Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1932, Page 45

Two Hundred Girls Crying Their Eyes Out BY KATHLEEN NORRIS. * There are thousands of mothers who are dearly loved and useful members of s their daughters’ and sons' homes. If mother is smart she will lose her son and her daughter-in-law for the first vear of their married life, trusting to time and the grandchildren to restore them to her. To marry against parents’ consent is always an individual matter. If the young man is steady, straight, clean, devoted then any girl over 18 has a perfect right to walk around the corner and marry him. Continuing with her work alter marriage can be done, and often is done, by the right kind of wife: but the risk is much greater than the risk of getting along on the man's salary. three or four years. derstand what most older women live to learn too late—that your | own character is vour own fate, that your own happiness is en- tirely in your own hands—hcw happy | “they would be. - Here on my desk are two hundred “Jetters from young women, each letter 2 a question that is as old as our ivilization Shall I give up my job when I marry man on a small y? Shall I marry my eetheart, even though his mother must live with us ~when we do marry? .. Is one hundred—two hundred—three | -hundred dollars enough to start in on, in these times? Is it safe to marry a person whose ‘religious views are entirely different “from my own? Shall I marry against my parents’ -wishes, and take a chance with a man . they consider entirely unfit for me? _ These questions are asked over and Zover again by fine, conscientious girls, girls eager for love and life. They ¢, of course, that risk is implied in ne of these situations—they be writing me otherwise, but do long so desperately to take their chance! Another chance may never come. Love doesn’t always come | ‘twice, and it is hard on young flesh and blood to wait for the hour when IF YOUNG women could only un- they “income, family relationsiips; refigion, ||| paternal approval shall all be satis- factorily settled. - * %k X X | TRLS know that, ideally speaking, a | woman does give up her office joband | devote herself to her home, as a bride. | ‘A man, ideally speaking, doesn't marry -until he can take care of her and her ssible children, too. An ideal mother s herself and her claims completely ‘out of her married children’s lives. | And religion, which for all of us means Jove and peace, tolerance and under- tanding and harmony, should be of all | ssues the least to cause any friction | ‘between two hearts that love each “other. | But, unfortunately, few of our lives move on ideal lines. The actuality is ery different, and the girl, trembling | Zon the threshold of the great change. 3s naturally afraid that she is not going %o be equal to its demands. * The answer is the same, in every man of strength | with generosity and humor | age and intelligence in your | p vou can marry under almost v circumstances and work your way ~through to happiness and success. It “has been done thousands and thousands ~of times. Indeed, I would say that almost all the successful marriages I THE NEW ellff: 1216-1220 F Street N.W. 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The wife is as tired as the man at night, as much entitled to consideration and comfort as he—a simple fact no male ever will grasp. She comes home to dust and unwashed dishes; the newspaper is still on the | kitchen table, letters are lying on the hall floor, the telephone is ringing like a thing possessed. As to mother, well, there are thou- SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER fotel Ronseuelt $1.00 .6 to 8:30 oo Gockta u tal Tomato Juice Cocktail or. Ripe California Olives illed Hearts Celery Chofce Oream of Fresh Mushroom Soup Consomme Jullenne en Tasse Choice Pried Delaware Shade—_Tartar Sauce Roast Phila. 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Sometimes this problem solves itself and mother is de- lighted to run the house all day long, and give Mary all the breaks when Mary gets home tired. It is the first iur of marriage that is dangerous 1o 'and " depena: uponcach olber, if e AN le) uj eacl er, they are nnep:nommp.maut for the first | milk toast and magazines and a little year nothing is normal, and if mother | spolling from his #ife, and Mary's office is smart she will lose her son and her | 18 in any real need of her, she has no daughter-in-law for that twelvemonth, | choice. She must put the office first. trusting to time and the grandchil- thA wise z(irlluw}l'l give mmehthn first ree or foi ears, eheartedly. (EenTlo) siglard) e o Tx = Then she can dedide Whether Joan and Junior can get along without her or not. Often they can, for six or seven hours a day at least, and at that see more of ‘mother than most rich women's chil- dren do. And marrying on a small salary? But I don't pity or advise girls who are oung and strong and in love and fac- {u that problem. I envy them. (Copyright, 1932.) of not one thing nor another frets nflmhulllm She 1s not wholly a busines woman, because she is not free of thoughts of marketing, getting in a cleaning woman, paying the tele- phone bill, and she is not all & wife be- cause, like her husband, she must, in any crisis, Z\lt business first. She is pol;'drorthn And if Jack has & head- ache and wants a day at home and marry, against parents’ consent is always an individual matter; no rule really ‘works here, except the rule that applles to the young man. If he is steady, straight, clean, devoted then any girl over 18 has a perfect right to walk around the corner and mArTy him. If he is 30 years older than she, several times divorced, of another group. then the girl is merely a fool, and will pay. as fools usualy do. The tragedy in such a case is to be parents of a child over whom one has no influence. The 18 years of young love and devotion to your daughter |3 have been thrown away. if, when you give her good and sufficient reason for not marrying some man, she persists in flinging her life's happiness away. But young love, rushing lnw‘l ylc'L:n& relValter B, Clarkson, g. s.nu Anna 8. Por- marriage, has too often prove elf | ter. 44; Rev. Thomas G. Smyth. Fight Tor amp of Us to take an arbitrary | miieie 2 Bates, Sicmt maktonn 3e- o attitude to It. Walter Burnett. 30, Mount Rainier. Md.. Girls have married consumptives, ;nd':rd:;x:- Roberts, 19, this city; Rev. F. penniless actors, ne'er-do-wells and | AoRaTioN% punan 24, i emerged triumphantly into health, suc- SIS Both of Batmare: ae Rev: STy cess, devotion. The girl's own char- do anything, if she will. Sometimes I | William Pierpoint. think we Worry too much about these | Aubrey D. Brough. L and Mary V. Haw. young crn&;zr ; they are wiser—they | XI"§, 2% Seoth Rev. Hush are saner than we think. | “John T. Puryear. 22. and Mary A. Wheat- On general principles, the marriage'| lev 21 both of Richmond, Va.; Rev. Thoma: of persons of differing religions, when BN . i those rellgions really mean something Hawking, 10, Boyas, Md s Rev .M to both boy and girl; marriages where 0 as well as the Smith, 48, and Lillian Bleweiss, 35, s New Yorl : are needed o keep the ship | “Zeier Aloritten, 5 and Noroia Toomas, iages where either mother | 31; Rev. Hugh T. Stevenson. must live with the young couple, or the young couple must live with the older family; all these are handicaps. And marriage is difficult enough with- out them! Marriage Licenses. William E. Reese. 37, and Margaret Breese, 1; Rev. W. 8. Abernethy. Samuel R, Howard, 32. and Lucy F. Gar- , both of Richmond, Va.; Rev. John St R. Miller. 24. Richmond, Va.. and Anne Smaidris, 17, Blue Island, Iil.:" Rev Allan P. Poore of Petersburg, Va.; * % x UCH of the anxiety these young persons feel would be oviated if boys were trained more thorough indeed, trained at all, in the valu marriage. Few young husbands know what it means to a woman, or what they destroy when they destroy her home-making and her maternal in stincts with a cheerful decision that she shall go on working. As his sweet heart the girl may agree to all this because she really doesn't know her- self what instincts and what needs are| dormant within her. But afterward,| when she is his wife, s restless sense ' - 3-Pc. Suite February Special $59.00 Free Estimates Finest Tapestries, Velours, Damask, Guaranteed Workmanship LaFrance Upholstering Co. 2500 141D St. N.W. Col. 10172 THE NEW ellff: 1216-1220 F Street N.W. VOgue says . « February 16 Issue . ., “Hats Take an Optimistic Turn” and so do the JOSEPH Model Hats They Swoop! “The High Dive.” This hat is the type that makes you feel very dash- ing, very grownaup. 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And?® lots of plain colors in white and eggehell and pastels. The sweaters have just about every variety of neck line with roll collars and no collars at all . . . lace-up necklines, round, vee, square necks . . . tiny little sleeves or long ones ... hip top, waist top lengths, and. some with little pepluma! So excep- tional this group, that we think a simply grand time to buy. Sizes 32 to 40. Also Other Sweaters $1.95, 3 for $5.00 $2.95, 2 for $5.50 New Skirts—4.95 High Waist, Normal Waist, Suspender Skirts Beautifully fashioned . . . some trimmed with gleam- ing metal buttons . . . belt- ed pocketed, and in straight lines with kick plaits! All of fine, light- weight woolen . . . in navy, new blue, black, green, brown beige . . . 26 to 32 waists. 6 Styles . , . at $2.95 Others $5.95 to $10.95 SPORTS SHOPS—FOURTH FLOOR. 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