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Michigan, November 21, 1925

Love promises a happy marriage … the building of a dream home … rosy-faced children to bring joy during the springtime of life and to take away the pangs of loneliness in old age. But there’s the drugery of being a wife and a mother – the washing of dishes … the cooking of meals … the worries of rearing children … and the specter of divorce.

Ambition promises to bring the world to the feet of the modern girl … fame, renown and publicity … her name in the flickering electric signs of Broadway … wealth, freedom and independence. But there’s the other side …. a life without love … the loneliness of spinsterhood … no one to share joys and sorrows.

Michigan, November 20, 1925

How Barbara solves the “flapper problem,” how she decides whether a career with fame and independence is more to be desired than love and marriage – these are the subjects that will interest all classes of News-Palladium readers, for every year millions of girls and their parents must solve the same dilemmas.