Show t 4 r j- j Dorothy Dix Talks Talk By Uy DOROTHY DIX DIS the Worlds odds Highest Paid Woman Wiit Writer IT IS IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE TO REFORM THE MAN WITHOUT AMBITION AIT A GIRL IRL asks Would vou OU marry Iman a I man without ambition I 1 am mit in 10 love lole e with mth a n oung man loan of ot fine tine character He Is dear and 8 sweet and lovable able but he lacks energy and enterprise 1 i I-ho I has bas ins plenty of ot ability but he be is content a small I Job and n a small U salt salat- salat salary because tho work Is light and andI I the hours hoars short He always ays looks shabby because he be heI I will III not take the trouble to brush and press his clothes I or polish his shoes He Ha had bad few advantages of education I tion Uon In Ins his youth but he lie refuses to go to t night SChOOl I or read imploring books His Ills whole philosophy of ot lIfo life I Is to let well enough alone and Iud get cot through the world I with as little effort as vou ou possibly can I I I Would iou ou marry that lUnd hind ot of o a n man on the chance chance- chance i I s that vou ou tan can arouse aronso his ambition and Inspire him him l lI lr fo I r tt snake make something ot of o himself I INo i No Never Any woman who marries a man manto manto to reform h him takes a thousand to one ono shot at ata if i happiness but the woman who marries a shift shift- shiftless shift I em Y LIlA UIA less man gambles her all on a dead one that is isIs i is certain to lose out I B far bettor better to marry a drunkard ard or J a roue than a man without I my may ambition There Is 15 a I chanco chance that hat you can wean th drunkard away from froDI his bottle there is a hope that the philanderer will weary eary of his flir- flir and settle n down Into bem bein a good family man but laziness I Is tho most incurable of all vices It is ne never neer er a surface fault tb that t nay l be bo eradicated It goes to the bone BELI r me daughter no woman can inject pep into a man No Ko KoUe wife Ue can supply a spineless husband with a backbone No one can put fire Ure and Into a human bo bowl 1 of mush Thousands upon thousands of optimistic young women who Rho believed themselves miracle have halo attempted the tho impossible teat feat and every one of ot them failed ailed I the tha people leople who are born tired are all aU afflicted with willi the nil hook hook- worm or whether hether they are ara the victims of oC some mental and spiritual disease that makes it impossible for tor them to neri neM nervo e 0 themselves up to making any Uon we va do not know but we ws do know that the slothful stay slothful to the tho end end that their bodily ease case is more to them tha thing else rise on one one one e A lazy woman Is bad enough Heaven knows s but a lazy man Is the most despicable creature alive e One really has moia moie mOl e t for or an nn ener- ener porch climber or a go getter safe cracksman thin Ihm one has bas for Iman a I man who ho sits down and folds his bis hands and aud lets the opportunities of life go by him because ho he Is II too inert to grasp them YOU see Bce plenty of ot these Weary eary Willies Nearly Kearly CHI ci iy married v l is at work ork has bas one of ot these male mala hanging on to her She marries a man who vho hId Ind down on the job lob of supporting a family and when she sha qualified as the he bread and butter earner he pissed into luto a state of ot per per- per fec f ct 1 Sometimes he camouflages his belIg a slacker by refer reCer referring I Iring ring to his weak eak heart or his bad arteries but his trouble is us neer never ne er any any- anything t thing that interferes with Ith his appetite or his going to the ball bail same game ame or doing anything an else that thit he wants ants to It is just the thought of ol 1 r that shatters his Ills pool 1001 ner nen nerves os es Look about you and you willi will be at the number of ab ab- ab bodies bodies men who give up all pretense of work at middle age and settle down for their daughters to support them And you will be still more amazed at the number of husky young fellows who are aro on their old mothers and letting them take in to feed and clothe them Dont Don't join the army of shiftless mens men's wives daughter for that way certain misery lies There areail of the seven seven fifty different varieties of bad husbands but the worst of the lot is the lazy husband Is no other fault Cault under the sun that thal a n man could have hale that would T TREnD so thoroughly disgust an industrious ambitious woman oman as for him just to be simp simply no account She could forgive him an thing than she could ills His being too lacking In energy even e cn to try to climb the Iho lad lad- ladder ladder der dec And this is not so much because the wile wife of the tho ho unsuccessful man must suffer from his failure but because the flame that scorches a womans woman's Cry ery soul is to be ashamed of or her husband Somehow v in the lie feminine ps there Is la something which demands that a woman oman should be bo prou proud of o her bel husband that sho shall be able to look up to him We are all built that way vay and when hen we l cannot do that fate has hns ghen given us the bitterest drop in J e cup to drink No wife's love long survives the knowledge that her husband cannot hold his own with other men and that he Is too lazy to strive Tor the prizes of life too fond of his slothful ease tase to work ork even for her bier and her children She soon comes to despise him as we all despise a quitter IF OF I F YOU want to be happy marr marry a live lle wire Marry a man who ho Isn't afraid ot f work and w who ho is determined to have hae hal ha e all that a bold heart hearl can crave and a strong hand take and anti who will get it for vou ou ou lie He will hold our respect He Ho will bo he perpetually in lei to oi 01 and keep you alert alen trying to keep heep up with him Dont Don't marry a purposeless ambitionless nan who ho will boie boio bOI e vou OU 1 to death of whom hom vou ou 1 will III bo be ashamed and who will drag lou vou ou down by his 0 own n Lla DOROTHY HY DIX |