Show I TALKS j n r nIX DIS the Worlds World's p Woman Writer PARENTS TYRANNY OVER CHILDREN CHILDRENS CHILDREN'S FORGET FORGETFULNESS AND NEGLECT MISUNDERSTANDING DE BE BETWEEN TWEEN WIVES AND THESE HUSBANDS HUSBANDS THESE MAKE UNNECESSARY HELLS G speaks ot of o the the unnecessary hells that we make for or G K and that hat others make for us A great phrase that The iury hells in which wo we all writhe The needless Buffering we must en endure lure dure The needless tears wo o o shed The needless burdens we c e bear our unnecessary hells are made t-i t I CSia L MOSTLY ivi for us s by our own ow families That la Is 1 the s 's M curious part of It It Is la the who wh Ay S really love us u best beat be t who torture us ug u moat most It 4 f 1 Is the people who do not Intentionally make i who life of Its sweetness y us u unhappy rob o L sM I and make It lt bitter In our mouths PATIENTS D- D ARENTS 18 mado made unnecessary hells for f lp f V their children b their petty vetty tyrannies 1 Ste t Raft They aro are determined to make their children f- f 1 rubber stamps of ot no matter how hoc t J I differently nature has created them and so they force the youngsters into their own on 0 n O i mold CT eun ln at al the cost of ot crushing K genuine T f w K and wrecking iI Ih es cc 1 y S Sw v w w With Ith ith the tho average father and mother the i siS siS- standard of light and wrong Is what they like lILe to do and what hat bat they did when they DOROTHY DIX did when the they were ere oung Every time their children want to do what they enjoy doing and what hat young people are doing now It Is at the price of stormy scenes s and mothers mother's te tears and father fathers sanger s anger JUST J a little personal liberty Just a little sympathy with the craving of youth for pleasure ure Just a little eVidence that father ather and mother are friends as well as parents parent who want to help them on to a good time Instead of being grinding despots who block every plan that they can would make home a heaven for many a boy and girl whose parents are no It a purgatory cut of which they are straggling to escape CHILDREN CHILDREN make unnecessary hells for tor their parents by their ther coldness cold ness and neglect They are re so Intent on their own lh Ih lives es so q pled lAd with their own Interests so cage In the pursuit of pleasure that they forget target the fathers and mothers woo wao ha hae have e wiled tolled and sacrificed for them and who ho can be repaid in no otter other coin than love and gratitude The deepest depth of ot the th deepest hell bell is sounded by the fathers and mothers who sho ho ha hae have e known the Scorching shame hame of at o having hasing ha Ing a vay- vay vayard way wayward ay- ay ward ard ard daughter or who ho hae have ha e lain a awake aake ake at night listening for tor the drag of the steps of a drunken son NOR thatIs JOR is there any heartbreak more cruel to endure than that 1 which comes of happy and prosperous children Just ju t for for- for forgetting or- or the gettIng getting the perpetual looking for or the that a busy man does not take the time to write the longed for visit that the daughter rushed with society and clubs and her own children and nd house keeps putting off orf from year to year THE T HE Grand Inquisitor cannot torture parents as a can the hand that has ha laid upon a m breast or clung about abot t a fath father's ers Sr's neck I MANY n JANY a man and woman drinks drink the bitterest drop In the cup of remorse when they look down on the patient faces of the their old fathers and mothers mother for the last time and remember how easily they ml ht have made them happy and that they did not do It make unnecessary bells hells for tor their husbands by their ness elfish ness They look upon marriage as a graft and they are determIned to got get as much as possible and to give as ns little Ittle A woman will nih III rua- rua mary ruay y 1 a a min mn knowing that ho he Is poor and Instead of o making the best of her herlot herlot herlot lot she whines and frets and complains because she has bas not ei e eer e thing cry er ery- ery herI I thing that a rich woman oman has I Men a a oman woman Is too lazy to keep house too Indifferent to her husbands husband's comfort to see that he has bas decent meals too thriftless to wisely the money he earns Many a woman oman never sa sass s one word of appreciation to Jin husband or gh gives es him one sign thet t she look upon hint him as anything but a e blase who ho Is bound to toll toil to supply her wants ants Many a man nan comes home at night to a place that Is an inferno ot of dirt and confusion contusion of uns ept floors and un unwashed washed dishes of dirt dirty noisy untrained children and delicatessen food and a fros woman In a soiled kimono AND A AND ND any woman can Gan an make her husband happy and make him feel that marriage IS it worth while If I she will let him sea that he Is still the hero of her girlish dreams and that she thedoes does not take h hia hard work for her and the sacrifices sacrifice he makes for or her for granted but that she stands In awe and reverence before the heroism of the husbands husband Who literally give their lives to their families MEN n IEN JEN make unnecessary hells for their wives wies by their silence by Ly their grumpiness by their grouchiness by their tempers that take takeout takeout takeout out on an unoffending alto Ife the nerve and irritability that they dared darld not sho aho show to the out outside world orld Many a woman lives In of or o the thede de deit 11 in her husband Man Many a woman oman stan starves stares es to death for fol a word ord of arr affection cUon Many fan aloman's a womans woman's omans oman's whole bole married life is a cold miserable lonely journey full fun of ot disappointment of at dreariness of vain i egrets and longings just because her husband withholds all tenderness and un un- un I flom her Just because of a few words cords he does not take lie he be takebe trouble to sayI say I ITS IT'S I TS T'S a thing for a man to take a womans woman's life in n his hisA A hands and break It as wantonly as a bad child breaks a toy Yet men do it continually Arid And Ita ite the tragedy of tragedies J to think that nearly every miserable marriage Is an sary ary hell heil Either the man or the woman could nearly always save eave it Both working together fould could cur ly save ave Iti It It THE Pr THE HE unnecessary hells that we e e make for each other How pitiful 1 DOROTHY DIX COP rIght 19 1923 3 h b bv Public Ledger Compan Company |