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your salary and he has the right to collect your mother’s salary, too. It has only been three or four years since California enacted legislation which makes a woman’s earnings her own. I believe the wisest course for you is to maintain the pleasantest possible relations with your father. Don’t go out of your way to annoy him. Have as little as possible to do with him. Manage, somehow, to spend at least a few minutes, alone, with your mother every day. Her burden is probably even heavier to bear than yours. Show her how much you appreciate what she is doing; think of helpful things to do for her. Discuss school and your friends with her, particularly the amusing things that happen. Between you and your mother, there should be a tie that will make up for the < inadequacies of your father. Claudette Colbert Dear Miss Colbert: II am engaged, and our wedding date is set for October. After we are married, my fiance wants to live with his dad and sister, as he does now. My fiance is well over twenty-one, earns fifty dollars a week and hands all but ten dollars per week over to his father. As I understand it, that would continue to be the situation. The father would pay all living expenses, and we would have ten dollars a week for personal expenditures, including clothing. It would be different if my fiance’s dad needed money, but he has a good income. My family is opposed to this marriage because they say the father would make life miserable for me. He has a reputation for being miserly and selfish. That may be true, but it doesn’t change the fact that I love my fiance. Georgia S. In some life situations, love, alone, is not enough to assure happiness. I believe that any sensible person would agree that this marriage would not have a good chance of permanency. If you marry this boy, your resentment at having to obey orders from his father and sister may well cause trouble between you and your husband. It seems to me that you should wait to marry until this man proves that he is a man, and not a child clinging to his father’s suspenders. Claudette Colbert Dear Miss Colbert: My husband and I have been married only a short time. Because we are living at some distance from his home town, I have never met his family, but that is an ordeal facing me shortly. I say “ordeal” for this reason. My husband was married before to a perfectly beautiful girl who was very popular with my in-laws. They were furious with my husband for divorcing her, even though any real man would have done what he did under the circumstances. Naturally, he couldn’t tell his family the full story. Not only was this first wife beautiful, but she was gay, witty, charming. To be frank, I am not at all attractive, nor have I the slightest part of the charm and poise which the first wife possessed. I am frightened sick when I think of meeting my in-laws, knowing they will compare us. I need some good advice. Lynette S. You underestimate yourself. It is fairly clear to an outsider that your husband married you because you had all the wonderful qualities his first wife lacked. There is a good deal of humble siveetness in your letter, of anxiety to please and ARE 0U> WIVES'TALES If only every woman would learn these INTIMATE PHYSICAL FACTS before she marries... Too many married women still don’t have proper, scientific knowledge they can trust about intimate feminine hygiene. They follow ignorant misinformation passed on down through the years. And all too often this is the cause of marital unhappiness. If only women would realize how important vaginal douching two or three times weekly often is to intimate cleanliness, health, married happiness, and to combat unpardonable vaginal odor. And certainly once they learn the truth about zonite, they'll always want to use it in the douche. No other type liquid antiseptic-germicide tested is SO POWERFUL yet SO HARMLESS Scientists tested every known germicide they could find on sale for the douche. And no other type proved so powerful yet so safe to tissues as ZONITE. So why be old-fashioned and continue to use weak or dangerous products? zonite is positively non-poisonous, non-irritating. Y ou can use zonite as directed as often as desired without the slightest risk of injury to the most delicate tissues. ZONITE’S Miracle-Action zonite eliminates odor, removes waste substances and discharge. You feel so dainty and refreshed after your zonite douche. Helps guard against infection. It kills every germ it touches. It’s not always possible to contact all the germs in the tract, but you can be sure zonite does kill every reachable germ and keeps them from multiplying. Buy zonite at any drug counter.