The Evening Independent from Massillon, Ohio • Page 5

INDEPENDENT Oct. 20, 1944 KATE CHANGES Effective. money order fees which were in effect prior to March 925 will be restored, fees for Insured and collect on delivery mail will be decreased arid fees for special de- will be increased. RENEW Beatrice Fstirfax (Copyright. King Peaturei jno.) LEVY Mother's Middle-Aged Fledglings The tragedy of the girl, not growing- any younger, on the parent stalk, as Shakespeare sums it.

up, Is familiar to all of The possessive mother who doesn't want her daughter to marry because the girl, is a convenient household pet and-may be depended upon to do all.the chores arpund the house, seems to fae one. of those tragic figures we take' for granted. I've known.scores of them and so have i you -In my--early girlhood a family Miss Lutie, MUs Molly' of whom 1 had been pretty'girls. But the suitors 'who ring the doorbell had been well "snubbed by. their, mother, a 'regulai' top sergeant of a 1 woman.

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them In those days. Mother lay in'bed half the day and lived the life of She advised her daughters which dress to wear. She had most of her meals in bed served on Spode china with exquisite delicacy. And Mother had a gorgeous time on the wreck of the lives of her three spinster daughters. girls were over 50 when she died, and they were like-a group of sheep without a shepherd.

They didn't know what dresses to wear, as Mother always decided these questions for them. They didn't know what decisions to make about their property, as the grim old figure, propped up in her bed, had an uncanny knowledge of finance. When she died, naturally the "girls" lost half their money. I'd forgotten about these mummified fledglings until a letter came to my column the other day telling of a similar situation. mother I'm recalling would never allow the daughter to go to parties or mix with boys and girls of her own age.

And now thai the writer of the letter, recalls the tragedy of Miss Lutie, Miss Molly, Miss Ginny, is on in years, her mother derisively calls her an "old maid," and makes fun of her before friends. It seems there's an elderly bachelor in the offing. I've advised this girl to take the bit in her teeth and elope with him, even as Elizabeth Barrett, over 40 years of age, eloped with Robert Browning, and lived happily forever afterwards. As the late Charlotte Perkins Oilman once said in one of her books, it's a pretty low order of hen that eats her own eggs; some hens, do however. CRASH KILLS BOY CLEVELAND.

John Zarley, 16, was killed almost instantly and Kenneth Peters, 15, his companion, with minor cuts yesterday when the 2 boys smashed into the side of a Motor Express tractor- trailer in South Russell village Geauga county. PLAN COURT OF HONOR In connection with the council- wide court of honor of the Massillon Boy Scout council, which will be held Monday evening, Nov. 6, preparations will be completed at a councilwide board o'f review Monday evening at 7:30 in the scout office. All troops of the council having advancement are asked to make an immediate report to the council office to enable their seouts to be included in the review. M.

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