Show DOROTHY DIX TALKS TAIlS TAL Ff r DOROTHY DIX niX the Worlds World's J Paid Woman Writer i PARENTAL SLEUTHING BEFORE MARRIAGE IS THE OUNCE OF i PREVENTION THAT WILL SAVE YOUR DAUGHTER FROM A WRECKED LIFE I POOR P DOOR Mabel Blank who married a couple of years with much lam mery ot or white satin and flowers flower end nd gay c y ringing of wedding bells Is is back home again a broken little muo thing with a nameless bab babe in her arms It seEms teem that the th man she nh married man 1 had another wife in another state vI But didn't you know anything about the man that Mabel married 14 yoU ask alk a k her parents parent i Well no n they thy admit admit he h seemed enie so o nice and had hOld ouch Duch uch plea pIea I ant manners manner ii I SALLY CALLY SMITH whoso whose big bi church wedding J IZ t was a social En elent ent is clerking In th tho basement nt In a department store It devel devel- developed developed that Sallys Sally's Sally husband huband Was waa a n do er o- o owell well who was voss born too tired to work HI He had always lived on his mother ho ebo ho kipta a house houie and the beautiful hOID horns that he h told her he h had prepared for tor her turned out to be a back room in the m ma- ma DOROTHY ma-DOROTHY DOROTHY DIX ernal But Sut didn't you OU ou find out whether the young man had hid any ny anyway anyway way of supportIng her before you let l t Sally marry him youk you l-k- l Why no reply the th parents parenti he was wa always alway well dressed well arid and made mad Sally a lot of h handsome presents and we w Just sup supposed posed he h was wa rich or er at least in some som good god business S JONES who Was the very spirit of health and strength and joy when she married Is t physical wreck rho rh doctor looks s at her compassionately The Tir damnable thing thine about sewing wild oats ho be says Is la that tho the innocent are forced to reap the harvest Then he accuses her parents did let he de demands demands demands Why you yu your yur daughter marry a roue mands We didn't know wall wail the th p parents prents rents we never thought of such a thing as inv investigating his hi past pact life one of ot us u know cases Cir like those these We can recount a doren EVERYone E doyenS t pathetic stories Of ot young yount girls sirl who have hav gon gone cono to the th altars altar full ot of faith that the th men they were marrying were all 1111 that was wa fine tin and noble and and who later found out that their bus husbands bands were bigamists mitt bisa-mitt mists or et convicts or drunkards drunkard or blackguards And we have seen thEse thee girls eirl como come back forlorn little figures of tragedy their romance In tatters tatter their dreams dream shattered lone l shamed heartbroken wOmen who had bad to patch their JIves Urea together as boot best they Ibey could and start all over agaIn with a handicap too heavy io 10 overcome And Booing this we have wondered anew at one on of the most In in- in inexplicable In explicable In tho the world and that Is at the tho nonchalant way In which people lets let l t their daughter marry You would think that taking n Q husband s ss the th most trivial U mat matter matter matter ter in the world and und getting married was wa as transient an experience as asan asan an hour at a pla pIa Instead of being as o It Is the th most Important act of life lICe and the thing thine that sets set Its lis seal eal for tor good or evil upon a woman forever for for- forA ever A happy marriage to a good god man Is the th greatest blessing that can cal come corn to a girl A miserable marriage to a brute Is I the greatest curse cur that can befall her Every marriage h ha the th poe po of these the two fates fate for their daughter In It it yet fathers and mothers mother trust the th matter entirely to t chance chalee They make no effort to secure the th one on for f r their girls girl and protect them from the other MARY flARY goes rocs oft off to visit a thousand miles from home and comes come back engaged to lo some Bomo youth of ot whom her father never heard before and gives his hill consent p 11 i her hr marrying him without knowing a athing athing thing thine on earth about the th man Sometimes ho he doesn't take ake the trouble to tc even write writ a letter to the boys boy's boy home horn town asking a few tw perfunctory questIons about him Not once one in a hundred h times time does doe father drop his business and go sleuth sleuthing to find out every d tail concerning what sort of a family the young man belongs belong to what kind of a life he hhas has leo lee what his hili hi prospects are arc and nd what sort rt of a disposition ho he has The whole future welfare of f the th child who Is dearer dear to him than his hia own life lift is bound up In this thi matter but father leta let the tho th ale al aio of a few fw potatoes potato or some Ome om other trivial matter keep him from doing all he h can to t protect t hie hi unsophisticated un young daughter STRANGE S but true a a manill man will ill let hs daughter marry a man or of whom ho he knows know nothing and whose character and antecedents hs hI doesn't look Into He Ho lets let her invest t her all Of ot youth of health of othe thE th joy of o living In la a matrimonial gamble cambi without trying to find out If it Is 18 1 a wildcat speculation or 01 a edged gilt proposition but he would not lt Itt her risk a thousand that way It If she wanted to buy buya n a little house housa ho would have hare the title Investigated to see SP that It Was waa sound and clear and had no BO on It It If she the wanted to buy even a dog doe he ho would look Into Its it pedigree und and haTe have a veterinary's certificate that thai It was TaS wa free fre from disease But he h takes no ao such pains pans t to find rind out whether there are any on the past pa t of o the man who wants to marry his daughter and whether ho he can furnish a first class clas health certificate Sometimes fathers excuse their criminal carelessness in this matter matlEr b by sa Ing that they are willing to take their daughters daughter's judgment on the men thoy theY want to mirry rry Nonsense They wouldn't tale tak s a a young girls judgment judt ont on en any ny other subject and they know that she Is s par par- particularly particularly par particularly un unfitted ClUed to form an opinion on this particular thing because It Is Impo for any young girl to know enough of o life and enough of men to be bo able abl to judge judg them with any Intelligence Sometimes Sometime a father will say cay that there ther is no use in his hili try trying ing to find out about abut the man his hi daughter wants to marry because a girl In love iove lov will not listen to reason This Thi Is I true only enly of at abject Idiots Idiot and many many girls are that Few girls girla are fool enough to want to marry bigamists or drunkards or ormen ormen men who would drag them down to poverty and they would steer te r clear of them If they w were forewarned A A A LITTLE Sherlock Holmes ins ing by papa would save sav many a girl from froma fromI I- I Ia a wrecked life There Is an old saying that an ounce of ot prevention Is worth a pound of o cure This goes double in matrimony and It is up to father to apply the remedy DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public J Ledger er Company |