Show 1 Dorothy Dixs Dix's Dix s 's Letter Box J THE WILD FLAPPER WHO WANTS TO BE GOOD BUT FEARS TO T REFORM BECAUSE SHE WILL LOSE HER BEAUX MISS THIRTEEN WHO THREATENS TO LEAVE NAG NAG- NAGGING NAGGING GING GINO MOTHERS MOTHER HOW TO CURE A MINUTE WAITA FAMILY EAR r BAIt DOROTHY DIX I DIX I drink smoke and neck and it doesn't get DEAR D me anywhere Hero I am with no ono who relly loves me and no noone noone noone one I really care for worse oft off than when I was a nice little maiden I want some one to love me we Not because I am a good sport but because I am me not because I am very funny tunny when I am tight but because I am ant Sweet it What can we do all of or us tarnished girls Not bad just tarnished It is hard hand to give up the old ways and it will pr probably bably mean no dates at all alt for a very I long time while we sit at home and wait walt for tor the thet S right man Our boy friends ot of o now wont won't care for forus wet blankets Shall I stop c- c cus us when we become drinking smoking and promIscuous loving and walt wait 4 or real love And will real love It It comes be beI r 7 worth all the lonesome walling wailing It is a question of of I how bow l ow to live FLAPPER t Answer r There Is It no question about how a II woman should live IIvo her life my dear It pys py her to and to walk the straight and tsar nar be nibe good in tn III ni row path The only happy women are the women who have lived lives that were above reproach As you sa say being a wild woman gets you nowhere While you ou are young and pretty you ou can get a lot of or thrills out ot of It As long longas longas as you ou will neck and smoke and drink and be a II good sport you will have ha plenty or of o date dates with the boys who want a n girl to play with But Dut not many men want want to go any farther Carther than the playing Most men dont don't want that kind of girl for a wife or for forthe forthe forthe the mother of their children If they are worthwhile them them- themselves themselves themselves selves So when they get ready to marry they give theIr flashy little playmates a particularly wet party and kiss them goodbye and bestow their names upon some oma girl who hasn't been fondled by every Tom Dick and Harry and who wont won't bequeath any alcoholic tendencies to her babies And what sort of men are willing to marry the girls who get drunk and go on booze parties and who ho are what you call good sports Sometimes they are the wastrel sons ot of rich men who wilt will marry a girl while they are drunk and repudiate the marriage as soon as they are sober and their fathers have read the riot act to them Generally they are cheap little gamblers shooters shooters crapshooters tin horn sports who try to graft a living instead of oC working for tor It 11 who are without even a II steady job and who have ha havano Ideals of honor or honesty no or of o duty no stability or of o char character acter What happiness could any girl promise herself in marrying tuch mch a n man Truly the wild life gets you nowhere It does not get you a husband worth while It burna burns up your youth and beauty and makes you old before your time It Is the women who live good lives who keep their beauty Compare a II woman of or 60 or 70 who has kept herself hersel sweet and pure whose whoso days das ha hae haie e been SUed filled with gentle deeds Her face will 1 be calm and serene sereno and lovely but the woman of or 60 or 70 who has led lell a fast life lire will be a hag hideous to look upon So I I entreat you Flapper now that you have come to cross roads to take the upper one Be good You will find it will pay Being sp sport rt gets you nowhere except to the pit but the other road leads heads to all the beautiful things In life Especially It leads to the love of a good man who will respect you and that Is the only kind of love that lasts lasta DOROTHY DIX DIL 5 0 S kEAR EAR DOROTHY Some DIX DIX Some girls eiris can make their best pals ot of DEAR D their mother but my mother is continually crossing my path absolutely I cant can't do one thing thine that suits her and although I have plenty of or clothes I am dissatisfied I am thinking of ot leaving home and will carry out my plan plait it if you you- think It wise I am only 13 12 but butI butI butI I I have more sense than people think I 1 have RUBY RUDY Answer I IAnswer Well Ruby if you really have got any gray matter matter in that little head of yours prove It by staying at home Take Taka It from me the most Idiotic thing that any girl can do who has hasa a good home and three square meals a day and plenty of clothes is to leave it Sit down and put on your your thinking cap and figure It out for yourself Where would you go if you left home Where would you sleep Where would you eat You would get terribly tired walking aimlessly about the streets and your feet would hurt You would be hungry The dark would come on and you ou would be afraid and lonely and a policeman would pick you up as a vagrant and nd take you to the station house or to som some asylum for runaway girls And the things they would say to you would make mothers mother's worst seem like love talk Dont Don't rIsk It t my child i You complain that your mother doesn't you Suppo Suppose e you try to understand her and look at things from her standpoint I agree with you that she should not nag nagat nagat nagat at you all about the you do but cant can't you see that all of her nagging Is Just because she loves love you so much that she cant can't bear to see faults faulta in you She I Is only trying to help you correct them and make you the perfect girl of f her ideal And try to get this point too that mother Is often octen cross and Irritable just because she is so BO overworked and tired Help her around the house Make her go and lie lio down while you wash the dishes or get the dinner and see It If it doesn't cure her of ot nagging DOROTHY DIX mx C EAR r EAR MISS DIX I DIX I am the victim or of o a II walt a family I DEAR D J have a husky husband and three strong fine boys who never come to a meal on time who never pick up their clothes or their schoolbooks or their towels I am middle aged in poor health and have to do my own work but it If I ask either one of ot my children or ormy orray ormy ray my husband to do anything to help me they reply Walt Wait a minute It is wait walt a minute for lor dinner and breakfast and supper for II a bucket ot of o water for the paper for lor the coal or doing an errand or of kind until I feel fel down under the any reSl myself breaking racking nerve nerve strain What can I do OLD OLD MRS MRS WAIT A MINUTE A Answer newer Give them a dose of their own medicine and repeat It until a cure Is affected When they come home at night have no dinner ready for them and when they rave as hungry men will tell them to walt wait a minute When they want a button sewed on or a tear mended go calmly on with your reading and tell them to wait walt a minute The more mare they are In a hurry for fop anything and the more exasperated they get the themore themore more deliberate and dilatory you be Tell Tt-ll your our family that you havo observed that their plan of put put- ting putting oft off things works out that you ou have adopted their slogan or of walt wait a minute and that you propose to imitate their tactics and put ort off doing things as long as you can It wont won't take long to convince them ot or the virtue of promptitude when they have to suffer sutter from I thO lack of it it You owe It to your to break them of the bad habit of putting off things for the procrastinators never suc sue succeed succeed coed They never get anywhere Th The getter go-getter are those who always atway punch the clock on the tha dot and do everything on the minute DOROTHY DIX CopyrIght by Public Ledger |