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Unwed And Efficient Woman Worker Complains Of Parent’s Attitude

lA young woman says: "I am 3i years old. I graduated at the head of my class in college. I have a. flne position in a big business firm and am trusted with making important decisions.

"I mean to say that I am an intelligent adult, yet my mother treats me as if I were a feeble-minded child She doesn't pretend to have the slightest TPSPCCI for my opinion or knowledge. She tells me when to go to bed and not to sit up reading. as she did when I was 5 years old_ and supervises lny diet Just as carefully and still thinks that I should live on spinach and milk.

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"I am a good cook, but I never start toward

the kitchen that. she doesn't stop me and tell me ust how to make a cake, although I have made thousands of them. She still feels it is her duly to read my letters and listen in on my telephone conversations and pick my friends; and every time I go and collie I am put through a. ques- tionnaire about where I have been, whom I have seen and what they said, and why didn't. I 0on3 home earlier.

"For, you see, I am still unmarried and, in my mother's eyes and in the eyes of all the other mothers l know, an unmarried daughter is a 300i‘, feeble, helpless creature, incapable of tak- ng care of herself, although she may be 70 years old. and. like Lady Kews daughter in Thack- arays story. have heard all there is to tell. I bet Miss Silsaii B. Anthony never went out of the - ' house as long as her mother lived without being toil; to pill. on her rubbers, and that Florence Niglitingales mot-her ueicr Cifdccii to warn her to beware of strange men.

TIKEATS MARRIED SISTER. AS EQUAL

"Now 1 have .1 sstel" 5 years younger than I um who is a darling but no llllufilttitliil prodigy. She married right out oi high school, so she has not ilJLl lln- cililtltilun, nor liic trillniiig, nor the experience tlllu, l have hail, }\.'L Aioiilci" treats Sally as her equal and me as her llil8l'lOl'.

"I know a thousand things about life and the world in general that Sally, shut up in her nursery and the four walls of her home, hasn't had

a chlnl-c 1o i<:.irn, but Mother pooh-poohs my views on every subject and quo: t Sail lli oracle. She would never dream oi regulating Sallys gtllllgs Llllt‘. llligs as she docs mine, or of picking out Sally's acquaint-

ances for hvr.

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House of Hate

a, lsun. GARLAND

CHAPTER XXIII

m. Harry cot up from the bent-h. "rll take my oath that Mowers life was in no canker through the stuff that was in that. green bottle. The incl. that aha tlioukht it was is m- other matter. Patil, did she tell ou aha was making another will t

"l. hadn't the slightest idea of it.”

"Have you any idea. why shc would have changed her mind in sucn li drastic manner

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I would administer hei- estate more satisfactorily than any of the oth- ers."

Holding the will, Dr, Harry turn- ed suddenly to Advent. "l see your name here as a. witness. When did vou slgh?"

"l. don't know what. time it was. except that it. was late. She come down to the kitchen and said she

had something she wanted me to p0

sign as witness. 1 didn't. have no - 0F

notion of what it was an I. just. CA§£§THAT500D

signed wlicre she said to." . . "was that oelore or after you . ALL AC-QOSS

were in 1$$t€ll€5 room?" Serena. ask- ec. on an impulse.

‘there was a, quick exchange of glances. "Before, i guess." Advent saiu sullenly.

"What was Advent doing in your room, Estelle?" asked Paul.

"None ol your business, Bozo."

"Listen-a"

"Just a minute, young people.” Dr. Iiarry put. in. "Don't lose your tempers. i want to impress upon you the fact that, if we can work this tiling out by ourselves, it's going to pc a iut easier lor all of us later on. Now, itstelle, the chances are tlicre wasn't. anything strange in Adven-ts being in your room last. night, but Paul seems to think there was. II he kept on thinking so. and made a Duint of it when sheriff Stephens gets here, there might be a. lot oi‘ questions and huifabaloo

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"All of which causes me to wonder why married daughters and un- Illflfllttl ullilgliivrs have such a different status with their mothers. Do mothers ihillk that it girl cant be right bright who doesirt catch a hus- band? 0r is l1. that gctiilil; married somehow automatically makes girls

Ill(‘llll)(‘l‘.\ o! the Alnuigiinitiud Order of Wives with all its pass words and ill so lllilkCS ll mother lcel closer to her married daughter than ill

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d dailghter? EACRIFICES ARE IGNOBED

Anyway. you will notice that mothers always brag about their daugh- ters who lain trrlte Mrs. before their names, no matter what. sort of sticks illev lire lil.ll'l'l('tl to and that they are always apologetic over the ones who are .~.:i.l hi‘... wen when it is the spiiisters who arc supporting tilcln. tvhy, nnl tune I have seen a mother proudly displaying some Clicilp gill ma: silo boasted that her daughter, Mrs. So-and-So, had sent iler. wlnlc silo ilcvcr said a word about the single daughter who was work- ilii: licr fingers to the bone to keep her soft and comfortable in her old age.

"But all of this is beside the point. What I started to say, before I got iosl. in lilo lnir ltclcs of mother psychology, is that even more than llit: lack of any pcl onal freedom, which I shall never have as long as I live with m1: mother, what I regret is our inability to be friends as well as mother anll daughter. I know my mother is a very fine and intelligent woman and l would dearly like to have a. real companionship with her ‘in \\'lll('ll we would meet on a common platform of mutual interests and be able to tillk as woman to woman.

"I'd like to be ltble to discuss with her my problems, especially as re- garcls men anti marriage, and ask her why it was that some men attract- ed lnc, olhcrs repulsed me, and others kept me guessing; and if she thought, dccp down in ilcr heart, that marriage was worthwhile. But I can't do it. Mother still thinks I am 5 years old and too young to be told the facts ol life and when I try to talk seriously with her she waves me off Willi a platitude that says, in effect, run along, little girl, and play with your dolls. Filnny, isn't it?”

"No, tragic," I responded.

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Estelle nodded, but she glowered at Paul. "Okay, BOZD,_yOU win, but im sorry to nave to disappoint you. Advent H.110 i. weren't concocting a. plot against Mother. As a. matter of loot, we were dress-making."

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"yes. Advent was fitting me for a. costume. Shes clever as the uickeils about sewing."

"Wflfll (110 you want a. costume for?" raui asked. "Planning a. stage career, or something?"

"xou know what i wanted a coc- tume ior."

‘M. yes-the dance team and the partner called Carlos or Pedro." "Ramon."

"human-that's right. But as I re. member, mere was another require- mem 101' Your nappy reunion with itaiiion, Five hundred dollars, wasn't it! when Estelle made no answer. foul leaned forward. saying softly. .551“ ntfilitnblei“. °‘€““.fli..f‘°“‘f°

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"if you mean was it I who broke into lvromers desk and stole her two EhOlBBJfld-ilfi."

"Ol course she didn't!" said Se- Wflfl mfllknantiy. "Why. only this mernoon. Estclle aske-q me w see ‘I I “tin! PC-‘wflue you to zlve her some money,"

"Tlwh Wny the hurry about mak- ing costumes l: am didnt have the lliullitf"

"Wél_1——WhilB tifereu life there's hope, isn't. there?" msteire retoTted.

“Leona? said Dr. Harry. "I see you re a. witness to this will. too."

"Yes. Alec. rd Just gone to bed when Mateel rapped on my qqqj- anti told me to come into he? room. When I got there, sue snowed me me will wltn AdVenVs signature and told me what she. hm dflng, 1 wag- 1 suppcse l. wit‘. I. well admit. it- Very upset over it. After all, Mfliecl Hm leg me to expect a little some- tiiihi loi- my oid

"EM you try to persuade her to chahge her mind?"

"m. Mam! was a very positive person allu once sire nan decided hlwll MCOQTW. it was uillicillt. t0 argue iler out oi it. .L—1. just slglleu the will and went back to my room."

fAnout what time was that?"

‘I don't remember, Alec. Quite We. Igthlnk. i u lust not back into bed when I heard Serena and Haul talking in the next room. Serena scenletl to be crying ano l thought uernaps she was ill or something. i went out iiito the hall and knock. ed on her door and asked if sne was all right. Paul said she'd had p, lime {Bil Ol‘ SOIHCHHIIK, but that, 5X19 W35 pu right and so .l. went back into mv

I 1d Wu 8o right to sleep?" N0. 1 triea t0. but I couldn't. The ghee» was simply dreadful-so 1.

IYBS. Leona?" Well. l. remembered that Matetl kept some bromides on the top shelf in the bathroom. l never take them bull 155;‘ 118811;.‘ I was so nervous and upset t a. l. n ll t, touget the mcdizirlyefio up “d went Did you 8o into any other room except the bathroom?"

"Any other room?" the old lady repeated. “Why, no. Alcc-wh would I? I Just went. down the hai and right back." H ‘Aunt Leona," said Paul harshly,

you're lying!"

She drew back. "Pauli Th“ lg

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With much dknity, she sighted. Then, as the bus star ed again, the conductor touched h's ca-p and called to her:

“lllxcuse me, madam, but Rajput avenue is half a m'le farther on."

MISSED MEANING

"And is the prnce incognito?" asked the reporter. referring to s. titled guest.

“Well, no, sir," replied the hotel porter. "r don't, know as I'd say that. But 'e's certainly ‘ad a. few

no way to speak to--" "You went down

the hall all right, Aunt Icons. but you didn't watching vou."

know. because I was :1 don't think 1 understand—" You will when I explain that I was on the dlvan in downstairs hall last night and I saw you go down the hall and into Mother's roomi" Peasley‘; face worked pitc- o . "You saw mo? You know that I—— Oh, don't look at inc that wayl Don't look at me that way!" She covered her face with her hands and burst into tears. (To be Continued)

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