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Questions of past linger today

In the the summer and fall of 1921, the Daily Record published a local Ask Me column in which a wide variety of questions were broached and answered. This is a small sampling.

Dear Ask Me: Why is it in Ellensburg that real estate men say “own your own homes,” and advocate the easy payment plan, and after a person buys a home and is trying to pay for it he has the bad luck of getting out of work and not being able to pay for his payment? Also, that he can’t find a steady job? There are several places in town that I have been in where there are more kids working than taxpayers. Why is this? — F.D.W. F.D.W: I can’t begin to answer your questions on the social conditions involved at this time. But the situation on homes is deplorable and very likely has existed and does exist. It certainly seems a shame that after a person buys a home on the long-term payments that has to give it up because he doesn’t have a job.

I believe that if a person is honestly in earnest about paying his payments and if he will explain the situation to the man he bought the property from, and will go about showing his willingness to make amends as soon as he can, any business man will not be hard-hearted enough to take the property away.

We hear a lot about this country mortgage bound, foreclosing on the widow and her several children, but I don’t thing there is as m uch of it as we hear.

As for the job, of course, there are a lot of men out of work, but the fault isn’t anybody’s except perhaps that it still belongs to past conditions. If you know of any places where more children are employed than taxpayers, report it to county authorities, as children have to, buy the law, attend some sort of school until they are 18, or else get permission from parents to work.

Dear Ask Me: Would you please give me a recipe for pickled blackberries. — Housewife Housewife: Wash blackberries and place in jars. Pour over them hot vinegar diluted with one-half part water. Add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one tablespoonful of mixed whole spices. Then seal. — Sept. 3, 1921

Dear Ask Me: I am a newcomer and lonely and want to know how I can get acquainted with a nice set of young people, both boys and girls. I am a girl, 24. — Florabelle Florabelle: The best way to get acquainted anywhere is to be friendly and pleasing to everybody you meet so they will remember you and think of you when they see you again.

Don’t be “gushy,” but just nice and ladylike.

Of course, I can’t be an open sesame to every set of younger people in town for you but can only suggest what you can do to make yourself liked. If you go to church, join the young people’s society and here you probably will meet congenial friends. It seems to me that here you should have no trouble getting acquainted with men and girls your age. With the Normal School offering an unequaled opportunity of new and strange girls like yourself, you out to find some of these girls that you can run around with. u

Bivens & Wilson, P.S.

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