The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-30
Heart Problens

Dear Mrs. Thompson: l am Il young /
girl in my teens. My father, who runs
a small store, compels me to work |
part of the day for him. If I ask
him for a little money as payment. |
he says that l get my boarl and |
clothes, and what more do l wait. AS
I am not old enough to work in a
store I cannot draw salary anywhere |
else, but think that my father ought
to give me some money so that | can
have a few good times the same as
other girls of my age.
He will not let me go to high class
shows, but will allow me to go to a
ten cent show where l can get in free
Please tell me hiw.I can convince him
that l would like little money once
in a while. 1t is not because he can
not afford it. If this were the trouble
l would not say a word. BOBBIE.
P. S. The above letter has just
come into my possession and l desire
that you answer it for her. She does
not state matters just as they are,
however. / do give her money when
l think she needs it and deserves it.
but she is not old enough (fourteenl
TO know the value of money and
spends it for anything she sees. Only
recently SHE spent uOIIdl Suo udu
saved from what her mother and |
gave her for a small brass box with
face dope q call it, and l claim she
doesn't need it and should not use it.
She did not tell you her mother
offers her fifty cents a week if she
will wash the dishes and that we
spend seventy-five cents a lesson for
her music and pay for the necessary
music. She is a high school student
and seems to have developed tho idea
there that she should not be COM
PEELED to work at home unless she is
paid for it
! hope that your answer to her will
teach her a lesson. FATHER.
am inclined to believe that your
father is a little wiser than the aver
age father and instead of indulging
and spelling you, he is trying to teach
YOU that life holds something more
than amusements. Without a doubt
the work you do N the store would
pay for very small portion of your
board and keep, and your father is
not unreasonable at all in asking you
to help him. | think if you look hard
err you will find that your father and
mother are deeply interested in your
welfare and make many sacrifices for
YOU. To be happy in your home you
must be willing to give as we'll as take.
Don't expect your mother to do very
thing for you and then be unwilling
to do little or even big things Tor her.
JTnselfishness will bring you more hap
piness than a grasping, unwilling
spirit
You probably don't alize the sac
rifces your parents make every day
to stretch their income over the many
demands of the high cost of living.
They also have to plan for the future.
So much money is needlessly wasted
by girls of your age, and in only too
many cases it is desperately needed
by the parents who provide so lib
orally.
You have asked me to tell you how
to get more money from your father
am confident that if you earn more
nv greater service to your mother and
to your father in the store, he will be
more liberal. Willingness to help or
your part will make your father more
willing to do for you.
To your father l would say, il is q
mistake to be too practical. An oc
casionaI Indulgence gives a young CIR
so much pleasure that it is well wortl
the money spent Don't make YOU
little girls home life unhappy by Pill
ing too many tasks on her, and WheT
she has done her work well, -eWarC
her by taking her to the picture show
yourself, If you and she spend more
time together it will be easier for yot
to get her point of view and easier fol
her to get yours.