Show I Dorothy Dixs Dix's Dix s 's Letter Box I SETTLING A FAMILY ROW OVER NAMING THE FIRST BABY ADVICE TO A GAY YOUNG WIFE WHOSE HUSBAND PRE PRE- PREFERS FERS THE FIRESIDE SHALL HE MARRY THE BEAUTIFUL DUMB DORA WHO FAS MISS My DIX My wife Ire wants to name our baby Irl Prudence J DEAR because an ancestress or hers who had a de suite on the Mayflower or was wan Noah on the arm or wal w ODe ot of the th I lady apes In the primeval forest or did soi thin elso that she sho considers ref reflected credit crediton ereon on tho family l named Pruden Prudence e Now I Iam am for Cor prudence as lIS a feminine vIrtue but I think it is a darned mean name for a baby De Betides Its It's lt n I Joko Darning a II girl tiri pru P dence in these flapper time What say y ou on the tho subject J I L K Answer r Pardon me m fr from m refereeing aI a I I family fight over ver tho th baby tinta name tha than which there is none nn more m re bitter S save lve the th scrap over the family i w ww Wi wn teaspoon t 1 I rue 01 Li A Stal the t b bb b I b bec o lI es 1 iera lr a bone i be-i ot contention both grandparents considering DOROTHY DIX that they have c a right to bestow bostow their au f gust cust monikers upon tho helpless infant and waging i II bloody battle over the tho cradle to that End There Ther is la of o course COUrle a pretty sentiment In III names Also it tl Is more or less ot oC a badge badio ol ot respectability ax as It shows that ono one cOnies comes ot of 1 prop eole of whom one Is not ashamed But before you wish a hideous name nam on a achild child you should consider the feelings of the th defenseless little creature who is il going to t have to drag it around with him or hr her fc life It doesn't console t a boy who Is christened or to know that he is called for Cor a gentleman who signed the th Declara D lion tion oC o or was wal a colonial governor Nor does doe It make makeup Binl up to a gIrl tiri for tor bellig named Susannah or Mariah Marlah to know that the ancestor for tor whom she was named was a famous belle bell in her day tl and painted b by Stuart It Is II a crime to keep alive ugly family names They should bl b permitted to die Out as soon loon as possible and It is idiotic to put fancy brands on n children because became they never It Institutes a deadly grow up to them Moreover son You would never ver notice that a child was 10 o deadly commonplace and stupid if he wire were not ot named Browning or Whistler T or Abraham Lincoln And surely anyone any one lacks a wb who names a n baby Lily or Dove Dovo or Violet tor Cor they invariably turn out to bo big ble tat Cat ladies with triple chins whose lowery flowery names name make them ridiculous Equally grotesque is it to name namo children atter atler the flown bleh-flown heroes and hero hero- heroInes Ines of novels and plays which happened to be bo popular when they th to be born It makes th victims of romantic mas mu writhe as many a freckle faced two fisted little Valentino can an testify A good rule rul in naming the bay Is to stick to some good plain commonsense name with no frills to it and above all to consider how the first name jib Jibes with the last nam Sometimes a Christian name and a make a human jok joke Sometimes they swear at each other Pick but a name that runs trippingly on on the tongue and that's that is to the ear for f r Shakespeare to the contrary theres there's a lot In a name It takes akes a mental and physical gIant to get away with the tho name nan I I r Percy for lor instance e DOROTHY DIX I MISS DIX I DIX I hue have been manI married d two year My and andI DEAR I are very pry fond Cond of each other and get alone together beautifully except on one point I am nl very gay cay and fond tood ot oC parties and dancing and theatres and w would uld like to BO go somewhere every eve nIgh I lie H Is quiet and likes to stay at home home home- The result Is that we v are aro always a fight about whether we w shall do as I want to todo do or as he wants to do Which ot o us is In the tho right YOUNG WIFE Neither And both It is equally bad for a foung couple to run around too much or orto to stay at home too much Every married couple needs ao clet they need and amusements but they should take them the In broken doses Every man who marries a young y ung girl should remember that Just being married to t him isn't a perpetual picnic and fun for r anybody Nor Is I it sufficient amusement for her hr to her days das In h tasks with Jut Just the th thrilling thought that hi ho Is coming homo hm I in the evening for her hel reward Neither Is there particularly In through a long lone evening watching bini hinl read the th paper and on a pipe e She Sh needs lse Something outside the th home Something amusIng diverting that she he can look forward to and look back upon up with pleasure while she is about her and and baby ten tending On the other hand th the wife should remember that her Jer roan man wor s shard hard all da day that ho comes homo hOme mentally and physically worn 11 0 01 and that t the th peace and quiet of or own Is II thin 1 craves most mOlt In all the world Furthermore she should remember that he h- h needs thil rest reat and that the th man who goes gou back to his work after eight or r ten hours hourI sleep js 1 about 0 SO per cent c nt more efficient and is going to outdistance the th man who has bun dancing half the th night and whose stomach is by the un midnight lupper uppers and drink Therefore she Ibe I is a wise wis who most mOlt oC o h her r amusements at hen parties and matinees and amt who doesn't drat drag husband out to many evening functions So Young Wife why not triko a tOm promise on the amusement question Why not make a bargain with your yur hu hus husband band to stay at home horn six evenings a week with him if hi will make a rea real t honit party for yu you on n the th seventh sev nth 7 That will save sav friction and argument and give you ou a escort Instead ot of one who goes grumbling and protesting And It will give h m the reit ho needs Deeds and enjoys DOROTHY DIX EAR DIX Thota Is a a certain gIrl tirl pretty as a 0 peach R D we t and amiable who fas fascinates me I J cannot keep cep away from brains in her bel lovely little bead ber but sh hasn't an ounce of reads anything She never thinks ot of anything but the tb most everyday She Sh doesn't understand anything that Is or have any appreciation of any thin that isn't bot material W I talk to her as I J would to a achild achild e t an idea in common I can only child Y Yet t I am always thinking about her ber always longing for her I this attraction that she has tor Cor m I when I am away from Crom her la Is merelY physical al Will wm It last talt Would I 1 be b aCe sat in marryIng Mr herF I F A N I Answer It is because sa ao many men mistake physical attraction for II that we have havI ao s many faith I husbands and so t many divorces Phy Physical attraction is the th lived h liv d thing In the I world It dies die of satiety It perishes of a II few fw pounds p und of f fat I or a bOlle er r two tw It Is slain by a double chin or r a gray hair I and when that la I gone nothing remains The Th hu of f hap ha I that is built on thrills Is bound to topple down be it has o l n but but a gusty sigh or two tw writes finis to the chapter ot o romantic love lo jhen como come comradeship companionship friendship If It the marriaGe exist between persons of o the I II to be b a can only mO Il the th man and woman must speak I If love lv is ia to t endure um language care car for the th same me thing They must mt and entertain each ch other Boredom breaks up more homes than all the th combined vice It you cant can't talk to a girl ciri about Mie be books book you read th problems ambitions dont don't marl marry lier ber F A N and r rIt of the th da day your real hopes for It If you do In lIve five year ears lime tim you will 11 he be out hunting somo woman who can really understand you ou The pretty prelly trick the artless Ignorance that are aro cunning In n a oun girl tiri are stupidity fn n mature woman and unbearable in II a wife Pass Pall UD up your beautiful moron for a woman with gence a woman who makes make you sit up when she talks if you want a wife of whom wham you will never ever tiro tir DOROTHY DIX CODY right by Public |