Show I I Dorothy Dix Dixs Dix's s Le Letter ter Box I ITHE THE WIDOW WHO IS BEING HOUNDED BY A TEMPERAMENTAL GENTLEMAN MUCH YOUNGER THAN HERSELF THE YOUNG MAN WHOSE FIANCEE INSISTS ON STRICT CHURCH ATTENDANCE CAN A MAN TRULY LOVE TWICE MISS DIX My DIX Sly mother Mho ho has been II ic a widow for years has hasI hasU DEAR I In the last three lean cars fallen under the influence of or a 11 man Inan come comeI I years than she li Is nho ho is 1 insanely jealous He makes make her bEr life lit lita i ia a burden hurden lIh his constant nagging and ud suspicions and she has baa always ays to 10 pet him and to 10 coax him Into Inlo into into- 4 good humor He ne is ista e een e ta en jealous o us children and I I wouldn't dare go eo to m my mothers mother's house when he Is II therE for lor he ho would 1 say cay a y that I had bad plotted to spoil his I c or something like that and I snake make things nua-erable nua I 4 I erable lIe II had a II tr In in hit earlier I YEars and an sais 10 mother has bas restored his hi faith in wo no- noSe women 0 I Se I men lie He says y that thai he on ou bet hel to Lo keep him himI I straight and that she the 13 is responsible for tor or his toul n I II I is all bull An An man mall of his bis age ate who can t t take tak care I II I or of his bis own onD 0 n soul belongs in iii a padded cell Mother sass a a 8 that she has tried cellI to get rid of hun I tl e-tl and aud cant can't He said that he h woold kill her Iler it if he saw I her with nith any aDY one else elso and hO h nants ants to o mart marn her She Shel l has succeeded in putting that off but Is I actually afraid l tI to break oft entirely One hates to 10 knock a per loon bon on In M the head and as for pushing him um under Oder II a a trolle le Ie well ell it simply isn't being beine done In good society D J DIX IX What would jou OU oti do In a case like this OLD PAL l er I I surmise that your mother has a comfortable Income and that the temperamental gentleman thinks think it t Is easier essler to work a rich widow than it mt I Is to t work a Job Am I Hot lIot ot right I Also that lie be h has bas lia succeeded in getting your mother what Is vulgarly garl garly known as f buffaloed by threatenIng to make mak scenes and scandal If she lets her children throw thron him out of the house hous as he lie h deen ee ur or If it she calls for or the police Also AIDo Alc I think that your mother does doc not really want to get o rid of him Middle age IS it the th dangerous age ag for women the age at which they do foolish thongs things the th ago ag when Eve like they risk rk the paradise of a comfortable and safe afe afo old ld age for forthe forthe forthe the sake take of one more bite at the th forbidden apple ppl of romance romanceS So take It from me that mother Is enjoying thIs thil lurid romance and she the Is Ia flattered out of her wits witt at a man mans man's turning over his soul to her for fr safekeeping It has ha been so long lone since sinca a man said that to her that she has hos for for for- forgotten for for-cotten I gotten that it Is old courtship stuff and almost a formula of o 10 r e ier man nina when ben he wants nants to pI please case a woman tells her that she he h Is somehow different from front iery e-iery c ery other woman and that she alone I can save nave him and nd redeem his faith in women omen s omen I IThe The Th thing you have hav todo to da do is to sive mother from herself I and to do that you will have to her from thIs neur tlc r grafter He dont don't go and she wont won't make mak him go and s so o your yourI I but beat plan Is to get her off on a long trip where she the will be Interested and amused and find herself If you can out nut a aI thousand miles between her and the man she the will get the I right perspective on him and tee see what a ridiculous selfish fig figure ure he is II DOROTHY DIX 5 S S lure DEAR D EAR r EAR DOROTHY DIX I DIX I am a oung man atari engaged to the only girl but sUII still I am lery er ery undecided and unhappy She Sho Is e a t very strict I church gIrl cirl and demands that I so o 0 regularly I have done It for tor two years and It Is my coy goat It bores roe to death and makes me h I have all old friends and old feel like a hypocrite given up my roy haunts for tor her and am willing to do anything to please pleas her but for forthe the the life of ot nt m me I cant can't see her point of view r camping In the church I e base told her that she can go co as a often otten as she pleases and I will ne neer er Interfere for tor I am per cent tolerant But that doesn't satisfy her She Insists on dragging me along too Now Miss lisa Dix I simply cant can't do that and remain mi self and I feel that my spirit is gradually being broken down I 1 love her very much but If it I cant can't be myself I dont don't see how e w se can be happy to gother for tor she will eill III be miserable If it I do tIe not prove a million per cent church churchgoer goer What do sou ou think EARL H T Answer I I think Earl that ou will have to either pie gie in to the th or give up the girl cirl and nd that If it ou want to save sav trouble you will decide the m before marriage instead of to fight it out after l ards Dont Don't Imagine for an instant that you can cn ever change her heror or make hr her toe Doe things from your of view or concede you the right to save your own soul coul in your own way for she never will Never never never Once let a woman oman get It into her head that it at is her sacred duty to t reform hr hor husband ind nd she goes at it with the th zeal zealand zealand zealand and the th cruelty and the clear conscience of the th torturers torturer In the InquisItion The fact that she Is ie I making her husband miserable and that she h Is alienating hIS hi love doesn't stop her because co cho I Is I a fanatic and crazy on that one point Why I have known more than one on woman who sent ent her husband to the corner saloon salon or to oth other r women for the sake of a few cigarette You know knon son ou hae ha ha e to pay a price pike pi ice for all ou get E going churchgoing Is I going to be b your youre and If it the girl eirl has no other dra dran- dran draw drawbacks backs she the Is worth north it II it You may learn to even like it and lay aniway It ItIs itis ItIs Is a good habit h nore tl there ere are lire ameliorating ci for If the th preacher Is If not Interesting and you are ar not altogether in sym sym- sympathy sym sympathy path pathy with Ith hIs hi doctrine it gh eles es ou a grand erand opportunity for thinking and that Is l that none- none of us do enough You know somebody has han wittily said Gald ald that most mott men carry their religion In their wife's name Anyhow it Is i a good thing to have a wife wit partner who Is a spiritual millionaire So I I would buy me m a Sunday meeting to suit and marry the gl girl girland I and trot right along with her like Marys Marye Mary little lamb But dont don't marry her hr unless you can make up your mind not to balk on the Job DOROTHY DIX e DEAR D EAR MISS Do DIX DIX Do lou OU ou think that arnan a man can cr c truly love twice tl I Answer Ve Yes Not only twice but hundreds of f times time The human heart Is Ia I the only perpetual motion machine A ion long j as a there therIs Is lift life In it there is ma love iove lov DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1924 hI b Public Ledger leder Company |