| Show Dorothy y Dix T r Talks Talk 1 alks 11 Py DOROTHY DIX the World Highest I raid Paid Woman Writer THE THI TH HAPPIEST sT MARRIAGES AF ARE AFiE THOSE ThOE WHERE THERE IS NEITHER THE WOLF NOR THE SPORTS MODEL CAR ATTHE AT ATTHE ATTHE THE DOOR SAYS DOROTHY DIXI DIX PIX I A ONG my acquaintances are arc a mau and woman who married upon hMONG the proverbial shoestring They The started housekeeping In n a o by o cur by-cur flat and the husband hustled at his job while ho wit wire cooked and patched sowed sewed and trimmed her d hats hat and made ov over r frocks and hunte 1 down dowA barr bar r gains in butchers butcher's And they wore happy ansi L contented and devoted to each other r Alter After a few ot o this Joan anC life upon them as ason It almost always does cj on ti tho thrifty and Industrious But instead of bring bring- them the happiness they expected It brought them misery for tte husband away from his own fireside and aad felt fell Into the hands bands of a vamp vamp 1 t dA who persuaded that thai he lie was too oung and JJ J handsome for the faithful little wife who had I old working and to help him get a start 4 the world so he divorced her and married thea the i siren J a Such cases are not ala alas uncommon and J r i they nuke make one wonder whether poverty or riches makes for happiness In n Ac- Ac Ac According cording to th the old adage when poverty comes in at the thc door flics flies out the W window but jus just as often when riches cc down the chimney love sneaks out the back stairs i iU V U bitter biller biting poverty Is a hard hanl test for love lo to toJ for even love is material materia When you arc hungry yon QI lire are stomach than thau heart When you are cold cold you think more of or the 1 oi 0 Ot tour OUI body than you do or of o the temperature of or your at- at at ati i loo tOD you are arc harassed 1 by iy bills and hounded by by collectors y nd lid not ool sentiment fills hue your waking thoughts end and nightly jIe Ie im tUl ni Love Lovu has to be bo comfortable before 11 It can set get et In It Its treat great reat an r 1 o 01 I- I ut lut on the other hand money brings brinDs temptations from poverty Is exempt Especially does money brin bring j temp t to men for tor every rich man is us the prey of every adventuress he meets Married or single sinIe women smile Upon him who has the price of the luxuries their sordid souls C Ive C and so it is that the man who had he been poor would have been permitted to walk the straight and narrow path in peace leace because he is rich finds hundreds of soft hands his down into the pit A AWO A A WO WOMAN AN once justified her extravagance to me mo by saying that tho k only way that a a wife nowadays can keep her husband is to keep him poor pOOl OO and she ahe was not far from front speaking sneaking the truth A rich man manna II to o be Indeed a Joseph If It ho he resists the wiles aBcs and aud is ill adamant t he and seductions ot of tha tho pretty young oung creatures who ar al I out oit on a 11 hunt for a candy papa And It should console Ian a woman woman for not having ha a limousine to still have havo a faithful u band and to show that tb that Is a luxury that few wealthy women s 81 8 S show that the ratio of or divorce Is much greater Teater In rich md fashionable society than among the poor This may bo ho cor or in many ways waya The first aid to divorce Is as I have ha said the act that the feminine branch of willing workers Is organized to take every man man with money away from his hili wife and only too often orten It in its nefarious succeeds designs I IThen i iThen Then th tha rich have time to coddle their emotions The poor peor have not There Is doubtless s Just as a much incompatibility ity of temper and of taste In green grocery dr cles as there is i in banking circles Also the wives of green greengrocer lose loce their looks and ge get fat as do the wives of trust presidents and the flapper we have always with us In every Grade of society The only difference Is that the green grocer is lucky enough not net to have leisure In which to brood over his blasted lon IS BO so worked hard trying to make both ends meet tHat he be hasn't HI H 1 Ime to consider whether his Ills wife represents lila Ills Ideal of or feminine or not Also Mrs Greens thoughts are arc end ad permanently diverted from yearnings yearning for tor a II real soul mate by caTing to get up and nd get breakfast end d patch her husbands husband's trousers and md wash wath and mend and sew for tor ts t's little Greengrocers Insofar poverty Is la the handmaiden f n of or domestic happiness The rich miss this aid to marital bliss Being freed CreClI from the Uan grind they have abundant leisure to take tako note of oC each others other's other Imperfections and dwell upon tho the state of or their own affections Mrs Mr Croesus having nothing else eife to do sits with her fin fin- finger fin finger ger on her pulse and observes observe that her heartbeats do not quick quicken en as they did ten year years ago when her Henri Ad ap- ap ap preached ap-preached preached from which she argues that she made a mistake in matrimony and missed her affinity Or she applies a little thermometer to her husbands husband's love and finds that from fever heat it has gone none down to normal and the result figures in the divorce court Or perhaps It la i Mr Croesus who observing that his Ma- Ma Matilda Ma Matilda tilda's tilda looks are not what they once were starts out to hunt for or thrills the end whereof is I trouble truble and tribulations and a au ati Ii mony I n If ir ilL litI tO E habit of or self Indulgence Is strong upon the thc rIch F K md na he men and women who are not used to doing without any any- any ng tog ns h t are not apt to to deny themselves the forbidden fruit hut mo ot of all It is boredom the desire for tor fresh sensations and Ib di n mi m ement and a general lack ot or something to do an and l some aJ IL ii n I t mi i in life that is at the bottom bollom or of o the domestic infidelities II 1 0 The wise wisest at prayer ever offered la Is I when the psalmist ex exclaimed claimed Give me cne ne neither poverty nor riches and this peti pet petition tion Ion might well be incorporated in the prayers of the mar mar- mar raae For undoubtedly the happiest marriages are I neither the wolf the tha model thoe ho e where there it la nor sports ports ca car at the door but the husband and wife must work together and plan and hope together and have that community of interest that makes them Indeed one DOROTHY DIX by Public Ledger Company |
