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TUESDAY. rz 6, 1048 _

1 HAVE A SISTER out-of-town who i is 37 years old and very attractive. She has a lovely voice and mixes well in| ~a crowd or can make a single date one to be iis

~~ always. She is living now with her daughter of her first

marriage, and with her second husband. This man has

* been very unkind and inconsiderate since the marriage but,

knew what he was doing for he was a friend of the: family for a year, prior to their marriage. He was openly informed of the domestic prob-|

' Jems involved.

“by a former marriage) will be happy.

mr iY known: to -us-as “the kid.”

at him—but make one handy, quite by accident. rs te help you, and seek advice from music school counselors. “Keep exposing him to culture, but don't stuff it, or your choice of entertainment and girl, down his threat. He wants to think that he managing his own life. Bis Hé Ms aged him mare than Jeu and his_.§ 4a 4d is. quite. t s———

A Mother of 9 Is Getting a Divorce

I HAVE A PROBLEM I would like for you to see if you could help | me solve. I am the mother of nine children and I am getting ‘a divorce.

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'47 Declines Blamed On Post-War Change

Changirig post-war conditions

lof 26 per cent in the number of

| divorce suits filed and a drop of 14. “per cent in marriage licenses. [ However, the ratio between the {two remained about the same .as | during 1046. Last year, there were

here during 1947 resulted in w drop

My sister's daughter is 9 years old, extremely tender-hearted, and|I have two friends who want to marry me as soon as I get my divorce, |

“% tongs for a father to love-her:, She has asked my husband if she could One of them takes a good living but I'm not in love with him. The

call him “Daddy.” It is heart-breaking to hear her and to understand other. one doesn't-thake as much as the first but I do love him. what is going on in her unusually mature mind. | I am concerned very much for their happiness as I.lave them both but my sister refuses to have a third husband for fear of talk by fanatical| relatives. My husband and I would do ‘anything for them if. we knew what we

| er} I have told them both I don't think we could make a “go” of it! | because™T think they wouldn't like the big job it would be to take care |of the children. They both said it wouldnt make any difference if a woman has a dozen children if a man loves her.

Which one should I marry;-or shouldn't I marry either one?

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could do. Have ycu any suggestions as to a*possible solution? MRS. G.

Give your niece affection—later a boy friend will relieve you of the job. Frequently a child plays one relative against another—with | convincing pathos—and acts perfectly awful at home.

You t your sister happy—she won't be. that way If you help tics. Remember, she’s YOUR sister—HIS sister might think that she's

MRS. B. "10% aoling 15 Whit:o 10k of visi. aid & Jot ol Jove: Sur's, Wan #0 HKélp you rear nine children. You definitely owe your children lor | consideration,

Why don’t you try supporting your family awhile and not remarry | immediately?

The morithly bills in time might dampen the men's feelings about

TALBOT ADDITION — The Talbot office -of he. Indiana Bell Telephose . Co. | 3006 N. Pennsylvania St., will look like this after an additional structure is comp leted in the rear. The section behind the dotted line on the left represents | the, proposed | addition, to be started within a few weeks.

[ward more normal. domestie rela« [tions. ; Divorces Hit Peak ¥ The number of divorce suits “reached an allstime peak in 1046 when 6704 marriages went on the

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linked ‘closely with changing eco- . . | nomic: conditions” and ‘a trend tos

“I'm Sure We 3 Will Be Happy’

her her husband's bad points. Mention his good characteris- {

Club to Exhibit «New Male Styles

Spring and summer’ styles

to blame. y supporting a family of nine stepchildren. sister 7 endowed with talent and personality, should make a ofl her second marriage—help her do port Where to Find That Ideal Girl dissolve it.’ A MAN WRITES YOU wishing to know where to find his idea] girl. y Did he ever think that the girl “down the street” or.maybe “little; . . | sally” whom he met the other night was the “ideal” girl. Maybe she's| ~ I AM THE GIRL, 23, who asked your advice about going with the in school or working at the corner drug store. |men’s clothing willbe shown at boy 18. T want to thank you for your answer and to tell you it helped| giate the qualifications for your ideal girl Don’t expect her to be & the meeting of thie Men's Apparel me decide a_lot of things. Larry read the article in your column and queen. Compare your qualities. Give yourselfg¢fime—she-may be showing Club of Indiana Saturday through we talked everything over. up one day. soot. | Remember the song, “My Idfal"—it may apply to you. next Tuesday in the Severin Hotel We were married Dec. 20 and I am sure we all three (I have a child] B. LN. Display rooms will open at 10

MARY LOU. { You're so right. The man may be overlooking wonderful girls he a. m. Saturday for pre-convention The very, very best to you, Mary Lou. I'm sure that you'll rear | p,,ws It seems easier for a girl—and a wife—to inject romance inte showing. Registration for the conyour daughter to meet the approval of a stepfather, Let your husband | j... feelings for a man than it is for the man, though romance I vention opens Sunday. at 9 a. m. helpi=so that he’ll soon feel like her father. | important to him. Were he to make more effort, life could be a lot On Monday, following the lunchWith the proper attention to him (and make it plentiful for this | ore fur. con ut yoon: Indiana ‘retailers of second husband) and with the right amount of discipline for your | y men's clothing will discuss new daughter, you'll win. - Let Mrs. Manners and readers of your column share your problems ,... 1. idisine trends and methods. "Never let Larry think that your love for your daughter is con- and answer your questions. Write in care of The Times, 214 .W. Mary- | . nected with feeling’ for your first husband. Never make him feel and St. | Sample " rooms will be open “younger than you—you thought him able fo. lake care of you—keep ta {Whyoug he--SOnvention, thinking that and keep him thinking it. Fraternal Group To Install Slate Officers of the club, founded in

1917, are Sam Williams Chicago,

The 1 Tem tations of a Hot Trumpet Player : ! Herbert S. Smith, a member of derkrantz, and Fred Snyder Jr. president; Andrew Catterton, Indi-

WRITING you about a friend of ours, a musiciafi. He the Printcraf Club, will be in- Eagles, 2511. : * |anapolis, first vice president; KenHe ‘plays a very nice stalied-as president of the: Marion A--buffet supper will follow in-{neth Hartman; Mansfield; ©. second trumpet. He's traveled around the country with dance bands since he!County Fraternal and Social Socie~ stallation eceremonies. [vice president; Jack Cohn, Indianwas 17 years old. ities at 8 p. m. Thursday in South “ In apolis, third vice president, and He is now 20 and is playing with a rumba band in Nebraska. Side Turners Hall. Br de ooper, Sol MegefT, Indiaziapolis, SeyiteryWe feel that a young man of his age should grow up in an envjron-! Other officers to be installed are C ! Martin | treasurer. ment betterthan that of a Mexican band. He is meeting a lot of loose John DeMasie, Elks, vice president; Open Law Firm Here | smeelbby tor p——— and suarse women a ® Dede te nfuence of the ou of the mill” L.! B. Thiel, Eagles, 211, secretary, A new law. firm has been estad- Past Nobles fo. Meet - characters one finds ance ha! & encourage him to go- to the and O. €. Litzelman, Knights of | lished under th ’ e name of Bredell| Olive Branch Past Noble Grands YWCA dances and other such social events, s¥hen he is home but he 1s'Columbus, treasurer. fg ‘Cooper with offices ‘at 1356 Hon Association will meet: for noon

very cynical.’ | Members of the board of. directors [luncheon Wednesday ifn the home How can we induce him to come Bick Hoine and meet nice girls are Jack Langan, Kennington Post, 0lidated building, members of the| lof Mrs. Constance N Sn, 2726 N.

his age? How can we save him while he is still young and has a American Legion; Walter - Feltz, firm announced today. {LaSalle St. Assistin g Mrs. Crim will career ahead of him? He should stay in town and study at the con- South Side Tuimers; Robert Nor- | Members of the firm are Haroldjbe Mesdames Doris J. Downey, servatory for a later "position in symphony work. + {%00d, Moose; Ernest Schneider, |H. Bredell, Harry P. Cooper Jr., and Myrtle Turpin, Edna- Murphy and WORRIED G. AND R.. | Saeniger- -Chor; Jacob Monzel, Lie-| C. Wendell Martin, | Pearl ‘McDonald. A i eis - E CE ——— 7 = > : . 1 # : - i ) 3

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Local oy Takes Part In Weymouth Celebration. |: ii he ie vie

Robert E. Darling, yeoman 2d enlisted men of headquarters comi- 1947 the total dropped to 8335. class. of 56 N. Bradley St, par- nang Sappany of Adm. Richard L, | The high cost of living and lack ticipated in ceremonies at Wey- ORE Dy Elsworth Lucas, fireman of housing was attributed by social mouth, England, recording the part oq class. son of Warren Lucas, 628 Workers te the Secline in the nums« © citizens of that community played N. ‘Beville. Ave, has been gradu- .. ° " ow \ . i in the embarkation of American ated from machinists’ school at they The-high cost 0 SOuFt action an armies for the continental invasion. Naval Training Center, San Diego, the resulting expense of maintainYeoman Darling: "is the son 6f Gal.. ing separate homies Was seen 8a one Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Darling of - LeRoy Jones, seaman 2d class, of °f the aye acon ucing the N. Bradley St. address. the divorce rate,

Indianapolis, is serving gboard the Paul D. Watts, steward 3d class, * Founder's Day. Set

Antarctic-bound icebreaker, USS son of Mrs. Elizabeth Watts, 2814 Burton Island, flagship of Navy Schofield Ave., played Santa Claus B K y y Kappa Alpha Psi J. Ernest . Wilkins, Chicago ate

lask Force 39. The force is makto 70 “blitzed” children in London ing explorations of the Antarctic ata pre- -Christmas party staged by coasial ATeas. { ; - [torney, will be speaker for the Rep. Mitchell to Talk Scouts to Start | Founder's Day” dinner of Kappa Alpha Psi, Negro fraternity, Friday At Lincoln Memorial Tenderfoot T at 8 p.m. in Prancine's restaurant, Times State Service en e 00 roop- | Alpha Psi-was founded at. BOONVILLE, Jan. 6—Rep. Ed-' The inaugural tenderfoot Jovess] Indiana University in 1911 by the titure of Boy Scoop Troop 41 will be late Elder W. Diggs. A

ward A. Mitchell (R. 8th Dist) will held Thursday at 8 p. m, in the Memorial service will be conducted

be the speaker at the annual Lincoln~"Day Memorial service to be for Mr. Diggs during the * “Founder’s program,

Iheld in Nancy Hanks Lincoln Me-! Pastor to Talk at ‘Y’

morial Park Feb. 12, The annual observance is spon-! sored by the Boonville Press Club, Trinity and the Trinity Evangelical! The YMCA Bible Investigation the State Department of Conserva-| Church, Club will present the Rev. Amos ticn - and the Indiana Lincoln, Fifteen boys will receive placques L. Boren, pastor of the Roberts Union. Charles. R. Marshall of and awards before a court of honor Park Methodist Church, in a lk Evansville, president of the Press| composed of Bagle Scouts from titled “It Ought to Be Fine” toClub, will be in charge of this! Troop 91. The program will be in morrow following a 6:08 Pm yp | charge of Paul Boardman. _ iperin the Y.

troop headquartérs at Arsenal and Market Sts. The new troop is sponsared JointIv by the. Lutheran Knights of

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