Show I Dorothy Dixs Dix's Letter BoxI Box I CAN A MAN M N DIVORCE A WIFE WHO IS TOO LAZY TO BE A GOOD HOUSEKEEPER THE YOUNG GIRL WHO WEEPS AT ATTHE ATTHE ATTHE THE THEATRE MUST MU T YOUNG PEOPLE SETTLE DOWN AFTER MARRIAGE EAR F EAR MISS DIX I DIX I have bave h T been married for lor tour four years to 10 a 9 woman DEAR D J who Is li so o lazy luy l ay and so ao slovenly that It I Is almost almot driving me toe crazy I make plenty of money to support us comfortably and am to do de everything possible to make a 9 happy homE but my ray wire wife simply refuses refuse to do a hand band a turn We have bave two children who literally go about in rag rags and are ara never neTer properly bathed or have hav their hair hal combed My wife keeps herself like a filthy old hag hagI h t tI I I hive have found her cooking food tood In a 0 B pan she tho used for cleaning clea a II floor Food moulds In the Ice box The laundry is ia left heft just as a It comes com from the et e wash until it tours sours and mildews mildew Is a man legally and morally obligated to endure endur a a life of aggravation Uon tion and dIscouragement with a woman like this thill S W W U s 's Answer Anwer In most of the tho th tats states nonsupport la Is I one we ti of the recognized cau cause caus for divorce and f the law taw frees a woman from a husband who IS too and trifling to provide provid h her r with i D DIX a dec decent nt living What I Is II sauce for the tho goose goole I is sauce lauce lauc for the th gander and a man should be entitled to a from a wife who la I I too Idle and trifling to be a good housekeeper I It It js lust just as much a a oman lomans oman a business to keep a clean house bouse as asIt asIt I It Is her husbands husband to pay for the shelter sheer that er co co ra her hr h r It Is li just juat justas justas as much th the Bites altos duty properly to cook the th food tood the husband pro provIdE's provides vIdEs vIdE's aj as a it Is li hl hi his to provide provid it It Is li just as much up to the ire to handle thriftily her husbands s money as it Is his to earn it And any woman who doesn't keep kep a tidy house houe and lOt et lOther her hr husband down to a good dinner and who doesn't keep withIn her budget Is la defaulting on her part of the marriage contract Just aa a much as a her husband would be If he h was Will a loafer who made mad no effort to support hi his family Th There re is no creature mor more and contemptible than woman who has ha so little prid pride and elt respect that she prefers to wallow in filth rather than exert herself enough to keep her children her herself elf and nd her house clean She Sh is on a level aith ith swine but hut I tear fear there Is no hope of ot reforming her Laziness Is Ia the th most mot in- in incurable in incurable curable ot or all viCES viCE'S There Ther seems to be b no way WilY ot of o putting pep Into the or galvanizing the sluggish Into action But I 1 am strong in th the faith that he that will not work neither shall b be eat eat and I 1 think that any man Is II Justified In gettIng up and leaving an able bodied bod lad woman who lie lies In bed and reads read novels novela instead 0 of sweeping the th floors and get get- getting gettIng fl ting t-ting ting buy busy cuy with the th gas range rang There Ther la is I no reason why a man work hard to t support a perfectly idle Idl woman and he heIs hI Is II foolish If he h does doea do It IL It Matrimony should be b a fifty fifty proposition and the th wife should do her hr part as a well weil as a the th husband An uncomfortable horn hOMe diminish diminIshes a mans man's earning arning ca Bad food I Is II Just so 0 much poison and no man la Is called upon up n to let l t his hi wife slowly murder him and his chIl- chIl chIldren children chil dren Therefore I should see advise e iou ou 00 W W U to take your en and go co somewhere where they and you m aill be b properly tAken care of or Leave your wito wie high hith and dry without lout sup sup- support sup and when she gets good and hungry she may decide that she the would rather work than stane stars stan e DOROTHY DIX DIXS S a a S C CD EAR r DOROTHY DIX I DIX I am of ot a very emotional nature and I R DEo D weep very easily eully Almost Almot anything will wilt make cry me-cry Some nome o of annoyed but the th ins ma- ma my lay boy friends laugh at me One boy seems appe appear r not to notice even when they see the tears ears rolling roiling down my face taco Do ou think men alan w Wl 1 think the ls loss of me because I cr er Does Does Doea this characteristic as a rule rul disgust di men Do men like togo togo to too go o to the theatre a with girl who weeps over every evory touchIng scene tell toll me f f It is harmless to Indulge in a few tew tears or whether I should control myself BUDDY Answer Tears Tar are ar entirely out of fashion now Buddy They are arJust Just a as much a back number a as In In olden times women were dissolved in tear teara every overy ery time tim anything went wrong Now they grit their t teeth eth and say lay Damn I should say ay that men mn a III a general thing would walk far and wid wide of a girl who I Is II a fr free w weeper pr Th They y would think she ahe sh was wal wa silly eilly llly and not a good aport sport They Thy would hate It because she sh made mad them thesis conspIcuous It tt would wOd wO d make mak them feel l uncomfortable and helpless because they thy wouldn't know what to do about It And furthermore thy they would be b die die- enchanted d because tears tear make mak ninety nine women out ut of a hundred look like Ilk a hag Therefore Th etore before you Indulge yourself In weeping in public try It at home before our own mirror and see e 1 If It makes snakes your lour our eye eyes ye look like violets dro drowned droned ned in dew or whether whither It make makes our nose swell up and get l t red and your eyes yea look like hike burnt holes bole In a a I blanket Of course court there thre are times tim when tears tar are the th best beet shot hot In a womans woman's woman locker But this should always alway be reserved u 55 a such auch la tr ort such for instance III as a when a man is II I getting the beat best of an argument with you or you want something very that you know you should not hav hive have Then If you burst burat Ito tears tar a It man will call himself a brute brut and offer effer you his hla to weep on en and be putty In your hands hand But If you are ar a chronic crybaby he will merely mtr ly tell you not to tomake tomake make a fool of yourself and bang the th door dor behind him DOROTHY DIX C C S a aDEAR SD SEAR EAR MISS DIX Do DIX Do OU think that all young people should f settle DEAR D down Immediately after atter marriage I moan It If a 0 oung nina man ot of twenty fh e and a girl of eighteen get let married would you suggest theties the theU theties U ties s of a home bom and babies Or Is It wiser to wait walt a few years yeara until they have hav both had bad rOod good times Umes while thy they are oung Don Dont t you think the th proposition of ot livIng with your parents after atter marriage man Is I wrong a as it stems seene to relieve the couple from all responsibility and other trouble troubles connected with married life lift E B C Answer Anwer No man and woman should get married until they have had their fling and ar are ars tired of Jazzing and ar are rady t to settle down and go about abut the th busIness bulnes of f life Every young couple should hould go to housekeeping even If they have hav to t set t up their establishment In one on room rather rth r than live with their th In a palace It la Is I being on their own wn responsIble for their own wn that develops develop what I Is bt bet for them and draws draw them closer cloer clo r together DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1924 by Public Ledger Company |