Show DOROTHY MX DIX TALKS TALIS Uy 07 DOROTHY lX fiX I IX lit Ili t Ial Pah r Woman IT IS NO TRICK TO MANAGE A WF WIFE ITS IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF APPLYING THE SALVE SALVE-IF SALVE IF YOU WANT A PEACEFUL HOME AND A HAPPY SAVING INTERESTED WIFE USE DIPLOMACY NOT CANDOR T THE HE world doesn't play fair with 11 aman mn man about aboul matrimony When hen a girl cirl Is about to take the fatal step tep her mother molher and her led sisters listen and her aunts aunt and aud her cousins cousin and all of her female friends who wiro have hav husbands tak take lake her aside and have heart to iA heart to talks t lk with her ber about how to manage a husband Men h have ve no such m matrimonial 1 tive unions There is no freemasonry among benedicts benedicta and If any ny husband ever funds finds out how to manace manage a wife he meanly keeps the secret of hOw hOw- how to turn the trick with with- within within in his own bosom No TuO KINDLY benevolent headed bald iM I ever the trembling bridegroom a pointer L about how to avoid the snags macs in a wife's wiCe's disposition t Yet there Is so much that he be might aught say IlaY that would I be helpful There aro so many ways to lo head bead off hysterics If It the young husband only knew how so h ii a many times when he be might run up a lightning rod tl lt would deflect hi his wife's wife temper from his poor had hlad it If only he had been taught how to do It ft Now the man who has been married twenty or thirty years ears from the depths of ot his own experience mIght well to the sa say bridge elect groom elect Son never get gel married until you have kissed the blarney stone atone Flatter in a woman woma woman before marriage Is la a matter malter of inclination Flattering one after you marry her Is a matter of necessity and personal safety Matrimony is ia no place for candor It is a field for diplomacy NEVER EVER criticise your faults for tor to tell her of her mistakes means mean that you will have to dry her er tears with wilh greenbacks To remark that her new gown sown Is a nightmare and her bat hat a millinery or means that you will receive bills bill for new ones one To accuse her ut being hIgh tempered is only to precipitate the storm you dread But Bul if you will enthuse over how girlish her old frock makes her look she will wear It until it Is In tatters and and If you descant upon her marvelous self control and angelic dis dla disposition position she will bite bit her tongue off rather than say the sharp words that thal rise to her lips IF I IF marked 1 F YOU marry an adoring being who Is Incurably addicted to marked down bargaIn sales It il Is folly to argue arguo with her on the matter matterand matterand matterand and point out that thIngs thines she doesn't want and has no use for are cheap at any price But if you view her purchases with wilh a contemptuous air and remark that they look common and that you wonder that a woman of f her exquisite sensibility wants things that thal everybody has you will put a crimp In her extravagance For Forthe Forthe Forthe the only cure for the bargain habit is to inoculate a woman with the Idea of being exclusive IF I IF matrimoniI F SON you OU have drawn a human phonograph in the matrimonial lottery you cant can't stop top It by trying to talk It down for men lack laci swiftness and staying powers and cannot compete with women on the monologue platform But Bul you can gain peace and quiet at home by telling your wife that when her face is in repose It Il has an Irresistible Mona Lisa expression and as a result she will be afraid fraId to open her mouth lest she should break up the pose jF jF yourI SU SON you ou wish to fare sumptuously every ery day never knock your I wife's fes fe's housekeeping or make Invidious comparisons between It and your mothers mother's But on the contrary be forever praising her domesticity and openly congratulate yourself upon having married the only woman who combines the attractions of Venus and Mm Min Minerva erva and Mary Ann Even when the steak is leather and the bread a cinder dont don't complain Merely remark that the meal Isn't up to her usual standard of perfection and she will make a burnt offering of herself on the kitchen stove trying to live up to your Ideal of her IF IF jF YOU want your our wife wiCe to be thrifty and a helpmeet to you ou son herNo 1 dont don't bait her about her extravagance and dole out nickels to her No 10 woman ever economizes economize because her husband growls over the th bills bUls and she the has ha to chloroform him before she can set get a dollar out of him Instead she the revenges herself h for grudgingly given movie money by going coins downtown and having a Pane Parit hat charged to her account But if you will make her a junior partner and make her feel that your success depends upon how she manages her h rend end of the business she will become a nickel and cheerfully make over her old frock three times limes and skimp the butchers butcher's bill IF IF F YOUR youn wife is If mad about society and gadding about son there is l no use In preaching to her that a womans woman's place is In the home But If you will inquire of her three or four times In succession whether she thinks that some woman who Is young younger er and slimmer and prettier than she is is likely to be at al such auch and such a party she will decide that after all there Is noth nothing ing so satisfying as a quiet qui t evening at your own fireside IF IF YOU want your our wife to be a a companion to you son ton talk to her herL L about the things you are really Interested rested In her In leading Make her keep up her accomplishments Make her keep I teop with you ou Don t let her slump hen shen the first baby comes and be nothing but a housekeeper and a mother Then when you get set middle aged you wont won't be bored to death with a wife wire who knows nothing and has no other Interest outside of her four walls It is because so man many men treat their wives as doll babies or domestic conveniences or the childrens children's mother that there Ir are so ISO many married men wandering around looking for tor affinities Dont sink the lover In the husband son aon and you can wrap your wife around your finger Dont Don't economize on ex expressions of affection or stint your wife In praise and you may maydo maydo maydo do as you will in your home without friction or 01 argument Believe me son It Is no trick to manage a wife It ItIs Itis Is ia Just a matter of Judiciously applying the salve SO S CO 0 ANY old marr married maried d man ml might tell l a prospective bridegroom and anc 3 prevent many a divorce DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Ledger Company |