| Show Dorothy Dix Dixs Dix's s 's Letter Lette r Box I THE TilE SECOND WIFE WHO IS S A DOMESTIC SLAVE THE GIRL WHO HAS LOST HER FAITH IN MEN THE YOUNG MAN WHO WANTS TO MARRY BEFORE HE CAN AFFORD A WIFE SO AS TO KEEP ANOTHER MANFROM MANFROM MAN FROM GETTING HERD HER EAR MISS DIX 1 DIX I am aln 50 SO old People say that I look 35 33 but butU I D DEAR feel as if It I were 10 this thIB is the cause I II I am married to a widower er 63 vears ears old who has baa several se children childre I and It IC I try to correct ono one on They treat me rue abominably I of them he ha knocks me down dOlln lie He never nover speaks to me IDt m he be ne er gives elves we roe a cent of money not even a 2 I t 0 tamp stamp He lie H will not Dot even mall a letter for tor me melIe I Ilie lie He never permits me to go anywhere not even evenI evento I to a neighbors neighbor's and the only clothes I have are arc the tho r chen cheapest pest and commonest things he can buy to CO coer covi thoI tr I 8 me mt ne and he picks them out I am not permitted to buy I r myself t tI 5 I have hao no money no friends no family to turn 5 to What shall I I do SECOND WIFE S Q j Answer J I should think that you would not need 4 anyone any one to toll tell you what to do In a case like thIS thi and that you would leave your brute ofa ofa of a husband and your miserable home before coy DI Oil another day rolled over your head You can be certain of one thine and that Is Ie that where wherever er vou ou go gand and whatever er ou do vou OU cant can't be worse off oft than vou OU are now You are nothing but a domestic slave doing the cooking and housework for fora fora foa a family getting no pay for or It and not even decent treatment It U you would do the tho same work for anyone any one else besides your husband ou would get good wages and kindness kindne's and consideration for Or there Is no noone noone none one to whom vo 0 are quite so 50 polite pollie as aa wo e o are to a competent cook cool I Dont Don't feel that you have no way to make mako a 1 living The woman who knows how to cook and do housework has a trade at her fingers ends by which she can support herself In com corn comfort fort the world over 5 J It is a a trade that Is never overcrowded and In which the th demand Is always greater than the supply And a II woman of 50 Is youn young enough and strong enough to make a fresh start In Inthe Inthe Inthe the world and find fine much pleasure and happiness in rn life If U a woman oman oman has bas houseful n a of little children that she cannot support by her own efforts It may be necessary fOI 01 her to endure the brutality or of a mean husband for tor the sake of 00 Iding food and shelter for or her ber little mUe ones But a woman who has no children Is free and Independent and she he can leave if her husband doesn't treat her decently There Is no merit in enduring an unnecessary martyrdom so 50 dont don't stay with a husband who beats you unless you enjoy being beaten DOROTHY DIX o 0 0 EAR r DOROTHY DIX I DIX I make my home bome with m my married sister DIAR D and our life together Is quiet refined and even eHn Some time lime ago a aman aman man frIend o or of mv m brother In law visited our home borne and professed sed to fall rall fallin in fn 10 love lose e with me ma telling me that I was the first woman oman that ho he had ha ever cared for or and asking me to become his wife Ife Now I I learn that he hhas I Ihas has a wife He and child In a distant cit and this knowledge has robbed me of my lilY peace of o mind and my faith ralth and trust In man What shall shallI I 1 do for I had begun to love lose him bim ELEANOR OR Answer j I should think that finding out what a dastard the man IS would be a prompt and efficient antidote for any tender feeling you might have begun to cherish toward him Just have the courage to look him squarely In the face and see what a yel yellow low cur he Is and your admiration for him will shrivel up and anddie anddIe anddie die Certainly Certainty no man can be guilty of a more unprincipled and despicable act than deliberately to win a girls girl's heart when he knows that he cannot marry her and that the sequel to their love affair must be tears and misery and disappointment for her It Is a cruel and dishonorable enough thing for or a e man do when led but there Is some slight palliation the tho girl knows knos that he Is man I of his crime In her Knowledge and the fact that ho he Is giving her Jer a at square deal In a crooked game and that she knows the risk she la is I taking But Dut the mans man's offense Is unforgivable when be he poses as a single man and ti tiles los to lure luro a I girl eirl Into a 1 marriage that will is Ill III end In shame for or her ber and throw her out Into the disgraced through no fault of her own It I Is not strange that lat this man mans man's conduct ha hat has shaken your faith In men but It Is not fair to condemn the whole sex ex because be because because cause one has failed you for there are arc good and honorable men Just as there are mean and tricky ones Because one apple In Ina ina that all apples applee are rotten But a a barrel barret Is rotten does not net prove fc it certainly does take away your appetite for apples for the time being DOROTHY DIX 0 0 0 0 MISS I DIX DIX I am a oung man 25 5 years old but I am not mak makIng SEAR D ing enough to 10 support a ft wife Ife There Is a girl girt I am ely much tn In Inlove lose lo with and she is In love with lIh me Would vou OU advise me to marry her right I am nm afraid that If I postpone the matter some other Ulan man will Ill get herP her P H Ii Y S SI Answer I heard a man under similar circumstances as yours say that he had just as good a right to starve a wife as any other man had So he married the girl but the scheme didn't seem to work out sery well Evidently the lady didn't enjoy being starved for or after a afew afew few weeks of bread and cheese and kisses she left her husband and ent back to her father hel e she was sure aure of three square meal meals meala a aday aday aday day dayAs A As you ask uk my advice I most meet emphatically warn you against marrying until you can afford it t It Is a crime for a aman aman aman man to marry until he has some ome assured way of supporting a family People who are always harassed by debt come to hate each other A wife I Is as much of a luxury a as an automobile Walt Wait until yOU have the price before you try to set one up DOROTHY DIX DIL I Copyright 1925 by Public Ledger Company |
