Show I J Dorothy I Dorothy Dixs Dix's Letter Box I SHOULD A GIRL BE MARriED BY THE TIME SHE'S GHE'S TWENTY TWENTY- TWENTY ONE CNE THE MIDDLE AGED WIFE WHO IS MARRIED To THE VILLAGE CUTUP THE DISAPPOINTED HU HUG HUS HUSBAND BAND WHO EXPECTED TO ro REFORM HIS WIFE ATER A ER MARRIAGE EAR r EAR MISS Should DIX DIX Should a girl Irl be married by the time she sh Is li J DEAR D twenty one All of ot m lay 01 firl friends friend are re married or engaged and hey seem to think that thit after alter a girl tirl hu ha h reached her twenty firs bl the she has lIas no prospects and md nd Is 1 hopeless hopeless hopeless- I j hase ha had g to t g opportunities to but I refused them because I was wa as not In la 10 loic Ioe e with either v T of the tho men I had h d to leave college colleg In my second c year r because of or two deaths In my toy family I cn con re sumo suino my roy studies this fall 11 It I so o desire but all the th girls wIlli whom horn I chummed have h v left college and andt t gotten married Wh t do you lse ad me m neto to doT do DORIS Answer An wr I think that It would wulf make Immeasurably ably for the th stability of f marriage mamago if no girl Bin It married under twenty three or r four f ur Cerf no n girl should marry under un r twenty twenty- 4 one f so yu you are a ar Just Jut ComIng to t the marriage marriage- abl r able age matted ot of f being beyOnd It DIX DD I get thousands upon thouSAnds of ot letters from mIserable wives and nt itt 1 9 SO SQ p per r cent ot or o these begin by fa fine saing Ing I X married when I IIA aa a sixteen or seventeen years old when I 1 was too oung oun to know what I was wan doing My lily husband and I have nothing in common mon and I he hue h e fallen In lor Ioe e TV an- an another another an other man who Is my Ideal That la Is the the almost inevitable sequence or of f early marriages By the time the tho th girl wife la I I grown ir wn up she ahe ah Is 1 tired tire of the boy of her youthful fancy She Sh II I 1 tIred d of the drudgery of f mony thrust upon her too to early arly She Sho la Is discontented dl peevIsh She longs longa for lov love and arid romance and she tho h 1 II I pretty tur cure to meet some som man who satisfies nor n r mature maturo matur taste tast So S congratulate I late te yourself that at ot twenty ont twenty twenty- n you ou ore are r still till free freo fr and that you ou are ar not In danger of f making the mistake that your friends who wh married too ts o young yung probably hay have hav made mad Above all cont dont don't nt get in a panic about abut not net n t being married and settled and rush Into on n IdIotic Just Ju t to t save lave ave yourself from an old ld maid Marriage Man ages a II woman l Your friends who are ArP matrons with babies baMes are ar In effect S than TOU you are lire o foo I would lid ad adise adi Ise lit yo yo-j to get set out of ot the tho lh married ml crowd and KO go with the el e where 3 ou belong sou OU will Ill be bo classed claued as S a Instead of o the th souni oung girl firl ou ou really arc re Perhaps going back to cot cot- college lef col-lef loge lege nill III be b as liS good a way y aa 8 a any to do this thia but It Is hard to resume Interrupted studies so why not take up a n business course or nr a science course courso at t homo home r At any rate thank God that yu you are aro not nt married at twenty twenty t ty one ne Girlhood la Is the happiest time and the th only carefree time of f a womans woman's whole life lato and she sho I Is I foolIsh t cut It short DOROTHY DIX S I I I ID DEAR D EAR T DOROTHY DIX l DIX I rm put S a middle aped aed woman with a 8 glown My iy husband anno s and lind me by people that t I am jealous of ot him and find his business because I simply try to keep him from making a fool of ot himself He brags to other men about girls being pretty nice and when we e go to out places place nukes makes make him himself conspicuous He has hilA lots lot o of ego eco and likes to show oft off I x have overworked and saved to be b a n help and care car more for his hla business success than ho he does dou Do all men accuse their elves Iv's of being bemi when their II ITO tr lr to keep them th m from doing till things mines MRS bins A A s Answer AI Alas AIs s Mrs A S I fear rear th that your lour case ca Is I that of f a woman wIthout a sense Genie cens of f humor humer who la Is married to the village cutup which Is if always a pity because the tho th woman gets etl so many nany un un necessary and unintended wounds wound Also Air alas alaa moat m t husbands like to t make mak their wives the tho th butt of cf their mrry merry Jests and the I and most moat common husband Joke Jok In the th world l If Is fr tor a aman aman man to t tease teas his hi wife about being b ini Jealous or of f him and to rep rep- represent represent rep represent resent hImself as aa a a gay glY Lothario who wh Is I a perfect devil limong mon the women If Ir tho th wife is if dark he h Is II I always describing the charms of or some lome som Imaginary blonde blende If the th wife Is 13 fair he in- in invents in invent vents vent a ravishing ra brunette brunett Run Iun over the list lift ot of o your nOl You will recall halt half a i dozen men whoM ta dinner table story tory Is about bow how Teen green e eyed ed their IHS get et ever over time timo tim thor thoy tho look at al another woman oman And some some- sometimes sometimes times the tho wives wires bite bit their lips to keep from crying and sometimes the they get iet angry and sometimes they Just laugh And the wise ones once one are aro ar thou those tho who I laugh ugh It really means meana nothing at all except tint that the tho lh husband Is I trying to t be bei I funny He H la I bragging about abut how much his hi wire wife thinks of n hi hin aid d ho lo would v like lik people ppl to t think that he Is II st still II lit lit- at attractive to women v So summon up our seDie senj of ot humor and meet the situation as It Itis Itla is Ia There Ther la Is nothing to be b b mortified about In It And dont don't Imagine that I belittles b s you in other eyes yot They hive have heird hurd the th same am old ld cracks crack so eo man many times time and they thel are aro sr Just ju t u as a bored by tho thoI then as a I yu you are They hey also als would Ike to nt bi-nt into nto thears theara when hen a I starts out on n the thea a clont wife Jealousy wheeze wheel DOROTHY lY DIX S S SD StAR DEAR D tAR MISS DIX Z am a I have been married neaily Deally two years ears I knew Sn in the tle b ln that th tha girl Irl was not Just V I h hit t I w but I thought tl t tho Lo Lovo wo vo lid ild reform from Cr m sonIc ways ays e aye abe aho ho had aiti that she tir lie would learn loarn to be u mor more intelligent I also I knew I dd did not nol lo 10 loher loo e her as I ah should but I thought I would cron groe to care caro more for her but I am disappointed d lu In I vert ver v ry way I am miserable What shall I do dot W J D IJ Answer It Is la ealer to make mak a bad bargain than It Is I to get out w or cf it t Your only chine I Is I to ti h Iv h VII v a frank talk with your our wife on and n buy your our freedom red nl b beck ck k kat at the lh but best price you ou can A Aman Amen men man who I I with wl wl wi generally makes such auch a II that the th la Is I net nt loathe to t cancel tn contract But you de deserve erve some somo cm for fr your yur folly felly and your our stupidity In not nt knowing that a i women's character la Is formed before her marriage and ancl that no n mere m r husband can alter It HeredIty environment particularly her mothr Influence will ut set et a girl In a II mold that do doss ll s not net change Also Als virtually ho homan homan homan man ever folio fall In love lovo lv hit his hi wf after fter marrIage If he I doesn't love l Vt her before bf re he ht never will DOROTHY DOROTHi DIX 1 1021 1024 3 by Ledger I |