The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-09
BY ELSIE JANIS

- - LlOLNeI LOT more bIldn lOIby
years and only a few weeks of
marriage, it is perhaps presump-
tuous on my part to try to write
on the subject.
But after all, admitting that
there are millions of people who
know more about marriage than
do, the fact remains that no one
was ever more consistently and
successfully mothered than I was,
and still am for that matter, be-
cause without any suggestion of
spiritualism I must say that
mother, though officially out of
hfes great argument, is more
with me than ever!
There is and will continue to be
despite all protests on my part,
an erroneous impression that my
maternal ancestor spent her time
protecting me from the wiles of
menl That is Gas we say in the
classics) the bunk!
From the time was %. she be-
gan to concentrate on my making
what is somewhat humorously
termed an advantageous mar
riage.
am not saying that our ideas of
what would or would not be good
Tor me were always in complete
coordination, but I will say. and
I'll insist, that anything 1 ever
wanted in life I had, due to nv
mothers ability to borrow money
or sell stockS-tickets for a cruise.
yacht, jewels, and so forth.
In TACT, she was the genie who
produced with miraculous speed
everything my heart desired. Of
course worked for the money
put she had complete control of
all 1 made. I never signed a
check until she passed on" never
collected my salary, and never
lnterfered in any way with her
manner Of handling my affairs!
nNE does not question a GEM.
" and so it never occurred to
me to ask where or how she got
the $4,000 for a house that had
set my heart on! Shorty after
her death (ridiculous world I
made my first appearance at the
bank in Beverly Hills, CAL, and
met a safety deposit box socially.
never even had, seen one and
was not interested particularly at
the time!
knew I had been making lots
OF money for many years. I had
heard my friends and enemies
say how rich I was and I actually
believed it. Imagine my surprise
to find that I had delectable
garland of mortgages, notes enough
Tor a song, and quite a lot of jew
els that never wear!
Well, I laughed loud and long,
and in checking over my wealth.
was able to trace just what ex-
travagant demand of mine had
made it necessary for mother to
negotiate loan, or cash in on an
endowment policy.
She had nothing in her own
name, though she adored buying
beautiful things, when her own
So-called estate was settled. and
the government owed me money.
NOW I ask you would any
IN mother as devoted as she
was refuse me man that I want
ed? She would have secured him
for me if she had to resort to
chloroforml And yet people ask
me if I regret not having married
while she was with me. No! and
again no! Furthermore, I never
would have left her. She knew
it and so, bless her heart, she left
me while there still was time for
me to start new lifel
I know mothers who are stop
ping the marriage of their chill
dren, male and female, from a
purely Interior motive, feeling
that they will lose in the transac-
ton, and I think it is outrageous!
do not believe that children
owe a debt to their parents. If
said parents happen to be regu-
lar people that the children love
just as they might love any one
else, o. k! Stay with them, spoil
them, and honor them, but just
because two people fall in love,
marry, have a marvellous expert
ence and in due time bring into
this cock-eyed but grand old
world wee squalling and unsus-
pecting being, I think they owe
the child everything they can
give it, If not an apology.
II
T SAID apropoS of my marriage
l. to a very young man, that I
hoped to have a husband and a
child in one. and thus cut down
on the scheduled Several senti-
mentalistS misquoted me as say
ing that I hoped to have a. child.
That is the well known apple
sauce. I always have been a
pretty good mimic, but I never
could hope to be the mother that
mother was, and so why risk a
flop at this late stage? Incident
ally my husband Chat looks odd
to mel at the time of going to
press, is bearing up we'll and more
attractive than he was month
ago before I said, 81 dol"
If it develops that I can not
hold him on account of the differ
ence in our ages, I will take it big
and bow out, but I will say to
some of the girls of % and % who
are residing in Reno, What's
your alibi?"
Next: Miss Janis will tell ex-
actly what she looks forward to
in a matrimonial career which
started long after MANY Uouoap