Show i DOROTHY DIX DX IX TALKS rr ALKS I t I JI O 1111 nt C Uie Jie World nl t hc raM Fald Woman Writer VISIT YOUR LAWS IN-LAWS BEFORE MARRIAGE IF YOU WANT TO GET GETA GEA A LINE ON THE I KIND IND OF WIFE OR HUSBAND YOURE YOU'RE A A MAN IS USUALLY HIS FATHER AGAIN AND A WOMAN MAKES THE SORT OF A WIFE HER MOTHER WASI WAS F I WERE a young oung oun roan man or woman matrimony I 1 would RF IF I so go and 13 pa a to 10 my ray Int intended's family fore I took tho th fatal f t journ to the tb ollar If t I were a man I would pay lar attention to t how hew h w my In law ran her tier house hus SHOULD observe whether sho Bho ho did it In an n effi 0 I dent clent and Dd businesslike way vay whether s were dono done promptly whether there thore was wa an at- at of ot thrift aue aud nd good goad management about the place what sort ort of ot meals ehe be b or It If every thing was ws sloppy and rio Io enly and cooked food tood too i with badly b A with nothIng done don on time lime on tho the table and nd a t all aIr lr of v wasti a astO to and nd abUt Swi lesne IS D S per the home I Also Allo Alt I should h uld give my fiances fiance's fiance mother the tho over once ov nce-ov r very carefully and try to size up the th typo type of woman she th was was wasl u 11 l SHOULD hether she waa sane aane And whether she I was as as industrious whether she fb was waa cheerful and good lood natured and andone n iono one ODO who made the best beet ot of life Ute or whether she sho h was as as neurotic and hs- hs h and whine and complainIng and tempered hIgh and nd Irritable and nd whether hether bother Bh abe Rhe had nerves that hit abe he u used ed BS as s a to get let all 1 b ho bo wanted minted out ot of the tho Especially should hould I try to find out ut what wh t my future Wife's mother thought wit was wa the th whole while duty of f a wife whether wife it was to be a helpmeet to t a man or to t get g et t all the th money m ney she could out ut of f him to soend on her back Above all I should pay particular attention to t how the girls girl's mother treated her h r whether husband she hs h was wat tender and affectionate to him and appreciative of f all he hs did for fr her whether she he he took especial pains pain to f give him the little things he liked to t eat or whether she ehe he Ignored and neglected him and let him see aee e that she he regarded him as nothing but a domestic contrivance for paying the bills l I WERE a girl cirl I should ta take note e ot of o the ot of n m fiances fiance's J father to toward ard his hig home I should e whether e r bod- bod brightened bright toned ened ned up and looked expectant at tho the sound soun or of o his key ky in the lock ot or an evening or whether r a w et blanket teemed to descend upon his w Ife Ito and whether ho be was Be as ch cheerful and pleasant or grouchy rouchy and sullen beth bother B r he lie was waa a II knocker or a 1 t glad hander whether hether the rs or of ofa o ws s a bou household adored him or feared him whether h ho he entered Into er plan and was wan eager for enT ei bod to enjoy themselves or bether no Jie was oas ft II conscIentious objector who alio ho took the pleasure out of ot every every- everything thing b bi finding fault with Ith it t whether hether he was lib liberal oral and genelous or sting stings In particular I f should regard as aa the Fren French h say ay the atti- atti attitude attitude atti attitude tude of f my intended c s father toward hi hs his wife I should ob ob ob- ob observe serve whether he treated d her ac as a ladylove or as a servant whom he I-e d d not nt have hav to t pay and who wh not give notice to quit whether he h showed how d her hor h r the tho th little attentions that women love or r never noticed her Irr any more than he did the kitchen stove whether he h was tender and affectionate to her or r cold and Indifferent whether he h gave her pretty clothes and took her to places place of amusement or seemed to t think that Just jutt be- be being be being ing married to him wac wae all the amusement that any woman wanted whether he gave her a regular allowance or r she sh had hadt to corkscrew every penny out ut of f him And I I should very note whether prospective pr sp mother mother mother-In In law looked happy and young yung and glad giad the she was wa mar mar- married married ried ned or r wore the patient of an early Christian I martyr who has suffered and been strong OR having made these observations I would not need to be b a j Sher- Sher Sherlock Sh lock r-lock 5 F FOR lock locI Holmes to deduce deduc that my homo home would bo be likely to be Just lust the kin kind ot or homo hono I 1 was aaa as in and the tho th husband or wife I was getting Id be mot most likely l to be tile the lie counterpart of ot my Intended s a father tather r Cr r mother molher j For nine times ut Of nake nake the kind ind of a hus husband husband band his hs father Is II and the tho th woman makes mak s the th kind of a wife wither r her mother 1 isA is i GIRL GIRT who has baa b been n brought broucht up by a mother who ho Is It lazy luy and idle A and a poor manager it is almost invariably th the tho same lame sort of li houie house house- because ilie he has haa taught no habits habitt ot or Industry and older eider She Is a b bad d cook cool because she the doesn't know what good tood cooking leA li le A girl who wh has as been reared in extravagance and taught to get everything she ahe can out ut of f her father will have no n pity on her husbands husband's pocketbook A IRI v e loe mother has bas cultivated selfishness in bet hei and who baa haa A Aloe Tt been reared to believe that she sh has had a divino dirin right to the tho th best besl b lof or of e nE makes make mal 8 the tho kind of ot a anite ato nile nite who either enslaves her hor bus bus- hus husband band or ends In the divorce oree courts A man who o s h-s seen teen his hit mother treated as at a drudge will almost almett surely treat his hie wife the same lame way If he has heard his hll father speak to t his hit mother as ac he would not n t to t any other woman en cn earth he also will conSIder politeness wasted on his I wife I BUT BUr B DUT UT If it he h has hs s seen Feen his Ina mother treated as a queen it if be ho his s seen that Ida hIs mother called out all ot or his Ius fathers father's his attitude his 1115 wife airo ICe Hill alit Ise be that of or a knight to his lady OC or course courte occasionally there thue Is the exception that proves s the rule and a girl girt is so revolted at the kind of a house bouse her er mother k kept pt and j the be soil HOlt Ol 01 a R alto wito she the is that the she becomes the p perfect wife and a bo hL bis liLs fathers father's rB of hi hit his mother so BO that she show Tite ito Ite tend els eis is h Ins liis own o-n-n V f But nine times out ut of f ten te in c r mans man's or r a girls girl's own home you can find the dope that will put you yu wise wile wit to the th kind of h and wIfe they will make DOROTHY DIX LOP 1924 21 by Public Ledger Company I |