| Show DOROTHY DIX TALKS I C DOROTHY DIX D tho the Worlds World's flight Paid Pid r ld Woman Writer THE HAPPIEST MARRIAGES ARE RUN ON A PARTNERSHIP BASIS WITH BUSINESS FAIR ETHICS ETHICS FAIR PLAY AND A SQUARE DEAL ADAPTED DEAL ADAPTED TO THE HOME rHE trouble with matrimony saId Slid a man the tho other day is that tha THE there Is not Dot enough reciprocity in Jn It it EIthEr the he husband or the thi wire wife expects the other one to do an aU o or of the adjusting and ud make alo all al alot ot of the concessions and sacrifices The result is a n perpetual wrangle because wants to be the family goat goal U It Is only in n the household where a a man and woman are will will- willIng willing t I ing to play fair and give each othera other a square deal that matrimony Is 1 a aI C piCniC instead of an endurance test I My My I wife and I are among th the lucki j I few whose boso marriage has been a success and andI ans an lle I we e e made jt a success bT by making ii iI s I a fifty fitly fifty hat proposition w hat Is It sauce for forI to I the goose coose Is sauce for tor the pander gander andICE and ICE Ice t I versa ou know I don I t ask ak any privilege for lor that I don t extend to her andI myself thai tha that she the doesn't put any an restriction on me inc I Eh Isn twillIng t willing that I should demand o or orI ol her I i We Wo We began bv by settling the financial DOROTHY DIX problem right oft off of ot the bat It wava a as 5 struck me a as sardonically humorous for Cor a man tc to to tos wife elfe Ife with all his worldly goods and s swear ear at the altar to endow his hi to buy a paST pa then to make her come and beg bee him or enough mone that th she had bad a aright aright feel only to wife not of shoestrings I wanted my roy right to her share of ot what hat I had but that she ehe also Mid d a about It it and the plan has ha ha worked find tinel to save tave must give her some something something If f you want a woman you will be and think youre you're a thing to save tave for Your wife grumpy tightwad If you just jutt tell her arbitrarily that she can cant t doover do doover doover over the parlor or buy a new car If you will explain to her afford extra extravagance Is be because be- be because that the reason yoO cant can't any want to make mae some tome good invest invest- investment investment cause business n is bad or you ment ment nine times out of ten she will not only give i but cut dow down expenses somewhere som else f r You Yon see I go eo fifty fifty on brains with mv my wife and assume that thatah fhe he has ha got just as much sense ense ss as I ha ha have hae e and Is just as anxious for forthe forthe the family prosperity I also aJo assume that she has the same tame feeling about being financially Independent that I have and ha hae e and that it Is just as humiliating to her to have hare to ask me toe for tor mone money us a it would be for tor meto meto me meto has her allowance paid to herand her to have base to ask her her So she he and I ne neer never er dream of ot insulting her by asking her what ehat bat she ehe does Ith It It My wife and I are not that mushy conglomEration that the poet as two souls with but a single thou gilt Neither one of ofus otus us ns admire ourselves enough to want ant ant to be united for tor life to a rubber of ot ourselves In fact what attracted us uc to each other and what Keeps us UI perpetually Interested In each other is that we we are so 60 dif dlf different ferent and have such uch different tastes Most couples quarrel over miserable by their differences and make themselves perfectly trying to make each other over according to their own pattern We saved the situation by conceding to each other the without out com corn comment comment right to enjoy our own pleasures in our own way ment or criticism from the party of the other part Now I for tor instance am very fond ot of contests Naturally them But when I go co to one I to do not my wife wU does doe not care fr fer f r have to lie He to her and sneak out of ot the th house to make a geta seta 8 nor do I have to stand for tor reproaches and tear and t c demand to know how L I I can have such low taste as to seeing teeing two brutes batter bitter each other up On the contrary my wife takes take Is Iq I as aa a matter o of course that It I t should hould go to where I please and come home when hen I desire to and I respond by arranging that she shall go to the theatre th-atre or have haTe some other amusement that she enjoys whenever hene I am out ol or an evening There are too many men who feel that they should have havea a monopoly of all the fun In th the the family They forget that If there is a tired business man there is s also a weary working wife who likewise needs diversion T J GO 00 fifty fifty with ith mi m wife In III tring to make a happy home bome It is 1 generally considered that that is aji an exclusively feminine duty must meet their husbands husband witha with Women are always as being told that they a glad sweet tweet smile ant an that they must look attractive e to their bus bus- husbands bands and keep their husbands Interested Good I am strong sirens tor wises who wh es all the pep they can Into the mush and mill milk of ot domestic itte Iffe ife but why should women qualify exclusively for the job sob Why by Isn't It just as much up to a man tobe to tobe tobe be a title litle ray of ot sunshine In the tho home as it is for or the woman to be The m roan man n establishes the home He Is tho the official head of the hou house e and It seems to me that he Is more re for tor its well than anyone else And anyway making a happy home horn Is a two handed job Nobody can C ln do it alon alone A woman might smile her head off and she couldn't create creat cre a cheery atmosphere in a house where husband A man might there was a grouchy surly growling grin like a possum and you could still cut the gloom with a knife if f there was a peevish fretful whining wife hanging around I r rNo No No Jt takes a man and a woman working together shoulder t both giving the best that is in them to keep the home fires burning and make the sort of ot a place 1 hat bat is the best beat understudy of heaven that e we have on earth It is a big Job and the man Is a quitter who withes it all on Ins his wife wire Thank flank God I haven't bavent been ellow nough to do thit tb OT many marriages would fail faI said the man In concluSIon NOT SIon if men would treat their matrimonial partners ers as fairly as they do their business partner DOROTHY PIX DIX Copyright 1923 by Public Pub Ledger Company |
