Show I I I Dorothy Dixs Dix's Letter Box I LOVE TO HOLD THEIR WIVES WHY NOT TELL HUSBANDS HOW FOR A CHANGE THE YOUNG WIFE WHOSE HUSBAND FORCES HER TO BE ENTIRELY IDLE HOW TO TELL WHEN A MAN IS IN LOVED LOVE do write writ so BO much about WI hes 3 tr T BAR DOROTHY Why DIX you DEAR D Ing to hold bold their love It ever occur to people that a 8 wife sets gets just All ne bored with hor bor ae be doos with moet heI ber more so Sometimes she Is a oven are aro home borne all day and au too their husbands have bave diversions at the office and andI elsewhere and a 8 few hours at home In the evening the It seems to be to them I general are opinion that a 0 woman remaIns In love with I her husband lueband regardless ot of his habits and aDd whether the house whether whether be h is tidy tidy- around plea ant grouchy or 44 he Is entertaIning entert or attractive vivacious Also that a wife should be and ready to humor her bor husband In order to hold hUB hl whir while he be doesn't need to do an 30 thine to hold bold her ber uIt So far as s I an am concerned my doesn't stay In 10 lo a 0 with me ins when I act my natural self and the way I feel he be can just look out fOI gi somebody else I hae e often otten been bored Ith him wives with and disgusted with him So are other DOROTHY DIX their husbands at times limes So not tell husbands bow to make their m es contented and give them a litti little of ot the romance they crave P 11 i H II B n Yea have hav said a true thing Wives do doget doget doget Yea verily sister l ter you get jut just as al a fed M up with their husbands as 8 husbandS do with w theIr wives wives and many a husband huband would get gt the th jolt of his hla life 1 If he h knew his hll hi wife's w real opinion of him A slouchy man witha with beard his face and spots on his a two day days stubble of on clothes clothe II Ia a as and all as an object to a woman as any lady with cold cream on her face and a soiled oiled kimono and curl papers la Is to a man It Ie 10 Just as 88 much a man mans man's busu- busu fascInated as it is 1 a wife's to keep her ness nen n to keep his hll hi WIfe husband enthralled hy hr then Is the loud pedal put on tho wife's itc's Ires part In making snaking a hap happ home and keeping marriage a going concern Simply because e lIt In 4 the words of President Cleveland It Is a condition and not a theory that confronts us There are certain amenities ot of that roust must be practiced to snake make It a success and men wont won't take the trouble and make the th effort eUort or even realize the t necessity 6 of practicing them so there Is always a hope that women will Also It 0 Is more Important to a woman to protect her ber home borne than it is to a man for forth the home borne means not only the th 10 lose lo e nest It means hei hel Meal ticket et as v r ell eli It mans not only her happiness s but hel hei physical to that the she will not make mak an effort to tomake tomake For a we woman w mn man say eay ay make herself attractive to her hr husband hu band is III I to take a dishonest advantage of her situation She Sh would have to te make a mighty strenuous effort to be b agreeable Ir if she the got along with her boss She dally daily does things she hc doesn't doe nt feel like doing In order to Get along in society So It seems eema to me that it Is an obliga obliga- obligation obligation tion of honor to try to please the one man who Is legally bound to stand tand by you DOROTHY DOROTHI DIXS DIX I S S S S S SD SEAR EAR MISS What DIX DIX Whit do you think of a man who does doe not allo alloa J H DEAR D his hi KB fe ICo who Is not et tw twenty two sears ers ar old and who I s Is h and strong and vivacious to make any acquaintances or to go td ta parties not even CT n to occupy herself at home homo or outside but just to sit up lip at home horn with nothing to do and watt walt for tor his hit return My husband knew when B e v were ere engaged that I was used to a atthe life and to basing ha my time ell eIl occupied Now I have nothing to do and I feel as If it I would go so crazy Do ou not th it Is danl dangerous rous for tor a woman to be absolutely idle with nothing to do but to think and think and build au all castles durine the lonesome hours of a lonesome day day VERY TROUBLED Answer I 1 do indeed Troubled It Is true that Satan finds find work or eor idle hands hand to do and he Invariably gets on the job when a woman has hat nothing to do You have only onty to read the news news- newspaper newspapers newspapers papers paper to have hav this proved to you The women who figure In the scandals are the Idle rich or the well to-do to women who live In boarding houses houie and who having nothing with which to occupy their tIme go out and hunt for trouble and trouble and find it I It is the idle women nho ho ale aie the clims of ot lounge louns lizards and tea not the hustling business businesswoman woman Vroman oman nor tho the bus busy housewife house sho ho fud the day all alt too short to do all the nork ork that is piled up It Is If the women with nothing to do but tl think and think and think about cs who are ar the tho neurotic Invalids who enrich doctors doctor and fin fill sanitariums It Is li the tha Idle Idio women nho ho have the leisure in which to who that their husbands do not under under- understand understand stand them and are art not their soul mates 1 ou never hear of ot the woman who has Ius to 10 cook rook and sew and patch and scrub for tor half a dozen doren children it if her bu husband band Is la her real affinity or not Work Is I the th salvation of women just Juit all as a much as al a It Is I of men And any husband who doesn't see aee that his hit wife wit haa has plenty of real constructive work to work do-work do w rk that counts count and that s tl-eIs tl c cIs Is responsible re pon for doing work that keeps k ps her hands hand and her mind fully occupied occupied-It occupied it not only doing her a deadly wrong but he h IS l steering his hi matrimonial boat straight for the rocks rock DOROTHY DIX DOROTHY Please DIX DIX Please gle gise a rule ot of thumb for tor telling when D BEAR a man Is In love QUAERE Answer t There Ther is I just Juit one Infallible rule and that tl-at is when a m ln pops the question and names the th wedding day All other signs are worthless Put no faith in words word In oaths of devotion that are not tacked backed up uv by a bona tide fide license A man may come to see co you yon for tor se seen seven en years and mean nothing more than that ho finds 1 0 ou good company and sour lour our house a comfortable place to pend his e ei e He may look tok sentImental and talk blk sentiment that always stops Just short of popping the th question Pay no heed he d to t any Luch manifestatIon If ho he h really loves evel love you and wanta want you youtie he will wile ask you to be his his and and that is all thera ther i is II to that DOROTHY DIX 1924 24 by Public Ledge Ledee Company |