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LINGERING COURTSHIP
Love Expert on
Troublesome
Problem
• By Beatrice Fairfax
An Authority on the Problems of
Love and Marriage
' A FEW weeks ago an article
** 'appeared in this column on
the subject of long engagemenU,
which hirings the following com
ment from w. pa
“Dear MISs Fairfax:
•Tn just read your article
about Betty and Jack, telling
how lona engagements are too
likely to end in broken hearts.
“Betty at 19 is at the begin
ning of a lona engagement. un
less She decides to accept invita
tions frogj other youna men.
While I, Um gt the end of a lona
engagement. It I were in. Betty’s
place I would do entirely different
from what I have done.
“I have kept steady company
With my friend for five years. T
have seen him each evening. He
works every night until 9:30. so
we never go to entertainments.
He will not even allow me the
company of other girls, claiming
that if I go out with them they
Wttl flirt with other men and I
Will forget about him.
”1 have stuck to him despite all
this, because he loved me, and he
Still does. There is not a thing
" he would not do for me except
marry me. He buys me pretty
things, is very polite, very con
siderate, always a gentleman, and
we’ve never had a single word
•nt of the way for five years.
But we’re not actually engaged.
He says some dav he’ll marry me
When he has enough money to
buy a house and lot and all the
Other things that go with it. You
may wonder why he hasn’t any
monev saved after five years.
But his father died and he’s tak
ing care of his mother and two
little sisters. He doesn’t want to
leave them until everything is
all right with them. But, my
dear, will that ever be when they
have no other income?
“I love him and I don’t care for
other men. I’ve gone with him
so long that I’d hate to go out
with others and perhaps break up
with him, whereas IX I whit an
other year or two it may be that
we can marry. He says we are
engaged between ourselves. But
what does that mean?
z "I’d be witting to Hye in One
room and eat on d. soap-box just
to be really and truly married.
I’d take his mother and sisters in
with me and Fd.be.a.good, daugh
ter-in-law. I’ih easy. to. get along
with. Or I’d live, at their house.
But his mother doesn’t see it that
way. She will llve -wlth .no one
else and no one else-may live with
her—and She’s a won
derful woman —such a good moth
er that I guess he hates to
. leave her.
“I have wonderful parents, too.
They like my friend very much,
but they don't want him to take
up all my time, yet get me no
where. lam 24 and he is 33.
“I’m not one who would win in
a beauty contest. But I do the
best I can with what I have. • I
dress neatly, don’t drink, smoke
or swear. My friends says he is
proud of me.
“I feel better with this off my
chest. I thank you for the good
advice you have given so many
girls. ’ "W. P.”
You are a loyal, patient friend
and sweetheart, my dear, to have
waited so long for the man you
Jove.
I agree with your parents that
you owe something to yourself as
well as to him. I am not going to
suggest-to you. even in a joking
way. that 1928 is leap year. 1928
girls are far too clever to deprive
a man of his privilege of taking
the initiative. But a time comes
in the course of every courtship
when a definite understanding and
clear cut engagement should -be
established, with marriage decided
on in a reasonable length of time.
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YlflLL the pretty flapperette of today, when she is the grand
mother of tomorrow, look back, when she has arrived at a
certain age, and sigh and say to the other grandmothers around
her—with their old-fashioned short hair, my! my!—“Heavens! I
don’t know what to make of the girls nowadays. They’re no more
LIKE the girls in our day! No romance, no modesty, and
FRESH! I guess I’m an old stick-in-the-mud, Fifi, but I liked it
best when you and I were girls. Somehow or other girls seemed
so FEMININE then!”
Will they? Those who are taking the youth of today pretty
hard will shout, “Will they! You mean, CAN they?”
Have an affectionate talk with
your friend. Tell him. what you
have told me. Offer, if need be, to
work after your marriage and to
live very economically until the
little sisters are old enough to pay
their own way. Let him contrib
ute a share of his income to his
mother. »
You and he will be Infinitely
happier and better off married and
living by yourselves in this eco
nomical way. both earning money,
than you are now with this five
year courtship dragging on
dearily.
If your friend loves you truly
and unselfishly he will gladly plan
to marry you within the year and
will not ahow pride in a "house
and lot- from the very start" to
stand in the way. If he refuses to
come to a clear-cut understanding,
after all these years, he is not the
man for you In that case, dear,
you will have to take all your
courage in your hands and break
away f r om an entanglement which
is holding you- back from your
birthright—a good husband and
home 3Lni children of your own.
So act with courage and de
cision. A man who truly loves you
will eagerly search for and find
the way to realize highest happi
ness and good for you and him
self through marriage and a home
of your own.
The witch put Hansel
into a little house, in the yard.
It had a gate for a door.
“When he is fat I will eat him,”
said the old bad witch.
Then she made Gretel
do all the hard work.
Poor Gretel did not know
what to do. She tried to think
How could she help
poor Hansel to get out?
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Helping the Poor Ugly Duckling
By L. Lamar Matthews ♦
MTSREDA in simply hopeless!*’ .
•T declared the child’s step
mother. "Whatever is to be
come of the poor little ugly thing
is more than I can see.”
"What would you say is the
principal trouble?" Inquired
Freda’s father.
"I suppose it is really her
health,’’ admitted the stepmother.
"Her skin is sallow; she is dis
tressingly thin; she is awkward
and clumsy and stoop-shouldered;
her front teeth disfigure her
mouth terribly, and she is the
whiniest, most petulant child I
ever saw.”
"I believe I’ll ask Rath to take
the child for a while,” said the
father. "If anybody can bring
her out, Beth can."
Beth was Freda’s married sister
add she agreed to take charge of
the unfortunate little sister.
The first thing. Big Sister did
was to bring back the glad light
to the child’s eyes.
Then she took her to a dentist
and had removable braces put on
the protruding front teeth. It
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It is possible. And VERY probable. For each generation has
repeated itself like that. Let the most modern-minded man reach
a certain age, and no matter how sturdily he has rooted for, and
how well he has understood the girl-type of today up to then, all
of a sudden right before your eyes he will develdp a piteous case
of nostalgia for the girl and the woman he knew when he was
young. It can’t be helped or dammed up, that tide of homesick
ness for the girls that were that overtakes those who were young
with them. No matter how faulty their manners, nor how homely
their dress. The manners of a man’s youth look the kindest and
the best to him; and the homely dress—modest and quaint.
took three years to bring those g
teeth into line and during that
time Freda became an entirely
different belngr ‘
Plenty of fruit and vegetables,
fresh air and outdoor exercise
cleared up the sallow skin. The
right quantity of milk and sweets
and meats and starchy food, with
plenty of sleep thrown in, grad
ually put flesh on the little
body.
Gymnasium exercises and danc
ing lessons did away with the
awkwardness, the clumsiness and
the stooped shoulders —aided and
abetted by good old Mother
Nature.
Capes Capture Attention— Both >
as part of the advance spring en
sembles and as attached details
of coats or frocks. The hip-length
cape, longer in back, is expected
to be extremely popular in spring
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cover is page 1. Read your story and
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< Beth’s own deft hands created 0-
lovely wearing apparel for the
younger sister—usually from her
own discarded garments—and the
pretty clothes brought a glow of
happiness to the young face.
Freda was twelve , years old
when she went to ’ live with
Beth. At sixteen she was a well
poised, attractive girl, taking a
business course in high school
and preparing to make her own
living just as soon as possible.
And thanks to her sister’s
kindness and intelligence she
stands a fair show of succeeding
in her undertaking.
People used to say that a pretty
-By Mildred Ash
slightly longer models, of circular
cut. in the same fabric as the
gown, being designed for evening
wear. Separate coats and indi
vidual frocks have sections cut
along cape lines, lending a swing
ing grace to the garment.
By
M. Genevieve Silvester
Hangel and Gretel
Each day the witch would say
“Put out your arm, Hansel
I want to see if you are ready
for me to eat today.”
The witch could not see well.
Hansel knew it, so he put
out a stick for his arm.
“You are just a bag of bones
I don’t want to eat bones.”
said the old witch.
And she gave him more food.
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Thinking of our backward-turning minds, I wondered what it
would be like to one of those little maids of another time if she
could come forward, a bright little ghost, to a modern scene, and
witness the freedom of our girls and their knees!
M, I think she would wish to live another life—right now.
„ rl-girl would envy the boy-girl. And buy herself a short
skirt straight off!
But —though the writer is a bulwark of defense for the beauty
and the freedom of the flapperette,* she must have just touched
that certain age we were speaking of—for she cannot help but
think the little ghost with the muff was a more fetching, feminine
figure than the girl-boy she watches with delighted eyes.
NELL BRINKLEY.
girl never has any sense. They
seemed to have an idea that home
liness and intelUgence somehow
go together. Present day men and
women who have succeeded in the
business world will tell you that a
pleasing appearance is almost es
sential to a woman’s advancement,
in business.
That is why It Is so necessary
that ugly ducklings should be
given every opportunity to develop
into clean, graceful swans.
No matter how sallow, freckled,
awkward, 111-proportioned your
little daughter may be, it is quite
possible for her to grow into an
attractive woman. But it takes
time and patience and persistent
effort.
The child is far from a finished
product. She is constantly chang
ing, and her growth and develop
ment are influenced by what hap
pens to her from without.
Physical development goes hand
in hand with mental and spiritual
development. The hardier and
healthier and handsomer your
child is the better chance he or
she has to us, mental gifts ef
fectively.
This Day in Our History
ROBERT EDWARD LEE, the Chief military officer of the Con
federate States <rf America, was born on
At the outbreak of the war he was offered the com •
Union Army that was to be raised, and he refused.
By Beatrice Fairfax
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