The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-08

are invited to state their case to
Jane Jordan, who will answer them
in this column.
Dear Jane Jordan-My daughter left
her husband and five baby children. I
felt that it was shameful for her to
leave them; so I took her husband and
children as my own. Now they are big
and go to school. They call me Mother
more tina Grandma"
Now my little S-year-old grandson,
whom I've had in my hand since the
age of 4, was listening to Santa Claus
oyer the radio; santa was saying tnag
little boys and girls should respect ana
answered.. It have no mother to obey
burned me up, because I love him
as my own son and want him to respect
I said it was not right for him to
say that, and his dad answered, He
is right. He has no mother to obey
subject and we would just like to know
which one of us is wrong or right.
The son-in-law or
Dear Grandma-You and your
son-in-law are splitting hairs over
this matter. I think you have done
a very marvellous and a very noble
thing in taking these children to
rear. The responsibility was not
yours, yet you assumed it, and you
deserve not only respect, but rever-
ence.
No ordinary mother performing
the normal duties which she in
Cured when she married and had
children ranks half as high as you
do, for you are carrying another's
load, not your own.
However, try as you may, you can
not erase the bitterness from the
heart of this hus-
Their Cry band, caused by
the desertion Of
DUES 4NOI his wife. You have
Acc,,co Won taken him in anc
cared for his little
ones, but, alas, you r not his wife
not the woman who bore them.
He can not help but cry out
"They have no mother" The CRY
does not condemn you, but the alb
sent mother, and you are wrong to
take ofense at it.
There is no substitute for a child
which is exactly as good as two
parents who love each other. AL
your generosity and self-sacrifice
can not reproduce the precise
atmosphere generated by the care OF
a father and a mother in love with
each cooperating ahectionately tt
bring up the children of their love
Every child Graves this kind OF
home life. Every
child h o S e The Child
mother is mot the
honored mother NdH MOI
Of its father suf- Help Grief
repreach the child for the wall
which wells right up from his
heart, 81 have no mother"
Instead of saying, Il am you1
mother" say, II am your grand
mother, trying hard to take you1
mothers place, and as such I crave
your affection and respect"
Undoubtedly you already have it
but it is not within your power to
heal completely the wound which
this mother has inflicted. I trust
both father and children will reward
you with the gratitude and respect
which you deserve, even though you
can not work a miracle.
n n y
Dear Jane Jordan: I am a widow of
81. I could write a book on how men
treat women. Why is it thai a man
thinks only of himself and not of
woman's morals? I was tied down with
three babies before I was 81. Now I am
free to go, but I feel more tied thar
ever.
Mother says it doesn't look well for me
to go to dances, as people will talk. I
five in a small town. If I do go out,
the men are not my kind. Am I too
o~ld-fashioned, or what is the matter?
JUST A WIDOW.
Dear Just a Widow-It is diff
cult for a young widow to make
a new adjustment to life after her