| Show i Dorothy Dorothy Dixs Dix's Letter Box Bo I SHALL THE RICH OLD MAID FLOUT CONVENTION AND PROPOSE PROPOS MARRIAGE GIRLISH SEVENTEEN WHO WANTS TO MARRY YOUNG NINETEEN CAN A MANS MAN'S LOVE BE REKINDLED D DEAR EAR r EAR DOROTHY DIX I DIX I am M a old maid I have hate never neur married mat ne because I suspected su that every ovelT man who came CIUllO c about me wanted wanto my money and because m Dl relatives Impressed lit upon mo me that I J woul would bo be the victim ot of A ft fortune hunter bunter It I didn't out Lately Laty I haTe have decided that It Is I better to take tak taka tata a chance chanco on that than live tho the lonely less life I do which la Is bound to get ret more lonely d dand and more drear as us I grow groVo gro older td Among my ta m acquaintances la Is a fine middle middle- aged man cultured Interesting very Tory congenial In Ii all Ills his tastes to mine but who has never In because he ho lacks the tho money maUng t Instinct I would lao Ino ll o very Tery much to marry him hin but he ho will never r propose 10 o o mo mo although ho he Ilk and have been Intimate friends friend frienda tue me very Tery much Vwe e for Ears bEcause my mone money makes maks a barrier be- be be a teen Been us I have han a n notion to flout float the conven 7 tione and make mako him hm a Co proposition Why should his pride and a silly Billy custom keep koep us IS frob fm bring being b ing bapp T I Would It bo be very shocking hockin v I u It I j popped the Question to him SPINSTER I mx VIX Answer and heaven send you the luck your deserve Go to it t sister make fight for your In In- In for having the courage to a stead of ebini the victim of a silly that make mak until he lie hap hap- happens happens us tie pretend thet a woman never thinks of ef a man pens to slice bce her to apologize for in your taking tho So far tar as thero being an thine 0 in case ou au ate ale doing a 0 tint fine brave thing The Theman Thiman man cannot ask uk you OU to Darr marry him because e hIs bis sense Bengo of honor will wilt not pet pet-ailt him to seem to seek stok to be he a It sort of o pensioner pensionEd on you And An while he ho has no mont money to 10 ghe gie gi- gi e you ho be has baa tho things of the spirit to lavish YO yoi that aie alt worth orth mote mOle than money Without hm JOU ou would be a lonel od Woman ornan In a lonely house You 7 rould Tind no sure plea lIt l travel tl-avel or In any solitary amusement With lum litin you turn j empty house Into a a home and ou two can cai ver the tho earth Ith th every pleasure e doubled by a pleasant corn com rT can cen spend her money in no noway noway A rich yoman in my opinion way in which che sho will NIH get so ao much out of ef it as a In marrying the man she wanti which the feminine Th ro Is e no more cruel oruel wrong under bound by the old traditions trat tl-at forbade sex x l labors than beIng mate to openly ard and that made a woman the te right fI to select her m her do all her maneuvering to get a hus husband under cover cever Every woman kiowa k 1 the man mall she ahe want wants to ta marry and Inasmuch as aa every wife is ten hn t n times as U much married as aa her husband la Ia It ic IG h she who should be the r out cut out not he Of or course withIn v a few years yean It I Is la going to be Just Juat a much a commonplace for a woman to pop th the question to ta a aman aman and ald It women like you of is man a as It I is now for I 1 er to ta vote final means and nd position who must be the pioneers pioneer in DOROTHY DIX of the sex C C S C C CEAR EAR r EAR DOROTHY DIX I DIX I am ant a 3 young gill clil In my last icar ear of ot high school rl who Is not Kirl and my Sty mother othor considers me ma as a of ot making ft e re decision I am seventeen onteen years old and andIn andIn In love nun ith a boy bov bo abo A ho hos Ir s nineteen He tie I Is h working had and nd swing saving love for forme that may mar marl InarI soon He shows shorB his his itlo mane money In order r Be e e that I knew that wo we will toe me In p en eI a an and I assure you YO s be bo h happy not of engagement She will wiil not my My mother mothr does not approve 3 to come to seo see me and tries to break up e 1 cry r 7 10 m ins my 9 thing between een rs us Under these cIrcumstances I J SM st O my fiance once 1 in 0 a l ho hoi hOl 1 I ioe ledge L I am an an cn Pl girl eirl I should mould have m my mothers mother's sympathy and but all I get fot et is cruel orda and hard dealings against o tho Uio one oue I 10 lo e e and art ait an goIng goine to marry What shall I do B D R Answer Why 3 13 R if you will take my advice you and your boy will rut off that wedding for thre three or four years until you are arc trow up for or believe me mc matrimony id Ic a hard Job for even men and WOMen to tackle tekle It It le no pastime for children No o girl girt of ot SeH- SeH SeHl ssie l and no bov boY of nineteen are ready Teady to marry 1 Ahoy he ar arc arp 11 In a stab stall stale of o with mth minds and tastes that change what they are going to develop Into Idea VOt- VOt da dB and thea the hae hp e no and wives they are going to es nor P D kc The Tho hey bey that a gIrl gitl fanci t st t seventeen she ahe wouldn't look St at at two twenty Tile The girl that a bo boy of nineteen I Is crazy to marr marry he live hove on 0 tot hot when he is s twenty five Of course every boy and girl who are Indulging in a case cue o of calf calf- love lovo think this 1 Is ia not net true of ef them and that they are older and and different at their age from any other seventeen and old kids kida but they th y are fool fool- fooling nil ing ln themselves All humanity It Is Cut out cut of the same bolt and tife Me keep keeps a repeating reputIng Itself luelf All 11 of af us go through the measles and the mumps and the whoop whoop- whooping Jog ing cough and having a eaton ps-eaton for chocolate eclairs and being In love loveIn loveIn loveIn In our teens and most of ot us get safely o 0 over er them and nd look back and laugh upon our youthful eX experiences exi So use a little sense and hove have haveL A it little grain gram of or humor about ou B It R B Look the matter cutter In the face faeo V nd Id a ask k why by IOU on should be different from train all other I tV br by shouldn't lour Jour our taste change u ai other women's h have Also a k whit what iou ou would HIP 11 p on If It ou mat married a D bov boy ot of nineteen Got Get Gc sour OUr mother to show iou OU what hat It costs coats to run ron a hou house l and reflect t that growing ho bo hoi s and girls need a n lot of o good toed food Also consider er that you TOU will Ill cit out of ot all the tho fun un of girlhood If It you marry and settle settle IVon You ou will vIII be cooking and washing end and pushing a bab baby buggy bugg othet othel girls are and havIng pretty clothes and tree good And here is something else eite 01 to think waiting about about waiting wont won't hurt It will give the boy a chanc to get ahead so that you wont won't be a burden on h It will you a chinos chafes to learn 8 1 how to cook ccok and sew no so that you will be prepared prepare pr pare o to be b 8 good wife and If your love Isn't ent strong trong enough to stand a three or four years hat teat t st how Is II It going to stand tand the long test teat teate e of lift life Listen to your mother and compromise with her herTell Tell her that If she wont won't oppose your our engagement to the boy you wont won't for f or r three years That leav leave the matter In Cupids Cupid's hands DOROTHY DIX I C a a C S SD SEAR EAR MISS Will DIX DIX Will you tell me m how to reawaken tho the love lovo of a aman aman J a DEAR D man who once caled for tor me and no now cares cus car s for tor mo me no more moreT ANXIOUS Answer I There is no way A dead love I Is II deadest of all dead thIngs thIng You c cannot rekindle ashes DOROTHY DIX CopyrIght 1923 br by br Public Ledger Company |
