Garden City Telegram from Garden City, Kansas • Page 8

DEAR ANN LANDERS: I am an officer in Job's Daughters and we are having a big dance in a couple of months. I want to ask Chuck who is one of the nicest, most mannerly fellows in the whole school. All the kids are crazy about him. I was very surprised when my mother told me I should not ask him because it might injure my reputation. Chuck lives in a foster home and this is what my mother has against him.

She says all kids in foster homes have parents who aren't married, or they are alcoholic, or in. jail, or they don't want the kids. According to her, the family is trash no matter how you look at it. Is she right? I am just sick over DISAPPOINTED Dear So: It's not true that all kids in foster homes have parents who are not married, alcoholic or in jail. Some foster children are orphaned, or they have only one parent who is unable to care for them.

Even if the boy did come from the type of home your mother described, it would not necessari- Your Problems by Ann Landers ty mean that he is no good: Kids who have unfortunate backgrounds need acceptance and kindness from people like you to prevent people. like your mother from breaking their spirit, DEAR ANN LANDERS: I just finished reading the letter from the woman who screamed bloody murder because her husband retired and is now sticking to her like glue. Some people don't know when they are well off, Eight out of 10 wives in the U.S. would be thrilled to trade places with that woman. Me included.

Ask her how she would like to sit alone every night dering where her husband is and what he is doing. Ask her how she would like to' worry about whether he turned over in a ditch because he. was drunk. could write a book about what I've gone through with husband who let me know early in our marriage that he had no interest 'in me, his home or his children. Whenever I hear a wife complain because her husband spends too much time 1 Children's Party Cake Make this the easy way--with cake and frosting mixes plus a decoration of ballons fashioned from pastel mints and candy strings.

Opening Soon House of Mei in the Warren Hotel Building Phone BR 6-8104 Hair Dressers: Coeta Vanatta Lynn Baker 0. around the house I wish I could tell her how lucky she is. Do it for me, will you SHE GOT THAT I DON'T HAVE? Dear What: Maybe she does not have anything that you don't have. Maybe her husband has something that your husband doesn't have. Namely the maturity to accept responsibility.

DEAR ANN My sister and I just learned two facts which really: knocked us out. (1) Dad was married for three years to another woman before he married Mom. (2) Sis was adopted when she was two months old. When we told Mom how let down we were she said she wasn't trying to keep anything from us. She said it didn't occur to her to mention these "details." Sis cried for an hour when she heard the news.

Now both wonder what else is We being kept from us, I have feeling. I'm adopted, too. Are we justified in feeling betrayed, or is Mom right? HURT Dear Hurt: You and your sister should have been told about the previous. marriage and adoption many years Had you grown up with ago, the knowledge it would have had no significance. This way, it looms large and important in your minds and has shaken your confidence in your parents.

Sorry, but they made a big mistake. If you have trouble getting along with your parents if you can't get them to let you live your own life, send for Ann Landers' booklet, "Bug. ged By Parents? How to Get More Send 50c in coin with your request and a' long. stamped, self-addressed envelope. Ann Landers will be glad to help you with your problems.

Send them to her in care of the Garden City Telegram, enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Engagement Is Announced Mr. and Mrs. 0. Kuhn, 1001 Gillespie have receiv.

ed news of the engagement of their granddaughter, Jennifer Gail Eggen, Lakewool, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Eggen, to Thomas James Reiva, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A.

Reiva, Redvale, Colo. Miss Egen is a graduate of Lakewood High School and is attending Colorado University. Her sorority is Delta Delta Delta. Her fiance is a graduate of Norwood High School and a candidate for graduation from CU in January, when he will enter Officer Candidate School. An early spring wedding is bryant Heating Air Conditioning tronie filters, humidifiers.

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