| Show C nI DIX lie Worlds World's Highest Writer WITH YOUR NEVER HUSBAND HUSBAND NEVER AT HIM SANE AD A 0 VICE VICES TO WOMEN WHO POSSESS GIFTS OF AND MIMICRY A DE DEW young woman wont vent to an older woman and said A ADE ADEW Ta Ive 1 e come to ask ak vou ou what bat Is the matter sIth v Ith John and me Our marriage Is about to go on the rocks John has ceased to cartor care for me As vou ou know kno when hen wo v o 0 were married three 5 ears cars ngo ago he was 1 in love lose 10 e with lIh me and never could coul set get ot or my society Now No Nohe he avoids mo me end never wants to g go ge I oit anywhere wilh me and I dont don t kno what ehat has happened to change him him himi 45 i You arc killing Johns John's affection for you and nd wrecking your home with your your your- F tongue replied the older woman You have the knack of saying sharp tharp and andS 4 cutting things that wound like a two two- edged sword and rand with this lethal wea wea- wea wea-i wea A pon you are slaying your h happiness 1 i f You have made John afraid l of ot vou ou He Hes He's and md nd Ill at ease case In your pre enc because he doean doesn t know kno v here bro h re you are arc go- go goIng log Ing S to stab net ne-ct and he doest want v ant to go y out with aith vou ou anywhere an here because he cinno c t endure having ou hold him up as a figur o of fun for tho ridicule ot or other peopleD people DIX Perhaps you dont don't i it but ou hae made him the butt ot i our merry jests ill All of your best stories center borne weakness eaknes oE of his or some blunder that ho has mado madeI I hao seen you ou set a dinner table In a rear car as you caricatured some Bom watched the hurt look that came Into peculiarity ot of his and I have his face and that was succeeded by one ot of bitter resentment that should have warned you ot of the vou ou were wera running Jut Dut It For a woman gets drunk on her own wit and when she has the fatal gift of sarcasm she cannot refrain from using It She will cut her nearest and dearest to the quick for the pleasure of saying something smart She will alienate a lifelong life lifelong lifelong long friend with an epigram She will barter her chances of success for the laughter of fools Now there Is 13 nothing else on earth that any of us so fear and dread as ridicule There Is nothing that th lt we will not forgive for give sooner than having a se searchlight turned on our weak weak- weaknesses weaknesses nesses There is nothing that we so hate hale as being put in a position th that lt makes us absurd None of us have any sense of humor when we are the point of the Joke ourselves AND ND we are especially sensitive to ridicule from those we wo love because be be- beTL AND TL cause we hope that somehow their affection for tor us Is la great enough to hide our defects detects from their eyes and that they see us not nol nolIS S I the poor faltering creatures that we are but Idealized Into whit what ne e should be Wo We like to think that we are romantic heroes to them and It hurts to find out that we are capering clowns ns at which they jibe and mock This is why It Is a rash and idiotic thing for a woman ever to set get with v Ith her husband He Mo doesn't enjoy the repartee r partee that leaves him feeling like a dumb bell He doesn t w want int any wife sharpening her wits on him nor will he stand being made the goat In her SIde SIde- sidesplitting splitting anecdotes of ot domestic life lire So So a woman begins driving the nails In the coffin corrin In which her husbands husband's love for her will be buried burled when she he commences making sarcastic speeches to him that probe some little secret weakness t the he never dreamed she perceived and when she burlesques tia mistakes to amuse arouse strangers That Is more than masculine molty can stand That strikes at athis athis athis his self love is deeper than hIs bis love for any mere wile wife ICe And so If It a woman wants to get rid of ot her husband she can find no quick quicker quicker er or surer way iray to do It than j just by ridiculing him As a matter of fact the woman with the serpent tongue makes no hit with men anyway They walk as wide of her as t they would of a rattlesnake Not many men like a witty woman and they even fight shy of the woman who laughs much and who has a keen sense of humor because they are always afraid tha she might possibly be laughing at them and see something funny In 11 them cant can't stand that There is They something in a man mal which demands that a woman respect him and admire hin hun him and look up to him He cant can't endure being just a human Joke to her especially If he Is her husband husban That Is If why men are arc not only able to but even to cherish and admire women who have no fully bone and who have to have a humorous story diagramed and explained to them In words of one syl syllable lable labie tit 1 MORE THEREFORE T my roy dear continued the older woman remember 1 that wit It was never intended for tor home consumption It is a strict strict- strictly strictly ly company com pan dish Never Indulge In any bright comebacks com to your OUI hus husband husband band Swallow the sai castle speeches that rise to your lips Ups even though they choke you and above all never to the temptation to tell a funny tunny story of which your lord and master is the hero Laugh with your husband but never at him So shall he enjoy your company and not flee fleo from you as from a who Is likely to skin him alive for the amusement of a guffaw ing guffawing crowd A A WOMANS WOMAN'S weapon Is her tongue She can use It to hurt hel hei husband and drive hun him away from her or she can sing sins with it a siren song that will bind him to her forever DOROTHY DIX right 1923 by Public Ledger Company |
