Show Dorothy I Dorothy Dixs Dix's Letter Bo Box CAN A GIRL LOV Love TWO MEN AT THE SAME TIME THE PROBLEM OF THE STEPMOTHER ST WITH FOUR CHILDREN OF DIFFER f ENT TEMPERAMENT THE HUSBAND WHO IS ALWAY UNDERFOOT D r LAR MISS Can DIX DIX Can a sill guI bo ho In love with two uro men atthe at the he same time Does a person experience real love lov only once In a life lit Can Cana Caia a person be ba infatuated with another person of o the opposite sex eX and andI ani I eVIl it'll not be in love lov with him AN N INTERESTED READER Answer 1 We W love different people for different qualities Therefore a a girl may love one man because he Is l I gentle and tender and chival chivalrous o rous FOUS toward her and she sir may love lov another t man because he has the opposite qualities and belongs to the th cave man type Or a girl might love lve the quiet of one man and adore the th rollicking high spirits of another e but this Is li a sort of half love lov The perfect tt I love lov Is that in which we w find in one Individual all that we crave to satisfy body and heart and soul As to how many times g an Individual ma love lov KUin HUun In a lifetime depends upon the person There are are those tho ho never lave lavo lov but once one because they tl gl e all they have to give live they empty out their hearts heart's Heart devotion on au the one beloved ono one And thEl then e are aro othel s who are off oft with sith Ith the th old love lov and andon andon andon on with nith the new as often ortEn as occasion demands You see men and omEn who have married two and three times Umes and who seem to be equally devoted to each Ife wit ife and husband GEnerall Generally speakIng the human heart Is an inn In which there Is always alays room for one ono more and the latest guest euest seems to get the warmest warm t elcome Undoubtedly we can be fascinated by those who do not love Many me men and women have hav a physical attraction for fop us whose principles and attitude toward life revolt us UI DOROTHY DIX e 4 C a a S SD SEAR I EAR MISS illS DIX Three DIX Three years ago aeo I marl man led a man with four tour chil children DEAn D SEAR dren No two of ot them are ar alike in disposition n and no matter what I say to them for th their lr own o good they laugh lauth at me toe ItIs It ItI a waste of time to tell their father Cather for or he be sides aides ft them and tells me m that I take too much to heart and am ant worried too much oer o theIr disagreeable ways stays and hateful I It seems my lot is ono one if the hardest er c put on a womans woman's shoulders shoulder's and I am about to toh toise h ise e up A DISAPPOINTED STEPMOTHER Answer You are right sister a stepmothers stepmother's lot Is II one of the hard hard- hardest hardest est lets l ts In the th world and there Is no other ther task so difficult and ond so thankless as the one she has as undertaken She has hal to make all of the th sacrifices of a mother without a ettinga a mothers mother's compensating love She Sh is looked upon with suspicion and her he herbest best beat motives misunderstood by the children who will not take from her the correction that they would not dream dram of resenting from their own mother and generally the childrens children's mothers mother's people and the th neighbors Incite the children to carryon carry on a per per- perpetual perpetual guerrilla warfare with their thair stepmother Besides all of this it take talcot a lot of love loveto to enable any woman oman to endure the faults of childhood and this the stepmother lacks When hEn a child i is born God puts in the tb heart of its mother a mysterious affection tion that enables her to be bo deaf deat to the noise It makes Instead of ot hay hav haying Ine hav-Ine Ing her nef es I by It U that enables her to see an mind mindIn mindIn mindin I In little Johnn Johnns's Johnns s 's breaking up the th parlor chairs to make mak a choo chao choc choo I i train and that makes it sweet s cot to her to spend her life toiling for I who repay her with impudence and knocks Instead of kisses hisses and gratl gratitude tude cratl-tude tude A hard job that of being a stepmother One not to be un- un undertaken Undertaken un undertaken except by a cazy cozy woman or a saint But remember stepmother that you voluntarily undertook this vicarious moth moth- motherhood motherhood and the curse of curses curse is upon you unites you treat the dead womans woman's children as kindly as a you would treat trat your own There Is no present remedy for your situation unless you turn quitter and leave it entirely But If you yo yo u do your duty by these thele children who are so unappreciative now the day wIll come when they will arise and call you blessed and your re- re reward reward re reward ward will be b In having raised up worthy men and women out of those who lacking a mothers mother's care might have hav been wastrel DOROTHY DIX S e 5 DEAlt D EAR EMt MISS DIX I DIX I base hv been married twelve t sears ears and I am a slate body and soul My husband insists on coming home to lunch and andI I base haie to cook him hini a big bie hot meal Wherever Cr I go eo he Ins Insists Isis on going also lIe II sas that he loves me sue so much that he h is not content with with- without without out me Nver Ne being able to get rid ot or him een e for a minute of au an evenIng never havIng any chance to do an thing thine I want to do or go any I want ant to go 01 oi press e an opinion of my own gun 0 n 01 ci ha have hate e any privacy just never being belne ilono llone has got cot on m lIef neres es so that I almost hate him I am so fed up with sith him Should man led life mean this slavery I ask OU to tell me A MARRIED WOMAN IAN Answer I hone hODe some of the wives who are forever complaining about their husbands wanting an evening off now and then will read your letter Mrs Married Woman and realize that your ease case IS ic far worse than theirs For there Is nothing harder to endure In matrimony than too much husband and there Is no woman who has a man perpetually underfoot who doesn't vant vant to kick him out of the way The secret of husbands and wives keeping In love is to take each others other's society In broken doses Yours Is a case where measures measure are needed and andou ou OU still have to stage stase a rebellion Remind our man that the accepted Id ld al I husband Is the tho man mao who ho goes to work stork at 8 S In the th morning and come cOlDe back until 5 in tn the afternoon And if it he wont won't leave lease ou of an L put on your our hat and go o out and leave him DOROTHY DIX COPYright 1921 by Public Ledge Company |