The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-07


In today's mail letters poured
more than fair for there are
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adjective after another at her
When ! read her appeal to you. ]
read between the lines. judge
that Betty is young and very inn
pulsive in her efforts 10 help those
she loves. She probably took sides
with her sister-in-law without
thinking what IL might get her
into. And | think, too. that she
isn't very well acquainted with a
world that asks for help and then
calls that help interference.
OF course in a way Betty WAS
unwise and no doubt realizes that
but we were all young once and
/ have made mistakes but I'll be
willing to wager that many Of our
mistakes ESPECIALLY those who
condemned Betty were a whole
lot worse than this one she has
made.
So why don't we lay off,
Betty? Ny husband says all Ia
coma IL snarling at her.
READER.
Another
Whew. What a fuss and furore
our Betty caused and quite q lot
of indictment against her too. but
interferers usually get 1t in the
neck and should. too. but there
are exceptions and think Betty's
case il one OF them.
Let us look at the matter fairly
and squarely.
II Is true that Betty interfered
in another's business but only af-
ter repeated urgings. That Is
vastly different than the way the
average buttinsky does.
She IN accused of separating two
brothers but no one seems to want
to admit the truth--that the sep
aration was caused by the despic-
able and unmanly actions Of fell
low who caused even his own
brother to turn against him.
One reader said the sister-in-
law should have been told TO do
her own investigating. How could
she In her condition. And nat
urally. a woman like Betty would
feel sorry for her knowing the
miserable conditions in which
Jane lived. think a woman
whose husband has been so ROT
TEN has q right to be warned
against him for health reasons. for
man like her husband who asso-
ciates with a low woman while his
wife 10 expecting a baby, will do
so again and In time endanger his
own wife's health. A woman is
fortunate when she leaves such a
man in time.
Lastly, why condemn Betty's
silly but wcll-meaning interference
cit wasn't 20 silly instead of the
actions of the brother-in-law who
il such 4 rotter. Do these read
ers mean to tell me that they up
hold a renegade who neglected his
wife when she needed him most
for companionship and moral sup
port? He was hanging around
with a cheap. low creature ther
kind should be out OF the way)
instead of attending his wife.
Why not think of that angle, you
wise critics. You probably are
all men VINO think the only sin Of
stepping out Is in getting caught.
Well. thank heavens we are living
in a day and age when women are
not content to put up with a
straying mans actions. He gets
the boot. now and his wife goes
on her own land in the long run,
happier) way.
Good for Betty. May her kind
go on making II 30 uncomfortable
for the Georges in life that they'll
whip into line where they belong.
ST. J.
For Betty
Dear Miss Grey: Betty's all
right. Tell her for me not to
worry. Tn a man and have a
right to express myself in this
matter. Just why should George.
the cad. be protected ? Why should
his wife be kept in the dark about
the character OF the person she
lives with. and why should she, in
her purity. be expected to let such
a rotter help in the character for
nation of her child? II would be
a sorry job he would help turn
out. ! am afraid.
No, nothing should be kept back
from a person. George is the kind
of man - who would think it all
right to step out but would be
crazy il his wife would do the
same.
have three or four friends who
step out on their wives all the
time and are supremely content in
the superstition that their wives
are faithful little women, but
also know that their wives are
doing the same thing. Do l get a
kick out of that. laugh up my
sleeve every time one tells of his
latest conquest. NJ. L.