Show I DOROTHY DIX TALKS I I III DI nil t Ih rue llio 1 4 l ll Woman Writer LOVE IOVE FOR HER HUSBAND IS THE ONLY THING THAT MAKES T THE IE SACRIFICES OF MARRIAGE WORTH WHILE TO THE AVERAGE WOMAN SO SHE WHO MARRIES THE THEMAN THEMAN THEMAN MAN SHE LOVES IS HAPPIEST OF WIVES A A ask aski tills thIs question A r A AIs q Is it better belter for or a II woman oman ornan to nurry mury the man mall she the lo 10 08 e or the theman man mall who ho loves her to this thu the answer Of 01 course proper I query Is If neither or both Do not marry I until ou find a man who loves lovet you and whom you love But in a Case cuo e where wh ri a ap p i choIce h hs ha s to he Ic o male made mad between the th two I should unhesitatingly say ay that It Is It bet better to the th man she ter for the woman marry loves than it is i s for her to marry the tho th man who loves her 1 l AT A AT bluh blu li not nol many women will agree acre LoJ to Lo 10 l t this this his proposition They ulU IU say that R a womans woman's t S v greatest need Is the need need ot of 10 lo e e That without J lovo she Blue hunge hungers and and no mai- mai J ter what hat else Ise ise life Ife gives gt cl os her z J d herd Furthermore that It is a womans woman's to be adored and have ha incense burnt before her Dix and that CHI ei since the tho cave man booed his hi lady 10 loo 0 with a II club and dl dialed ag d her to his home bv her Ier lovely red hair men men he been the lowers losers and lime hae done the th courting Therefore they hold that If II in n marriage one kisses nd the other submits to being kissed as the th French say ay the theman theman theman man be the kisser and the woman the kissed kIlled HEY believe e that e hee a n woman oman ba has hak to content herself with a ahalt ahalt THEY T halt half a loaf oaf Bile ahe he best secure Irr hr happiness by taking a bus husband band ho ho hois Is perfectly craz about her who ho is 15 in a perpetual state tat tate of blessing Lady Luck foi ha having lug Ih en him hm his hearts hart d desire In a wife alto Ife and ho hon n content to 10 cat eat out of or her ber hand such scraps of oC affection as she coil COli- con descends to feed himI him I dISagree with th this theory th ory It Is I Just Juat because love lov s is the most Important thing in a womans woman's life that It Is I abao absolutely necessary for her to have sn an n overwhelming passion lor forthe or orthe the man sh she marries If she Is to find fend happiness and con con con- A MAN dAN who has lias las a itil interest hi in his career the he excitement forthe forthe for tor A AMAN the struggle for tor power and mone mono the thousand distractions of othe k the great oIli 10 fo take tae his mind off olt ho hi om domestic affairs can c n act Iet along with a II wife whom hom lioni Ir lie respects and nd who ho ho makes him comfortable ut for or hOl lie e entertains a lukewarm earm regard retard p But a woman cannot meet a situation like that philosophically Her emotions emotion make her lire life What she ahe feels feela fel I Is of more mere Interest to her than what she ahe sh does She Site cannot sub substitute substitute liking for loving Iovino any more Ole than she can water for wine And no matter how much she admires the man to t whom she Is married no matter Iatter how grateful she ahe Is to him for his kind kindness ness nen to her hor h r unless he can raise a thrill In her h r breast every everything thing is cinders ashes and dust duat to her She feels that she has missed the tho th best but thing In life tn thing she ahe he most wanted and che Ghe is restless and dissatisfied I and Is forever on a still hunt to find her real soul mate To T TO THC average oman Is d t slate of ot perpetual sacrifice She must mutt go through the agony of bearing children and the long ca eary years of o ceaseless care and anxiety In rearing them She mut mu I work ork harder barder than any at the dull and monotonous task of cooking and cleaning end and scrubbing and se sewing and mending that it takes to make a comfortable home And the only thing on earth that can make mak all of thic worth while is love for her husband That sets sits c star In her hersi so scy y That gilds the humblest task tash The worra who over a stove cooking a dinner for the husband to whom she is 18 utterly indifferent l Is a slave slavo driven to her appointed task by her sense of duty duly The woman who stands over a i stove cooking dinner for a II husband she adores Is a priestess make mak mak- mak making ing ma a burnt offering of herself on the altar of her god THE woman oman who ho ho marries marros th the man sher aho loies 10 Is never and L THE boredom Is 15 tile particular curse curie of o the feminine tc sex ex She he throws throw 8 beaU healt heal I and soul into Inlo her husband husbands s a Interests and i ii h more ea eager er fOI hi his hll than lio be Is himself She Sh I il Ii never dull because the I smallest thing thine that concerns tim rim Is of or mOl mole c Import to her than the I e that shake lake the great outer world orld orld She be can find rind food tOI foi I thought and for her activities in the fact that her husband likes I onions with Ith his or prefers mushrooms Her da das If are ire filled I with pleasurable excitement In preparing fOI loi his homecoming of an evening and when she hears his key koy in the tb latch her peart strike upI up I 4 all to the King Kins The woman who marries the man she ahe loves is never ds- ds dia dis satisfied never disgruntled He may bo be b a poor thing but he heIs heIs heIs Is her OW own the one she he cut out of the bunch and which marked with her own brand Hiving got the th thing the she th wanted most she can well v afford to pity her ler poor sisters who have I only and pearls and the merely tolerated husbands wl-o wl are arc the purveyors thereof thereof r f r COURSE counsE the woman oman who 10 l nes es her ber husband better than he he Or O does her has lIas her moments moment of acute cute jealousy but e 01 0 en these th se are thrilled with pep lund and are better be than the dull stagnation of ha ing inga a man that you dont don't take the trouble to lock up at night because ou know Inow ou cant can't ant lose him Truly It Is I more blessed to give than to receIve and It Itis Itis is better for a woman to love than to be b loved DOROTHY DIX COP right 19 1924 4 by Public Ledger Leder Company Compan |