The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 16, 1920, Page 11

iJ : y YOUNG MOTHER PAUSING AT LIFE’S MIJ.ESTONE; CAN’T DECIDE PATH OF FUTURE Dear Miss Grey: What is one to do when life becomes hateful, so hateful that there is no pleasure in anything? I was married at the age of 13; was a mother at 14, I have had no girlhood, no pleasure, just misery and suffering. 1 veup all gladly for my husband-and my two little boys. health was broken down, my husband drifted around with other women, finally bringing upon himself a terrible punish- ment, which made it necessary for me to leave him. I went to work and, Miss Grey, I had no more faith in a yman than I had in a donkey. It was an awful way to feel. Then one day I met my present husband. He talked kindly to me, until eventually I believed ance again that there was faithfulness in men. I had one year of happiness. Now he has made lots of ‘money and has gotten in with a fast bunch of fellows. He has been drunk for three weeks, come home all the way from +la.m.on. Last night he didn’t come home at all, and isn’t home yet. So what's the use? I went to a cabaret last night to cheat the gods of loneliness. I sat at a table by myself and felt like a fool. Well, I will just stick around this old world for the sake of the boys; as for the rest—oh, I hate it all! And it doesn’t matter how good I am I get just the same treatment. I am 23 now. Just see how long I've got to live yet. Miss Grey, please excuse me for inflicting my troubles on ‘you, I just had to tell someone, and I feel so discouraged I don’t know what to do. Thanking you sincerely, VERNA. You've said it—just think of how long you have to live yet, and instead of drifting into a morbid state of hate, set about to find ways and means of filling those years with goodness. -You have more than your share of trouble, it seems, but fe, like the rainy season, cannot always harbor gloominess. IS a silver lining to every cloud. If you will stop to compare the two men you have known with the whole world of men, the ratio is very small. You “have dwelt too much, I fear, upon these disappointments. They loom larger and larger each day, shutting out what little Sweetness and sunshine that might enter. _ Thope you will not think I am unkind when I say that self- is the greatest enemy of mankind. Nothing is so bad : it might not be a great deal worse. Perhaps if you would even pause to look about you you would see others much} eee WOrse Off than yourself. My dear girl, I fear you are setting about in the wrong ymanner to “cheat the gods of loneliness,” as it were. Even + tho it seems to you that everyone about you is headed on the ‘road to destruction, you can’t afford to follow. Even tho you don’t care to consider yourself, you must consider your chil-| dren. Do you think they would feel proud to know that their, “mother went out all alone at night to a cabaret? The fact) that their father is shirking his responsibility is proof con-| tlusive that you must double yours. | My idea of cheating the gods of loneliness would be to do| some useful act towards mankind. It might be one of a lot _ of things—caring for little neglected children, administering relief to someone sick or suffering, reading a good book, or ‘simply thinking good thoughts. Try it for a few weeks, then me again. . Se T Yeft him, but returned on his mn promise to treat me decently, only to find that he wns not better ‘Dear Miss Grey: In answer to| ‘a8 before. After we talked the ‘Anxious eader,” my case is quite| Situation over, he maid he would keep lar #0 1 wish to tell her not to| i" word and threatened suicide if fe her husband's threatened qui-|! should desert Bim again. seriously because “A barking} He broke all promises again, so never bites.” disregarding his threat, I am now 1 was married when I was 18, and/| living my life independently of him, the end of a year found that my/ while my husband ig very much Jusband was neglecting me, while! dlive today and going his own way The spent his time at his parents'| “Anxious Reader” do not be in- home. He refused to buy me any fluenced by such a threat. They al-/ * {elothes and when I become iil, told most invariably prove as empty as me I was “stalling” and he would! a bag of wind. even pay my doctor bills. A WELL WISHER. | Renewing the Family Circle HE old-fashioned evenings at home with the family gathered around are the best of all—especially if you have a COLUMBIA GRAFONOLA. With it you have all the latest and best that is in music. Leve songs, lullabies, popular hits, “jazzy” dance music and grand band concerts. The COLUMBIA GRAFONOLA i recognized for beauty of tone and design. You can have @ Columbia Grafonola in your home for as low as $3250; cabinet style models range from $120.00 to $275.00. Just a few dollars weekly or monthly at this quality music house. Pannier Idea Distinguishes Quaint Frock BY CORA MOORE (New York's Fashion Authority) The dreas flluatrated Is a quaint affair of white volle that might have been copied from a Godey's Ladies Hook. A flounce of large scallops edged with fire Valenciennes lace finishes off the skirt, which also fea- tures a unique variation of the pan- nier effect. The large shaw! is gath ered at the waist with a bunch of artificial Qowers ued with ribbon, ANTI-MARRIAGE GIRLS LONDON, England.—Lieut. Col. F. BE. Fremantie, M. 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For this reason, older persons must be ready to guide the baby and teach him the right method of be havior, ° But that does not mean that he should be forbidden continually to do this or that or the other. A ebiid should have, from his very earty in fancy, the opportunity of choosing to do things himself. If he in not a) lowed to do thia, he won't know how to reason and choose for himself when he grows older and is obliged to do it On the other hand, ft in necessary for a child to learn obedience, and & wise mother will train her child to obey; not, however, to obey a com mand “because I told you to do It,’ [but to obey because it ls a pleasure to do #0, Harsh treatment or punishment has no place fn the proper upbring- ing of the baby, If a baby’s inclina Uons lead him in the wrong direc tion, someone must be at hand to guide him into another and better one, and to turn hin eager interest and his energy toward something | that will amuse but not harm him. This is the golden rule for the train ing of babies and one which applies to the training of children of al! agen, | Usually there ts some reason for the naughtiness of babies The babies who are funsy, restiena and fretful are usually either uncom fortable in some way because they have not been fed properly and taken care of, are sick or ailing, or have been indulged too much. On the other hand, babies who are fed properly, who are kept clean and have plenty of sleep and fresh air, | 1 pears are large. 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SEATTLE’S POPULAR HOME FURNISHERS 1514-1520 Second, Between Pike and Pine OFF Ranges Heaters that will please you and terms and allowance on THE SUATTLE STAR ae Faw The truth about Benjie’s romance was known to but four or five per sona, He waa supposed to have mar ried a wife in Canada just before he died. Not even Katherine's mother, much less the public, surmised her secret. Katherine had aeen her child rev- eral times at the Lorimer house /and more than once had I watched her shrink away from her own flesh and blood! Never had I known her to betray even a normal interest in her baby except as @ bait to attract Hob! And #0 when Bob announced that the tiger woman had requested him to call to talk about Babs, I wann't the least bit mollified, I had gone thra similar experiences, and I had been awfully unhappy, and Bob knew it, and if he loved me at all, he ought to spare me a repetition of my old misery, I said to myself, then aloud: lin the day time!" “With twenty employes ready to chatter if the city's famous beauty carne to me instead of going to her father’s lawyers! You know, Jane, her lawyers never have had her aecret.” “Yoo—T know,” T assented. “Katherine is determined to take Fiabe away from mother,” Bob gon tinued. 1 laughed sarcastically before I spoke. “Katherine ts erratic and she docwn't intend to acknowledge her baby,” I murmured. “Believe me, friend husband—" t | | | | ‘OUR mere Co! wear to THE BOOK OF DEBORAH BOB DIDN’T CARE TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT MISS MILLER, I FELT “You have a business office down | town, Bob, where a woman can call) I shut my lips suddenly to keep from adding: “She makes her sin and her shame an excuse for seeing you, ® claim upon your sympathy! Ugh!" Aloud, I concluded: “Mother will not give the baby up.” “It would, of course, be a good thing for the child's own mother,” Bob protested, “Nonsense! Katherine ian’t fit—" But what use are words in « great emotional erisin? I would pot enlighten Bob as to Miss Miller's character. I couldn't I told myself, because he didn't care to have the truth about her! If he were curious about any phase of it, jet him investigate for himself! As any other jealous woman would have done, J added bitterly: “The child was dying, months ago. Did Katherine care then? No! Your parents saved her baby’s life. Now the child is coming home. Mies Miller seizes her chance to be with you, it's guardian! By the way, Mother Lorimer says the baby is a beauty—she looks just like her This with a half-glance “She's & sure enough beauty, then! Bob commented. His remark made me furious, I was speechless. In my distress, 1 crept clone to his side and pigced an appealing band upon his Pa “Can't you see?” 1 whispered. I wanted him to see how I needed to “make up"—even if I wasn't beau- uful “See—what? he asked. He was 10 Wola can affard to 4 OVD OS SINTLZODDR SOR er NR tn wwe eae Nf OI RON F_UN ZO Ne only dense, but I thought him brutal. I retreated to’ the farther edge of the walk, wondering how an acute man can be blinded by the trickery of m pretty idiot! Plainly, fate had tossed a new stake between Katherine and me: A Lorimer child must be raised in the Lorimer way. And @ mer man toret be kept faithful the Lorimey ideals! I held up my head proudly. It wae not beautiful like my al's, but I hoped it was cleverar than hers! (To Be Continued) INBOUNDED, After Months of Suffering From Stomach Trouble | and Effects of Flu, She Is Now Restored to! Health —Gains 27) Pounds — “1 have gained twenty-seven pounds by taking Tanlac and just |couldn't wish to enjoy better health | than I do now,” declared Mrs. Bertha Scholz, of 1314 Colrt Street, Ala meda, California. For many years Mrs, Scholz was a profensional nurse. “A little more than a year ago,” |she continued, “I began to suffer \from indigestion, gas and palpitation and soon became badly run down. |Then I was taken down with the flu and was in bed for fourteen days. 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