Show I I t I I I Dorothy Dixs Dix's Letter Letter Box I CAN THE BACHLOR WHO WANTS A WIFE LIKI HIS IllS MOTHER MOTI I FIND SUCH tUCH A GIRL TODAY THE SON WHO DOESN T WANTI WANT HIS WIDOWED ED FATHER TO REMARRY MUST A I GiRl GIRL GIVE BACK HER RING IF THE MAN IAN BREAKS THE ENGAGEMENT j j I DEAR r EAR DOROTHY DI DIX DIX- I asked a friend of mine amine vho isho Is 8 the tho bachelor lor stage whY hm he be was as aa still U II lie he replied that ha hJ wanted a n wife who ho would be like liko his mother molher Do DoI D Di I i lou OU think that ft It girl Eirl possessIng those hoe attributes 1 be easily located PAUL Answer So far at as a the essential go yes yea 55 Woman Womans Woman's nature does doea not change chang and there are Just as asa a amany S who will make true and lov- lov lovIng lov loving girls pine today a many to I ing wives mothers who are ready fight by a s mans man's side tide through thick and thin who aro are ready roady to sacrifice themselves for fors theIr families as there evel were In mothers mother s r time or your grandmothers grandmother's or your great great- t grandmothers grandmother's When God made the frt t ba womans woman's heart He established a It p which there hat has ha been very little variation In 5 J i-J all the ages It is Ia beautiful for lor a man to idealize his mother DIX and set her up as a model of ot what he wants his wife to b be But Dut as a matter of ot tact fact It If ho he found his bis moth moth- mothel mother's el ers er's S understudy she abc ho wouldn't appeal to 10 him hint Hed He'd find her hr old fashioned old and narrow and his Ideas t Jibe with Ith hers hera and ho would con consider sider her ter very or much touch of a lemon on The man who ho wants to marry a woman like his mother thinks that onn is onen w is ere tre more modest modost In mothers mother's day Not a bit of or It it The They had more prudery Mother MothE r spoke of ot the limbs of a 11 piano try Every pla pIa she sent ent to 10 ECO coo muss waa carefully expurgated No nice girl was supposed to knots that there was such a thing thine as sex She Sho thought evil e of a thou thou- thousand thousand sand things wo iso 0 think no C evil II of ot no now The frankness of today h has ha got ten ai as much modo modesty ty and cleanne cleanness in it as al had the tho subterfuge 0 of yesterday The vital facts of life are not indecent It I It Is only the vulgar at- at attitude attitude at attitude toward them that makes them so 10 and the girls of today with their legs and their arms arme and their stomachs and their open dIscussion of formerly taboo subjects are Just juet ag as mode modest modestas It as their grandmothers were You often hear men condemn the present fashions and say that they wish girls would cress oress as sensibly as their mothers did Get out the old photograph album and take a look at mothers mother's waist and big blO bustle and huge sleeves and microbe microbe- microbe catching catching skirts and see ee If you dont don't think that the modern girls girl's clothes has haa got mother mothers B a backed off the fashion plate PE Perhaps the tho young oung man wants to marry I a girt girl who will make as aa Jt y and nd economical a ito w-ito us as mother was wag Let him hint go to It Girl Girls never a 1 were ert as efficient in tho the world as ns the they are now DOW Any girl who vho has taken a domestic science course can hold her own with mother i In cooking and marketing and aDd getting Betting a Il hundred cents centa out of a dol- dol dol dollar lar And in addition most moat of them can make their own living to boot Remember this thie It took mother about forty years year to learn to be the kind of wife you yeu admire to so much touch Give some girl a chance at the job lab iob and she will qualify In the expert class too I DOROTHY DIX C S SD SEAR CAR 1 EAR DOROTHY DIX I DIX I am gin four our years old mind and am nm a widower II DEAR D WIth ono one son who has Just been married He Is ray my ono one tie lie I nm minI de devoted oLeo to him and aud have ht bour-ht him a be home and lavished ereis el upon JIm I I am now noll nov left lell alone and find it a very verv unsatisfactory ray vay to 11 use useI e lady and have naked asked her to marry me e I ave 1 been heen attentive to a II oung she has consented to 10 do but m am son Soil objects to it and thinks that hat I should single Ko Kow w I want ant m my boy and I want ant to marr DUrr the girl as I have man many years to live hive and need the companionship this marriage will hung me How can an I make m my son see SeG m in point of ot view and make hint him willing ng to be friendly sith w ith tho the girl WILLIA WILLIAM 1 GM G M f Answer Unless your son Is utterly and lacking in affection for you I 1 should think that all that that you would have to do I would be he to have heart to heart talk to him about the situ situa- situa situation situa situation a- a aI atlon I tion Certainly after your generosity to him In doing every everything thing to promote his hie happiness he be could not be Ingrate I Ito to stand tand in the way of your happiness You are absolutely right in getting married again and se curing to yourself not only companionship for your full middle I years hut but ut for or your old ld age For no na other human being is II so ao son helpless n and dna forlorn as wa a u lonely old VIM man with no one to bear I him no on one ons to care caro for hit hlo comfort none but hut hIred hands to nurse nurle him when he lie is sIck nick Surely If your son has haa 1 ever observed lonely old men batting around clubhouses and nd living In hotels he cannot wish that fate upon you I You Yott aro right to establish your oss own O a home A man who has been rt at the LUU head Uk ot of hi v m-v 0 out ul It u house houge Is u ne or happy as a more or cm- less leAs el come guest in other peoples people's houses not nol even esen If It the they are his childrens children's I A man ho v has had Ins his lu own hon homo home and aud been accustomed to toI I home e cooking and nd home borne wae s is miserable crable without them 1 At four fifty a man men is a young man He has hac the most able able part of his life lile before him for the next twenty years yeara I Ills His fortune Is 1 made nade He has hao rome come ome to the daytime of his hla life and he needs a playmate Tell Ten your son eon that nd ind that if he did not wish you to marry narry he ho should have stayed single and played with you As he didn't you have a right to pick out a apal apal apal pal for yourself DOROTHY DIX C C CD BAR r DOROTHY DIX Dont DIX Dont Don't vou OU think after a roan man has haa broken his DEAR D engagement to a girl who ho has baa loved ed and trusted him that she ghe Is entitled to the ling ming I think that the tha man should be punished in some II i sad and ah Rio he ha Is If a tightwad he will take it pretty hard Is there any ny anyway say ay ho he could force twee me mo to give It up UD DISILLUSIONED LITTLE COUNTRY GIRL Answer k keep time the ring if f you want It Inasmuch can J t I presume you ep r p f s ii B the man is breaking the engagement But why do you wanta want a t reminder 0 of your false lovers lover's perfidy I 1 should think that every Instinct of delicacy would make you Want to send end It back to him as quickly as possible Certainly you have no reason for bemoaning the loss Iou of a man who was a tightwad I DOROTHY DIX COP right 1924 bv by Public Ledger COmpAn Company l |