Show DOROTHY DIX TALKS r h DIX lie he Worlds World's Highest raid Pid r ld Woman Writer eThic IF YOU CANT CAN'T LIVE IN PEACE WITH YOUR FAMILY PUT 1000 MILES BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR RELATIONS AND SEE SEE HOW YOU'LL LOVE THEM THEM- THEM FROM A DISTANCE If ft Or K of ot the tho pathetic things on earth is the Ibe unnecessary unhappiness o r e w ii e endure The big heartbreaking no one may escape c Time The loss ot of those we 10 love lose e Frustrated hopes Disappointments Despair These se are the lne Inevitable portion of hU hu manItY inanity and there Is 1 dignity In me meeting them with courage T But to have your life poisoned by the ll J e sting of a 0 gnat to b be done d ne to 1 death d ath by pin pins s- s BB ks to be robbed of your happiness bY y different mat Is l sek R petty Pt y aggravations that II a B i B tot ter 2nd and one erie cages agu alike Against the fu fu- fu P pw of It and Ignominy of 9 it iRiL H Lr- Lr And curiously enough we neither en en- en en 5 dupe dure du e with fortitude these little petty trou trou- troubles trou y K bles that spoil the peace of our days nordo nordo nor do 10 we w try to seek ee a remedy for them BK SK S AIE family troubles for tor example ample which are areK real heartbreakIng never never- K S e responsible for more tt ending misery than anything else In the orld A ADOROTHY together by some fleet fleet- fleeting DOROTHY DIX man and a woman drawn ing log physical attraction get married When that thatis thatIs thatis is over they find that they thoy have not one thing on earth In common Their tastes differ on ever everything thing from politics to pie Their e emery ery idea and opinion Is js antagonistic They rhey do not think the same thoughts thO or speak the same language They may be people ot of o the highest Integrity models ot of all the vir vir- virtues virtues tues They may mar try to do their duty nobly and with self sacrifice But their home Is a 11 dark and bloodY battleground whore where they fIght lent over bone boue and they make life a hell on earth every topic like dogs os 0 over er a tor or each eath other Sometimes It Is parents and children who cannot get along together Sometime a nice domestic old hen hatches out a aswan aswan aswan swan Sometimes a swan iwan find that nature has haa bestowed an ugly duckling upon her and great la I I the Cackling and the th tb 45 clucking and the picking feather around the tho barnyard S brothers and sisters cannot agrees agree They clash on every sub sub- subject subject sub under the tho sun They express their opinions ot of o each uch other with n aull nd the brutal candor of near relationship and leave each sore with frith resentment They never sit alt down to a meal without being verbally armed to the tha teeth and the th maimed sul sun Ivors feel as It If they had been through the battle battlo ot of o the Marne MR-me Sometimes there la Is just one particular member of ot a family who Is a perpetual storm dorm center and who has hag but to blow In at the doom to 10 shatter the peace and harmony of ot the household Being obliged to live with disagreeable and antagonistic people is a the greatest affliction than can possibly befall us Nothing compensates for It Not though we dwell clwell In a palace with every meal n a banquet and have everything that money can buy us Better It la Is I to dwell on a housetop or In a lodgIng lodgIng lodging ing house and eat at a quick lunch place and peace than abide abide In splendor with those who the very soul out of M us that the people who Nor are we consoled by tho the fact very are to so Impossible to live with love us ua u well enough to die for us KNOW well enough that It Is IB mothers mother's affection for us an and hu hl WE W anxiety about that makes her nag us Incessantly and hand band outI out I advice to us until wo We are ready to scream In th their Ir philosophical mo moments laws knock them for tor ments men and women realize that even their in ln them for their own good tend with which we are con con- concerned concerned concerned But It Is the result and not the theory and as 3 ou listen to the wan wall of those who cry out against un- un uncongenIal uncongenial un-L un congenial marriages and the moans of anguish of ot the In laws who I dwell under the same roof root and listen to the sounds sound of fratricidal strife t where everybody could be so BO happ happy If It they didn't have to live with each other ou wonder that so few people have the wisdom and the to apply the one sure cure for tOr their misery Which Is la to separate Apart they would be happy They I would even love each other They would get a perspective on each other others other's good qualities But living together they merely get on each others other's nerves and hate each other The old Idea that blood I thicker than water and that just because you ou happen to be born In a certain relationship to a of individuals makes make a you automatically love them and group desire their society hasn't a word of truth In It It is II not even true In the relationshIp between pa parents and children LONG as their ch children dren are young and helpless most mOlt mothers S te H- H 13 it ALONG older As A have bave an animal fondness for them But when they are often orten happens that thit a mother cannot get along In peace With her very has bas nothing in com com- common them She children She does not understand when they are grown and mon with them and she glad IS-glad enough leave home No theory has been more mere mischievous than the old conven convention ton tion that people who were of the same family had to keep on rubbed each other living together no matter how much they the wrong way nor how un unpleasant this enforced companion companionship ship was wae There I Is no sense In doing It No rhyme nor rca rca- rea reason son for it is reason no reason why you should take Aunt Jane Is Aunt Jane no B D her in your home bome and be no bored the remainder of your lIfe Ufa by her ciup should lionIA have bavo our sour nor Is there any reason why you temper 1 continually by and brothers when in the world there are plenty ot of o agreeable strangers Try the absent cure on your domestic troubles Get up and leave an unpleasant home You have no Idea how much better you will love a lot of your relatives relative when you put about a thousand miles between you and them DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1923 by hy Public Ledger Company |