Show DOROTHY DIX T TALKS V F Pu niX tho WorldS World'S World Woman omI Writt 5 BOYS AND AND ND GIRLS RUN TRUE TO FORM SO IF YOU WANT A LONG DISTANCE VIEW OF YOUR MATRIMONIAL PARTNER LOOK AT HIS FATHER OR HER MOTHER MOTHER- AND TICK ICK ACCORDINGLY IF I IF I 1 were a young man I would give a other mother the once over very carefully before I I popped the question to the maiden If I were a girl I would never say Yes to any man until after I had visited in his home and got a close up of his father fathers H c s For ninety nine times out of a hundred people revert to type as they grow older C- C What a girls girl's mother is at middle age aDe she IS C mighty apt to be at 40 The sort of a husband i a mans man's father makes Is just about the sort of ofa folo a husband he will make b THE HE JIB enamored louth who beholds Mabel slim and oung adorably innocent and ignorant cannot i d imagine how she can be bc the daughter o of that fat Cat r old woman who ho is such a bore but a blind man l hould be able to see that as the mother is Mabel g I ilI III be when hen she puts on flesh and age ago sho shows G up up- up 7 il her lacH laell o of knowledge toi foi 01 the ness it is it is only when hen the hair I Is gold or jet and gloss glossi that we ac e are indifferent to what that bat It ce coders coers ers l DI The cry cry man who ho ho is Ft fascinated by b Sallys Sally's pep pcp and laughs at her sharp speeches speech's thanks heaven en that she isn't the tongued virago rago he bet hei mother is But all that she needs is time and the wear ear and tear of life to set her nen neres es on edge a little more to make her hr e en e en as mothr is And it if h marries her the thea thea thea a lIttI mOIl moie to make male her en een e en as mother is And if It he marries her the her 0 It is not so much that the girl inherits from her mother as that the mother who reared her and the home homo In which she was brought up have formed her character and set her Ideals and It is Just as hard for her to change them as It Is to change the color of her hall hair RF II I ITHE THE mother is an aD intelligent woman itoman 1 oman who ho reads and thinks and has hasa hasa hasa a broad and tolerant outlook on life lICe If it the mother is an interesting companion iou ou may be sure that when her ber daughter ceases to te be a living picture she will never become a phonograph grinding out Her husband will till never be bored borN He lIe will alwa alwais s hae ha e aICe a wife ICe who aim bo Is Isa isa a good chum worth talking to and listening to te If It the mother has gracious manners if she Is tactful In dealing with those about her If she Is considerate and tender In her treatment of her husband her daughter will wilt deal dip dip- diplomatically diplomatically dip diplomatically with her husband and make her home a place of peace and love because she has been taught gentle manners and to show appreciation and above all that a lady never loses her self-control self or indulges In the language of of a fishwife IF I rHO mother Is thrifty and industrious and efficient she nih A her how to spend and how to sa sin sai e 1 and how to be of some use in the world But Dut it Ie a only idea of womanhood is a baby Daby doll if she thinks that the chief aim of a woman oman in ID life lICe is to dress hel heiselt up and got get all the fun tun un she can then her ber daughter will be the daughter of oC the horse leech who Iho ho is always as More more A a It Jf a mothel is a lazy and housekeeper her daughter ill willlie a ill lie he around around the house in soiled kimonos and feed her ber husband out Olt of tin cans caos because she his s been brought up to think that it is a waste of a a omans oman's time to try to make her husband comfortable If a woman lives beyond her means and is us extravagant and wasteful wasteful her daughter will keep her husbands husband's nose to the grindstone because che ehe has been bred up on the theory that thata thata a woman must get all she can out of a man no matter how hoVi the she does it If you dont don't envy a girls girl's father when you look at ather mother her mother dont don't marry the girl garl for there except for t tIe the e grace of God you will be thirty years fron now f r theA A MANS MAN'S father furnishes just as Infallible a tip Up to a girl about theft the A ft soil ot of o a husband he will aill snake maLe If father is still a lover after mothers mother's hair hall IS if gray if he shows her delicate little attentions and is tenderly considerate I of her then his son will make the sort of a husband mat makes his wife bless her guardian angel every time she things of her luck In getting him I If a man is generous to his wife about money his son will make a liberal husband because he has been brought up to be- be believe be believe I lieve that a wife is s a partner and not an unpaid slave I I I DP II FATHER is a sort of oC providence pro flom whom horn all blessings flow If the very sound of his footsteps makes snakes e 13 ei brighten up as If It the sun SUU had bUrtt buret through a cloud then his son will wiil make male the kind of a I bus husband band on whom his wife Ife can depend as on God Himself 01 of But if the father sneers at his wife andIS and is contemptuous i of all she does if Re lie e is hard and tyrannical the son will make I a mean husband because he has been taught no chivalry toward women He has never seen his father treat his mother with respect so he will never treat his wife with respect I IF OF F TIlE THE father is a tight tightwad ad the son will aill ia e I a II Yale lock Jock on his pocketbook It If the fattier father is and gloomy and considers home a place hell he is tree free to indulge in m all the bal bai manners he dare not show elsewhere his son will do likewise because he has been taught that a husband does not ha have I e to be pleasant to a mere nile Je or make maLe himself agreeable in his own on home If you want to be happy though married pick o out t your in yourin laws first There Is no safer matrimonial dope than that DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1925 b by Public Ledger Company |