly irumpish in appearance.

P U Z ZLED GRANDMOTHER.

You liaic lo light lire with lire and selfishness with selfishness. Hence

you yoiu‘ best play is to ignore them they show you. Perhaps ivhcii they

iliid out that grandmother's gifts have ceased they will ivakc up to the

attention is due licr. 4

But it, is your own sons and daughters who are to ppm“, in 1,1115

matter, not the youngsters.

All children are little savages, intent on

their own pleasures and having their own way and absorbed in their own affairs and they have to be taught consideration for other people and to

show cbilrtcsy and deference to their

elements of ClYlllZJtlOlI, and certainly

a great mistake in rearing up children who have not been taught any of the amenities of life. .

For there is nothing that a young person can do that so prejudices other people against him or her as to show rudeness to any old man or ivonmn, and especially to a grandmother, and this ill will that they en-

gender follows them through life. and woman fail to succeed is because

ren that. we do not want to have anything to do with them even after

they are grown.

And, on the other hand, nothing laiit and courteous attitude toward ti push the fortunes of the young so ii iation of what we do for them.

Certainly the mother who fails to teach her children good manners and deference to the old not only fails in her duty to them, but puts upon them a handicap that is hard for them to overcome. DOROTHY DIX.

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Dear Miss Dix-—What is a fellow to do with his old girl whom he courted for ten long years and who has ivaited all those long years to marry him when he finds out that he has lost his affection for her and is wildly in love with another‘ vxomiiii? but how?

Answer:

The only honorable thing to do is to tell your old sweetheart of your. change in feelings and that you cannot possibly marry her. it will be rather hard on her, but it won't be so hard as it would be to bc married to a man who had ceased to care for her and was in love with another woman.

Your case is a tragic illustration

elders. These are the rudimentary your sons and daughters arc making

The reason that many a young man we recall them as such boorish child-

so attracts us to the young as a gal- ie old and nothing makes as ivant to ltlCll as for them to display apprec-

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ways correct, and whatever looks more striking and of better taste than a snowy cloth with the crease straight as a dye the whole length of the centre?

For The Cook

I recently visited a Canadian plant where some of our best crystanrare

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By Annabelle Worthington

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"How could I?" cried the girl. "I really believe I've everything in the world I want, and it's all come to me since that dreadful night when Layton sacked me and you asked me to come to sec you at your of- flcc."

Grenoble moved l0t\'2ll.‘(l the door after glancing at his wrist watch; "1' won't keep you," he said. "It is . ten minutes to four and you can't go out into the garden in that

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tied for fear he might lose the star,

he climbed into his waiting car lllttl was driven away. “She's only seen the fellow once, the night he push- ed himself uninvited into her dress- ing room. Anything he may have to say about her appearance in the show is not likely to make much impression. I wish I hadn't told him he could see her, though. He might put unsettling ideas into her head. The girl is perfectly modest. I don't want her made self-conscious. But_ luckily-he's a stranger to licr. he tries to give her any advice she'll

be irlc the colour would be hide- ous nmong the yellow flowers." Ever the showman, Grenoble paused at the door to give other directions to Mrs. Forrest. "Put hei- into that white wool frock and the Jacket of white fur I laid sent over from Paris last week'" he directed. “Don't for heaven's sake let her take cold. A fairy princess with a cold in licr head would be the last word!" The producer laughed and took |his leave, having judged, in the face iof Rosemary's evident contentment, that it would be unwise to speak or altercation with Anthony that ornlng. For a few moments, aftci- Anthony had left, he had been wor-