Show I I DOROTHY DIX TALKS I II 11 I R DOROTHY DIX the th Worlds World's Paid PId Wom r I BROOMSTICK I DON DONT DRIVE YOUR HUSBAND AWAY WITH A OF MAKE YOUR HOUSE A HOME INSTEAD OF A TEMPLE OF HOUSEWIFELY t CLEANLINESS I TR Mar vho Mar take tako t ko it ft from flies toe me know knowe her way about was about CLEVER C talking about her frIend Martha Marth the other daY dilY la is I the th housewIfe he he h said but tut Of course Martha perfect jL aha aho lf Is I a a great nr and nfl i Without doubt she he I Is a mighty poor wIfe glorious housekeeper h u keep r and a cook and baker and cleaner clean r Never have hav I 1 en a rumple In her hT curtains curtain Her H r bedspreads s are like the driven crow And you could eat off ft her h r floors flor Her house hous Is so o Immaculate ImmaCulate immaculate that her h r husband must feel fel a perfect er in it like a bull in a china shop hop But her days are SO 10 taken up with work that she sh has haa ha time tim for nothing else else- el e enot not a minute to read or to play or to be bea bea a companion to her hr husband In fact tact she the is 10 so worn out by the time tim night comes Ef comeK-Ef that she the Is It too tired to do anything but 0 1 ao go gotobed to bed husband loves to read but If it h b sits up lip HER HIR late lalo the light anno aD s hel iet so 80 much that she hoI I So she nags Bags him until sheI ho hI hoI she sh cant can't step so 50 says Bay I disgust herMIt hertelt never it io in glos up I Da P of the depart nu except the lId o I thrilling of o cleaners and aud tho the the meat ment stores In and ud patent In tb backs of the ma And when her ber berI I husband to talk to her about the he Is Interested books In-books sports ports hIs he had Just as well try to ring any uny other dumbbell be a fairly cap bl Now Nov I do all my may own and I must housewife for tor m mother jim law has hi put tier her 0 K IC on mo me and nd that set sr our our- ourselves tIes that that Dot Dut there Isn't a spot in my house bouse whore II e cant can't park and magazine I selves elves at an time My library table Is filled with books all oer 01 er tn scatters the tir Sunday papers and nd If husband drops ashes and aad I let him and gently and remove them after alter he be has bas passed on I I dont don't really know now anything about sports I 1 wouldn't recognize a home run If I 1 met mt it on the street but hubby wants want to talk about baseball I assume an Intelligent nt expressIon I dont don't ask him if i is the name nam of a new pancake flour and I act as if I were thrilled to death when wh n my John announces announce Zev won the race and that Charlie Paddock Padd ek has hat it set et a new track record And I am never too tired to t play with my husband I 1 grab my hat the minute he suggests the movies I can get ready to togo togo togo I go anywhere in an hour hur I 1 adjust my Martha complexion complexion Martha consider that a real vice and vice anc vice an 1 we w are off aU I H c cant cint nt un understand i hy by my y husband a Aery cry ery seldom gOes away M from home horn of ot an e evening ening and almost never without while me-while me me lI mers rs beats it to the drug druc store as I soon oon M Ill ho has baa eaten ealen hIs hi super excel I And I juit jut cant can't make mak her set see ec that It Is she puts hr e n hl-n She worships cleanliness and order and sacrifices C s 01 CI e thins to them The first thing Martha knows she he h il s gOing g ing to lose los her I and she will go no around walling wailing and weeping and tell tell I how hard she he worked and what a good she was was She never will know that she literally drove him away from her with a bloom hand handle e I TOLD Maltha Maitha al tha the th other day that If it she sho would spend less limo IMO pel pol j I 1 1 her br mahogany and more mor time poliShing her finger nails and andi i rubbing up her mind It would be bo better beller for her hr But she sh just smiled that superior smile that a model housekeeper always besto bestow s on the oman whom h hc Bu of havIng dust on the back pantry shelf 0 ad 1 made I a a dio 1110 0 foi fot a basl basement nt sale s lo ot cit somebody's s patent I Mary is right Cleanliness and order ord r are arc two of f the domes dome domestic domestic tiC virtues that may easily asly be b converted into vices ALL know spick and span sp n houses house that are ro no more homes than thana E a a shin tin box would woud be Nobody would dare disarrange a sofa cushion In one on of ot them Nobody would have the courage to move a chair from rom Its appointed place To track a II bit of ot mud on one of ot the tho shining floors would be a high crime crim and misdemeanor To lea e any any- anything auT thIng hanging banging around would be a sacrilege unspeakable ak bl Husband and children flee fie these theu temples temple of order cleanliness as they th y would a torture chamber And they thy live In dread and fear of he th woman who has haa ha worked herself cross cressand and Irritable attaining her hr Ideal id l of f housewifery hu Mst Mot of the th real reil homes are ar place not too to bright and good godf for r human natures nature's nature dally daily use ue They are places where you yu can take your ease places place run on a flexible schedule and only rea rca reasonably clean and orderly I DOUBTLESS theU the th old lady who laId down the tho maxim Feed the I brute as os a rule rul for retaining a husbands husband's affections affection said Bald a Iee I mouthful to women But Bul more Is to be lidded added for man nian does doe not live by bread alone and It Is i just a as important to teed feed his hi Boul soul as a hIs I 1 Every woman who wh falls fails to t give her husband good god nourish nourishing ing lug food fo d falls fall fail as a wife but sno a cn e fails falla fall even more If she ho h not gIve him For Fr after all iii there Is t a good god restal restaurant rant rant on every evry corner where a man mar can satisfy his physical I L anda hunger Foolish is a t the tho th woman who wh dent doesn't realize this and andr a who wh ho spends her tIme tim keeping k her house hus clean instead of f mak mak- makIng mak- mak makIng making ing it a home horn i BUT B OUT that is the tho trouble Kith ith matrimony A woman cant can't be b either a Martha or a MaI Mar To lie be a 11 good wife wite wit she has ha got tot to be b both DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1924 12 by Public Ledger Ledr Company still Dont Don't brIng brine me m any sou COPYrIght 1124 1924 NEA NA Service Ban In |