The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-08
Heart Problems

Dear Mrs. Thompson: When | was
seventeen years old I became enga-
ged to a boy year older than myself !
We had been engaged four years when !
he was drafted and went to camp. He !
insisted upon breaking our engage |
ment because he said he might never
come home and it would be unfair to
me to remain engaged I loved him
SO much that I didn't care what hap
pened and so I wanted to get married
before he went away. I work and
could take care of a husband if he
came back injured for life. But my
friend would not think of getting mar
ried and I had to give him up.
When he was at camp he wrote to
me about once a week and I wrote to
him almost every day. Then he went
to France and | did not hear from him
in all the time he was over there.
He has returned home now and is
working. He has not come to see me
and when we have met on the street
he only speaks politely, but does not
try to talk to me or ask to come over.
Since I broke the engagement on
his request for fear he would be killed
or injured, don't you think he should
ask to renew it now that he has come
hack all right?
l
understand why he acts so. Shall |
write and ask him what I have done
to hurt his feelings? ROSALEE.
1t appears as if the young man be-
came engaged at an age when he did
not know his mind. He wanted to be
free and his going to war furnished an
excuse for him to break away from
his OBLIGATION.
Do not write to him or expect him
TO come back. Give him up bravely
so that he will not know how much
he is hurting you. Go with other
Young people and in time YOU will
forget him for some one else. You are
still very young and your early en-
gagement has prevented you from
meeting the variety of young men
which you should. Be careful, how
ever, to choose desirable friends.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I have some
good neighbors and some bad ones;
some of them are all the time gossip
ing, and that is something I do not
do. I don't thank them for coming
around and talking.
What can | do to keep them from
coming to me and talking so much? I
don't want to ask them to stay away
from my house.
tell them | have enough to do to
attend to my own affairs. l don't
want to have any hard feelings against
anv Of them. but I don't go to the
houses Of some of them at all, al
though they come to my house.
want to set your advice.
BROWN EYES.
Nip gossip in the bud. When some
thing is be- < said that you feel does
rot concerI. tou. say SO at once. Tell
YOUR visitor that YOU consider the
other persons affairs none of Your
business. If you consistently refuse
to listen to gossip your undesirable
neighbors will stop calling and you
will have the friends who are worth
while.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: Will YOU
please advise me how TO wash an old
rose taffeta dress in gasoline SO that
1t will not circle. Will it make it
fade?
Is it all right to dampen a cloth to
put over it to iron 1t, or will it spoto
THANK YOU.
Use plenty of gasoline and if the
dress Is thoroughly immersed there
is no danger of its circling. Gasoline
does not fade colors.
The dress will press without a
dampened cloth except where it is
badly wrinkled. The dampened cloth
will not spot taffeta as a rule