The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-14
Heart And Home
Problems

Dear Mrs Thompson: L am a mar
ried man and have been married over
a year. I married a woman be-
tween twenty and twenty-five who
find has served a term in the state
reforInatory, a term in the work
house and also a term in the peni-
Tertiary. She had been divorced
! twice before I married her and had
one child which I try to treat as if
it were my own.
Ny mother and have tried to lift
her up to our standing, but we have
failed. We are only dra gging our
selves down to her standing, which is
naturally very low. My people are
all well to do people, but refuse to
| associate with US since they cannot
lift her up, but now have turned
down my mother since they cannot
lift up my wife. My mother will as
sociate with her in spite of what the
| others think.
Is it right for my mother to lower
| herself to associate with my wife
| and her relatives?
| 1t seems to be impossible to lift
her up. My mother and knew
nothing about her until after I mar
ried her. I was blindly led off, I
have since learned that all her
brothers and sisters have been to
! mouse.
| Should I move away from this
town where nobody knows anything
| about here character and see if she
will lead different life then? 1t
is breaking my mothers heart and
has already broken mine
Ny advice to all boys Is to look
! before they leap.
BROKEN HEARTED c.
God bless your motherI Her love
cra Low,
shows the bigness of her soul and
the strength of her character. She
is willing to resist the opinion of her
friends and neighbors and take a
stand which she knows to be right
| although it means that she is ostra-
cised from the society of those she
loves
Yes, I would advise you to move
away and give your wife chance to
start life with a clean slate. Do not
try to lift her up" People hate IN
pc reformed and almost always they
rebel. Try to understand her and to
make her SO happy with normal and
wholesome activities that she will not
| be interested in wrong doing. Doubt
less you have discovered that in spite
| of your wife's bad qualities she has
much that is lovable and big in her
nature, and probably you have won
| uereo now anyone with so much good
ness can do so much that is bad. She
Is simply an unbalanced child of ma
ture Love her for that which is
good and forgive her for the bad
| Just as long as you can.
Happiness and appreciation M
your Kindness to her will go further
to make her reform than all the adj
wee and requests for reform that yor
couio give her. Do not talk about
goodness; set the. example.
| Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am eotne
with sweet little girl. She is rre+
W and classy, but she is not consntc.
uous and in the fIapper class.
nave known her for six months and
IN all that time have admired he,
very much and have liked her for he,
gentle way and pretty manners. Nov
she mas bought a green hat which
she wears down on one side a,d ~
on the other and it gives her a. tough
appearance. I can't stand seeing he,
wear this hat and wonder if I sbo111l
say anything about the way it make,
me feel?
BOB
you can tell the girl in a tacffu
way now you feel about the hat. sb,
VIII PROBABLY take what you have +,
say IN the right spirit, but even if !
oIlenas her at first, when she think
[ over the matter, she will be era+af,,
10 you Tor your honest opinion. You
} criticism may govern her choice -
, clothes In the future and prevent an
other such mistake