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j | . Why So Mother-in-Law Generally Blamed--Can’t Think She Has Lost Influence Over Her Child By Virtue of Copyright, 1921, (New York Erontng Yes! All of these writings were based on hundreds of letters that had been received—communications that speak louder than words—as to the few Girect causes that bring dissension and break up homes. Strange to say, suffering at the hands of relatives-in-law are borne by men and womes alike, That Is, the trouble fs perhaps equal in, the fase of the husband or wite. Most of the blame ally hurfed at the mothe The trouble with h can't let go of her child-and hate: to think that she has lost some of her influence over that child by virtue of the marriage. Almost unconsciously she harbors @ grievance against the person who has superseded her. It is mostly jeal- opsy. “She hugs the green-eyed monster close, and then seeks revenge im petty ways. If you were to tell this to. the average mother-in-law, she, would Scoff at the idea, she ‘Would'not be- Neve it. What? She causing trouble for her own child? Nothing is further from her mind, she would tell you, She wants her child to be happy, of course. What? She stoop to revenge because she can't have her way” Such an idea is preposterous sh» would assert. But when ail is said and doné, that is the truth. She insists that she Must have an interest in the daughter or son after they have left the pater- nal roof. To such a woman Something like thi Doubtless you have been a very good mother. You have sacrificed and worked yourself to death in order that your boy or girl might be what they are to-day. You naturally want to feel that you are not forgotten, and that your love Sq-respected accord- ys % And the only way to keep the love of your married child and the highest respect of the daugh- ter-in-law, or the son-in-law is, plain parlance, “to mind your own bus You must realize that your bi girl has elected to live his ow with a partner who has agje it with him or her, That ship does not include any other mem- bers of the family. The sooner a woman or any in-law recognizes this fact, the sooner the troubles with in- laws will he overcome. In-laws are usually meddlesome people and busyhodies. They w to run the affairs of this new union of two people and they must always find themselves in hot water when they do. i The most successful in-laws are _» those who give up running things when the couple leaves the altar. The thing for them to do is to ume the attitude of friends to ried couple, and nothing IT would say partner~ more. If they can keep that friendly it going, they will gave themselves and the couple as well, The reason they fall out is because they want to be more than friends. There is a clean line of demarkatic that can and should be An old but dependable theo if broken, always means bad business, is this: * ver interfere between hus- band and wife. And by interfering a volume is meant. It does not mean merely tak- ing somebody's part at the tir quarrel only. It means whis unkind things to wife band in the guise of a good Interfering means making our b Jems without being asked to do so. Interfering means too much in- terest in a thing because of being a relation. Interfering means vi couple too often. Interfering means constantly siding with one against the other, The peacemaker always gets the worst of it in such ‘a case. To avoid all such controv it ness to settle small prob- iting the nd even tragedies, the wise fami ne Jaw will realize thet when a couse 1s married they have formed a family of their own, vd no ter how strong the ties | were @ there is a nged condition In which blood sies the right f hwing friends, urd ore, ‘ow to the parties thems who are influenced by these re! in-law, nothing causes more in the family than taking advice of ane in-law against your own wit san own husband, or showing a p ne their opinions, against wn wife or your own husband would like to say to such couples something like this 'f you are going to be happy, you must not let any one step in and cause you to change your ‘spect and love for the one per- son in the world to whom you owe the highest allegiance which ur marriage oath implies. yo She minute You permit such viola- of your life pi sin Jaying yourself and) your home Spen to endless misery—misery that gt first! seems: insignifteant bit Sines a mountain as tim y ie you permit any one tor Bow cloae tive he or to fadyence your actions against ‘the oman yout have married, or the man, B the case may be, that minute you into your home a de t that consumes hap- kes life intoler- > admitting is unjust, to say the least,” for one to supersede your wife or Saavane im the com=de of your ac cic mii att ttn in HE RR HE POP CRORE | The Family-in- Law The Most Successful ‘ In- Laws” Are Those Who Give Up Running Things When the Couple Leaves the Altar, Becoming Merely By Sophie Irene Loeb. ME mother-in-law and the other I cockles of tire heart of the humorist and sands who have suffered at their This is one of the causes that break up home! haps one of the most serious of the elemehts that create unhappiness that T have set forth in the preceding articles. vall ee They Break Up Many Homes_ 23.30 20 I ee ee PES SSS SS fo 8 Friends. DID 7ou GET NY D7 X-MAS ‘BOX 2 the Marriage. oe 4 World) Ay the Press Publishing in-laws—these always ‘ouse the ire warm the of the thou- And it is per- tions, and never fails to spread seeds of distrust. Nhe big thing for relatives is to keep safe distance from tnarried couples, and for married couples to insist that that safe distance And the sofe dist J mean ly sincere friendship and nothing more for the good of all concerned, a OMe RRR RH You Often Read About Her EDNA FERBER. OU MADE A EER ROLE Hee REE CSTE SESS § ‘ EoNA Frrenr Ro IHE distinction of being born in Kalamazoo and beginning work as a reporter at seven teen on the Appleton Crescent makes both Wisconsin and Mich- isan (quess which is which) icy claim to her as a source of civic pride. American readers have claimed her for the country at larga as the leading exponent of the bus. ress woman's story. Nowspaper- she never could have done 'THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1921.7 NGRZING CSIR Ss 9 LD AN I AR A a ek A ) Can You Beat It! o HMM MRI OT OIE HC OR LT HTK HI Coogrighr, 18244, (New York Rrehing We Olen York tort) By Maurice Ketten YES, AND | LDIDN'T_1 NEVER. KNOW WHATS OPEN A BOX A/ARKED OPEN IT X-HAS 2 ——— BEFORE , ‘6 pee “Do NOT Ab OPEN BEFORE X-MAS” No | WOULDN'T Do SUCH O, YOU DON'T KNOW LL BET YOu WHAT'S IN IT A DINE I Do @ hadn't been a reporter. And she is fortunate ni that they agree that she’s well wortn while. Ras THIRD RE I 2 HIE OF a I ALATA a A RT RP The Heart of a Girl = By Caroline Crawford = copyright, (New York Eventug World.) by Press Publishing Co, Which Man Will Peggy Choose for a Husband? PENNINGTON APPEARS ON THE SCENE. OR a few days Pe was actu- riage, Peggy's smugness had givea wily smug. Billy Bracton was #Way to new thoughts, desire unching with her again at the ureer, to see the world and : we WYAED DO ARAM AE Gn! hing | besides just “a little noon hour; he you inves. 1 done "You see, Penning bi blue cloud around his gilt-tipped cigarette, had, taken hem seal ring in order to get the correct a ftriend- ang all just about ten t meats the wo You ¢ condense it down tot on at the Brooklyn Bridge for just a hal smooth, suri hour or so, and if you are keen you But smugness does not lastelong Will be able to trace just about ten different types of men and ten differ is ciebteen n one he moment tnt types of women a girl of that age makes up her mind — «you'll find the fat woman, the tia that she is in love with one chap, it woman, the slender girl, the Utian aiways seems as if a, second chap, haired maiden, the gazelle-eyed, inno on, But they and reappear Peggy liked her new position, she these ve had quite made up her mind to the 1. She f fact Ubai she wouid rather ride with never put life into B petons. Sat travel about with Townley in a rovd ster. Her new slogan was “A subyav fe Tn Its." con and love any day to a roadster and tinned ton, “la for all -theas point in her life Walter Pennington {7 they don't—well it's all of fa called over the telophone one eveninys then work is a'l any and quite upset her smugn ane. # shoal Pennington suggested “ivcai color” pather | TOON her pet. ph He was typically anvehir now Ty modern in ideas and every HOt to f rhea time Peggy of h I fine t ess couldn't rest. the temp OT Nttete creo lence La, whispering “Peggy Pennington n you don't what a delightful name! 1 “What are you doing this evening” Belener Fob: ie asked Pennington in his soft but Firth, declared Penr most optimistic voice over the wir ke a tnan, Miss Day “Nothing particul eplied A shalt ag ea Peggy, though she felt as if sie ou . to say “ n smug and about happy ana I made up my mind is marry Billy Bracton one of these } days, so please ring off." “Nothing particular ight over ins that Vay going to dash then to ge An hour later Peggy and Pennir nope you aie ton were in a most ar ed conv Regey, “you lave nce if . le, ar. Te-morrow—New Thorghts and a gallon about people, types and mar debian ZR WKRN OW ONY RON x” e : Better Times & Business Has Turned Corner and i Is Streaking Up Hill is a Pulse of Commerce Will Soon Be Beating |, 100 Per Cent., Say Big Business Men. « $ By Neal R. O’Hara. at OMING soon! etter times!” Business has been anaemie, Now ti st To-morrow it will be C will busi ee a : Glimpses Into : : N.Y.Shops x By Emilie Hoffman - * Covytight, 1921, (New York Evening World), By Powe Publishing Co, Ts fan is an essential part of evel evening toilette. As these form ideal Christmas gifts, the shops are now featuring hand- some displays. The fashionable set has grown tired of the plain ostrich plume fan and is buying fans of lace, spangled nets and novel plumage. Originality of design seems to be the alm in ostrict fans, A very pretty one has un edge of curled estrich through which can be seen shimmering spangles set on in rows under the feathe: A handsome® plume with spangles along the cen- tre is gracefaily fastened along one side, These pretty fans come in all the fashionable evening shades. Handsome Spanish and Chantilly lace fans in black embroidered in steel or silver are exquisite, and there the spangled fans in scintillating ors with a band of net across the then top, The chanticleer fan is popular. This is made up in sweeping coque and comes in the popular orehid and A handsome There are with wide those ‘in: fuchsia, cing prominent, nh be had $15. fans trimmed uncurled 1. Beaded fringed of ostrich flues are new, and handsome fans In both curled and uncurled ostrich are still in demand by the average girl ang! they are Inexpensive, Real pretty ones with three ostrich plumes ean had at $6.60, Novel shapes are 1 in some of the latest arrivals, for instance one in black lace forms & square when op , another in a on for novelty fi inge ost fang with edges. nbination bi lace and iri~ vent feathers is slanting in shape, being several inches higher at one end than the other Many a little boy will be delighted h nia Claus will le t They undfather toe: ceed are wore but Santa assorument to select from now than he had in those even has a far more days, There are patent leather ones with white kid tops that look very dressy. Then th are the black calf with red tops and the black with copper toes. There are also ‘tans, h white tops. either plain or wit Apgar ets sein a atone a Sa THO TR I ET i : The Jarr Family ie By Roy L. McCardell ae (Now York Evening World.) by 1 By Dori Copynant, 102k hubitshing Co, Coop, 191 CCUY HAT have you against Eus- just the sume,” said Mrs, Jarr deter- C\RE OF EYEBROW WW tace Throckmorton?” asked Mm nedly di think IN tit up the HPRE is a very prevalent im Mie dune Cina Muay Coe Ot ATR BRC Reon yOu Aere: pression that by+Wsing an eye- ridge-Smith met him at Palm Beach e always growling.” brow pencil tne facial beauty of ne winter colony” ILeden't want it, 1 won't use it!” the user Is greatly enhanced, but no Sure it wasn't the leper colony?” Mr. Jarr deciared, “Only saps have one is deceived except the user and interrupted Mr. Ja I will use it as a sewing th ffect ia simply to harden the ex- “And his pe jave money and room,” said Mrs, dart, "Or the hile pression of the face, y attentive to the Cacklh adr can keep the y An eyebrow pencil or any artifical girls while they are visiting Use it as a playroom means of darkening the lashes and cep the sewing machin brows is not only ili advised but dress form in it. 1 can drape them many times grotesque in its ts. le wear cute litule ring-tailed with chi when [ um not using ‘The use of any these methous feather in his 1 ind that's enough und no one will know whut ghould be restricted to the stag for me!" 4 ed M rr. “I'm not rt 1 ; DECpaaaTy OR IRE: i he a t y i of those he ighting, Which reduces intents BY LONE LS UBT BARB telephone; 1 t tones and ieticate: Hnes to motto, ‘Live and Let Live’ is mine Then you can put the pallid nothingness. Mut there is one Otherwise fd step on hin.” atite jtelennone dol hod tat wil! not waly Improve th Wiiy nas the loveliest bachelor t. darr sugee 1 appearance out will correct us naershe ly Meera Od idea,” Mra, uny irregularities to watch the eye- ‘ and he hus had the And you wouldr’t have brows may have a tendency, Ci girls there to. tea~prep: f Bustace Throckmorton ‘The very smallest size toothbrush eoly chaperened by me, of course, and ix up aden tor or the small eyebrow brush sold for ‘ this purpose should be used, every nen we admired his den “He should have a cage, not ny interjected Mr, Jarr, who, when BACCO PICO OK CIC 2 C3 30H ACHP DEKH HY didn’t like people, didn’t like them, # J . rf % x, ai 4 « and that was that <i} M XuM M dern Ma a ra Seah cee eerie, WE §, Mo 1a § widen, too, Even when aman is mar- } : fied he should ate privacy, © Py Mareuerite Mooers Marshall x Mtl pla his OWN» Bustac Coup right, 1981, (Now York Bvening World) by Press Publishing Co Phrockmorton says," Mes. dare went A Girl May Think She Wents a Husband Who Understands Her, but She Will Get Ever So Much More Sweet, Sad ‘ Enjoyment Out of Life if He Misunderstands Her. h Nh cvery nation, every man keeps his promises—when it Is con- venient; when it isn't, he regrets that considerations of personal safely make it necessary that he defer the carrying out of certain f false sentimen- ©M’aRements, Ke A ing man who believes that a Christinas bunch of violets signi- ung pill, what’ Pei 6 much devotion as the most costly present should be reminded that i inchnation to maa- devotion is a deug.ia the flapper's market—what she wants is loot! suid Mr, Jarre eis 8 thog in wh Husbands and wives generally agree in principle; their quarrels begin Mrs r persisted. "If when they try to find a formula ttle tun of your 1 your es Men, youns and old, so enjoy ingenuousness in a woman that they ' PU ane should be the last to blame Yer for assu the virtue if she has it not. ng stand for Christies In the welter of advice us to how to make a husband or a home happy, aaa neat here's scarcely a hint cn how to make a wife happy. Is the secret in- y rermerbranc cluded in w every mun knows or in what every man doesn’t care a cried Mr hang about knowing 1 6 darn kK att 1 Livery n Lkes te have bis wile come to the reaklast table with @ 4 them int he silo—1 t ft ng sreuch ju to werk on, t ‘ nts is 4 ho i » of relative Wy © the Moralists, wppeal to a man’s better nature, u really want Wo slarl something, appeal Wo bis wore soing to get he, ACMA ECC RIOR RODANTHE RG Why Not Look Your Best? | is Doscher |. (New York Evening World.) by Press Publishing Co, S AND EYELASHES. morning after the face has been washed, to brush the eyebrows straight and give them a. glossy appearance the rties ket for rious of the eyebrow ot them, but If you should b ubled with a few refractory ha that spoil the general line, they are easily removed with & pair of tweezers and f the cell is then with an intiseptic there is us further troubl the eyedrs ' s a thick, clumsy dipping the f s in fume or water-and pine brow toget amin nese and working in t we the ha r ‘ If the nty ly tonch \ f aL or ' ' tir 1 ! ans t ¢ Lex ' 1 ry ' t em tor bee oper care of the eyebrows and 7 setts, 10, Bary ecstatic. Interviews with business men all over the country show that the tide has turned. No longet ess be all wel, Listen to these sturdy prophesies b SELDOM, Utah i to be a banner year,” said Enoc] Snitz. jr. here to-da: Mr. Snits ig one of the leading valentine, birth day and Christmas card authors, “Business has leaped and I am now working on three shifte—morning, noon and night. That gives me my afternoons off. By refusing to wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New, Year on one and the same card, the Verse and Epigram Writers? Union. has practically doubled thete output. Orders are swamping wé for comic valentines already, shows Ing that the era of good feeling has retin. the best seller of these. I should also guess that women will hewe more birthdays next, year than usual, too, Altogether, the outlook is very cheerto.” ait WISHBONE, Ariz,—Business Bae turned the corner and is loping om © high, in the opinion of Philip Is Burr of here. Mr. Burr is a selsmo- graph watchman. “In my thirty-twe™ years’ experience watching seismo- graphs,” said Mr. Burr, “I have never seen rosier prospects. Whert { first started watching a seisme- graph needle, that industry was im «+ its Infancy. To-day there is a selg> mograph for every 2,083,966.41 peor ple and hardly enough watchmefi to go around. A few good earth- quakes will cause the demand to’ exceed the supply.. I look for 1922 to be a humdjnger in my line.” PEPSIN, Fla.—“Put me down ag a booster for '22,” said Eleazer Lume ley at his office to-day. Lumley {€ a crack salesman for sticky fiy paper. “The Government has just estimated the crop of domestic.» houseflies for 1922 will exceed last year's supply by 3,260,000 “70.000 And that-is exclusive of foreigm fleas, insects, vermin, hornets, wasps, millers and bumble bees. “Think of what that means for business! In ternational Mosquito Netting gained six points on the news, agd Eureka Fly Swatter decl an extra divi- dend. Next week 50,000 men be put to work punching square holes in screen doors. Everything... looks fine and dandy.” " PICCOLO, W. Va-—Isaac Triff, # veteran business man of here, picks 1922 to be a chesty year. “I can tell when a live year is coming,” said‘ Mr, Triff. “I use iay collarbones , for divining rods, and they are stick: ing out for 1922 already. Forty» three years as a cocoanut shell solg: ist have taught me to be shrewd. I started rapping cocoanut shells off? stage In the season of '68. In those deys it only sounded like one horse galloping up. But in those days we only played one-horae towns: Gradually I improved my art till T could ‘rattle the shells to sound ike # cavalry troop. Six years agd, when Tequit, I was playing the role cf the Royal Mounted Police. this work gave me an insight Into ‘big business. I feel I know where- of I speak when I say things will be nerking up.” ELROW BEND, Wyo-—“We are preparing for the boom elready,* said Luigi Seupatelli, the cigar cou= pon designer, to-day. Comment Jan. 1, we will issue extra color covpons in different colors with the following valuations: 6 7-8ths, 44-100ths, 5-5-3 and 8.1416, Doesn't thet sound like piping times® WHAT Do You ue 1021, (New York Evening World), Hy Pres Publuhing Co * QUESTIONS. . i 1, What famous voleano is in Ice land? a 2, What does a numismatist colee lect? 3. In what country is Mount Good- win the highest mountain? = 4. Of what country the flour-deys lis the national emblem? : 5, What is the name of the ta isla in the mouth of the Amazoi River? 7 6. To what family does hemp bev? long? 3 = 7. From what source is potash ol tained? 8. How many cardinal points hi compass? 9. Which State has the great population, New Jersey or Massach: setts? 10. Which is the larger city, Omaha or Atlanta? nd ANSWERS, 1. 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