Show w AiA 4 Dorothy Dixs Dix's Letter Box BOJ Box F SHALL SHAU SHE DIVORCE HER BEB HUS HUSBAND AND AFTER FtER TWENTY FIVE IS TOO Art fIVE HUSBAND YEARS THE YOUNG WIFE wHoa WHOSE TIRED TO GO OUT WITH HER IN tHE HOW SOON AFTER THE PROPOSAL SHOULD THE ENGAGEMENT RING RINO B BE SE GIVEN N TO THE GIRL r EAB DEAR D MISS DIX I DIX I wa was marr married at eighteen yAU of age e and nd and din aai- aai I am th than n now tast Dast ast forty My la is twelve years run older we have been married for tor nearly twenty five years and d h hM has 1 J S SI bad temper My husband has baa a toward me when hr ha L cursed and used d vile vUe language I ii It muCh 0 Of was In a rage but I never thought I as he ham bas mUY good Quati- Quati until about a r year tr ago aro I fl I need 0 ties He allows me all the money and td have rn privileged to go about about a good deal me p ia and he be Is IB awfully good lood to my rela reia- reia I ions tlona especially to my mother But Dut lately I ha hao e thought ot of all the mean things S my husband has saId to me iso during 1117 married life lite And It li seems as 28 g lf St l I do hot lIot tOTe love him bItt yr any I I am thInkIng of g getting tUn a divorce although he hA begs lIe me not to Bud and promises never to talk to me that I way again and indeed us he rha has haa not done dona BO SO tor for the thelast last two mouths mouth What Whal shall I do 4 MItS MISERY ISERY SW I Answer Awer DOROTHY DOROTHr DIX VIX Dont Don't think of such luch sucha a thing am aa a B SI I a divorce dear dw sister If you do lo you will find yourself far more mere unhappy tha than you are r 1 for If IT yu will just Juat give time the miracle work a II ch ne t will smooth out all your difficulties and make the last lut lap of your matri matrimonial menial monal Journey the but best b t part of ef It Try to believe what is the truth that your troubles we PIe lare Imaginary Your Idea that you TOU have bave ceu l loving your husband Is Just juet a hallucination an and the day will come when you will mUe at athIs athis thia hIs jut just aj u you used u e r to do and not think more snore seriously ot of them than you did In the put Dont Don't do anything rub rash now DOW no that will snake make It impossible for tOl you to goback go so back b ck to ft a placid contented domestic life Ute with a husband who really loves you and who Ii 11 l a good gooc provider even I U it he be dO does Il go 10 Into tantrums Dont Don't throw way away your good homp home durin during a fit tit of ot nerves nerr From forty fort to fifty II I the dangerous mae age ag with women woman It the the Ithe time when there Is ii I a last lut of romance I In lii them when ever even staid mothers of families oft often Indulge In corn Com promising corn promIsIng flirtations with boys boy ey youn young enough to be b their onor or go mad over JOIning Janing end and tea toa hounds and lounge leune lizards It Ie la a t m time wh when a womans woman's Imagination runs run rIot riot line ked h she I Ie la morbid and fanciful when whan she he magnifies trifles an and taka takes a dark and view of all about her It la Is t the time when she aho rak rakes among the ache ashe of the past put for fer vain regret regrets regret and add dd up the au sum aum Of her husband faults faulb md ad And it is f I the time alas wh when she he e many foolish thing 8 tha she he spends the remainder of ot her life llo repenting when mile sho has haa swung back to normal 80 So go slow alow slater sitter on the tha divorce until you are put past tift fifty Moreover remember this thiet We all have to balance balanco accounts account with tho those with whom w we live at as a they do with us UI for fer we all alt have our faults fault as aswell aswell awell well at as a our virtues virtue VIrtU and a wife may ay well wll forgive almost alm t any any- any anything thin thing In a husband who h ha bee been kind and good and liberal is o her and awful good to her mother DOROTHY DIX e 5 4 a S C CD CEAR DEAR D BAR T EAR MISS HISS ISS DIX I DIX I havi havu b boon be n married marri d to a man nan seven years yean who has lae no bad habits and who loves his hia hosn home But Dut when he cOomes coee home it is III nothing but eat his hill dinner and aad then go o to sleep When I complain bo he tail tells tella me tue that h bo ho cannot help hell it as he be Is out In the O open OP lI Bair air all an day and when he comas com In III he be I Is tired lid and ute the th warmth makes hIm drowsy Yet K It I say ay that th t I will go co and pay some friend a a visit vl or perhaps go co to the tho moving pictures picture ho ie gets eta very jealous and nut nast B anti and when I complain about the late lato hours hous his hIli business brings bring 1111 1 borne bome he ho tells mo I should M be b thankful to cave enOugh to ut eat e t But when he tights fights with me iso the next nut halt half hour he comes comae and kB me slid end nd I know he is sorry I am m only emily twenty and I 1 am lonesome sad and nd I dont don't know how what bat to do What you do A HEARTED BROKEN ARTED Wilt Answer Well my dear doer if I didn't have anything worse warn w rs than that t break my heart over Id I'd try to 0 plaster up what I t thought were the I In lii It wit with a little Uttie common een en and I would consider myself a e very lucky lueky woman fr I Suppose your husband didn't stay at ho hone borne e at nights and Instead I If f his falling tailing calmly asleep on the cou couch lt l after dinner where you can lave your eye on him ho be was wu out running around after some somo bob Hired bob maimed girl Suppose instead of ot working late at a good job he dido ddn lave tave any Job at all and you didn't know where the money mOlley was ices corn com i ing from to buy the next meal mear I I IThen Then Indeed you might find yourself a brok wife Wite but butI I you havo bovo no rio right to when hen you are arc to an all honest l I lug Ing hard man whose only fault tault is 15 that he lie Is II worn out at night and mod doesn't want 1 to gad around I I I Of course a woman should have plenty f f t amusement but butI I w why y not net get It In the daytime Surely tiler there la Is tle enough I to visit your friends and ply play bridge and go t to th the I and the matinees while your husband la Is I off at his hil hi work work werk a I that you yeu might spend pond your evening evenings at home IOe how And If It you yau r would put WI n porn some 0 at of f those thole the a evening Improving your mind byI by reading I read In would find that they would you yau paes pa quickly enough I Thero Theres There's no company equal to a good book Also a good book ok b bi i I la Is the soverign cu cure for which Is I what I ails aita you O 0 lady with the make mak believe broken heart DOROTHY DOROTJY DIX I 5 5 S S C CD I EAR r R MISS What DIX DIX What I Is ii tho correct length of ot tim thu time tom tor DE D or a U man nan to give I e his hIe hi fiancee an enra engagement ment vio ring after atter h hl j h hand I and been accepted J E R n f Answer F Pronto Right Bight away Immediately S rn me men have theU the U engagement t engagement PL ring In their pockets pocket when thy they pop BOO tie tho th au ti tin Pr P Pf f L this il- il ila looks a If I r t tr r 4 n but as they thoy were wert a bIt to te sure aure that tbt th lri could b be hid had for fer UI the liking asking and ad the Ut better way I to make Ike hUrried trip to the jeweler end back baek The great a a ofa girla life ii Ie when she eha flashes her moment ent of In r faces face of ef f her admiring and envious friends friend and It is a I and Inhuman thin thing to delay It an a cruel any longer than thin is t I necessary DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1924 1934 by Public Lodger Ledger Company |