The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-26


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Dear Jane Jordan hope you can
solve this problem. and tell me Just
what should do. want so much to be
fair and Just. was in the World war
and am old enough to know life. have
been married and divorced. MY wife
ran away with another man.
Now I am home. and right out in my
own back yard I fall in love. love
that is so sweet and heavenly 1t has
made me long for a home. For the trsG
time in my life. can see that life is
really worth while and is sweet. The
woman is married. I have known her
for years. She used to play at our
house and was lust like a sister to me.
When she was fifteen she had bad
luck and an illegitimate child was born.
She was turned down by her own people
but she went out into the world alone
fought the battle. got lob ana kept
the child.
When she was 49, she married another
man. He knew the story of her past
and nrornised to adopt the child. But
after he got her. he would not accept
the child. He does not allow MS vile
anv spending money or take her any
place where it costs money. In 1act, ne
has made her hate him. have lived
next door to them for the last two wears
and have loved her for the woman she
Is and the way she has tried to make
a go of their married life.
Now we have fallen in love and she
wants to get a divorce and marry me.
am madly in love with her and would
give the child nv name and think was
a lucky man to get a woman ike her'
do not know whether her husband
loves her or not. He is drinking man
and I sometimes think it might break
his heart and he would drink himself
to death.
could make her real nice home.
far better than she has now. and make
her happy. So Miss Jordan. please tell
me what should do.
DEAR FAIR AND JUST-You
- can't do anything until the
woman gets her freedom. For the
present. this is her problem and not
yours. AS I understand it, you did
not come between the woman and
her husband. She learned to hate
him before you came into the pic
ture. Therefore, let her settle her
problem with her husband first.
Her action should be guided en-
tirely by what is best for her child
She has stuck to the little one
through thick and thin and become
an outcast for its sake. She prob
ably married hoping to make a
home for the baby. Her husband
in the first flush of his love for her
promised to care for the child, too
and then went back on his promise
ANY mother would leave a home
where her child was not welcome
and think a long while before she
believed another mans promises.
1 scarcely think that any man
would drink himself to death over
the loss of a woman whom he mis-
treats and whose illegitimate child
he has not learned to love. Mer
have died and worms have eater
them, but not for love. In that
mothers place I would not consider
any mans feelings who interferec
with the welfare of my child.
AS some one has said, it is moi
the child that is illegitimate, but
the parents Therefore, an illegiti.
mate mother owes her innocent
baby the happieSt environment she
can find for it.
You seem to know your own minC
in this matter. I hope your eSti.
mate of the woman is correct.
hope she has repented and atoneC
for her miStake-that she has the
courage to face he world alone once
more for the sake of the happiness
Of the baby, who is her chief re.
sponsibility. If she is a woman O.
this caliber, you couldn't do fine
think than make a home for hel
and give your name to the child
when the time comes. But whaf
can you do until she proves herself
Just be sure you know what vol
are doing. You have been deceived
once and do not want to. make &
second mistake. Are you sure vol