Show I Dorothy Dixs Dix's Letter Box I DEAR HISS DIX I DIX I have hare hav been engaged tor for four jean years rears to a 0 man who ho hoIs Is all that a girl Cirl could d desire so far tar a lIB as beIng generous and good natured and good appearing He H Is I a good rood spender and enjoys acting i Santa Claus Clang to his bl own family and to mo ins m and life lite would not mean much mean much to toe mo m without him t Cut But he bo is absolutely without without a cent and has the theu most unreasonable Ideas about saving saTing money He H u A n- n hin Jrr doesn t believe that an body ever got anything just by working and saving At times I convInce him that sa len t a bad Idea Id and ho he lets lt me m take tak so 10 much t of him money each week nek until I I have hav about a hun bun hundred hun hundred bundred dred or t two 0 and then he b thinks ot of a scheme chem to malesa males make makeLa I a million and a ay goes los all aU the money I have hav saved He H either bus bue bu foolishly on the th stock market or he be bo s ro it to lend and I never get ft It back hack Just asI as La I v soon as he be sees that he h has baa aved saved a few rew dollars dollar bet he be asI I t just juti burns burn up until ho he h spends it and it Is I gone con J J Now can ou tell toil me m what I can do to goneI make mak this I 5 oung man so seo sense He Hi So says aB s I tak take lit Ute life too serl sen ee ui that I ought to be b glad lad to smile It If I have hav BIT nv health We Ve are supremely happy and neVer have an DOROTHY DIX DIS DI argument until I begin to wonder what we are ar going to 10 do when wo we set get married L S McG MeG 0 Answer I suppose upp n your yur fate fat Is i that of f many woman weman w m n that of f trying to t sew up a wasteful mans man's man pocket picket And attempting I to stop tp the holts h l In a sieve Is I not nt a more difficult task tatk It Ia Is IsI Isa Isa a Job that will wll require all of the patience self control and tact I that you yu can summon to t your aid fr tor nothing Is I more mr aggra aggra- aggravating aggravating to t a thrifty ambitious woman than to see e her husband throwaway throw w away In foolishness s the th money that should huld be b the foun- foun foundation tun dation of f their fortune and that should h uld provide provid them against the horrors horror of a dependent old age ag A few d dl v s ago afio I was as called on to help the wife of just juat such a aman aman man as a you describe your fiance flanc to be Ho He was wa a line fine In fellow and for twenty years he h had held a a splendid position getting getting a salary that should hav o made mado his hi family rich But ut he heas h as a good lood spender He never counted the cost of ot he desired and when he be b died he Jolt lert hIs hi wife lIe the e In a rented apartment a second hand auto auto- automobile automobile mobile and In the bank b That was as ft M allA all allA A fortune had sUpped slipped through his hi spent fingers finers pent on taxis on thea- thea theatres thea tree tres tre on restaurants on and anti lending to the tb parasItes that hung bun Sij iI i upon him All gone for nothing Wasted There Is I nothing more certain than that every fortune Is founded on n thrift and that if you do not save up something In your youth you will be poor OT In your old ld age Also Alt that If Ifyu you have nothing laid up you yu can take no advantage of opportunity pp r when it knocks at your door OT for fr opportunity Is I I like Ilk a gypsy sibyl You must cross her h r palm with gold she will tell you which way your yur fortune lies Also Als It I Is true tru that It does not make any difference how much you make make-it make It is how you yeu save that counts A million made and spent pent Is as a utterly gone as a a lost dollar All of ot the these platitudes 3 our fiance lance knows vs Perhaps he will listen to you perhaps not If It ou cannot convince him ot of the tho virtue of see see- savIng lat sav-lat log Ing be b one on of the th gold cold yourself and get tet everything out of him that you can and salt It away privately Then sou ou will trill have hay some some- something something ome thing to take care of him with when ehen hen the Inevitable crash comes DOROTHY DIX S S S SD SEAR D EAR DOROTHY DIX Will DIX Will you please pleat tell me what hat you think ot of orL the three thre followIng questions a Why do so many married women say ay to a spinster You should he be b glad that ou hav o never married and it if I had known what I do now I should have bave stayed sIngle b When a woman oman stays stay single why Vh do people think it is be be- be because because cause she sho never had a chance chine to marry while it Is presumed that a a k man Is li a bachelor because he wishes to be b one c Why hy do people never consider the pleasure or happIness of oan an unmarried woman Why hy do they Ignore an old maid until they I want ant to ask a fa faor favor or of her or 01 get id some som work worL done clone that no one on else Wants to do N M F An Answer swe r rI I think N M N F that you yu are taking a very Jaundiced view of the position of f the bachelor woman In olden times when hen marriage TS was as the sole business budness of a Woman anti and a husband was wai not only a meal ticket but the th oni open opu door to society and nd the tb old maid may have haTe been looked upon askance She Sho may have been a sort of family convenience and people may have hav thought that the only reason she didn't marry was waa because she ill couldn't marry But all of that Is changed Women are free of f every occupation pation pation They go g and do what they please pleas and many women are pleasIng pleating not to marry because became they prefer their own wn latch key latchkey and pocketbook to t any man And so c far as a the old ld maid being an object of f ridicule is concerned she he Is more likely to tobe tobe be the subject of f envy In this view lew of the case ou will 11 find the answer to sour our first two questions The Th answer to the third question Is Just human n lure ture tur na-tur Because old maids and old bachelors have no families of ot their own they are ar CAlled upon to be foster roster fathers father and mothers to Ute the world doAnd and do all the odd jobs job that other people haven't time tim to do And thank God the they have big ble enough hearts heart to assume a ume the tho burdens laid upon them Somebody said beautifully that because G God d couldn't be everywhere He made mothers And I would add to t this thi that because there were not nt mothers enough to t go He around made mad old Id bachelors and old ld maids maid to t do d the work that mothers mthr left undone DILI DOROTHY DIX DIL I S S S S SD SEAR D nEAR EAR MISS DIX I DIX I am eighteen and In love lov with a doctor who Is U IsU thirty five years year older than I am In fact tact he b brought me m Into the th world lie He never has said anything about loving me nr although once h he put his arm around me m and asked how his little gIrl was I know I love him because even to hear his name nam mentioned just makes mak my heart feel teel eel as It if it would jump out and run away What would you advise TROUBLED Answer Answer Forget It It And for goodness sake aake dont don't let your yur doctor ctr find out ut that you think you are in love with him He would laugh at you yu Dear little girl every very girl Irl In the th world worK probably hu baa ha a case of f worship hero Just like yours yur when she sh thinks think she h Is In love lov with some man roan whom she admires Sometimes very much Some Some- times It Is her doctor often her hr preacher very preacher and an very vry b b fc very often some tome actor or r movie hero her It belongs belong to t her time in life just Jut like having the measles does oe and she gets over v r It Just like she gets get over ver the th measles meade Ina So S dont don't take your yur symptoms symptom seriously They Thy will pass paIS n In a few weeks and the best remedy for your yur trouble tr uble la Is I to t play around with a lot of nice boys by and forget you ever thought of f a man old ld enough enough- to be your yur father DOROTHY DIX 1924 by Public Ledger Company |