Show DIX TALKS I Irh rh P fOI 11 the World palti r lil Woman n j THE TOO PATIENT WIFE OR OK MOTHER IS MERELY A DOORMAT ONLY IMPATIENT PEOPLE IMPROVE CONDITIONS GET GETUP GETup GETUP UP IN THE WORLD AND RAISE WORTHY SONS AND DAUGHTERS OT long lOllS ago go I made made a looff loo On the run va was as a woman oman NOT N with a great grest big ble tron husks husk thUd Child who ho retted fretted and nd cried anc and whined every Mep tep ot of the wai w II a until there wa wan un nt t passenger on the tho car c r who ho t te teal col 1 like getting UP and nd beanIng log Ing a subscription lo to build a monument to 0 the late lamented Herod All except tho th mother She exhausted herself tryIng to t amuse the child chil She bought It everythIng that the th train butcher br along She he played game fames with It She Sh told It fries until her tongue hung out ut Still the fretting and an the whining and the th cry crying ing went on n hour h ur hour yet never a acm word writ nor n r a s black look loek did ld the gl lv th the little demon the patience patIO nee of f m mothers ther the m most molt wonderful thing In the world said sal a man manto mant to me It It Is It I replied and an it It Is also als the most IdiotIc thing in the tile world werl and the greatest crime on n earth THE T THE HE man looked surprised and I 1 went on You You base baH ba e been b en admit Ing Ini that woman for tor or her patience with that ba bad child I 1 aid ald Ita Has It occurred to sou ou oti that It If she abe had bad b been n an impatient nt oman oman 1111 a R good right hand she ahe ah could have haT turned that lIttle Imp hei knees and ind with lIh one spank hale liae e saved herself It and all the o of oC u us from rum the annoyance that has hu mad made thIs hit journey a nightmare to 10 us ui Indeed It if 1 she fh ha had hac been an Impatient mother she ahl sh would not haye hid hd to publicly v correct the child tor lor she ahe sh would auld hai hs hae brought It up to behave itself and consider r the comforts and rIghts of other people We W an are always alway lauding patient mothe m th r who wh make door doormats mats mata of f themselves th m elve for fT their children and ancl who let their chiL- chiL oren chi oren kick them about abut and treat them any old ld way but these the thc are not riot the th mothers who ral raie rait up five sons ons n and daughters daughter The men and women who amount to t something in the world world have not had meek patient mothers They have had mothers with backbone and grit who wh let act certain ideals before them and held them to It Th They y hven h vent had mothers mother who overlooked ked every fault and condoned every weakness They have had mothers mother who would ouid not n t stand tand land for any foolishness f who pointed out the road ra of f duty and righteousness ne sto to them and drove dr ve them along It when they didn t go g along 5 It of the their own IR sou OU hear a thud child biking Impudently to Its Us patents n V er ou tee see a a girl eirl hour flour her mothers mother s opinion and a boy treat treal his Ills father contempt whenever you see ee hulking lazy oung oung people who ho ho let lel their old parents parent toll to support them ou behold the work worl of a R patient mother molher Before Defore they were three months old they knew that patient mother would auld walk then them till sill she he dropped IC It the they howled loud enough enouch By Dy the lh time tim they were in kindergarten the knew that they were sere ero th thi ones who ho bo mint muot be obeyed and tb the patient nt was nothing but their humble slave slavo l ve By Br th the tim time they were they were convinced that It was wa a waste vaste of at politeness to treat patient mother mothr decently and nd that thai she the really realy ed going that they might base ha b finery and working her fingers to the bone so that might live In idleness Bellev elleve me the good fd wither mothers are not net the patient mothers mother They ore re rc the mother m ther who demand and ad obedience and who wh put the fear of f God Into int their children And these patient wl es They get Just Ju t the same tame sort fit of freward reward that the patient mother get Pid DId you yu ever know knew a patient wife who ho ho had a husband who wh really loved l ved her or treated her decently You never did ui TI E ALL know patient hes who vail Malt ear ear after ear car for tor unfaith unfaith- VY WE VT ful ul husbands to come back b to theSe the them Wo Se know kno who hae ha e patiently tried for tor halt half a 1 to reform drunken bus husbands bands We Ve now know patient wom woin women omen who ho ho hate e ha worked themselves nearly to death supporting Ing shiftless shIrtless n ei do well husbands hoping against hope bope that their good food nothing for men will wilt at last ret let ashamed or of es and aDd go o to work But the patient wife never nver reforms ref a bad husband Its It's It is the thc impatient woman weman with a he heavy vy hand and nd a rough tongue who the th slacker lacker go g to t work because he knows knowl that the will bodily throw threw him out ut of f the house houGO If he doesn't T IS the impatient woman who wont won't stand for tor drunkenness and IT OT I would drag lIrag a philanderer into the dh divorce orce court who braces up Into Inlo behaving themselves s because they are afraid ot of the woman at nt home It Is Ia 1 the impatient WODan who demands her lIer c of the tho family income who sets cell It it and her h r husband l i respect Into the th bargain So 0 it goes through life It is tie tre th Impatient people wIll not Mt tyranny who wh make mak themselves free It I is Im- Im Impatient Im Impatient patient who will not nt stand for fr bad conditions who improve things It Is II the th Impatient people wio wh do d not nt like poverty and an humble position who wh fight their way up to power and place an and ancl riches It la Is th the patient people ppl who never get anywhere wh who never have hav anything wh who never achieve anything I IS say ay that patience is not a virtue that It Is a 8 viCE vie DOROTHY PIX DIX CO ht 1924 bv by Public Ledger er Compan Company |