Show Dorothy Dix x Talks BECAUSE YOU ARE MARRIED MR MAN DONT DON'T DONT DON'T STO STOP LOVE TO YOUR V WIFE RATHER SPEED PEED IT UP SAYS SAV DORO DOROTHy I HY DIX WE DIX WE AMERICANS ARE LONGON LONG ON I DIVORCE BECAUSE V E ARE SHORT ON SENTIMENT THE THE lIE average American man who has a dIssatisfied and discontented wire wife who Is peevish and fretful and end whoso whose home life tire has gen gen- gen generally gone eone la Js honestly bewildered by the situation Ho lID doesn't know what has gone eone wrong or wherein he has failed Called or what Is h 1 the tho matter with the tho partner of ot his bosom l V Vor My 1 ly heavens he exclaims throwing up hl his 4 hands In despair I r cant can't understand women Haven't I II t J JI I liven gIven Mary a fine line house and a limousine Doesn't tt she sue have all aU the money she can spend Doesn't she I go and come ES rs she pleases AmI Am I I not as domestic t l os as the house cat cat What on earth does a woman I want want I 1 can answer his question for him She wants wanta romance In particular she wants 1 sentiment and If I could give one piece of V advice more lilore urn earnest est than an he to hus husbands I bands It would be bs this thia Cultivate sentiment Educate yourself In sentiment as aa you have in books Develop DIX OIX It 11 as you have your business busness ability Ac V quire efficiency In the use of sentiment as you have skill In your particular line of work O O COURSE COUnSE this wm will sound liKo sheer Idiocy to men But But bellevo believe r me rae It If they will vilI try It It will do more than any other one ono thing ou on earth earths to settle all aU of o their domestic problems gain them cheerful and happy homes and mako their wives cat out of their hands Ot or course Mr Man you rOU can get through domestic lire life sentiment just as you tOU ou can g go go a 0 long hard bard journey over arid plains and desolate deserts But why choose the dreary route that will Wilt take tako all of ot your endurance and courage to stand when you vou may make a pleasure trip by way of silvery slivery streams and verdant meadows where birds are arb are singing and the tho green trees wave above you We always take the easy vay In la other things why the hard way In Ia matrimony A great many reasons have been advanced to account for th the tha fact that America leads all civilized countries in tie tle number of divorces My own explanation for this sad cad state of affairs ic Is that among occidental men there arc no others who pay so little attention to sentiment as American men We arc long on divorce because were we are re short on sentiment In European countries men glorify sentiment American men despise It A Europe European man Is proud of acquiring a reputation for being an exquisite An Americ American n man would rather be accused of stealing sheep men m make ke a study of ot the little delicate attentions that EUROPEAN E women love and they religiously observe sentimental anniversaries anniversaries saries sarles An American man has his stenographer telephone to his florist or confectioner to lo send the girl he admires admin's flowers or candy And the American woman who has bas a I husband who remembers their wedding without having haYing to tobo tobe be reminded led of o It 11 possesses a a freak that she could exhibit in a II museum and that ot otter other er wives would pay money to see see Is Is Is The The American husband a better husband more faithful more generous more moro considerate than the European but he heIs heIs heis Is not net sentimental and his hie wife divorces him while the Eu- Eu European Eu European ropen wife sticks to her husband And the moral of all of this li Is I tha that a woman will stand a lot of tad d treatment If It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is sugarcoated sugar with sen sentiment Nor Is this as absurd as It sounds Most of us crave the rather than the neceSS- neceSS tics ss ties of life T IS one olle of the misfortunes of ot the UtI feminine temperament that II a IT I woman can stay a I bride at heart for tor forty years whereas a mans man's ends at the altar alt He wants then to be done with lovemaking and to cut out the sentimentality which he ho loathes H Hs his has h s caught his street car and for him the chu chase chass Is over and he desires to seW settle down In his seat and read his pacer In comfort He never fin finds s out that his wife wire still wants ants to tobe tobe lobe be pursued and that she lives In a state of being perpetually eyed over a newspaper T ALL AIL seems so unnecessary to the man Why tell a woman you youA IT 1 love lowe her after alter you hale caye ba e given tangible evidence of ot the tact fact by marrying her Why swear swear eternal devotion in words v when hen she ehe can see for her her- herself herself herself self that you OU are arc working yourself to death to keep her soft and comfortable Why waste two hours trying to buy her a present when she can take a check and co to downtown and get herself exactly what she wants Why pay her compliments when she sho ought to know that you rOU think she she sha is just all right Fallacious masculine reasoning As well might you try to f feed ed a bird that lives on dew and honey with a slab of roast beef as to attempt to make a woman happy with a alov alave lov that expresses Itself In nothing but grocery bills and a 21 ticket ticket In her heart a woman may not doubt her husbands husband's love but she perishes on the dry husks hunks of It that are all ih that are arc offered her to feed upon AN you OU wonder that thai a woman who I hungers and thirsts for tender tender- tenderness tender v CAN C ness for appreciation for tor flattery for tor love that Is warm and vital Ital grows bitter and nd hard bard when her husband never gives her any Is she shoto to b be very much uch blamed If It she takes the love lovo that some other man offers her We VI do not stand on oa the fine points of ot ethics when wo we weare weare are starving either In body or soul Therefore I urge men to make a study of sentiment as first aid to in matrimony Ceca use you are arc mar married ried do not cease to make Inake love to your wife Rather speed It up andl and put ut more pep In It Notice what she wears Take an Interest In what she does Remember her tastes A ten cent bunch of violets brought to ta a woman match her gown cuts more Ice with her hor than 50 O worth of American beauties sent hit or miss Celebrate every anniversary and If you can cant cans remember the day you bec became engaged ed and anel the day you were married mark marl V them down on 0 your calendar TF YOU do great eat shall be bo your reward for while a wife wIre may forgive Corive IF I her bel husband for not supporting her she never forgives him for tor the delicate little attentions the little gifts that turn tbs tb's water o ot of life Into lato wine and make the many hardships of matrimony while Believe me Mr Man you will wll find that nothing els else will pay you such dividends on the time and effort expended a sentiment DOROTHY DL DIX Copyright by Public Ledger |