Radio and television mirror (Jan-June 1950)

When A Girl Marries (Continued jrom page 43) meantime, you stand in some danger of limiting your social life, always a most unfortunate circumstance at your age. What I suggest is this: don't preach your beliefs to your friends, or show that you hold them in low esteem because they do not make the same demands on each other that you feel you should and want to make. When a date comes your way, accept it (unless you know definitely that the boy is a really undesirable associate). And then try — by your example, not by your words or criticism — to prove that it's not necessary to swear or drink or act in any other regrettable manner in order to enjoy oneself. In most cases it's the girl who sets the tone of a social evening, and if you make it pleasantly clear that you expect to be treated like a lady — a friendly, gay, young lady with an operating sense of humor, but still a lady — you may be surprised how quickly your companion will respond with the kind of behavior you can approve and enjoy. If he does not, you've lost very little, for after all a single evening is very quickly over, and if your date has been offensive you are under no compulsion to date him again. But be tolerant, and remember that sixteen is really very young to be setting up too-rigid standards. Stick to your own ideas, by all means — but don't become prematurely carping and oldmaidish as you try to live up to them. Here is a problem in family relations which Mrs. H. B. has found herself unable to solve. Can you suggest some way out for her? Your letter of help may earn $25. Dear Joan: I was adopted at birth, and was always close to my dad and mother for they had so much trouble with -their only son. He was always in trouble or in prison. They spent thousands of dollars on him, but when he got out of prison he would always go to another state and get into trouble there all over again. Last year I became ill with a bad lung, and the doctor said I could no longer live in our apartment but must have a house in better air. My husband and I were so in debt that my mother and dad gave us the down payment and gave up their apartment so we could all live together. This spring my dad died, and my mother has been staying with us, but now we have heard that my brother is expecting to be paroled. He says he will come 'home,' but my husband refuses to have him here — he will not stand for the drinking and carrying on and having the law knocking on our door as has happened in the past. But my mother says she owns part of this house, and insists that my brother be allowed to come here. Must we sell the house and return her money? And must we stand by to see her go through the same troubles all over again with my brother? What shall we do? Mrs. H. B. Note: Baby Paulette is Fay Henderson's child, not the Fitzs' as she was incorrectly identified in Christmas With Ma Perkins (Radio Mirror, December). Now in Drene. . . Only in Drene . . . this New^mntp Conditioner Now! For truly Natural Softness, Natural Sheen . . . Don't just "wash" your hair. . . Condition Murffmr withNewDrene Shampoo ! Want your hair to shine with all its loveliest natural sheen . . . have all its own true natural softness? Then don't just "wash" your hair with old-fashioned shampoos — condition it to fullest natural beauty with New Drene Shampoo! Now New Drene has a wonderful new Beauty Conditioner. It's an exclusive cleansing agent found in no other shampoo— cream or liquid. If you haven't tried Drene recently, you just don't know how wonderful it is! It1* a Procter & Gamble Exclusive! So get a bottle now — right away — and see for yourself how it awakens the sleeping beauty of your hair! O New Drene cleans hair and scalp like a dream — yet it's gentle, non-drying, baby-mild! Conditions your hair to natural sheen and softness . . . yet leaves it ever so easy to manage! Leaves no dulling soap film, so needs no special rinses. Quickly removes dandruff from hair and scalp ! Makes billowy, fragrant lather instantly — even in hardest water ! 75