Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-13
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Dear Mrs. Thompson: / have
a real nice dress that / think
would look real pretty if it were
trimmed in a little fur. | have
seen dresses trimmed in fur. Do
you think it would be all right
and do you think they are stylish"
My dress is blue crepe de chine
and | think | would like it in black
fur of some kind.
My husband is awfully mean
about buying me anything. | have
worn my Sunday shoes for more
than six months and they are look
ing real bad now and / asked him
for a new pair and he got mad at
me and said that | was eXtrava-
CANT. | only asked for a cheap
pair of white canvas shoes to fin
ish out the summer. My husband
can afford TO get them for me.
save and try 10 help every way
can. Before / was married | al
ways had two or three pairs OF
good shoes and now it seems as
if there is always a fuss to get one
cheap pair.
| have a good husband. but he
never wants to buy me more than
| need to cover myself with. Do
you think | should have those
shoes, or ought l to wear my old
ones longer? He doesn't buy him
self many clothes, but he doesn't
seem TO care for them the way /
do. / just can't make him under
stand that there are many things
a woman needs that a man does
not. What shall | do about il?
Sometimes l tell him that l shall
go out and do for myself and then
can have what / really need.
THANK YOU.
Dark fur on your blue dress
ought to be very attractive. Fur
trimming is used in winter, and
so it would be better to wear the
dress as it is this summer and put
on the fur this fall or winter.
You should have the shoes
since your husband can afford
them. One of the gravest prob
lens women have to face is to
get money from husbands who re-
fuse to give it. The most salts
factory arrangement is for the
wife to have a reasonable allow
ance for her clothes and to live
within it. Then her husband has
no right to dictate what she shall
and shall not have.
| do not like to advise women to
go to work when their husbands
do not wish it. You must use
your own judgment about that
~ q
move is so uncertain. Some hUs-
bands are perfectly satisfied with
the arrangement and let their
wives carry both the burden OF
earning and of homework too.
Other husbands give their wives
more money rather than have their
friends think they are not able to
support a wife. A very few hus-
bands wake up to the situation and
see that their wives have the nee
essary money without going out to
work for it.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: % l am
young girl. My father works on
the train and so | am at the track
great deal when the train leaves.
There is a boy that works on the
same train. He has told my 9TH
er friends that he likes me very
much, but he has never told me.
have a girl friend that likes
him, but he shows that he does not
like her. She says that 1t is be-
cause | am with her. l should like
very much to stop our friendship
but don't want to hurt her feelings
How should | go about it? | am
afraid that she will think that I
am going against her for the boy
and he may think that l am quit
ting her to be with him. Do you
think he would?
(2) Should | accept music from
boy l have known for about
three weeks? GRAY EYES.
% 1t is a bad policy to get rid
OF friends. You may not realize
it yourself. but if it were not for
the boy you and the girl would be
just as good friends as ever. Do
not drop her. If the boy likes you
especially well he will not let the
girl prevent your becoming better
acquainted. Surely you can go Il
the train once in a while to see