Show IA Dorothy T Dixs Dix's N Letter Box Box I IARE ARE THE DAUGHTERS S SUPPORTING A MOTHER w WHO MAKES THEIR HOME COOKS SEWS WASHES AND CLEANS FOR THEM THE JEALOUS WIFE WHO RUINS THE DOCTORS DOCTOR'S CAREER SHALL THEY RISK DISINHERITANCE TO MARRY EAR AR DOROTHY DIX I DIX I am a mother ier living with my girt girls tirl I do all Dt D DEAR J the tb housework the th washing cooking Ironing cleaning and run rUIl all over town hunting bunting them bargains In groceries and to save SRn them money I am happy to do all this but what hurts hurta hurt my heart hearl Is I that my daughters think tha that they thy sup support support port me r I do not nol ask uk any pay for tor what I do but I Idon don dont don't like them to feel that they take tak care car of roe me and 9 that I should be b grateful to them for or doing dolne so o I Ie think I earn my own way e My girls make mak good money and should be b happy to have hav a mother to do all the work at home borne horn ROil anti n make them a n nice place where they can bring brint thel their friends for or mother always has ha a good dinner for them no matter how tired he he Is la Now please tell me If It I am wrong when I say lay that toy my daughters do not support me that I 1 support s A POOR SOUL myself j 4 p t i tIt It iB Answer Independent self elf lf- lf S You certainly are an 3 supporting wom woman n Pr Poor Soul for fr If there thero ther Is LIIA vu Vt any other human being on n earth who earns arn his hi or her own wn board bard and keep and a good fat salary alary besides it Is the th woman who wh does the never ending labor of making a comfortable home horn If your ungrateful daugh daugh- daughten daughter their meats meals and make their awn wn beds ten ter had to t cook own and wash wah theIr own clothes In addition to t earning Their own living ill a many othe other girls girl they do-they d they would realize how lucky they are arc r to t have a mother who wh doe dea all of this thi for fr them And If It they bad had to pay the price that any sort orl o of a competent cook and laundress laundre and housemaid gets lets In these days nay and settle etti the th stall stag staggering and gering bills bill that hired help runs up with its wastefulness gance they would realize tint the mother who works work for tor her br food and anda anda a few clothes Is I no object of cf charlt charity v whom horn they generously support They would find fIDd out that she ahe saved for or them then a hundred times over overall all 1111 that she sh costs them There is nothing more mor pitiful and nothing more than the way so o many daughters daughter make mak unconsidered slave of their thelT mothers In thousands of f households you yu will find mother doing all alt the th housework h mother nursing the chil chIl- chIl children dren mother making the clothes mother mothr doing the th he work w rk It would take tak half a dozen servants to ta do d and getting for fr It neither thanks thank nor pay On the contrary the very daughters daughter who make an unappreciated drudge of oC mother talk about mother to throw bou bou- bouquets bou- bou bouquet being a burden on them th m and expect everybody quete at them for being so good and kind as a to t give mother a ahome ahome ahome home I always wonder onder why such mothers mother as you vou ou are Poor Soul do not teach their daughters a II good rood lesson leeson Why Thy do ou not throw up your job In daughters kitchen and get tet one on In somebody body else's cIso's where here they will be only too glad clad to give you good rood money for for nothing There are ar thou thou- thousands thousand doIng the th work ork that ou are now doh doing or sands sand of strange women omen who are longing lon for tor just such household treat ures as ts 3 vou ou are and who would consider It a II privilege pr to 10 pay you a handsome salary alary for giving them good home cooking and down the grocer bill Stage Stag your yur walkout and leave leav your daughter daughters to find out whether you yu were a self supporting woman or r not DOROTHY DIX a S C I flEAR iBAR DOROTHY DIX I DIX I am a professional man very tory ry Interested In DEAR TO m mv profession very ambitious and am begInning to gain distinction In It It But my wife wit Is ruining my practice by her ller jealous her false ralso als accusations and her nagging I am at my wits Its end to know what hat to do doas as I am not qualified to make a living In any other way ay and yet yel it II my wife wit persists In her course coune I will soon be he ruined rained professionally and will III have hav to turn to something else Can you suggest any cure cur for her M iii D Answer No Who can minister to a mind disease dlease A womans woman's Jealousy of or her husbands husband's business Is Insanity because her welfare Is wrapped up In It Just as much as a his Is and when she sh ruins him she he rUins rums herself Any sane person would see this for her her- herself self When one doesn't It r is because she h Is bereft of f reason and there th re is s no use ue arguing with her hr or trying to get her to view the matter in its proper light Unfortunately the wives hes o of ph seem very Cry prone to thIs malady A young woman who was engaged to a doctor told me m that It drove her crazy to think about her fiance going from Crom one pink negligee clad woman oman to another holding their hands and listening s to their s Well then I told her hr at least be b honest enough with the theman theman man not to marry him If you feel that way You know In ad- ad advance advance vance what his profession is and you have no right to Inter Inter- Interfere Interfere fere with his hi life If work or to torment him to death with your jealousy and suspicions And If you had any sense the more pink negligee ladles ladle he went to see cee the better you would be pleased for fr It mean means Just th that much ch moro more mor prosperity fr for You you or I went ent on no other men In the have Ilave so 10 fe few v Illusions about women omen as a doctors because no other men see ie them under ruch A sick woman Is at her worst physically and mentally and If sou ou think there Is anything alluring abolt a ft nerv- nerv nerv nervous ous neur otic h hv female emale vou ou 1111 base li v e another guess gues coming our way ay The wonder onder to me Is that any doctor ever Of marries It at t aU all allI allI I would think that they would be oft off of the woman oman proposition for or life The young yung woman took my advice and broke off her en en- en engagement n with the th physician which saved one ne man from hay hav having ing log his career wrecked by a Jealous wife And a woman tan can cando cand do that very effectually for she sh cannot only nag her husband until she destroys destry his hi efficiency but no woman wants wanlo to tall call callIn callIn In a physicIan who wh has a jealous wife because It I Is too t danger danger- dangerous ous There Is I no telling what unfounded scandal candal may start tart DOROTHY DIX o f S a S SD SEAR DEAR D EAR DOROTHY DIX V i DIX i hat do vou OU thin think of o a father who threatens J to disInherit dl his two sons eons ton If It the man many y while he lives Both sons have found round the girls A DAILY READER I II Answer Why I 1 think It sounds like an old fashioned melodrama Disinheriting sn son sons because be ause they thy wont won't marry to t please a stern parent simply Isn't d done no now and I think the sons ons would just laugh at father and gl g- g galong along and get married anyway But an man who tries trie to keep his hla sons eons from marrying nice girls and living a normal dom domestic life le lit is not only cruelly selfish but hut lack lack- Ing lacking lack in good tood hard bard sense For mr It Is 18 I not the old bachelors bachelor who make the finest lne t men mn but the he men who have hate wIves and some body somebody to work ork for or and aCh eve fO for or Father Fath r married an had children that he h loved enough to want to keep kep them fot fot- himself Why does docs ho he h want lo f deny his hia eons sn the th same samo am sou ce cc of happIness Why does doe he wish with to impose hi his tyranny up n them so ao s that they th y will look forward fot to his hi death at as a Ing that will free fres fre that that-i then from bonda bondage e But at st any rate any nan t-nan nan who doesn't girl think more mr of a gIrl than he does doe of his fa hers her's will w wont won't ont be much couch loss Iou as a hus- hus us- us band ancl i DOROTHY 19 liAl I by Public Ledger Compa Company y DIX |