The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-03
Manners and Morals
BY JANE JORDAN

! What's on your mind? If it's trouble,
write to Jane Jordan, who will help you
solve your problems by common sense adj
( vice.
Dear Jane Jordan-Ive been 60
ing with a married man for quite
a while, and I'm just wondering if
he is making a fool out Of me-
got my divorce more than a year
ago, and he's still living with his
wife. His alibi is that he won't
leave on account Of the kid.
Now don't you think if he really
loved me, he wouldn't let a thing
like that keep us apart? I've told
him how happy I could make him
if only had the chance, but seems
like I can't get anywhere Now this
waiting and uncertainty is getting
on my nerves. Would you advise
me to give him up, or is there some
way can help him to make up his
mind? Perhaps you think me heart
less, but everything is fair in love
and war A LONELY WIDOW.
Dear Lonely Widow: I can not
agree with you that everything is
fair in either love or war. War to
my mind is wholesale murder, no
more honorable between nations
than individuals. Neither do I think
that the emotion of love Justifies
unethical conduct.
hardly would refer to a fathers
love for MS child IS a thing like
that" It's no small emotion, and
he easily could be in love with you
and yet unwilling to sacrifice his
child for your sake. 1t may be that
he merely is using the child as an
excuse to avoid marrying you.
In either case, it seems to me that
you are out Of luck so far as any
real happiness is concerned, and
that it would be better to make the
break and have it over.
Occasionally a married man is
swept off his feet by a passion for
another SO compelling that he is
willing to leave everything to follow
his love. But, in the majority of
cases, I have noticed that he is I'M
willing to pay a very high price for
his passion
If the home is at all bearable, a
man usually prefers to remain with
his wife ana children. It IS not only
the feeling OF duty that holds him
but the pun Of habit, which often is
stronger than love.
If you stick to him, I predict that
you will nave to be satisfied with
halt loaf all your life. Evidently
this is not 70 your liking, so why
don't you wipe the slate clean.
Dear Jane Jordan am keeping
company with two fellows. 1 care
for both One is out Of town most of
the time. Do you think I should
stay at home when he doesn't even
write? Except for a few dates I
have had with the other fellow,
have gone with him since I was 10.
The other is a real nice fellow ex-
cept that he doesn't work. Even
when times were better, he didn't
work. Shall I quit going with both,
or should I choose between them?
THY.
Dear Itzy-Enjoy them both when
they are available, but Go not take
/ them seriously. 1t is not necessary
/ to regard every boy you meet as a
/ possible husband, to enjoy his COM
pany.
Dear Jane Jordan: I am going
steady with one fellow. When I am
with him, think that 7 am salts
fed but when he isn't around ]
keep thinking of a fellow kept
company with last year. He got in
+ some trouble and was sent to Jail
but viii be out in April I know
/ that as soon as he gets out, he viii
4 come to see me
My folks think he is in California
I like my present boy friend as well
as any one, but my thoughts after
wards always turn to the past
What should I DO? NIFTY.
Dear Nifty: If only one could
tear an old love up by the roots
with one swift jerk. how pleasant
it would be! But it can't be done.
A poignant love affair puts down
multiple roots which must be torn