| Show II Y YI I Dorothy Dixs Dix's Letter Box I WHAT QUALITIES TO LOOK FOR IN THE MAN YOU MARRY IDOLIZING MOTHER AFTER MARRIAGE THE CURE FOR A LAZY WIFE t MISS DIX I DIX I am a girl of o twenty three and hate hare two suitors s DEAR One of o thorn them Is s very good looking and Is Js a suave mannered sort Bort of oC chap His us business prospects are not favorable The other man Js Is Ishomel kind hearted true truo homel rather brusque In manner blue a college graduate and going up the ladder In business Both of ot these e young men want to marr marry me meI I ru rusty My sty girl Kirl friends aU all think the first man Is won wonderful but say nothing about the second The former has bas a fascination for tor me because I worship good goodr I could love lovo lovet r looks and aDd nice manners The second one ono if IC be he wore better looking I alwa always s feel that people t rM will say of ot us Is that the best she could do You Yousse ion see sae I don t know which man I really love What Qualities would you seek In a man you were going tom to y BC B C A m man man- manA Answer if It If you dont don't know which one of two men j y S you you love the better you do not love either one well enough to marry him What untIl to ask one to read your do not have anyone any i UL ULl VL you heart for you nt I should say ar that the homely man Is From your acct LY than the good looker Handsome Is as handsome ably a better husband chance It Is the substantial tle and ana not noi a Greek pro pro- profile profile does in a running mate file that make a man a desirable which either a man or a woman O all Oi-all all idiotic things for those who marry f the most Idiotic Is beauty because can marry foredoomed to lose out within a few years pOSe pos for that are and then they have before them a lifetime months month a few for attraction Individual who hu has no tf of association with an I head hed false teeth and your them A paunchy stomach tomah a bald A few wrinkles twenty pounds vamps you no more moret he vamp vamp t hair 1 and J a fading fa lm complexion and your living of fat graying And where are you then 7 leture ha has become a chromo man ju lust just t because he ho Is handsome handsome hand band a dont don't marry So n for heavens heaven's take sake some and because the other girls think t he be Is wonderful You won wont won't t care husband anyway about other women crazy your to bave so soul to t married It will be peace and comfort In sour our ou are re does not catch whose hose pulchritude know that you are united to a man every roving feminine eC eye e e Homely men are desirable a as hu husbands band for many rea reasons ons watching your fences First t bec because use they dont don't keep you always alway because they admire you Instead of expecting you to Secondly burn incense incense before them Thirdly because you dont don't d have to listen to people wonder why that sort of a looking sheik 1 tied with an ordinary looking woman like you And lastly up of Is likely to have because the plain or garden variety man more sense seme than the beautiful one honesty up up- up- up uprightness uprightness uprightness As to the desirable qualities In a husband they are understanding good nature and an rightness Intelligence sympathy ability to get along In the world orld DOROTHY DIX illA- illA illAr r BAR MISS Why nix DIX Why Is it that before marriage a mans man's mother Is IsI nEAR I I al ala i marriage I IT T she a becomes A a Q saint L JJ plain woman to him while after arter model son on to hIs married husband was no my Before we were were But be he has de- de de developed mother and showed her no particular affection now eloped an almost unearthly de devotion which causes him to lavish many attentions and spend much money upon her while I have my head snapped off oft it if I even mention the fact tact that I a min need of o a 0 few rew dollars t Answer I I think most men and women love and appreciate their mothers more after marriage than they did before Children Childree and young people take everything that their parents do for granted and a as no more than their right but when they grow older they realize the sacrifices that their fathers and mothers made for tor them and the burdens they bore boro in order that they might have a carefree childhood and aDd youth Also of course blessings brighten a as they fade and no people are so o perfect and admirable as aa those with whom we do donot donot donot not have to live The son sons and daughters who Idealize their old mothers and fathers and slosh over with the most moet beautiful beautiful ful sentiments concerning them are those who do not have to live with the old people and put put up with their s and ways others Mothers halo would get quite a few dents In It If your husband had to listen to her tell over the same old stories and endure her eternal nagging and gratify her never ending never curiosity t tIt It l is the flavor Bator of ot ones one's youth that makes mothers mother's pies and mothers mother's bread taste like ambrosia In reality they were generally soggy cre creations against which our stomach would now revolt It Is la well and good for tor men and Women omen to Idealize their mothers Nothing they her can do can repay mother for the love she abe he has bas given them the care she has bestowed upon them the sacrifices she has made for them V But they have no right to put mother above their husbands and wives and if they have a grain of sense ense In their heads they would put the soft pedal on en their pral praise e of mother A For no man wants want his wife to be always telling him what mother IV'S ava and what mother thinks he should bould do and no woman wants to toh h hear ar what a a marvelous cook mother I Is nor how bow mother can run ahouse a ahouse ahouse house without money nor what hat an angel mother Is I I should advise e any wife whose husband was still tied to tomother tomother's tomother's mothers mother apron strings to go off on a visit and leave him to spend a long time with mother He would think a lot better of wife's methods method when she got back DOROTHY DIX DEAR DEAn EAR T MISS DIX What DIX What would you vou OU do it If you ou were married to a big big big- strong trong husky woman who wouldn't get up and get your break break- breakfast breakfast fut fast I have to cook mine and take my wife's to her In bed Then she gets geta up and goes off oft In the car ear and spends the day gadding around The only meal she pretends prete to cook Is supper and she buys most of that that at the delicatessen JOHN Answer I I would tell her that I I was wu going off and get a a divorce and marry me a wife who would get my breakfast for me There Therele Therel l le no reason why a a man should support a a woman who l Is a lazy loafer who lays down on the Job and refu refuses es to do her part C If I I were a man I 1 wouldn't do It DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1924 by Public Ledger Company v 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