Show I Dorothy Dixs Dix's Dix s Letter Box THE ANXIOUS BROTHER WHOSE SISTER IS tS IN THE WRONG KIND OF BUSINESS OFFICE THE MOTHER WHOSE GROWN SON REFUSES TO WORK HOW CAN SHE BREAK BREAKUP BREAKUP UP AN AFFAIR BETWEEN HER HUSBAND AND HER BEST FRIEND rEAR EAR MISS DIX DIX my mother two tee sears leara ears ago aso she Bild toU DEAR D me Son Son Son vou will have to look after atter Margie Margl She does so many foolish things although h she is Bach sach a good girl Birl I promised premised to after alter my sister eister but it is 18 1 surely Burely a man nan sIzed job lob I J am out among the tile fellows a lot and host heat I and Imd that girl and wa the Ithem them ulem talk about this gui them them themE they act In 1 offices I 1 would hate to have 4 y II 5 ay aiBl say Bay such Euch about my sister but hut she tells y-y y E- E ti me about goIng out alone to lunch and other places B with tho the man for whom she hB works and anil how they e lR sit and aDd chatter In the office It Jt does not set i t J B light to me ate as he Is ti a married man Do you OU think DiK 1 1 ought to tell her hr bat I t think and urge her ber to AI AN ANXIOUS BROTHER BROTHER- il get another job lob do You are re re not An MIX MIX- t I 1 certainly the theman Evidently without reason 1 Ly IOU ous Brother r-j r y man ra for fot hon hoin your sister Gister It works work Is moro more of a er than he ho If Is a business BK Ka f man or er else he t would not spend hit his time r chatting with a pretty little gIrl flirl And c r make a practice of go going no girl can lUX ing out to lunch and places place of amusement with her employer without being talked about I Is safe fife a as ache In the right sort ort of a business office a girl as at i-he i would be In a convent Everyone's Every ones one's time and attention and thoughts are aro absorbed by work The men are chasing the almighty dollar and not net petticoats and no hint of sex enters Into the tho relationship between men and women Brains ability skill reliability are e all that are considered But the wrong Tong sort of o a business office Is the open door to perdition perdition tion for lor a wEak or s silly Billy girl It otters offers every opportunity tor for an un un- un I scrupulous man to take tako advantage ge or of a girl s lack of knowledge and experience of the UIO II arid In the intimacy In whIch they are thrown together Ito he nw can vau flatter her caJole v o her win her heart by kindness or k- k terrify her br by thoughts of oC losing lofting her Job and always plays sate safe because i ft-i e Ic 11 tied mci-tied d and she Bhe knows It t Therefore one thing thinO Is la very certain The minute a mar mar- Iri differently from the ned man begins treating a girl flirt way he would treat a boy employ the time has come for her to grab her hat at and leave And ADd talk to your slater sister Tell Ten her what the men say about girls In offices and what they think or of o girls who eho ho have haTe affairs with their married employee Girls do so many foolish compromising thIngs through sheer lack of kno of o bow how they look to fo a censorious world Try to make mako her understand that hat s a girl must not ony be good but look good and that nobody can c-an e n really tak take care oare of her but herself She Is Ie I a II lucky girl girt who has a good brother brotherto brotherto to put her wise wl e DOROTHY DIX S C S SD SEAR 7 j EAR r EAR DOROTHY My DIX DIX My son Is twenty four years old Ho doesn't DEAR D work He never goes to bed until we drive drive him to It and b bates tes to get Iet up In the morning He Ho had the chance of a lifetime to step In and nd learn a good business years yeara ago but he be refused to do It said he was going to be a professional proCessional man But Dut after six years be Is II no further ahead because he be doesn't study any More than be he works He has bu a sullen disposition and Is very disagreeable at home My heart aches for or I 1 looked for great things from the boy Can ou suggest any way out of It for or the bo boy or MYSELF The only way out of It Is Ie a the Spartan Mother way wy and few women have havo the courage coura e to take tako that Whoso will not work neither shall he eat ut Chuck Chuk the boy out on his own where he will either have to work or starve and nd ho he h will work Oscr O 0 cr or tender parents who co could not t see their children suffer rutter while they had plenty are arc responsible for lor nine tenths of o the tha wells neer In Int InI t he world It Is the grim necessity ot of sUcking to a job lob whether ou like lite It or not whether It Is 15 soft sott or easy of ot holding on when you are ares Iok blek lck and tired and discouraged because you yop have got nobody to de depend nd on but no shelter or rood food except what you earn with your own lands hands that makes successes of 01 men and omen The boy boys and girls who are quitters who Indulge their thelt tempers tempera and throw up their Job Jobs every time they get miffed wIth their employer who wIIo are aro so eo temperamental that they cant can't do this and cant can't do that are aro those who have good hom home to go to and who are arc sure of three square meals a day and anda a bed to sleep clasp In whether they are at work or Idle If you have the tho courage to tell your son that any man of twenty four has haa feen een a parasite long enough and that you do donet donot donot not net propose to encourage him In lii becoming a loafer and that he must leave hi his home end Ind nd seek his fortune If fortune If In a word you will throw him out of the door and shut hut the door In his face you can make a man of him That Is the only cure for tor or that tired feelIng Also Al o dont don't forget that malady is 18 progressive and the longer a boy sponges ou on his family the tho more averse he be becomes to doing anything else And when a man loses loes all aU pride In Independence all I 1 Is lost Jost Ho ITo la Is hopeless DOROTHY DIX S I C C CD CEAR EAR r EAR DOROTHY DIX l DIX I have ave been married fourteen fourt years and have DEAR D two children Until the tho last Jut sear ear I 1 have b been n nery sery ery happy Now I Iam Iam Iam am worried and my trouble has bee como come about through my best heat woman rl nd She Is li always caressing my 10 husband patting him on the arm arID his hia hand soothIng his hair perching on the arm of his chair oho will call colli him Into another room or go out on tho porch on some pretext and have bave a long tete teto a tete tele with him bill I am busy with the household dullea At first my husband seemed embarrassed at these attentions but lately I am afraid that he be la Is changing and Is to like lika Ilk them This woman Is la no better batter looking than I am no and I Is 18 not nat at lit all Intelligent but she be he has nothing to do but primp and prattle She has hos no excuse for lor poaching on my pre preserves as Bhe sie has bas hasa basa a fine tine husband of her own How cap can I break up an n affair of this kind TROUBLED WIFE The Intimate friend frend whether male or female lion I Is one ons of the tho greatest menaces to the tho home Beware 0 of them Any middle-aged middle man Is flattered at having a woman In Indicate that she ho In love with him so your husband Ie I merely morely human humn In that In your case the treatment Is la plainly indicated Give your husband an overdo overdose 0 of the society of the lady who primps primp and prattles praWn If you could go off on an automobile trip together or anywhere that he would have to listen to her all 11 day and nd every day for a week the cure eure would be complete lasting DOROTHY DIX 1924 by Public Ledger r Company |