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Name ••••• AddressCity _Zone_ -State P9 Offer expires in 60 days. Claudette Colbert of “ Let’s Make It Legal” What should I do? your problems answered by Claudette Colbert «EAR MISS COLBERT: I am twenty-three and I have been married five years. Our boy is three. We make a nice little family and would be ideally happy if it weren’t for a meddling mother-in-law. The trouble is, she is really, truly good, generous to a fault. She is always baking a cake or a pie and sending them over to our house. She frequently makes little suits for my son; once a month she invites us over for dinner. It is these dinners that ruin me. She spends all the time squeezing my mind. She wants to know what time I put the boy to bed. When I say “eight,” she says it should be six. She thinks he should be fed spinach, which he loathes, and prunes, which he can’t stand. When I try to explain that even children have tastes, she says it is a matter of training. When I wear a new dress, she asks whether my husband has a new shirt and says families should share alike. Yet, when I had to have an operation, she volunteered to loan us a small amount of money to tide us over. She lives by a set of ideas that were fine for her day, but which seem old-fashioned to me. And I think I could stand anything if she wouldn’t telephone me three or four times a week for a report of all our activities. So far I have never said one cross word to her; but sometimes I think I will burst. Althea Van N. Two things should come to your rescue in C>is situation: absolute honesty and a sense of humor. The next time you visit your mother-in-law. you should make a special effort to remember every question she asks, every suggestion she makes. When you return home, you should write out these questions and suggestions. Being brutally honest with yourself, you should ask ivhether you have a right to be irked. You should think over her conversation to find out whether some of her ideas have real merit. At twenty-three it is easy to regard anyone over thirty as eccentric. You may find that some of your mother-in-law's ideas would help you do your housework more quickly and efficiently, if put into effect. And. since you must think she did a good job in rearing your husband, you might take some of her notions about rearing your son seriously. Once yon have tried to be fair, you should try to find humor in the situation. Try to be objective and think of your motherin-law as an interesting character in a novel and I believe you will bring a fresh and tolerant attitude to your difficulty, don't you? Claudette Colbert Dear Miss Colbert: I am a sophomore in high school, and I am having a very unhappy time. You see, we have two sororities in our school, and anybody who is anybody has been invited to join by the end of the freshman year. I was not invited. I have a cousin the same age as I am, and she has joined. When I sort of hinted that perhaps she would do something for me, she just laughed and said I wouldn’t fit in. I don’t think there is anything wrong with me. I am just average. I have straight brown hair, and plain blue eyes. People are always telling me I remind them of Cousin Nellie, or the girl next door. I just don’t make an impression as me. What can I do to get the girls to like me and consider me for membership? Hilda T. Why don't you look around at your fellow students and select those who, you think, would be good sorority material. Speak to a few and arrange a meeting. Form your own sorority. Decide upon a secret name and a secret password. I remember that when I was in school some of the girls belonged to an organization, the badge of which t vas a small, ivory elephant worn on a black velvet ribbon around the wrist. I was terribly impressed. (I ivasn't asked to join, incidentally.) All through life you will find that people join together in little groups. It is one of the natural inclinations of humankind and is known as an exhibition of the herd instinct. Don't let it bother you. If you are included, fine. If you aren't, form your own little group. As you grow older, you will find that no one individual group has a corner on fun, comradeship, or secret ritual. What others have done, you can do. Perhaps belter. Claudette Colbert Dear Miss Colbert: I am seventeen and I am very fond of a boy named George. We aren’t engaged, but we do go steady and eventually we might get married. However, we have one problem to straighten. George had a rough boyhood. His father was a drunkard. One night about a year ago, George’s father came home, tight, and got into an argument with George’s mother. Mr. G. finally grabbed his wife and was going to strike her, so George stepped between them. Mr. G. knocked George out. Mrs. G. came running to our house, so my mother and I took George to the hospital. The doctor had to take stitches in the back of his head, but there was no skull fracture, just a slight concussion. Since that happened Mr. G. has become a member of “Alcoholics Anonymous” and is the best father in the world. He has been wonderful to me and has bought me a shortie coat and a dress. George says he will never forgive his father. It makes George angry because I say that I think his father has reformed and that he should be forgiven. He hinted at one time that Mr. G. bought my affection with gifts. This is silly, of course. However, I would like to bring about a reconciliation between George and his father. Whenever I discuss this with George, he says that I am meddling. I’m sure there is some way to bring these two together, but how? Mariane E. ( Continued on page 8) ‘i