Show L Do Dorothy Dix Dixs Dix's s 's Letter Lette r Box I THE SIT BYTHE PRICELESS WIFE WHO APPRECIATES HER SILENT SIT SIT-DY THE FIRE HUSBAND CAN THE MAIDEN AUNT ASSUME HER YOUNG NIECES NIECE'S SIN SINT SHOULD A WIFE GET GETUP GETUP GETUP UP TO COOK HER HUSBANDS HUSBAND'S EARLY MORNING BREAKFAST DEAR D DDOROThy DOROTHY DL DIX It It amuses amuse me and puzzles puzzle me m beyond words worde when I read of or husbands who complain that their wives Ives have do- do developed de developed Into boros bores and that they are tired of ot wives who ho take taki no Interest In their personal appearance who never II read lead the newspaper never want to go so out ot or an evenIng and who are about as a a a rag 4 doll dolI 4 Do these thes men never ne consider the th wires wife's tide side or of ortho the tho cl ce ca le T Take me for Instance 2 I am an of ot a K vivacious lovIng company nature I Iam Iam am alone alon in my house hour hous all day and when my good husband comes home horn to dinner I am full fUlI or of o chat chit and display all kinds of ot Interest In current events etc But Dut my dear placid man Is more concerned In 4 consuming hIs hi enin e evening meal and incidentally remark remark- remarkS remark S l log Ing ne the perfection of my ray cookIng and asking It If the S IJ sd house has B been warm enough and so 10 forth After Arter dInner we retire to the living room where husband ti proceeds to clamp ear phones on his ears ear and listens I to the thi radio This Th with a sprinkling of or reading an I I ita i tA odd word or two 1 with an occasional snooze behind 1 paper completes tho the end of a perfect day Yet I do not consider my husband a bore and when I look about me and stop top and think I decide that the tho quiet placid husbands are aro the best be t bets beta after utter all It If well fed ted and gIven a 8 comfy chair and allowed to smoke In the tho best bet room In Sn the th house there them is I little danger of oC their philandering The Thi conversational husbands of the thi nervous restless type typo who must be bo doIng dolne somethIng every minute keep their wives guessing and and I prefer to be b sure of o mine There are ar times jimes Umes of ot courso course when I would like my husband to open up and tell me mi what he hu has done dono at the office and whom he h has seen but ho he Is not of or a talkative nature and In order to get ft any information from l him m I must drag dras It out with such uch effort that It loses Its Hs tIa flavor vor So 1 have given elven It ft up and just enJo enjoy him as ho he Is I have hav enough sense of or humor to see Beo eo that our silent evenIngs at home horn are amusIng In their own way and vision enough to realize that In the thi quiet natured natured good husband who says It with deeds not words word there then is a faithfulness and loyalty on which a 8 wife can rest her soul In peace Il If only the wives of or such noble and kind hearted husbands could realize this tact fact there ther wouldn't be bo halt half as much unrest In this world And if It only the th husbands who are runnIng away from the thi devoted wives they think dumbbells had sense sens enough enouch to see sei that often otten the tho wife who Isn't brilliant and doesn't shine shin In society Is a steady light by which ho be can steer ste r through all the storms of ot adversity why It would about end divorce wouldn't It DORIS Answer Ill I'll say cay it would Doris and furthermore Ill I'll add that you are one on of the tho th wives whose price Is above rubles Lucky Is the man who got sot you For you appreciate as aa few wives do that a man wants a ahome ahome ahome home I Ir In which he can rest of an evening after his hard days day's work Is done Perhaps It Is because goIng coins downtown t to to the th great treat majority of women Is a sort Bort ot or a lark a a gay ay adventure to them and they per persist In assuming that It Is the same sam sort of a picnic to their husbands They will not realize that In these days of or strenuous competition a man must give Ive everything that Is In him body and soul to his work and that when he comes come home horn he Is I so to mentally and physIcally exhausted that he ho simply wants to slump He H doesn't feel equal to being b entertaining or agreeable or dressing up and going out or doing a single thing he does not have to do And blessed Is the th woman among her sex ex who has haa the th heart and brain to see lee this and the mercy to a poor tired dumb animal to let him curl up on en the hearth rug before the th fire fir and snooze moor In peace DEAR D f TAR EAIl DOROTHY DIX I DIX I am a single woman 32 years of age aee and and and- have hare a niece ot of 18 11 who haa has a child born out of wedlock I am torn between knowing whether to take tak this baby haby and go to to another city saying that the th child Is 1 mIne min and that my husband is dead or to pay for Cor Its Hs care somewhere My nIece nice is la not In a posItion to care tor for the little one and will go o insane It if I cannot do something for her Ido I do not nt know whether she will ill ever bo be able to care car for Cor the th child Should I devote my life lite to the th care car of both bothof or of them I do not think I will ever marry and I have only a 8 fair fairway fairway way ot or earning my living myself Please Pleat tell me m what to do AT SEA Answer Answerl r rin In the first place give up the foolish Idea of going off somewhere and changing your name nam and pretending you are area area ara a widow with a child That kind of thing only works work out In novels novel In real life If It is I always alway I a boomerang boo that destroy the Idiot who thought she th could put It across There Thero Is nowhere you can possibly go to that some som one on wouldn't bob up who I had known you before No unmarried woman can deceIve people Into Is I a widow and the only result of ot your foolish would be b that you would you had lost your good tood name and were an ostracized woman In the th community My earnest advice to you la Is I to put the child where It will willbe willbe be well taken care car care of and pay for Ita It keep while you go on with your regular life living honestly In the th sIght light of the world Make Mak your niece nice go to work and learn some lome om way of being supporting sill and keep before her eyes eye all the th time that she th Is responsible for the th baby and that she ahe h must work hard so 0 that she the can take t k care car of It herself That Is I the only way you can save tave her That I Is II the th only way you can build up her self respect Mother Iother love Is the strongest Instinct In a woman and It If there ther is any good lood In her It if there ther It if any strength In her the th knowledge that her baby is I dependent on her wUl will call It forth It If you assume arum this gIrls gIrl's sin and try to shield her from Its It pun pun- punishment punishment you will ruin her And why should hould your life lire be sacrifice to ter er It Is not right and It would do no good Help her but make mak her bear her own burden The Th Inno Inno- Innocent Inno- Inno Innocent Innocent cent should hould not suffer for the th guilty Dont Don't do d this thi foolish thing thina you are ar contemplating DOROTHY DIX S tAR MISS I DIX DIX I am a happy bride of ot two months month I had a good DEAR D position before betor marriage and have hav continued to work since My husband has haa ha to be b at work at 7 o'clock while I dont don't have hav to be on my Job ob until 9 We VIe W live with my mother and she thinks that I should get lip TID and aud get let my husband his breakfast but he h thinks It Is all allright right for tor me ro not tofo to fo Bo o so BO What do you think MRS C Answer I think that any woman who has hat a husband with enough pep In him to get up and go to t at 7 o'clock should get getup getup up and get him a good hot breakfast and show how him a shining morning face fac across the th table tabi That Is I starting the th day dy off eff right and makes make a man feel that he h has ha got gt something worth worthwhile worthwhile worthwhile while to w work rk for Last Jast I ast impressions Impression are ar very Tery Important things and I often orten wonder at the th stupidity of ot wives who let their husbands go ro from them In th morning with a picture In their minds that they will carry with them all day of a woman in a boudoir cap and a soiled wrapper face tace tac or the tb rankling memory of or a or of a 8 a cross peevish fretful quarrel rel reI rd over aver the th bacon and eggs or an early mornIng grouch because of havIng to get up and nd cook themselves some sort ort of a breed dyspepsia dy Ing mess in a hurry that they call caU a breakfast If you want to keep kp your man enan get g t up and cook him a good breakfast Never Nver bring up an unpleasant subject at the breakfast table tabi and send end him away with a memory emory of a cheer cheerful ful wife wit In a pink dress drell s bungalow apron that is I spick pick and span pan pan and with the th aroma of a cup of perfect coffee ascending like Incense about the altar of home DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger Company |