Show DOROTHY OTH DIX TALKS j p Po JIS ILO O I JI IL 1 t th Ib the or 4 t t raid Woman Writer CONVERSATION IS A LOST ART IN THE FA FAMILY CIRCLE HOME TALI TALK IS OFTEN MERELY COMPLAINTS AND NOBODY WILL LISTEN BECAUSE NOBODY IS REALLY INTERESTED thing thins that make man lag age a failure C lure is is Its in dullness Th T THE specter peeler on 01 the tho tl o hearth Is that awful silence glence I It Ie i f because hu bu band and Rod h es ha bar hae e nothing Interesting to sa a to each other bandS quarrel It 1 it is no ir Joke it t is a II ud aJ truth that In any theatre or r restaurant you can spot the married couples at a first glance They art arS ar the thi couple c who wh are ar sitting up reading radIng the program through ugh from cover c ver to t cover c ver or er r are ar apparently memorizing the menu while white the th waiter brings bring their th lr order ord The alert l rt interesting smiting amiling people pe pl who J are gayly chatting together are ar the th unwed or thoM tho who are art talking to other ther peoples people's husbands and find WIVes Let even a bore drop Into a droopy S r dejected family circle that has haa ha been yawning yawn yawn- Ing in Itself to t death and everybody brightens brighten 1 up and the th strum stream tram of conversation c nv n which p had apparently dried rl d up at its Ita it source begins t to flow again Two Tw may b be pany em-pany corn com company pany and three thre a crowd cr wd before marriage man but generally after marriage two tw Is gobs goba g b of f silence allence end and three a Godsend ll tH YET VET ET the majority of ot people marry tor or compan companI ion Before they could never get enough of o each pach other others s a society and the esteemed each ech e ch other per per- perfect perfect feet pr-feet spellbinders How li la It then that they get ft so to fed up on each others ers company that they alt It lt up like liLe mutes In the solitude of ot their homes home Why I ia it t that apart fr from m finding fault-finding and spats pat and cm about ab ut the servants ervant and the th tradesmen tra mn and bulletins about the children there is ia i so ao o little family conversation e nver n practIcally practically none that I It is interesting and cheerful ch erful and inspiring You Youw would uld think that a and wife who wh have hav au all Interests interest In common could never talk themselves th m elv out uL But they do and they y come c m to t the place where they take tak refuge behind the evo eve eve- evening vo-ning vo ning paper or In to t save laVe av themselves from the th preten pretense pr ten e of even ven having to f maintain the appearance of keeping up social intercourse Intel WI ES XI IVES lay the blame for tor this state of aha on their husbands TV The They sa heaven knows knols that they would be glad enough to talk but ut that ou cant can't maintain a II conversation with a person who ho bo grunts b b way ay ay ot or and sod who ho could give elvo a clam on Ice points on silence and then b beat at It at the game ame Men retort that th t they have worn po powers era to a II durin during durine business hours and they y d desire to rest their Vocal ocal cords at home It I ll Is oh- oh observable ob that It somebody happens happeD to call or they go co out outto outto outto to dinner tho the cry man who ho was silent at home borne finds plent to sa La Now there ther are ar several reasons rea on why there I Is 1 so f little litti con con- conversation con en In the home The Th first forat fir t reason realon rea n is because home horn talk Is so 10 often unpleasant W Women mn especially ar are prone pron to flavor It with gloom They like lik to t recite the th litany of the days day's day mil mis- mil chance chances They spoIl the flavor of a II dinner r by telling how h w much It cost cott They Th y bring on n a scene acene cen with a child by telling filing of f Iti It lt naughtIness They thrash over their old ld grievances because they cant can't have what richer women haveA have ALL LI ot or Ihl this his gets on the tho husbands husband's neres nid d he retorts by saying a aro afo ALL A A ro fo fu pithy things about what bat a Cool Tool a man is to marry and burd n himself with a family and what a poor manager in n r his bf wife Is 1 and be h gives gins a rp fe ew kno knocks Js to 10 tho the for good rood I After which conversa conversa- conversation conversation conversation tion naturallY languishes Another reason reas n that there thero ther Is It little conversation at homei hon home IS because It IS it dangerous Experience teaches us that we have havela to 10 watch our tongues and delete our ur home talk if f we w want to save sav oursElves from endless trouble tr A AMA AfA A MA MAS MA'S hates to lie he lo to his wife IrEl about what he does He H would enjoy telling her all about the Hie poke tame genie he ho staled Ia Id I'd do downtown n fOI loi last lant night and the tho bo funn thIngs hues the boys boe said and but he be does docs not do doii doH JI ii because Ill he ht kno that the price of or such euch an el levela- levela level tion would I e h to ha har haie e her ber nagging him bini about It Core pr and a a day dayA A wife wile v would Just love to tell ell her ber husband about her hr adventures In tog ins a new nev hat list and how hov eke eLe tell felt for tor th tho seventy th fl he e dollar one on to In In- In td d d of ot the tho fifteen dollar one ont she sho meant to buy bul But Dut she sh Is well veil ell aware at she ehe v mild el hear henr the list of ot hei bel tra e it 1 she Ehe did So tile the both holli keep silent There Ther IS ic little home h m conversation because nobody is In Inte Interested te rested and nobody pretends to t be In what you say I In n the family circle nobody listens Nobody N b dy laughs at your yur Jokes d tees sees the points of your merry cracko Try to tell a good fl and con Is Ie sure to remark that they have heard It before and that it is la an ancient wheeze If you had hod discovered the north pole and were relating your yur hairbreadth adventures In reaching it by airplane somebody meb y would interrupt at the moet moat breathless moment to t say ay that the Iceman forgot to t de- de deliver deliver d I liver the ice yesterday I IWI mSS II WI WIES ES ont listen lIsen even ven when their husbands try to tell them about I ST 11 cli eh hopes and jans and ambitions In their careers And when a woman tries to talk to her husband about the things that are of Ital v ital Interest t to her be he falls asleep and snores In her ber face Anti And that Is why by com coni Is a lo lost t art in fhe he be circle DOROTHY DIX DIJ CO 1921 1 2 b b Public Ledger Company |