XfcfoMen r fl Alr)TeHe-BUg> The-Mother-in-Law and the Wife Answer to a Woman Who Says She Is Unhappy in Her Son's Home- It Is Suggested That She Pack Her Trunks and Move Away Immediately By Dorothy Dix. To my mind the #most tragic thing on earth 1b the unneces sary trouble that we poor, foolish mortals make for ourselves. It would seem that there are enough un avoidable grief s— death, sickness, pov erty, loss —to tear like vultures at our hearts without our going out of the way to manufacture for ourselves a million torments that flay us alive. But no. We court sorrow, and out of conditions of life that should be filled with nothing but Joy and gladness we make misery and tears for ourselves and those nearest to as. Iho beat Illustration of this unac countable human weakness Is to be fo*nd In the relations-in-law problem, wlere people who should dwell to gether In peace and amity seem to take a fiendish delight In quarreling and bickering, although by so doing they ruin their own happiness and make life a hell on earth for all about them. , It is literacy true that not drink, >ior gambling, nor immorality, nor any vice whatsoever, brings a thousandth part of the misery to humanity as does the inability of relations-in-law to bo friendly, or even treat each other with decent politeness, for pitiful and petty as a family quarrel seems somewhere in it there is always a broken heart. In the course of a year I get thou stands of letters from women on this subject. Sometimes it is a daughter in-law who Is victimized by a selfish | and tyrannical and quarrelsome mother-in-law who feels that she has a perfect right to run her son's home and who jealously resents her son's af fection for his wife and the money he spends on her. The Mother Who Han Spats With Her Son's Wife More often the letter is the pitiful wail of some poor old mother who is made to feel that her daughter-in-law begrudges her the very bread she eats, or a daughter-in-law who setß herself deliberately to wean her husband from the mother who bore him. To-day I Their Married Life j By KABEL HERBERT URNER j "By Jove, I forgot those stenog raphers were coming this morning! I've got to be in court by eleven." "And you wrote them to call be fore twelve!" remonstrated Helen. "Cant help it. They'll have to come back again. I'll have word with the office boy." "Dear, that isn't fair—to ask those girls io spend their time and carfare that Kay." "But what can I do? Look here, *udd»nly, "what's the matter with you goint down there and" seeing them?"' ;'I?" in dismay. "Why, I wouldn't kno* how to engage a stenographer." "Tou picked out the letters. Know as much about 'em as I do." "But the work—your requirements? Hflw could I tell about"' — "Just general office work. Give ti/em a test letter if yon want to; you cfn tell if they can get it down and cppy it all right." Helen protested that she was not competent to interview these girls but In his usual masterful way Warren swept aside all her objections, and' /insisted on her being their by eleven.) "Now pick a sensible looking one j —not the frowsy-haired, gum-chew / ing kind," as he started off. "Not to / much face powder, either, and no scent." Hurriedly Helen made out her or der for the grocer, telephoned the butcher, left some information with Nora and by a quarter after ten was dressed -for the street. When she reached Warren's office it was with a pleasant feeling of im portance, and of intense interest for the interview before her. , Fortunately she had read a maga zine story not long ago in which a woman detective, posing as a steno- j grapher, secured a position with a | lawyer suspected of drawing up a fradulent will. And Helen remember ed vividly just how the lawyer had interviewed the supposed stenograph- j or. She found two young women al ready waiting. Asking which one had come first, she showed hor into Warren's private office. "Mr. Curtis was very sorry that he had to be at court this morning," Helen explained, almost apologetical ly, "So he had asked me to see you." The girl, who seemed very nervous looked surprised. "I believe you've been in a law office?" questioned Helen, trying to hide her own nervousness. THE FIRST. "Oh yes, I was three years with Talbert and Moore. They never give written references, but you can phone them about my work." After a few more questions that Warren had suggested about filing indexing and familiarity with law work, Helen asked rather hesitat ingly: "Would you mind taking a short letter? I think you'll find a note book and pencil here," opening a drawer of the typewriter. Helen knew that Warren dictated rather fast, but as she saw the girl's hand tremble she read the letter slow ly. It was a short letter that Warren had left out on the desk for her to use as a test. When the girl went to the machine to transcribe her notes, Helen looked over some papers, so that she would not feel she was being watched. She was a rood typist, for the let ter was well typed and spaced, the only mistakes being a couple of typo ' graphical ones, due to nervousness. On the back of the letter Helen made a note of the girl's name and address, her experience, and her own impression about her: "Neat, will ing, appropriately dressed." "There're a few other* I must see before engaging any one," murmured Helen, embarrassedly, "but I have your address, and will let you know." The girl looked disappointed. She had plainly hoped for a decision. As she went out the office boy, who was much Interested in the proceed ings, promptly ushered in the next applicant With the first glance Helen knew that she did not like this girl. Just the way she sat down and looked about showed her assertiveness. She plainly resented Helen, and did not trouble to conceal it. But her experience and her refer ences were excellent. She took the letter, which Helen purposely dic tated rather fast, without a sign of nervousness, and transcribed it quick ly and accurately. There was not even a typographical error, and yet on TUESDAY EVENING, have another such letter as this. It is written by a lovely, cultured, gentle lady, full of tact and kindliness, who asks for help in solving a problem to which no wisdom has yet found the key. This woman has a son to whom she Is devoted and a grandchild that she adores. She would gludly love her daughter-in-law, too, but the daugh ter-in-law repulses her at every turn. Hhe Is not evenly civilly polite to the mother-in-law, but criticizes her and sneers at her, and maintains toward her an attitude that Is a covered In sult in Itself. The man loves his wife, but he loves his mother also, and he Is made so miserable by liis wife's conduct toward his mother that it has seriously affected his health. The mother fears that he will die in the atmosphere of such an unhappy home, and she asks what I think she had beßt do. My advice to her is to pack her trunks and leave her son's house Im mediately. Fortunately, this woman has plenty of money, but even if a woman had to go to the poorhouse from het son's house I should still urge her to go rather than stay In a home where she was a bone of strife and the source of discord. This may seem a hard saying. But when does motherhood over flinch from the cross when, by sacrifice, It can secure the good of those it has borne in travail of body and must so often cherish In travail of spirit? And It is the wonder of love that which we give we keep. The woman who Btays in her son's home, making perpetual friction there for him, may lose some of his reverence and affec tion, but the mother who sublimely re nounces all for his happiness remains forever a revered saint to his vision. It may seem hard to her to go away from one she loves so dearly, but In another house she will be nearer to him than she would be under the same roof with him, with a spiteful daugh ter-in-law always Interposing her watchful suspicions between them. Mother-In-I.nw Should Fllrolnate Her self From Home Unhappily, there is no panacea for changing a selfish, narrow, jealous daughter-in-law Into a broad and no ble woman who is capable of appreciat ing the fact that next to her own mother her husband's mother is the woman whom it is her duty most to i the back of the letter Helen wrote: | "A good stenographer, but think she would be very assertive." Helen had neard the outer door open and close several times and knew that there were other girls waiting. The one who entered now was a most frivolous young person with a very large black hat,* a very narrow black skirt, quantities of puffed hair and a pert, powdered tiose. >ot Desirable "But I—Mr. Curtis didn't answer any letters except from those who'd had experience in legal work," ex claimed Helen puzzled, when the girl admitted that she had never been in a lawyer's office. "Oh, I was sent by the Wilson Em ployment Agency." "But how did they know Mr. Cur tis wanted a stenographer?" for War ren had spoken of answering no let ters from any agency. , "I guess they wrote under some girl's name. They do sometimes." That this was exactly what had been done was proven by the next three applicants, who admitted they were all from Wilson's Agency. In marked contrast to these young and inexperienced girls, there now entered a woman of about thirty-five. She was small and painfully thin, her rather sharp features angular to the point of gauntness. The clothes of some of the others had looked worn, yet Helen had not had this impression of desperate need. No, it was not the clothes, and certainly nothing that she said, for her answers were most reserved. She had had two years' experience in legal work, and many years in wholesale hardware. She took the letter and transcribed It accurately. She said or did nothing different from the others, and yet, from the moment she entered, Helen had felt the air charged with a curious tense ness. When she gave her name. Agnes Middleton, Helen remembered her letter. It had been one of the best. And now, as she repeated the set phrase about having to "see one or two others," the woman dropped her eyes and Helen saw that her hands were clenched. With a strained smile of assent, but without a word, she rose to go. "Wait," Helen opened her purse, "you won't be offended If I give you your carfare? It must take a great deal If one goes to many places." Besides a couple of bills, there was only a fifty cent piece and three pennies in Helen's purse. She hand ed the woman the half dollar. "No," drawing back with a deep flush. "I —I haven't any change." "Well take this anyway, your time coming down here is worth that much." Then suddenly, to Helen's aston ishment and dismay, she turned ■away, burled her face in her hands and burst into tears. It was an embarrassing moment Helen stood awkwardly by the desk not knowing what to do or say. But quickly Miss Middleton recovered herself, her sobs ceased as suddenly as they had come. "I wouldn't have broken down be fore a man," she murmured, as she turned toward the door. "No—no. wait!" tensely. "Are you —have things been 7ery hard?" The woman nodded. She could not trust herself to speak. "Tell me," H»len Insisted. "You can tell a woman, vou know, you know." Bhe hesitated a moment and then said simply; "I spent tny last five cents to come here. I was going to walk back." Little by little Helen got the story from her. She had been a stenog rapher since she was eighteen, and lhad references from everywhere she had worked. But now—well, every ]one wanted younger and more attrac tive girls. And this had been a hard winter. All the big lirms were laying off help. The employment agencies and typewriter offices were crowded with applicants. There were a hun dred girls for every position—and always the more attractive «nd pros perous looking ones were engaged. For the last six months she had had only two weeks of substitute work. She fiad sold or pawned everything, and was now living in a six-dollar-a month hall room, getting her meals ion an alcohol stove. She had decided Ito try for one more day, and then— love and cherish. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, nor. can you convert a stingy, venomous little woman Into a big and generous one. So the only thing the mother-in-law can do under such sad circumstances is to eliminate herself. That saves her son, at least, from perpetual nagging from his wife, and the sorrow of seeing his mother suffer from humiliations and Insults from which he Is powerless to protect her. Sometimes when the friction of daily life together Is re moved it is possible to establish a truce with the daughter-in-law, so that It makes it possible for the son to visit his mother in peace and without precipitating a family row. But al ways it is best for the two women not to dwell under the same roof, and wise are those who never make the fool hardy experiment There are two strange things in this antagonistic attitude that so many women take toward their husbands' mothers. The first is the Incomprehen sibility of any woman having so little sympathy toward a fellow woman as to want to separate her from the child that she has suffered for, sacrificed for, and who Is the very bone of her bone and flesh of her flesh. Yet you see mothers with sons of their own treat ing their husbands' mothers as they pray God no other woman may ever treat them. Wlvea May Lose LOT* of Their Husbands by Nagging The second thing that la strange is that any woman could be fool enough to take such a risk of alienating her husband from her as to be cruel to his old mother and drive her out of her own son's house. A man would have to be the lowest dastard on earth not to resent that with everv fibre of his being, and though he may, for the sake of peace, let his mother go in silence or sit In silence while she Is mistreated. It Is something that he never forgives his wife. She has laid the axe to the root of his respect and affection for her. Remember that, you young wives, when you make your husband's mother unwelcome in your homes. Ten million beautiful sirens could not wean your husband from you so quickly, and so effectually, as your unklndness to that poor old gray-headed woman going with wet eyes and an aching heart from her son's door. well, there was always the river. She told the story simply, with no note of melodrama. It was merely a sordid, grim story of a woman's strug gle in a big city. Helen was appalled. She was frightened, terrified. She had never come in touch with this phase of life. She had, of course, seen the sensa tional newspaper headings of women who had committed suicide because they could not find work. But they had been only newspaper headings, and she had thought them colored and exaggerated, if not wholly un true. But here was the grim reality. She knew too that this woman had had no intention of telling this story. There had been no appeal to her sym pathies, and there was none now. The office boy opened the door and looked in inquiringly. "There are others waiting to see you." apologetically, and again she started to go. "I'm afraid I've taken too much of your time." Again Helen stopped her. "Walt," slipping into her shabby handbag a two-dollar bill. "I am sure you can do Mr. Curtis' work. Go back to your room and rest. Get a good, nourishing dinner, a good breakfast' and be down here at 9 o'clock to morrow morning. "No, I'll not tell Mr. Cutris." in answer to her unspoken question. "I know you'd rather I wouldn't. Your yvork will stand on Its merits." And then to protect her from the curious glances of the others Helen went with her to the outer door and nodded a cheerful, matter-of-fact "Good morning." Mi lllir OF PEE TOP SKIRT Good For the Tailored Suit or Wear With Separate Waists ft jl 8183 Peg Top Skirt, 22 to 33 waist. Every variation of the skirt that givet the peg top effect is to be smart for the 1 spring and summer. Here is one that can ; be laid in plaits at the back or gathered as _ may be found more desirable, and finished at the high or the natural waist | line. It is made all in one piece but, since j no material is wide enough to cut it 1 without joinings, the straight edges must be seamed together and it is the part of the dressmaker to make these seamings where they will be least noticed. Usually the preference is given to the sides. The skirt is a good one for the tailored suit and for wear with odd waists, for any material that can be finished in tailored style. The front edges are overlapped and the closing is made invisibly beneath tht plait at the left side of the front. For the medium size, the skirt will re quire 3V6 yds. of material 27 in. wide, 2% yds. 36 or A 4, 1H yds. 54. The width at the lower edge is 1 yd. and 16 in. The pattern of the skirt 8183 is cut in rises from 22 to 32 inches waist measure. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of this paper, on receipt of ten centa. Bowman's sell May Man tun Patterns, 1 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH IA Rousing s of e Bargains For Wed. Only! 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A big room on the second floor with a large well polished danc ing floor, tables for lunch and lock ers for the girls' hats and C9ats is the scene either of a dance or entertain ment of some sort during the noon hour every day. A program varying each day during the week gives the employes at the plant plenty of recreation after lunch. On Monday and Thursday a dance is given. This week in addition to the two dance days, a concert is given on two other days. To-day Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hoover, piano and violin, gave a program; to-morrow, R. W. Moor head. manager of the plant, gives his weekly talk on mill business and Fri day the Superbas sextet and Peerless quartet, composed of boys and girls employed at the mill will give the con cert. A minstrel show is planned for March 19. It will be given in the evening and the members of the troup will le mi 1 employes. Yesterday several of the girls com plained because the new material was delayed by the storms, and odds and ends had to be worked over. They stopped at noon; at 3 o'clock the ma terial arrived. This afternoon, several of the girls were back asking for Jobs. 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