Show I Dorothy Dixs Dix's Letter Box Box BoxA I I IA A PLEA FOR THE LITTLE NEWSBOYS WHEN SEVENTEEN MARRIED THIRTY FOUR HELPING THE WIDOWER CHOOSE A WIFE DEAR EAR MISS Won DIX DIX Won t you put something In the paper about the little boys who deliver er the papers to private residences Wont Won't little fellows have to go to their houses I ou tell teU tho people how hon these seven times a 1 week eek and how little they make on each My little brother five fiTe cents apiece a only customer customer only has a route route route- and sometimes times he be doesn't make enough eOs because the people will eill m not pay payI SHi to pay for tor r the papers he be has to go three and anti four our ourE I l their bills Sometimes s times to a house boute to collect his mone E s- s sAt i At he lie wanted to give my mother mothr a e B plant with the money be he made but hut most of the did not lat 11 ha e e the change told hint him they thoy the I- I itS yf-itS he ho went w Dl c I K or they were too busy buCy and did not have bave time to stop some some- something something some they had compan or and get tho the money or bill bUl for tor another week ek Theydon They thing and to let the m go A l-A l don dont don't d Kt t realize but they 4 don t nu mean an not to pay In the end W that sometimes the few cents mean so much to the people at home borne and there won wont t be any bread fo tot pd It If Johnny can t collect his paper bill billI billI supper I C 1 know because I 1 am aol a little paper boys boy's I LITTLE SISTER JENNY il IJU Answer Jenny and I hepe I I am glad to put your letter In the paper and the pocket pocket- pocket books I that It the hearts and consciences to be unkind but who who dont don't mean books of 01 a lot tot of or people little bills bulls because they have never about bout are circles careless paYing plying tf be h the I known from personal that tt t a few cents M may n between a full stomach or an empty one between a marg place to lay your head and being put out out on the street in the world Certainly there ore era no braver or more pathetic figures shouldered the burden of ot life liCe at an than the little Utile newsboys who ha have hae e be carefree and know nothing more r early age when the they should ous than playtime and who In the snow and sleet of wInter or under their sobs jobs who risk their the burning sun eun of summer are faithfully on on to cars and unde times dally daily hanging lives ja u Q- Q other children of ot the same age are the wheels heels of ot automobiles while being coddled and watched 0 over oer er in luxurious homes and scarcely trusted s 1 to cross the street alone think of cf their Surely the fortunate fortunata mothers and fathers who own darlun darling little lads lade safe and warm and guarded free to and who have their birthright In spend their time in sports childish Joy and play protected from the dangers moral and well as al they look at every little physical of the street may say newsboy There but for the grace of God Is Ie my own child And In humble thanksgiving Ins that their 0 own oen n has escaped this hard lot lot they might make mako the ne lot easier by not makIng him salt alt for the money that he be has earned at the price of his childhood So I entreat all who sho read thes these lines never to p p it t off oft pi ing the little new ne abo And to this I add the further plea that before you go away for your summer vacation to be very careful to pay every little bill you owe Dont Don't forget the seamstress to whom you owe a dollar or cr two nor the shoemaker nor the ice cream man nor northe northe northe the vegetable man nor all of the dozen people with whom you have little accounts They do business on a small email capital and the dollar or er two you owe them may stand between them and actual want DOROTHY DIX a aD EAR r EAR I DIX DIX I am two twenty For or the last four tour sears lears ears I Ii D DEAR i ij and j unhappy have been married to a man twice t my age am amery ery ery x My husband seems to think that I should settle down like an old oldy woman r y woman a and stay right at home hon and care for tor his child who Is eleven are iare ars old The first two v ears cars of ot our married life lICe we ee e were very happy My Sly Iy husband gave me a home and a car but now he ho has become In- In Indifferent in-ff in f different and Irritable and makes ever even everl thing miserable for me toe Do ou think that I should sacrifice all for tor him after aCler giving up most of nil my girlhood days to make happy D H Answer Your plight D H is the almost Inevitable fat fate of those who marry out of their own age class When lou ou OU married a man twice l as old as you are what did lou OU expect That he would be a boy and play around with willi you That he be v would want ant to do the foolish oung things that ou would want to todo todo todo do That he would look at life Ire from our point of ot view And what did he expect That a n child would suddenly become a woman That a loung oung girl would settle down and be bo mature That Thata a young girl would 1 cease to desire to dance and go to parties and have bave a gay time that belongs to her Both of you expected the impossible And because no mir mir- miracle mir miracle acle ws was wrought that made him hum young or you old you are miserable and disappointed and your husband Is II I Irritable But when you make a binding contract you have to stand standby standby by It unless the party of the first part breaks his part of the thet t f bargain So long as al your husband Is good and kind and gen generous erous to you you have no right to divorce him and so the thep p only thing you can do in honor Is II to try to make contented with your lot 4 After all it Is not such a bad one and ou can do much to help yourself to become If It vou OU will just quit null thinking about the therun theun run Fun y you u are missing In being married and tied hed do down don n to an old husband od center your thoughts on how lucky you are to have a good home borne homei and nd a husband who Who Is able to provide for tor you I And be Just to your hu husband You married him Just sa as saI I much nuch as he married you you know DOROTHY DIX a a C CEAR j EAR MISS I DIX DIX I am a widower of ot about sixty leara ears of ot age and andam andam DEAR am a successful business man I have five children from fourteen to 10 three ears of age I need a companion and my children need a mother There Is an unmarried woman w Oman of or about forty years ot or age and anda anda t a widow with sl sit sic children either one of whom ehorn hom I think I can m marry rry one should I choose H Answer The unmarried one To marry a widow with six lOX children I and introduce them Into your home where you have already five children would be suicidal folly It 1 would turn our home Into an earthly purgatory fono for tor no two O sets of ot children could possibly get along together 1 In peace and no mother C could be just stepmother She would favor her own chil children ren at every turn A But look well Into the character of the woman you put over your children Dont Don't marry any woman who Is nervous delicate In health or who has a high t temper Such a one IsI Is I constitutionally Incapable of making a good stepmother Pick I out an going easy-going good natured natu red sense common woman who has a sense At of humor and a temperament DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger Le ger Company |