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Mri. B. R. T. My husband Is
being vain about it.
B.R.T. Her working would
bust my career.
Mrs. B. R. T. My husband
and I have come to a very serious
disagreement because of my con
cern for our daughter, an only
child, who is now 16. My hus
band does not earn very much
money and we cannot afford,
on his salary, to give her the
things she should have.
I would like Florence to have
nicer home to which she would
be happy to Invite friends, and
I would also like her to go to
college. I do not expect my hus
band to leave his job in order
to find a better-paying one, be
cause he can look forward to
a good pension on his present
job.
It is my thought that I could
hold down a sales job and earn
enough for all the extras. But
my husband is furious at the
suggestion. I really do not have
enough to do, and I think it
would be a fine thing for Flor
ence if she knew I were working
for her benefit and if, on that
account, she had to learn a little
about housework and help out
in the house.
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I think my husband is unrea
sonable and vain about this.
B. R. T I have a civil service
job, but I have a reasonable hope
of rising to a much better posi
tion. I do not think it will help
if it is known in the community
that my wife is helping to sup
port me.
Besides, I cannot understand
how she will hold down a job
without neglecting our home and
our daughter. My wife talks
about getting a nicer home to
which Florence could invite
friends, but I think it is more
important that Florence have a
mother who can do things for
her and be around when her
friends call.
The Council This difference
of opinion calls for patient un
derstanding and compromise.
The husband has some good
reasons for objecting to his
wife's proposal, but she has good
reasons for wishing to work.
Aside from the ambition to pro
vide better for the daughter, the
need io develop a new interest
should be recognized. Florence,
I now 16, may be on her own be
j fore many years, and the wife
I will have even less to keep her
; busy at home.
Clearly, it is desirable that the
' wife refrain from taking the kind
of work that would make her
husband feel conspicuous. It is
also to be questioned whether,
at this state, she should con
sider full-time employment.
Since there is no urgency,
Mrs. B. R. T. should abandon
the project of seeking a full-time
job, but her husband should
agree that they explore the pos
sibilities of her getting into some
, part - time arrangement that
would broaden her lhterests as.
wejl as provide some income.
Such work maf not be readily
found, but there are opportuni
ties for gainful part-time em
ployment and self - employment
for women of responsibility and
judgment.
No good can come of exagger
ating the problems. It has been
exaggerated because each has
feared 'the determination of the
other.
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Origin of Wedding Customs
Studied by New York Woman
Bt h. d. quigg
TJnilad Press Correspondent
New York (U.PJ June is
here and brides are bustin' out
all over. And well they might.
Nobody is going to hit them
across the crown with a wed
ding cake. Not right away, any
how. But time was when weddings
were considerably more athletic
than they are now. Take, for in
stance, ancient Rome. That's
where wedding cakes were born,
according to our June bride ex
pert. In early Rome the cake was
broken over the bride's head, a
joyous rite. The wedding guests
then picked up small broken
pieces and took them home' as
mementoes of the happy occa
sion. Thus anointed, and properly
chastened and subdued the de
gree of bridal softening appar
ently depending on the specific
gravity of the chef's cake batter,
the bride was ready for nuptial
bliss.
Modern brides assemble a
trousseau. There, too, they are
carrying on a centuries-old tradition-
but not quie in the wav
it was done in the olden days.
In early times the bride took to
her home a small bundle called
a "trusse," that's the Middle
Enclish form of the word.'
This "trusse" was a sort of
dowry on the part of the bride's
family to compensate in part for
what the bridegroom already
had dished out to purchase the
bride from her father the an
cient system was one of mar
riaee by purchase.
These matrimonial facts are
among many gathered over a
period of years in European
countries by Mrs. Andre Dubon
net, a local lady who plans to
tour the country making
speches on old bridal customs.
In the Middle Ages, according
to Mrs. Dubonnet, it was the
custom for a swain to suspend
a betrothal ring from his hat
band and swagger around look
ing important and eligible.
When he had made his choice,
he would send the ring by a
servant to the maid.
If she wanted to say "No," she
returned the ring, whereupon
the swain restored it to his hat
band and resumed swaggering
as if nothing had happened.
Up to a century ago, in cer
tain parts of Europe, a ring
worn on the little finger meant
"No marriage for me!" Changed
to the first finger, it meant "I'm
looking around." A middle-finger
ring meant "I'm already
married" and a third-finger one
meant betrothal.
Egyptians Used Rings
The Egyptian pharaohs, Mrs.
Dubonnet says, apparently were
the first to sketch the circle as
a symbol of eternity; they be
lieved the ring was a heavenly
sign that life, happiness and love
had ho beginning and no ending.
Some old Roman wedding
rings had tiny holes in the form
of a key attached, symbolical
not only of the fact that she
had unlocked the secrets of her
husband's heart but of her right
to open his storehouse and help
herself to a bolt of cloth or a
bag of grain.
As for the old custom of car
rying the bride across the
threshold, there are several the
ories of origin. One is that it is
a survival of marriage by cap
ture. Another is that the bride
might trip while crossing the
threshold a bad omen.
Anyhow, this month 182.427
young women are expected to
become brides, according to re
liable forecasters. Cheers, girls!
New York Shop
In Expensive Ha
By GAY PAULEY
United Press Correspondent
New York (U.R) Some of
New York's best-dressed women
wear hand-me-downs.
Not ordinarily cast-offs, how
ever. These are second-hand gar
ments with the labels of some of
the world's most famous design
ers. These also are second-hand
garments which may have be
longed originally to a Broadway
or movie star.
The clothes have cost the wom
en only about one-third of what
they would pay were the dress
or suit new. They've come from
a small, walkup shop on New
College Education
Said Necessary
For All Women
Madison, Wis. (U.R) You've
probably heard someone say:
"She shouldn't go to college be
cause she'll get married someday."
Mrs. Mark G. Troxell, dean of
women at the University of Wis
consin, deplores this attitude.
"What good is a woman's edu
cation?" she asked a group of 500
co-eds.
"Most importantly it is some
thing to live her life by, married
or single, employed or unem
ployed. It is an-anchor to wind
ward in those days in which
many of you. now see your mo
thers those days women can
n o t escape except by dying
young the days when the hus
band puts on his hat and leaves
for his day's work and the house
is as silent as a tomb because the
children have reached the point
of no return, the point where
the mother is not necessary to
them in the old dependent sense
because they are grown up.
"The woman who has kept her
capacities alive through either
formal or informal education
ends that happy chapter and
starts a new one full of differ
ent but Just as exciting adven
ture." She said women are educated
for the same reason as men and
that "a woman is more effective
if educated."
"Both sexes can learn, so you
educate them partly because Sa
tan finds work not only for idle
hands but also for empty heads,"
she said. "You educate them be
cause people are more effective
educated than those same people
would be uneducated and it's
fun to learn. I mention this last
item because I know how impor
tant it is at your age whether or
not a thing is fun."
NUTRITION NOTE
"Fact, Fad and Fraud About
Food" is title of folder F-207 of
Michigan- State University Ex
tension service. Among ques-
Specializes
nd-Me-Downs
York's Madison avenue "En
core," run by Mrs. Florence Mor
ris Barry, wife of a theatrical
agent.
Mrs. Barry's business in cut
rate glamour started, she said in
an interview, because "I found
my own wardrobe was costing
me a fortune.
Big-Nam Labels
"My husband's business meant
that we had to go to a lot of par
ties. Two or three appearances
in one cocktail dress, and it was
dead. I was going broke on new
clothes and decided a lot of oth
er women might be doing the
same, so why not sort . of a
clothes exchange"
She opened the shop with $600
capital and 35 garments with
such designer labels as Traina
Norell, Harvey Berin, Hattie
Carnegie, Ceil Chapman and
Adele Simpson,
Customers in the main event
aren't secretaries and clerks
looking for a bargain. They are
wealthy women looking for a
bargain.
"Many of our customers arrive
in chauffeur-driven cars," said
Mrs. Barry. "When money's in
volved, no one is snobbish about
second-hand things."
Top-selling items at the little
shop are daytime dresses and
suits, in size , 12. But evening
clothes, some accessories and
furs also are available.
Business Grows
Although an occasional design
er dress is available for $15 or
$20, most of them cost $50 and
up.
A Traina-Norell evening coat
in fur-trimmed brocade, for in
stance, sold for $225. Mrs. Barry
said it cost th? original owner
$850.
Mrs. Barry calls the women
she buys from her "donors."
One donor, she said, has sold
her 93 garments since last Nov.
25, and not a one of them cost
less than $250 originally. The
woman turns the proceeds over
to charity.
Mrs. Barry, 45, has had no
previous sales experience, ex
cept for a year of running the
Mt. Holyoke thrift shop in Man
hattan. When she opened her shop, It
was with a staff of one herself.
Now she has five assistants, and
the cast-off clothes business is
booming.
"I sometimes feel like I'd
swallowed a whale," she said.
Dead line Sunday Classified Is at
noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday tor
Monday; other days 5:30 prevlouaday.
tions it asks and answers is:
"Can a 'perfect' food be pur
chased in tabled form?" The an
swer given is: "No. The body's
food needs make a variety of
foods necessary. For one thing,
the amount of bulk supplied by
fruits and vegetables would be
difficult to obtain in a tablet."
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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE
Helter-Skelter
Home Life Said
Stuttering Cause
New York (U.R) A
smooth-running household has a
lot to do with the way a child
talks.
One speech expert said that
children in helter-skelter homes
are more likely to stutter than
those in well-organized homes.
Prof. R. Corbin Pennington,
head of the children's speech clin
ic at City College of New York,
reported that confusion and
quarreling make a child insecure
and increase his chances of be
coming a stutterer.
Other factors in home envir
onment also affect the child's
speech, said Pennington, who has
worked with stuttering children
for 15 years. Parents make a
child's, stammering worse by
worrying about it, he added.
If your child shows sign of a
stammer, Pennington suggested
that you make a special effort to
create a happy home; make the
child glad he lives there. Be con
sistent in discipline, and keep
your child in good health. Ill
ness, he said, makes it harder
for children to meet the prob
lems of growing up.
"True" Cantaloupe
' All cantaloupes are muskmel
ons but not all muskmelons are
cantaloupes. The "true" canta
loupe variety of the muskmelon
is grown in Europe and is not
known in America. The Euro
pean cantaloupe was named for
the Castle of Cantalupo, the
county seat of a 16th century
Pope, in whose gardens a variety
of muskmelon brought from
Armenia was first cultivated.
In America, "cantaloupe" has
become the generic name of the
small, oval, heavily netted,
musk-scented muskmelon.
PARLEZ-VOUS
Thickly sliced white potatoes
simmered in condensed bouillion
or consomme and flavored with
bits of bacon and fried onion
earns the French name "Pomme
de terre bonne femme." Free
ly translated, we'd call them
home - style potatoes, since
"bonne femme," is french for
"housewife."
TASTY CASSEROLE
Take one can of salmon or
tuna fish, add one medium onion
grated or finely minced. Com
bine and put into a shallow
greased casserole dish. Top with
mashed potatoes to which a dash
of garlic flavoring has been
added. Dot with butter and
sprinkle with grated American
or parmesan cheese. Put into the
oven of your gas range to bake
and brown. The Gas Appliance
Manufacturers Association sug
gests a temperature of 300 de
grees for fifteen minutes. Serve
with green peas and a tossed
salad.
For an American version of
Italy's famous ham and melon
appetizer, serve a wedge of fresh
cantaloupe with a paper-thin
slice of cold boiled ham.
For cantaloupe cup, fill a half
cantaloupe with pitted cherries
and orange segments. Garnish
with fresh mint leaves.
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