Show I Dorothy Dixs Dix's Letter Box I THE HOME THAT WAS BROKEN UP BY A MEDDLING INQ MOTHER SHALL SHE FORGIVE HER PHILANDERING HUSBAND HOW CAN A CONCEITED FLIRT A ABOY'S ABOY'S ABOY'S BOYS BOY'S ATTENTION nEAR DOROTHY DIX I I am nm R I married woman with one Ace child chUd R a boyI boy U I ten I ten years ears old who is very bright and who will make a fine tine man zuan if IC IChe Ithe mother treated my husband right he is Ia 1 properly trained Mv My never nover horrible tale about She was away always telling me Borne somo him and finally separated M UR u so 80 now flOW we WO are am living i apart I am staying In my mothers mother's home and m life h jq most moat unpleasant M My husband thinks thinka It la Is best for tor us flu to lIT together and bring brine up our OOT boy a as he be should be bei think I should go back to my husband f fHe Do you ou He Ho and I never bad any trouble except that brought about by my mother Cnn Can Ca I raise rale a II bo boy hIs father and make him the tame type typo of ot a young yount man he ho would be If It he had bad had a ft fathers father's Influence Influence ence WORRIED MOTHER J Answer I should think there would be b no doubt whatever that you yau and ad your hu should kiss kils and make up and et et up a new new new- home hame hem which should be away as III far as aa poe pas pos DOROTHY sible sibie from your meddling mother Both you yau and your husband huband have had a bitter blUer lesion leon which should have taught you to te be b more patient and forebear forebear- forebear Ing Ing with each other and the folly of listening to the tale bearer tale even If f she abe Is la your own mother How an any mother can cm be so eo cruel and wicked aa 8 to deliberately wreck her daughters daughter's home and stir up trouble between her and her husband only the devil himself knows But Dut many mothers do It The Tho first of her husband that many a trusting young wife has baa Is generally Implanted by her own mother who feels It her sacred duty to tell Mabel that she ho thinks It very strange that Thomas has baa to go off orf on so 80 many business trips and that It Is la extremely odd that he has hasto hasto hasto to have such a pretty young girl for a stenographer Also mother gets gete getsIn In her deadly work by criticizIng her daughters daughter's husband and calling I attention to his every defect until she works daughter up to the poInt where she abe finds her husband unendurable I In every evelT broken up home the children are the chief and so 80 wherever It Is possible for tor a husband and wife to come together again n and patch atch up their difficulties It Is their bounden duty to do so ao for neither a mother nor a father alone can give riTe a child the right en- en environment en environment or raise raie It properly Truant officers officer and ad the officials In the Juvenile courts court all 11 unite i In sayIng that nine tenths of cf the delinquent children and youthful criminal criminals are the boy boys and girl girls who wire were raised In Inham ham homes of af strife or cr that they are the children of cf divorced parents par par- parent enta ent Certainly no woman no matter h how devoted a mother she he I Ii can rear a boy properly because no woman can understand the psychology of af a II boy bay She Is II I either elthel too weak or cr too strIct and the result Is S that she mak make makes a hoodlum or a sissy IY of cf him Every boy needs need a fathers father's firm hand over him a fathers father's un- un understanding un understanding and advice Dont Don't deny your Son ion that privilege Worried Mother Mothr DOROTHY DIX C C 0 C aDEAR o a EAR MISS I DIX DIX I have b been n married eight years yeara and ond have four DEAR darling children the oldest five years and the youngest five months montha Now Miss Dix two years ye ago afrO ro I found out ont that my ny husband WM wu going Ing with another girl but he be begged legged me mc to forgive him which I did for tor the sake of my darling babies bableR and he lie promised that he would never be un- un unfaIthful un unfaithful faithful to mo vie again But Dut he has not kept his promise Now there Is Ia another woman I have tried not to care but It Is b breaking my heart heart and I dont don't know what to do Do you think I should leave him Or sahli I give him another chance DOWNHEARTED DOROTHY Answer Anwer The problem of af the philandering husband I Is one that you must settle for yourself No human being can take the reo re responsibility for far telling you what to do at this most moet critical time of your life for It takes takee Almighty Wisdom Wl dom to know which la lathe I the right course to follow But flut there are ire two or three truths which an outsider may point out outto outto outto to you ou The first Is that the man who Is la unfaithful to his young wife and who has no ens sense of responsibility re p n toward her and the J four babes babe that he h has brought Into Ito the world I Is la a pretty poor type of man with little In him of good to which to appeal Alec Aleo that the man who Is la a born philanderer to ta whose sensual na- na nature na nature ture and fickle fancy every passing petticoat appeals appeal I Is not likely to chance change No matter how boW m many nT times hIs hig wife forgives him Dhe ohe he will have to forgive again No matter natler how bow many promises promise he makes of reformation he be always als bred h brel s them When such u ih a II roan men m n finally does dew d come home to his wife alto Ife to stay atay It Is because he ho Is old oM and broken and needs a nurse to take care of him The second point Ia 1 I that no wife has haa any allY duty toward an unfaIthful husband huband She Is under no obligation whatever to stick to him It I Is merely a question of whether she ahe prefers to do so or not noL The third point for you to consider Downhearted Dorothy Is that In leaving an nn unfaithful husband you do not always leave leavo trouble be bind you Sometimes you Jump from fram the frying pan Into the fire You have four babies Probably you have no profession or trade by which you can support them and even If you have who would take care of af them while you we were off at lit work 1 It Ir iou ou divorced d your husband nd the courts would n nard award ard ou alimony but unions lour our husband Is a mall math of wealth It would he a meagre S not enough to 11 use ll e on even If it you could It It and alimony is the tho money mony In the world orld to c collect As you are whatever v the heartache your husband provides you yau and the children with food and shelter a comfortable liv Ing and these you would forfeit If you left him So think over these things carefully before you make your And God pity you and althe all al the other wives of faithless men DOROTHY DIX S 5 S 0 SD SEAR EAR DOROTHY DIX I DIX I am aIll sixteen on years old very beautiful and at attractive DEAn BEAR D and full of magnetism I am very Tery popular and have loads of company Wherever I go always want vant to meet me mc I change fellows about eHry two weeks and therein lies my trouble There Is one olle boy who has been devoted to me I could pick him Up u when I wanted anted and put him do down doan n when ahen hen I wanted Finally however be realized that heade he made a fool tool of himself over me and got angry angey and now be doea does not c cane come near me Please tell tc me roe how bow to win this be back for lor I lose lo 10 e him Answer Anwer Why I should say may that the best beat Way would be to take some treatment for far that swelling of af the head from which you are suffering BO so acutely But It Isn't lov love you yau feel my dear It Is la hurt vanity Try to think mar more humbly of yourself and to like yourself less leu and other people will Ilk like you yau more mare DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1921 1924 by Public Ledger Company |