Show I 1 I Dorothy Drothy D rothy Dixs Dix's Letter Box I THOUGH 00 HE SHALL HALL HE MARRY HER BECAUSE SHE LOVES HIM 1 HIM HIM- WIFE CANNOT RECIPROCATE HER LOVE THE LONELY WHO WANTS TO ADOPT A BABY HOW CAN A BOY REGAIN HIS RING FROM A GIRL WHO REFUSES TO RETURN IT BAR r AR MISS DIX I DIX I am m a ft bachelor five no years ears old I have hare a DEAR DAR D U woman friend ot of henl twenty slL with whom I hiv hae gone ion around for tor or sev sevOT oral ral I years and whom hom I hat ha hate regarded as u a a good pal and chum ana afla nothing else cl e Three weeks weeke ago tto this thi girls girl'S parents moved to a II distant state slate Tho e before they dinner and I got tot the sur sur- surprise left I took the th girl Birl to r prise ot or my loT life Ufa hen the she told me that th t she sho did ho want to go co away aay and leave roe me and nd that It If I I tolu tola her to sla stay she would be b glad lad to 0 do so 50 o use bec she loved roe me u above ever evor thing thine else els Iso I told her I I didn't care for or her har In that In ay and that the she had bettor better go eo on with her parents mit 1 ever CHr since she Bho sh wont went away sho has ha me daily lettErs toiling telling me how bow heart brokon broken an Is li without me nie and begging me o to t let her r come cometo l k to me x i Here Is ny my problem Shall I inert marry her mare her happy and make maki myself my cl or than shall i j ilove toll tell her that thU I cannot marry mury her because I do not 10 love c her and nd thus break bet ber c r heart hurt GEORGE S o DIX JIL I IAnswer Answer When Wh women take tak the Initiative In love lv making and pop jop p p n the question queston they have to A- A AL take L the th L rl riak k of f oetting the mitten And men have just 5 L 5 man does when he goe a No N to t the th women they to learn how to t spunk punk Up lp and an say fy dont don't love l v and dont don't want want just ai as women turn down a R pr p l ton tion from fr m a man for whom they do d not Ce cate c r You are arc In great creat dAnger George ot of wrecking sour lOUf whole hoi life be make love IOTO to ou ana ano o sou are nr so o nattered flattered at hewIng having a oman Ionian oman about to lose lo e your bead and do the th mo mode propose to 0 that ou are tr that Is 1 to And crimInally foolish thing thine that t II man can un poSSibly do she sho ho hint him marry a n woman whom he lie doesn't love IOTO Lots Lot ot of men mon do it it Lots Lets Lot ot of o men M n hare baT married women wom n that they know at III tho the timo wore were not suItable Wi os es for tor women thom them women who didn't belong to their strata trat ot of o womEn who bored them women they knew to be b braInless little tV twit ls But the women clung to them and cried at t the thought of o being heln parted arted from them and the poor befuddled backbone to break from the clutching hands bands h nd men didn't have tM the th away way and flee fleo from froni the tho tara and save M themselves Dont Don't be b th thit sort of f II a a weak w ak sentimental fool f ol George Gora Jutt dont don't d nt love l woman before b for you Just realize re llie this thi that If you yu v a marry her you will come corn to hate hat her after a r you yu are ar tied to tier ner t because every woman putS put her best beet be t foot foremost forem t before b for be fore the th wedding If she he doesn't you when she ehe h has got on her company clothes clothe and her h r company manners manner she he will be actually repulsive lv to you When wh n you see aee her In wrap wrapper pere per and curl paper papers and when yu you have to f put up lp u with her nerves and her temper It takes take a lot of love l v to enable anybody and especially e p a aman aman man to t stand tand matrimony And dont don't think that you will make raak the th woman happy by her ber when ou don dou t love her A shanghaIed husband Is I a poor tulo tuto tute for n II volunteer one lou ou ou will always y resent her ber having got bettor better of ot iou ou You will always feel teet te l her bei II a burden and au ou sill 1111 1 let hel hek know noV It Besides Betides chances are ar that some torn day ou au will meet the tho On Woman man and fall In love lore with he hoeSay hot hoe Say No N to the girl Birl and stick to It and dont don't worry w rry about her dying of a broken heart They never do d DOROTHY p DIX a S C X nEAR EAR MISS DIX I DIX I sin ara a woman oman of ot thirty eIght and live in the coon coun fJ coun-fJ DEAR J try but I find It very Tery lonely BS as a my any husband Is out at ork s ork all day dart dayI I ha hae ha e no children and nill Ill n neer Er haie hae e any an I am very cry cr anxious to adopt adopt one but m my husband lIl not to It 7 7 It would beI be 0 I great groat t tor for no 1110 to have a little one on to ove levand And to take care of ot Will Wilt you ou give me sour our Ideas idea about adopting a baby MRS C L li Answer An w r rI I I think Mrs Mr C L that the tho th finest finett thing that anybody can cando cando cando do Is I to take a little homeless orphaned child and to t bring It up so o that it t will never know that It fl t Is I motherless and father father l less len c Also Al o I think that Is It the th best be t paying Investment that anybody can make mak When wo get tet middle aged aeed e n e begin to lose Interest In ourselves We W know much what we w are ar going to o be and have haTt rate rat has hai dealt deai our cards card tor lor us u and we w know our future Nor Is there very much more oro that via w o 0 want tor for our lv s Then Is li when the blessing ot of childen cornea comes corn In They Thy bring new Ute life and ind gayety Into the Ur house hour They bring fresh tresh Interests t They bring hope and ambition ao so that people literally live their lives over OYer again in n their children and ana the they can look forward to their children doing ai of the tb things they would have liked to do and couldn't do e If you yu haven't any child of f your y ur own wn the th best beat thing to do Is e Isto to t get a substitute one on and adoptIng a child has ha some om over having one n of f your yur own You Yu can pick out cut a girl 0 or ora ra a boy b y and the th kind of a looking locking I child you want Instead of hav hay having ing to take tak what the th stork brought you yu And It may very vry well be that this thi child will wilt hive have fine fin talents Inherited from Its an anc that are aro ar not nt in your yur blood Dont Don't be b afraid ot of the Ur chIlds chIld's child not lovIng you or ot of o your not caring Jor It ft as a much as you yO would for or one on ot of your own Why yoi you cant can't raise ral a puppy without getting crazy over It and there ther Is li something In Uw tn cling ot of little helpless hands bandi that goes loet right to your heart and stays ita there forever So Bo It your husband opposes oppose your adopting a baby just persuade him to let you tAke tak ono one tar for a a little while on trial And whet he sees ices how bow much happier you are ar and ad what an interest it brings brines Into your life lit and when he h feels the th little soft Boft oft warm winn thing thine nestled In lila hIs arms arme he h will Trill neTer never let it go to- to 0 Come people hesitate to t adopt apt children hll i- i in n fearing f that they may turn out Well W ll that la Is the th risk rl k people take tak with their lr own children We W have havo hav to U take tak a chance on n everything In ill life lite and no n more adopted d children turn out ut badly than do the children given u by nature Bring a child Ip P In the th way It should go g and ft rt will not depart from It no n matter whether Jt It t Is your yur own wn flesh fleth and blood or r a strangers stranger DOROTHY DIX 5 C C C CP DAR MISS DIX DIX-A DIX A girl Irl asked me nr to let l t her try on my class ring PEAR P and she kept It I have written her several letters and asked be be b for or it but she ah refutes reuis to return It I prize my rIng rint vcr very highly and am a anxious to get Rt It back Can you tell 11 me how to do so soT TAD Answerl An awe r I There Is nobody nb dy moro more mr d Tad Ta than the th girl Irl who wh makes her sex ex x a cloak ct ak for f r her hr dishonesty n sty Many girls girl graft on men because they know that men m n have hav not nt the th nerve to treat them m as 31 a they del deserve rye to be b treated treat Thle ThI Thu girl has ha stolen tolen your ring and mean means to t keep kep It and anil the th only way WilY you yu can get gt i It I r Is to t write writ her hr word that she he sh returns It to t yu you by a cir cr c r tain tairi date you yu will wear swear w ar out ut a warrant against her chargIng her with hiving haying gotten goods gds under un r talc false pretenses pretin DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1924 1 24 by Public Ledger Campau Company I a aAN AN EDITORIAL BY DAVIES I t tOUT OUT OF Sara Bernhardt wu was Wk one of the women of her h r age ir so GO too but of the tir different genIus is 1 I 1 neanor Duse Du e thi cit great Italian 1 who nho ho at close to sixty took up the th Tork ork ork she ho h had laid 1 down years year ago fo Two great grut artists l could ha hardly be of o more mor different fibre The dIvIne Sar Sara 1 Tia always brilliant always lw vigorous always lw y burnIng 1 Ith a ft clear clur bright flame lam Due thise seems m to have hav como corne Instead ln out of the of suffering Into power To 10 see e her h r oven v n to know ot ot her At t sixty more mor beautiful more impelling more mor filled ft a lIh ith Inward grace And strength than ever er before must t be b for or every woman who has hns ha ever ovet vr suffered who has hru 0 oer rr or watch watched d the th world go fo b by white the th pears rs crept on a kind of parable of the th victory of suffer u ft 8 suffering r Ing P d r ski kl that mot most s tn e of artists Is 11 another great world figure who lia ha li drunk the tho th dregs dres of at disappointment and bitterness ni Ho I to gave his hia and tour four heart heart- heartbreaking breaking years r to his count country only to fall full In the th great irre t work ork he lon longed ed to do for tor POland Foland At leut least the fine fino flame lam of hI his spirit could not burn on cn through the th wrangles an and 1 tho the cross croS currents curr nt and bargainIng of Polish politics politic So having ha loved lovd hi his country greatly and ond tried trl d to serve rv her hr h r he turned sin ag-sin to his hi music With ta ny golden solden hair turned to gray and with Ith the th years yar like those of at atthe Ita the great Tat Due Dose marking making cloat clos to sixty ho b wont back to the th key koy keyboard I board and pla d as IS lr be h had never played y d before betor Not ot boisterously bol truly and defiantly not ly or despondently but with Ith the tho th Sen i try ry soul and hO heart h rt of the th musto mu lo ot of the th Spheres at the lip tips of his hi finer li n He came cam um back b to his hla hi a I a greater t artist than thin ever vel vr What hat doCs Joes suffering do 40 to us ua Does Do It IU IUIs 0 Us UI beaten beAton ad broken drib drab and r all the spirit gene Ione iron Or does do It drive Us ua Into to find new nw depths of thought and Ad nd feeling new nw ca Ca- Ca c for tor livIng and anil iving And what do the th coming on-coming years yer do to oat us Do we w grab them thema th ma aa a silent ellent Int excuses s for not net part In III the th great Ireat pageant pr t of ot life lift Duse Dilse Dus In her hr years e ra of ot retirement wu was not turning her bet h r back backon backon on lire Ufe She Bhe Bh mi was living deeply deply d ly and gathering strength tr through for tor a ree grest t and beaUtiful b expreSsion of t an Art rt that ex- ex expresses re t 88 the th deepest apt sufferings of t lit lit life litTou Tou Too and ancl an X J everyday y work work work-a workday day people not called upon U on to bur bear rr t sorrows orro very every vry da day d y of our lives they thy only come ono one or twice In ft life lit time Ume tim But the th way to meet the th small emall hurts hum ot of o life lit will be b allure a sure ur sign ilmo or of the th wIlY way w We will yUl meet m t the th great great- greater T t- t tr or er r once ons n It If the th worst writ that life Ufe lit dOes de deto to us u cant can't ant make us u a little ter t r a little kinder a little more mr bl ble of o other people p and of expressing t that at understand understand- understandIng ln Ing then even rn In our ur small way y we aren arent aren't r nt y tery great T Lt artists artiste t at t living liv 11 ing In |