The Ely miner., 1943-12-09

ficient, if her salary exceeds $500 a
month. She has been drudging
along, raising three children, educat-
ing them, keeping them comfortable,
even including hospitality in her plan
for them. But all the time she has
been capable of this business sue
cess. Now comes her chance to
earn money, to buy the house of her
dreams, to save.
1t seems to me that it is Pop,
Mary-Belle and yourself who are not
cooperating fully. In any case your
mother could exert over Mary-Belle
only the fond, anxious watching of a
somewhat helpless parent. She can
only say feebly, as all of us who
are parents do, ''Where were you,
dear? Aren't you acting foolishly?
Are you telling me the whole truth?"
But you are close to Mary-Belle
in years, and the influence of sister
is one of the strongest our lives
ever know. Couldn't you and Mary
Belle enter into a conspiracy to help
Nom buy the house, strengthen her
bond investments, and insure that
future toward which she perhaps is
looking anxiously. Your father is
old; he will have great difficulty in
getting any employment at all after
the war. Isn't it possible that Nom
foresees that, and foresees, too, a
comfortable old age on a small
chicken ranch, with Pop and herself
asking little or no aid from yourself
and Jim and Mary-Belle?
Give UP your job. Take Mary
Belle into your household interests.
Meet her after school and market
with her; ask a few friends out to
the farm for week-ends, or for
MONS free day. You are evidently
fine, level-headed little person with
none of the lawless temptations that
beset Mary-Belle. Give her the
benefit of your own experiences:
make that new spacious farm house
happy home, and watch Nom and
Pop relax gratefully in the atnos-
phere of order and comfort. Manv
girl your age was a married wom-
an with approaching maternal re-
sponslbilities hundred years ago:
your grandmother probably married
at 16. Take your place in this
troubled war time as a useful h,,-
man being, and put off until after
the war the frocks and hair-dos that
your salary is paying for today.
Mary-Belle is affectionate: YOU can
draw her very close to you. What
her big sister does probably already
seems important in her eyes.
Woman's Skill Needed Now.
Your mother is doing a magnifi-
cent job. It is a job that needs
skill, quick thought, secrecy.
strength. Not many men and verv
few women have been trusted in
this particular line. It is of ines
timable service to the country. Our
men overseas must not only be kept
generously supplied with exactly
what your mother is making. but
they must know that fresh supplies
in limitless quantities are on their
way. To have your mother report
that, as the head Of a department,
she is resigning, is to pull out one
precious indispensable cog in an
enormous machine.
Don't you be the one to ask it.
Support her, because she's support
ing our armed forces. Nothing will
put strength and courage into her
like the knowledge that back of her
are two fine girls, laughing together
over their busting and bed-making,
planning dinner surprises, keeping
themselves sweet and attractive, and
already extending to their friends
the hospitality of which she has
dreamed at the farm. You can CO
thousand happy things that will
warm your mothers heart and carry
over into postwar times the ordered
living you institute today.