Show Dorothy Dix Talks THOUSANDS OF MEN FAIL IN BUSINESS BECAUSE THEIR WIVES DONT DON'T KNOW HOW TO FEED THEM OR BECAUSE THEIR MINDS ARE CLOUDED BY NAGGING AND QUARRELS AT KEEP HOME HOME KEEP THE HUS HUSBAND BAND WHO WORKS FOR YOU CON CONTENTED TENTED AND HELL HE'LL SUC SUCCEED EED WOMEN WOMEN OMEN think about makIng a happy home as a merely an ethical problem but It isn't only anI that It is a business proposition aswell as aswell well and It is just as much money moncy In their pockets pocket as It Is I happi happI- happIness happiness ness in their hearts heart to keep their husbands husband In love wIth them and the tho domestic machinery running on W- W oiled wheels The average wife does doe not realize that 14 the successful marriage pays paya pay dividends In InN andr dollars and cents as a well as a u In bliss and r N that the th way she ahe sh treats treat her hr husband deter deter- determines determine x mines mine his earning capacity to a large ex- ex extent ex extent 1 r tent And It would amaze her beyond meas meas- measure ure to learn that a contented husband can ean cannet get more credit at the th bank than a dis dis- disgruntled disgruntled one Yet such Is the actual fact 1 THE other day the tho president nt of oC a large business a concern saId that he kept careful tab on the domestic relations of ot hIs hi customers customer and that he heI I heI ui extended liberal credit to a a man who had a happy I home who was fond of ol his wife wire and proud of ot hIs I children because ho had ad found that such a n man was willing to work lib his fingers finger to the bono for tor or hIs bis family and he b nearly n arly always alway prospered But Dut on the tho other hand he regarded as a a poor risk a n man whose home was a place of at torment and who was always quarreling and fighting with his wife Experience showed that such tuch a man nearly always failed In business as a he had in marriage Observation bears out this thi theory about a mans man's man pros pros- prosperity prosperity and his domestic dom happiness going hand in hand Run over In your mind the list of your divorced friends friend and as ac- acquaIntances ac acquaintances and you will b be amazed to find how often finan financial elal cial bankruptcy has followed spiritual bankruptcy YOU will also find that the fortunes of or nearly every ery man who who has hasY YOU BOU Y forsaken an old wife wit for a new nw one have havel somehow been blighted and you will find that the th solid soUd men of every community the men who own the tho banks the factories and fine shops and who run the bIg ble enterprises are nearly all who think their middle aged Joan Jonns the most beautiful women In the th world and who cant can't be bo pried away awny from their own firesides Now inasmuch as a mans man's man success depends largely upon what sort ort of a home he h has it Is up to the wife wit to t make a happy home horn and to keep him in love with her not only beau because e it I is the he right ight thing g to d do but Ju Just t a as a mere mat matter or POliCY IL 1 le IS ne 1110 ea e vrey Tor u ner Lc 0 y grany n r tion for whatever of power and place and luxury comes corn to the average woman must mutt come to her through her husband She rises rise or falls fall with him To 0 BEGIN with a woman can increase her husbands husband's earnIng ca capacity by the sort of housekeeper she the Is I A lot of ot women thInk that it doesn't make any difference whether you feed teed a man out ot of tin cans and paper bags ba s or not If It bo ho will stand for It It and they never realize that food supplies the thi fuel that makes the human engIne so go So they will send tend a man off ott to work in the morning with Ii a skImpy breakfast or no breakfast at all or some somo orao mess that be he has scrambled together himself and then they wonder that he be doesn't get alan along alone in busIness busin or that he be breaks down with some sort orl of o stomach trouble by the timo time ho he Is I IS 45 Why Wily thousand thousands upon thousands of men m n fail In business because their wives dont don't know how to feed them th m A mean cup of coffee and a soggy doughnut has lias made many a man so cross eross and Irritable that he has sassed sailed his boss boSi and lost his job or quarreled with his partner or mortally offended hIs best customer Or It has caused him to take tak such a dark green bilious view of life that he believed the whole world going to the th bowwows bowwow and turned down GO come me proposition that would have made him a fortune ZANY MANY R a n wife sells seUs out her husbands husband's birthright for a mess mes of p pot t tace tage by draggIng him hint around around- at night to places of or amusement She keeps him up jazzIng until 3 or 4 o'clock o'clock In the mornIng dancIng too much and eating too much and end he lr gets up the next morning with a fur tongue tongue antI and heavy head and aud In no condition to compete with themen the men who have huo had bad eight hours hour hours of at good rood sleep Most Host wIves consider a family spat pat a perfectly Innocuous form of family entertainment They get a certain kick out of o naggIng ant and fretting They see sec no good reason why they s should deny themselves what thy consider a cheap pleasure It rover raver occurs to them that every breakfast br table tabi quarrel quarrel rel rei Is assessed at its ita it true value would cost them more than grand opera seats pOR FOrt FOR the man who leaves leave home bome of a morning with the memory of otA his wife's wife bitter speeches and reproaches echoIng In la his ears Is mentally upset Ills his poise is destroyed his Judgment clouded his concentration shattered He lie cannot give Ive him mind fully to the matter In hand because he Is la subconsciously dwelling on hIs hi grievance ance ance Ills HIs mind Is obsessed ed by what he considers consider hi hIs wrongs and rind hIs powers of ot achievement are ar reduced at least 76 75 per cent cem Besides Beside this love lov is the strongest driving power pow r 1 id the world It turns the th coward Into a hero It gives l strength to the weak It lights a flame even In the soul of a clod elod There Is nothing a man man cannot achieve for the woman he h loves There Is no effort he will not make to safeguard the home that Is his little bit of heaven on earth BUT OUT what incentIve is there tor for a man to work for or a woman who who who- nags and scolds scold who shows sho's sho s 's him no appreciation no affection no thatis tenderness And why should he sacrifice himself to the home that Is nothing but a place of strife and anil where he h is only the unconsidered ered slave who pays pay the rent and the groc grocery grocery ry bill The moral of all of which Is ladies ladie that If you want your husband to succeed and If you desire a fine house and lim- lim limousine and pearls pearl you must keep the th man who works work for you contented and feeling that his Job Is worth while DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger Leder |