Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1949 — Page 28

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DEAR MRS MANNERS: A 4 nl l I'VE D YOUR column a long time, and was truly surprised) "with the answer you gaye “Troubled D.” You told her to pretend Is Correct Idea |that her drinking husband and his drunkén guests were funny. | “1 am fired of trying to get ! A man preferring a drinking life isn't worthy of love or a home Jromding and have decided that (jt {with his children. Til' just work and sot worry your philosophy not You know it is true drinking causes many _JInesses, deaths, any more about the future. I foolish. Maybe you would ha

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aches. {Our Bible teaches to bring up a child the way it should go. How can a mother train a child around a father whose mind is not clear {because of this habit-forming drinking? DISTURBED, | “Mrs. D.” sought approval | from her husband and his

“drinking (mot drunken) friends. |

She didn’t ask how to stop his

drinking, question his right to |

drink, or ask if drinking is im- | | moral. She proves she thinks

her husband is worthy of love |

by wanting to please him. She accepted his drinking before they married. She accepts it now at home. He accepis her temperance but she doesn’t accept his code If she acts annoyed. It would be nice if all of us | were temperate in all things, | But all of us plague acquaintances in some way with our | ideas and habits. Personal hap- | | piness requires accepting people | and their failings and our own failings that cannet be corrected. To do that, we need understanding and some pretense. |

Slow Shopper

| BY CHRISTMAS I'm ready to square off and club my husband. | All year 1 try to soothe his {hours away from the office. 1 | pick up the tools he strews about. |] scour the bathtub ring he leaves, I wait dinner many nights. By Christmas I've had enough. We make a lot of Christmas

PLAGUED WIFE.

Few men change but It |

doesn’t mean they shouldn't,

does I? A man does some- | thing when he Is ready, no |

matier how many people he | inconveniences by unnecessary stalling. A man hates detalls, ordinarily. He pushes them off on women who hate them too. Sometimes women make them too significant.

My sympathy goes to the woman who waits dinner. A man should pileture that walting scene. It isn’t fun to jostle the roast in the oven to keep his food warm. Somehow it's impossible to read or sew while | waiting. A man shonld know how many trips his wife makes to the “door, anticipating his ar. rival. Maybe she's refused women's invitations because she prefers his company. When he's late unnecessarily, shit knows he's rude and inconsiderate. She decides he didn’t want to come home at all. His lateness on top of her bad day with a cross baby and dreary work are too much for her. He

| could have decided if he were

going to loiter and warned her. She could have used a nap she had thought there was time,

Let Mrs. Manners and read-

ers of the column share your |

problems. Write in care of The Times, 214 W, Maryland St

{am an office worker in my | Nifties and am told that I have | a job until I reach the retire |

ment age, when I'll get a pen- |

sion Trom our comipany. Is this |

a foolish philosophy?

By JAMES GRAYSON Your philosophy sounds quite | sensible, particularly as you are assured employment. It is assumed that you have the company's welfare at heart and that

‘the company Teels that you are

worthy of your hire. It is refreshing to find one who admits that he is not worried about the future. Evidently you have worried in the past. Your concern then for the future perhaps helped vou to establish your{self In the éyes of the boss and your co-workers. You were either long-headed lor just lucky in that you stayed with one company long enough to have a pension due you at your retirement age. You apparently Pave not been bothered during the last several years about this

been happier all along .if you b {adopted it sooner.

I you have & a personal job problem, write to James Grey son in co care of The Times.

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PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis, {(UP)—C..M. Brooks had a ready] answer to the “are they biting" question from a fisherman Mr. Brooks held up a fingerito prove it. He had his hand in the | water clearing the dock of grass. A black bags notched onto his! finger and rose half out of he water with it before Inttng gos go.

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