| Show Dorothy I Talks Oix-Talks Dix Talks Talk TO BE A SUCCESSFUL HUSBAND DONT DON'T MARRY UNTIL YOUVE YOU'VE FINISHED PLAYING AND HAVE THE THEN PRICE PRICE THEN KEEP YOUR WIFE IN LOVE BY COMPLIMENTS AND AP- AP APPRECIATION BUT BUT IF YOURE YOU'RE A TIGHT TIGHT- TIGHTWAD TIGHT TIGHT- TIGHTWAD WAD REMAIN A BACHELOR DONT DON'T ONT r be In la a hurry to marr marry Talc Take ke your time The Th girl crop Is IsOM Isone 1 tobe r one OM that never falls tails There Ther will always be b plenty of ot to toe b be e had for the asking Dont Don't marry until unU you are r good and ready an ready leady to settle down and be b a fireside companion As Ae long lone as a x man wants to roam and run with the ther boys hi he should sta stay single r Dont Don't marry until you ou have the price c A family Is an expensive luxury In these days of Df o the th high cost coa of ot living JIvIng and you want to be b very sure sur can cana a afford the upkeep before you DU set one on up Otherwise Jou will regret it 4 marry a a girl Irl for ono one on thing and e ex- ex ex expect pact her to be b the th exact opposite as a soon loon as af you get her home horn There is II I no magic In Inthe Inthe the marriane ceremony that hat changes the character of ot a woman and that turns turn the the moron noron into a blue stocking the tho th spender Into into a saver or r the petter into a prude What a girl was before marriage she sh Is going to nix NIL bo be b after marriage only more so DONT DON'T DONT DON'T marry out or of o your own class clas The happiest marriages an are o i those In which the husband and wife have been brought up In the thi same ame school of thought In religion and aud politics and raised on the same kind ot of o pie pic Dont Don't forget that beauty fades and that if you yu marry a woman Just fo for her looks that you are bound to lose lse out In the course cours of ten or fifteen years Maybe sooner DONT DON'T ONT j FORGET that kittens grow up Into cats and flappers Clappers cease ceas to l flap Clap and ami that the cute cut little was wa's ways way that are so entrancing hen you ou see a little of ot them will get Bet on your nen es It you Oll have t to live i with them Also that while Dumb Dora may be adorable as a sweet sweet- sweetheart sweetheart heart she sh will bore bare you to tears as a wife Dont Don't forget that every girl tips you yu off before marriage to just the tho th tort Eort of wife she the is going to make Any man with intelligence enough to be let out without a keeper can tell a nervous neurotic shrew shew from an amiable natured good easy easy- easygoing easygoing going girl He can differentiate between a spender and a saver id and Jet get a a line on n whether a young woman Is la a domes domes- domestic domestic domestic tic 0 or a Jauer r DONT DON'T forget that a a mans man's one best beat bet In n a a wife Is good food hard bard f DONT DON'T JU horse sense II It a girl firl bas has that heat she can acquire all the other olber domestic virtues Dont Don't forget that you picked out your wife yourself She represents your taste tast and judgment jud ment In women and It Is up to you oU to make the best of ot your selection Dont Don't marry at all unless you have made up your mind to tomake tomake tomake make just as great gnat an effort to make mak your marriage a success suc suc- success success cess as you you do to make mak your business a success s I take a girl out ot of a Good home where she sho has ha kind and lov- lov DONT DON'T lag ine parents and brothers brother and sisters and friends and where she leads an Interesting and amusing life and then drop her down In n a bungalow or a kitchenette apartment and leave leav her alone elone Dont Don't forget that a woman marries marrin to get a companion not Mt a stuffed dummy that sits up with a newspaper In Its hand handall handall handall all evening and out of which she gets only grunts ONT r forget that a womans woman's woman work Inside of ot the home borne horn Is dull and J am lJ DONT DON'T monotonous and that she sh eh has a right to expect some come cheerful conversation from her husband ot of an evening It if men carried as poor poola a line Une before marriage as they thy do afterward there would be b mighty few wedding we bells belle bell Dont Don't cut out all of cf the th lovemaking as a soon as you are married married Matrimony does not cause a woman to shed her sweet tooth even if It she does docs cut h her r wisdom teeth on it lake take It for tor granted that your wife wire knows know that hat you ou still love J DONT DON'T her and that you think she Is the greatest little manager and best looker In the lb world even It If you OU never pay her a compliment or tell her that you love lov her Few women are mind readers or possess the th g S ft tt of ot clairvoyance e There Is nothing more mare pathetic than that there are thousands of women breaking their hearts heart longing for their husbands hus- hus husbands hu bands to 10 say ay to them the th words they are too stupid and stingy to sa say Dont Don't fall fail to show your wife wit appreciation Compliment her upon her thrift when she saves save your money and he her skill In managing your home Dont Don't gobble down the dinner she has spent hours hour In pre pre- preparing preparing paring for you without a word of thanks for her labor DONT DON'T r ONT forget that you are your our wIres wIre's wife audience to which she lh Is al- al always alLi alLy DONT DON'T Li ways playing and that she th likes like to get et the tho glad clad hand from you and to be told that her work worle Is I good just as much as you like to t have a few kind hied words from your boss or a cheer or two ho from the themen themen men with whom you are ar asso associated In your business or profession Dont Don't think that being belne married to you OU Is picnic enough for any aDY woman It Isn't Every wife wire Js I s entitled to her evening oft orf at least once a week eele ant anci anI every husband should make at al least a hundredth part of the he effort to make life lite pleasant for her after marriage that he h did before marriage ge Dont Don't marry unless you are willing to give your wife wire as liberal an allowance as you can possibly afford for her own personal use use use She earnt earn the money by her labor in you your house Dont Don't make her have to corkscrew it out of you nickel by nickel If you are a tightwad be a ba bachelor fONT r ONT make home borne a dumping ground for tor all the nerves and temper lemper an and 1 Irritability that you dare dar not show how the outside world orld Dont Don't forget that your our wife Is a lady even enn It if she did marry you ou Many Hany a man says Bay thin 5 J to his hi wife wire that he would not say to any an other woman who had an bodied able brother Don Dont Don't forget that the th salve alve spreader Is I more potent than the hammer in n dealing with women As long as a wilt will chow any interest in holding one of his wife's hands she will cheerfully work the other to the bone for him r ONT delude yourself Into Inlo believing that you OU can cannot no I lose your J DON'T DONT D wife's wife love Women love their husbands husband only as long as they are loveable It would give many a complacent husband a jolt to know kno what hat his hi wife really thinks of him Finally dont don't the little courtesies the little atten atten- attentions attentions the little amenities of life Just because you yu are aro ar married Show your wife tenderness and appreciation and that you are really trying to make he her happy and she sh will overlook look all of your sins Ins lin of omission and commission l n and bless th the day she sho married you DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Lcd Ledger er |
