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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON MONDAY. JUNE 11, 1362 wlf 1 1 IM. I 1 Family Council Editor'! not: Tht T t m 11 y Counril rontitu of b judsc. a psychiatrist, three rlergymtn, three editors snd a women'i editor. Earh article it a luminary of a family disagreement presented to the CouiH-il. The Council deall with problemi. major and minor, encountered by guidance coun selor! and social worker!. Edited by Mri. Alma Denny. (Copyright by General Feature! Corp.) Margery B. I'm embar rassed at the way my mother dresses. Mr. J, B. I must appear In extreme and Interesting costumes. Margery B. I'm 15 and It embarrasses me to have my mother borrow my dres ies and insist that we share each other's outfits. My friends' mothers look like mothers. At least they dress their age. But mine looks like an over-age teenager, with her skirts above her knees and tons of junk jewelry all over her. It's all right while she's on a job. But when she'a just out for a walk with me, why must she wear all that eye shadow and green mascara and purple lipstick? I almost died last week when she met me after school, She was wear ing a wacky baseball hat. . She's my mother and I love her. But believe me, I don't like to be seen with her. ' Mrs. J. B. Even though I'm 35 and, mother of a 15-year-old daughter, I take a size 3 dress and I model for fashion photographers and magazine illustrators. I have teen dimensions, but because I'm tall I'm in demand for certain extreme assignments, too. As a divorcee, I'm for tunate to be able to command a comfortable income from this employment. In a few years I know I'll have to get into some humdrum job, but now I must present the im pression of youth which brings me and Margery, too, despite her criticism many luxuries we couldn't afford from her father's sup port money. Margery is a squeamish, prudish youngster and her big joy in lite seems to be in find ing fault with me. It probab ly stems from ideas put into her head by relatives she stayed with who still have it "in" for me. The Council: Something In this mother-daughter relation ship cries "H e 1 p" because each is making liie hard for the other. With all the un pleasantness which has enter ed their lives in the past, lead ing to divorce and Margery's sojourn among carping .rela tions, we'd expect these two to be models of considerate ness toward one another. But Mother wears flashy theatri cal outfits in public, and Dau ghter sees no reason for same save to embarrass her. ' Each can ameliorate the si tuation via an unselfish look at the other's position. Mrs. B., in addition, might take a cold hard look at herself in a three-way mirror. Would a sensitive teen-ager say, "That is my Mother" with pride or despair and apology? For Margery's part she might try to see the dutiful, loyal mother beneath the fa cade of cosmetic mask and attention-getting styles. She might balance her cries of disapproval with as many soft kind expressions of ap preciation as she can frame. She can muster some real ad miration for the effort and ambitiousness of this parent who is going-it-alone emotion ally and almost-alone (when it comes to extras) financial ly. But Mrs. B. must compart mentalize her life more strict ly, not only in response to Margerys trouwea tcenngs. i-,i,t alsn In thp interests of reality for herself. Why can't she bend every effort to sep arate hrr nrofessional from hpr nrivate life? Whv. when thts becomes impossible, can she not mouth a word of re orct nnH pvnlanation for Mar- t,. , Eery who longs for a conform ist, tvne mother? A'lsn Mrs. B. must realize that no matter how "spring time she thinks ne iooks he a woman, not a teen BnH 9i the statistics en. pos sibly a grandmother in five years. 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