Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1950)

When A Girl Marries (Continued from page 7) attitude, between welcoming a woman into your home as a friend and as a stepmother! Dear Joan: My problem is one that is uncommon. When I married, I had several thousand dollars. I married a farmer and during the depression of the 30's we used that ■ money to carry on. Now, with prices improved and better crops we have been able to make the farm a paying proposition. In the house though, I still have no improvements. Am I foolish not to ask for equal modernization of home? Mrs. E. G. Dear Mrs. E. G. I think you are quite right in insisting, if your family budget will allow it, on improvements for the home as well as for the farm. However, your insistence on these improvements should be made on the basis that they will make for a better way of life for the family — for your husband as well as for you — and that they will allow you to conduct the business of homemaking on a more efficient satisfactory basis, just as farm improvements have enabled your husband to conduct his business more efficiently. In other words, remember that everything in your marriage belongs, not to one or another, but to both. Dear Joan: I am an ex G.I.'s wife. We have two small boys. Recently my husband had an accident and lost one of his arms. We had planned on a family of four, do you think it fair to ourselves to go ahead with our plans, when we are not sure of our financial future? Mrs. T. C. G. Dear Mrs. G.: It doesn't seem to me that it should be necessary for you to make the decision either way at the moment. Why don't you wait a little, until your husband has had an opportunity to make his adjustment to his unfortunate injury— until he has had time to learn, if necessary, a new way of earning a living or adjust to earning it at his old trade under this handicap. When his adjustment to living under these new conditions has been made — will be time enough for the two of you to decide whether your financial position will allow you to add to your family. Dear Joan Davis: I am writing in regard to my daughter and her girl friend — one is fourteen and the other will be thirteen next month. They want to go out on dates. I feel they are old enough to go out in couples and come home early. Mrs. M. M. D. Dear Mrs. D.: I'm inclined to agree that fourteen — certainly not yet thirteen! — is too early an age for girls to go out on actual "dates," if by that word we mean a girl and boy going out alone together. However, I think that groups of boys and girls of this age should be allowed to gather at each other's houses both for parties and informal get-togethers, and might also be allowed to go in groups to an early movie at night provided that a curfew hour is agreed on with their parents, and kept by the youngsters. PEPSOMJJT does./frrmore than reduce tooth decay (^^0*^ wlth Pepsodent not onlY reduces decay the sore *°* but GETS YOUR TffTH FAR BRIGHTER than any «*er leading toothpaste Yes, PEPSODENT's exclusive brighterpolishing agent— effective yet so gentle — gets your teeth brighter . . . makes your smile more beautiful. And authoritative scientific tests prove conclusively that even a single brushing with pepsodent removes acid-film that causes decay. Only pepsodent has this film-removing formula ! •irium is Pepsodent's Registered Trade-Mark for Purified Alkyl Sulfate. For that Rpsodent Smile— Use Pepsodent every day —see your dentist twice a year.