The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-24

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own behavior.
Dear Jane Jordan-I am a mother in
my early forties, have two nice children,
young. but of school age, good hus-
band a few years older than I am. not
IN perfect. health. Financial difficulty
with a good many other things, is
making life almost unbearabe.
My husbands people have tried all the
years we have been married to separate
us without being able to- Now they
have hit on the idea of making people
think l am utterly without morals.
can have few friends or neighbors on
account of the gossip, which is only
partly true. The truth has been twisted
so badly that you can't tell it from
anything else.
pile. I think a great deal of my hus-
band, and I adore my children, but 1
never have had that all-fire feeling that
takes ones senses away until lately.
am compelled to meet a man every week
and l am positively a smouldering vol
cano around him.
l have endured it for weeks. but feel
like there has to be an end some way.
This man does not know how 1 feel, I'M
less he has sensed it,
MY work at home will not do. I have
to get where there are people l want
very much to take beauty course. Am
I too old? I want the best and the
most reliable. Can you name 1t. l must
NOV give up 10 lnlN LeTIlDlE QbHlIe. YES,
want to- but must not VOLCANO.
Dear Volcano-The chances are
that the all-fire feeling you have
for this man is not so much the
result of his personal attraction as
your own age, which often has been
called the dangerous age" Almost
every woman, particularly one who
is not satisfactorily mated, expert
ences a sort Of second blooming"
At this time her erotic nature
flowers with redoubled vigor in a
final desperate attempt to wrest
little romance from a prosaic exist
ence. Any attractive man who
crosses her path during this period
is sufficient to. fan her smouldering
fires.
1t seems to be the nature of
woman to interpret happiness solely
in terms of love. Nothing but
passionate union with a member of
the opposite sex is able to invest
life with meaning and purpose.
Men are luckier, because they can
lose themselves in work and are
satisfied more easily with the casual
erotic experiences not permitted to
women. A wise woman takes a leaf
from the book of
the cautious bust Men Are
ness m an who Tuck;er in
never places all A"Uh l0A III
his investments in This Crisis
one spot.
That is, she is careful to retain
other interests to which she can
turn for employment of her ener-
gies in case she fails to find fulfill
ment in love.
Here's a word of warning about
that all-fire feeling. 1t is very
dece ptive conf1agration, which
causes you to endow man whom
you scarcely know with all sorts of
qualities which he does not possess.
The intimacy which you desire
easily might reveal person whom
you could not abide. When the illu-
sion vanished, you we'll might find
that he did not measure up to the
standards of your good and faithful
husband.
Already you have discovered the
price that civilization makes you
pay for a departure from its rules
and regulations. Although you have
as yet not broken an actual man.
date of society, you hide adultery in
your heart, with the result that
your friends and neighbors draw
aside their skirts and cry "unclean."
If you crafty your physical crav-
ing for the man
Think of who has stimulat-
ed your starved
HdI M 10 instincts, they will
Children not hesitate to
cruelty you and
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