Show I Dorothy Dixs Dix's Dix s 's LetterBox Letter Box BoxA I A SPECIAL PLEA TO THOSE THO E WHO HAVE CHILDREN DOOS OR ORI I CHICKENS WHICH MOTHER MOTHER-IN MOTHER LAW tAW SHALL THEY IN VITE VIlE INVITE TO LIVE WITH THEM AFTER MARRIAGE HOW CAN HE GET IllS Hit SWEET SWEET- SWEETHEART'S SWEETHEARTS HEARTS HEART'S KISSES DEAR f ryAR flEAR DOROTHY DOROTHT Now DIX DIX Now that spring Is I nearly here and and every everyone one on Is Js thinking of flowers lowers and a nice garden guden wont won't you rou please write something about other peoples people children chickens and dogs docs I spent a lot of ot money and good tood hard bard work last lut year on my flower beds only to have haTe them destroyed by my next door neighbors neighbor's children and sod dogs dots and chick chickens S ens I am a lover of ot children and a lover of dumb S animals but I also love lov my flowers flower and desire desir to keep my attractive While I made mad no protest In order to keep k the peace I 1 dont don't think It ft fair do Si GOOD NATURED MATURED I certainly dOnt dOn't d nt People who vh I na n and dogs dg should hul certainly hays have hav enough regard for their neighbors right rights to keep 5 them within bounds bound But they rarely do d e S 'S Generall Generally the they let l t their hens scratch for a I living In all the th sweet beds bed la In their Immediate DOROTHY DOROTny DIX BEt vicinity and think It highly amusing a for tor Fido to demolish your shrubbery digging for tor rats Furth Further more r-more more there ther Is Ja no surer Burer way to get the reputation of being a grouch and a crank than to object to being waked waited up at 4 a m by the th Jones rooster or to throw something at the Smiths Smith's cats eats when hen they cater cater- caterwaul caterwaul on your back fence Ther There la Is I nothing in human nature stranger than the men men- mental mental men mental tal twist which mikes makes otherwise fall fair air and Just Juit people p pl think It perfectly all right for fr their chicken chIckens a to scratch up your gar gar- garden garden gar garden den but a high crime and misdemeanor ml dem nor for fr anybody 1 else's 1 chicken t to molt molest their garden parden Why I hav have even known people who could not see eee ie why anyone any one objected to t heln being bit bitten ten by their dog dg which they explained alway always nipped you yu In Ina Ina Ina a playful spirit spirit- But they would not have hav aen the humor of fth the tho situation If your dog had hid bitten them th m As A for tor parents parent It Is only ones once In a a blue blu moon that hal you rou find a father and a mother who ho hUG have any regard retard for tor anybody else's Ise's pleasure or comfort or property rights when they come como In conflict with their offspring They Thy themselves are ar kind and considerate and fair and honest They would not Injure you In any ny way themselves but they Ihy th will let their children ruthlessly destroy your meet moet cherished sessions poses posses posses- sessions They will let them keep kep you awake with their noise shatter your our nerves without the th slightest compunction It I Is II because parents parent permit their children to be b vandals that landlords so eo often refuse to rent handsom apartments or houses house to people popl with children They know that moth mother I will think It cute cut for Johnny to tryout try out his hla hi on the th ma ens mahogany banisters and amusing for Tommy to drive nails n In Inthe the hardwood floor flor and for fr Susie to t show how hw well wll she can write by a scrawling her name on the th drawing room rom wall wail There Th r Is not one of or us who has not been driven to the verge vorie of voua nervous prostration by the screams and yells ells of some som child that Its mother did not apparently heir bear and who has not writhed white while some Infant demon scratched our old mahogany with a pin or eared dog dog some precious first edition while Its Us mother complacently smiled and said that she thought Percy Prcy would be b an artist because he h was always drawing pictures and aDd she sh was sure that AramInta would be bo a writer she was so fond ot of books So I think that parents ar are beyond reach ruch of any ay argument argument ment to t their sense sent of f Justice Justic or any appeal to to- to their pity Good Natured Matured If their kid kids want to play on your lawn their fathers and mothers mother moth r are ar not going to try to top top them them All you can cn do Is Just to keep kep on being good god natured and reflect r fl that If you had children you would without doubt do the th same me ame way and think that anybody who objected to the th little darlings amusIng themselves by pulling up flower was wa too mean mUn to tg t live DOROTHY DIX C C C CD CEAR D EAR r DEAR EAR DOROTHY DIX DIX I I am a young youns man engaged en aged fo to o be married married married-f but here hr Is 11 our Uy troubIe-Uy girl has often spoken to me m about our mother living with us after we w e are ar married She She- She claims that we e should have hav her mother live with us because she sh Is th the only girt girl In Inthe inthe the family I claim that my mother should live lire with us because I Iam Iam Iam am the tb only son I I have hav three thre sisters titters married but I I dont don't feel feet that my mother should be supported by her sons law My girl eirl has two brothers who are m married and who are ar much better off oft financially than I am It If wo we cannot keep both of ot them which mother law has the most right to live UTe with ua us J A A B Answer This Is Ie a hard question to t answer anwer as aa a undoubtedly the duty of f a daughter and a I son to a I mother m ther are ar equal However I 1 think It Is the th sons son's duty to support his mother finan financially daily and tho daughters daughter's daughter duty to ta take tak care eare car of her personally This would put a mother In her daughters daughter's house but the th daughters daughter's bus hus hus- hus husband husband band would not be b required to feed and clothe cloth her gratis I i S Undoubtedly It I is much less len trying for fr a woman to t live liv with hr her own mother moth r than It Is Ie I with her husband mother mothr be- be because b caus cause her affection for her h r mother and her hr habit of giving In Into Into to her makes mak It easier Ier r for her hor h r to f bear b ar with her h r nagging and andt to put up with the th continual c meddling In her affairs affair and the nover advice advie and which every old Id woman cannot refrain from handing out to tg t those thoc about her And It Is easier on a man to live with her law mother than It ItIs itis ItIs Is tor for a woman to live with her mother law because their Interests re t do not conflict at every pol point t and he h Is II away from home horn most of the time H He I Is not shut up with her all alt day long lone every day In the same am bouse house But It Js is I not right that the sons sho should ld simply pass pus the th buck as most men do In a case car where they have hav sisters and wish mother molher and her ber support on In law brother entirely The Th but best b t solution of f the th law In problem la Is I for fr It not to t be b any problem at all when the mother enother h has ha enough nough money to t live IIvo on or r the th children are ar able abl by each eh his hla or or share thare to t support her hr In her own home or r elee In some ome om nice boarding house hour or r hotel Then mother can live IIvo In pac peace and dignity with the th certain knowledge that she h I Is not nt upsetting up any household by hy her presence and Ind nd she can ean via visit It her child ran with the th knowledge t n wl dg that she sh h la is I a welcome welem welcome gust gut But I should say In your case ess J 3 A B that your our brothers in I should pay their mothers mother's mother board In your house hour and that you should I pay part of your mothers mother's expenses In your sisters sister's There are three of of them and nd the they should contribute their pro rata But dont don't try living Jiving In the th house hour with two tw mothers law moth r ln unless all four of f y you u ire r 1 pin feathered tn-f tn ath rC angels angel DOROTHY DIX C S S SD SEAR DEAR D EAR BAR MISS DIX I DIX I am crazy craz about a girl ciri but It Is not serious be cause caus I 1 am only 0 0 and she sh he Is 19 1 My Uy trouble Is this She doesn't like to be b kissed I have hav only had bad four tour kisses In the th last two years yean Now I would go 10 through fire and water for one on of her kIsses kiss because they are ar so few and far tar between And I 1 want to know how to Set get g them TOMMY Answer If It I knew how to turn a nIce nic girl Into a kissing killing but bur I wouldn't tell ll Tommy because I think a girl cheapens herself herselt so when wh n she ahe makes her lips Ills lip a tree sweet lunch counter tor for every enry lad who comes along I only print Tint your yur letter latter to f show hw girls how true tru is II I the thing that I am m alway always telling them that the th more aloof I f I a girl holds h the th more mers mr men run after her and the th rarer her har favors the th more mr men rn n value them If diamonds were were n as common and cheap as a pebbles pebble en n the th seashore we wouldn't have hav them theist set act In platinum an and hang th them m about but our ur neck necks and nd eare ear ar We W would w uld build roads roada of f them and trample them underfoot und rf t DOROTHY DIX DI- b by public Ledger Uder |