Show I I Dorothy Dix Dixs Dix's s 's Letter Box BoxA II I IA A LETTER TO ALL Lt WIVES WRITTEN IN THE HEARTS HEART'S BLOOD OF ONE WOMAN WHO DESERTED HER STAY HOME STAY AT HUSBAND FOR A DANCING PaRTNER HOW TO I CURE YOUR CHILDHOOD ROMANCE HANG HANG- HANGOVER OVER HANG OVER QUESTIONS aNSWERED EAR r MISS DIX The DIX The other day I read rud In your our column a letter DEAR from a married woman sayIng she sh was w s thinking of ot leavIng a good husband huband because she h had fallen alien In love lov with another man I want to tell her my experience I 1 was married to a floe fine man who ho was every every- everything very very-thine thing that was kind and generous to me He was wasa wasa I a good husband devoted to his bis children and a ft good tood father Only he h was 1181 wa not the tb pleasure loving kind k nd I could hardly ever drag drar him out to a ft show or a aI dance I 1 met another man Dlan who bad had a ft car and wu was wua waft k a rood good dancer and always out for tor pleasure I thought I fell In love lov with him and left my husband for him I was happy for tor a little while but I soon coon found out that the tb man roan was exactly opposite to 10 my hus hue husband husband band and In la a ft short time time he Ile greW tired of mo me and andI I deserted me He He never married me e Now how at the age a e of ot 60 50 I J have hav to support myself I 1 have havo no friends no BO familY no home borne Even my children scorn acorn me JIle rn because I J brought broucht shame sham upon DIY VIX them My husband Is I married again prosperous In through the th windows i id d wishing I was wa s a lull till 1111 his bis wife mistress of ot his house boust with a ft respectable place In society and my children about me instead of ot being the nameless home homeless leu penniless woman oman I nm am We are not punished FOR our aln sins but BY them then C M Answer I commend c mm nd this letter to t the c n Ker tl n of the th hun hun- hun Jred ded and nJ hundreds hundred of f women who wh write writ to t me that they th y are tired of f good gd kind plodding pl d husbands and that they have havo fallen n In love lv with gay dishing dashing sheiks helk and are ar thinking of forsaking their husbands husband for T them Thi This womans woman's letter tells t the tale tal of f what happens to t those these unfaithful wives far more poignantly th than I I can CliO do J It For It Is I written In the th blood bloed of f her own wn broken n and bruised heart I J am not disputing that It Is I bard hard for tor a ft gay cay pleasure loving wo woman woman man to be b tied down to a stolid unemotional suck suck-in mud thc the mud sort of ofa ofa ofa a husband whose Idea lda of an enjoyable e Is to get l t Into his sUppers slippers and sit elt by the tho fire fir with his paper aper and a ft pipe I am not denying that It Is as II much the duty of every man to provide his hie hi wIfe with a reasonable amount of amusement as It Is to give elve her enough to eat to feed teed her spiritually as well as bodily And I am here her to t say lay frilly freely that the th man Is I lacking In ordinary Intelligence who wh does doea de nt Ot tike take his hi wife wife's tempera ment Into Int consideration and an who wh don doe do not nt realize that If he hedou does dou not give her the tha thing things sho Iho sh craves at home he le Is I driving her to seek eek l k them abroad It I Is when a man quits kissing killing his wife that some ome ome other oth r man begin begill It le I when wh n a man mar makes homo too dull and that a woman rune run aW away ll from It It le Is I when a man wont won't play with his wife that she hunts hunh up another playfellow playfellow- playfellow w But the point I am ara tryIng to make Is ie that no matter even enn It if her husband isn't all 11 her ler fondest fancy taner painted If It he is III i good and kind to her the wife has bas no right richt to throw up her ber job lob just because she shela la Is no longer loncer entertained and amused at home bome and because I e as ss an old colored friend of o mine 1 says she he has hn lost her taste for Cor him I In ninety nine cases eues case out of o a hundred she Is punished bitterly i for her wrongdoing for Cor she sh finds that life lICe lit Isn't all 11 dancing anywhere that lovers soon cease ceas to love und and that gay ay Lotharios have faults faulls which make the defects detects Of o even ven stodgy bus husbands bands appear I of virtue I Above bov and beyond all aU she h ds h rinds finds that to t be b happy one has hili hasto hato to be b right with ones one's one own soul louf ul and have hav ones one's ne own self respect elf respect and that Is I something that the th quitter can call never have DOROTHY DIX S I I e a DEAR EAR r DOROTHY When DIX DIX When I was In my early twenties I was ns deeply in love lo with a ft gIrl about my own age ace but she ahe he broke our engagement Later I J met and married a ft much younger youner gIrl Irl who has been a ft faithful wife a hard worker a ft thrifty manager and who has brought up a ft fine fin family for tor me Recently I I decided to correspond with this old of oC mine who nho Is also married and my wife is very much upset about It The letters Jetters are only of ot a very friendly nature but I have never thought It necessary to let my mr wife wito see se an any of o them They come to my place of business Dont Don't you think my wire wife wit unreasonable BROADMINDED DED Answer Anwer Not Nt more mor than any other woman would be b If she he h eared cared for her hr husband huband Possibly she ih la I jealous without cause Cluse and probably after a while you yu will grow gr w weary of f the th corre corre- correspondence correspondence and drop dop it anyway I believe that there ther I ii le no n other cure for forthe forthe the hangover of an early romance II as to t go g and su see e the th once be beloved loved one olle Time Tim cuts casts c ts a ft halo over our early days day so sa that we see se them and everyone who had a part In them through a ft rosy roy veil vell that trans transfigures figures them The Th moderately pretty gIrl Irl becomes becom s a ft perfect Venus The ordinary lookIng good boy la le a ft second Valentino Our puppy l loves u are ar Idealized Into the th grand ernd passion and we always ba hayo yo a ft secret ache In tn our hearts for or our first sweetheart whom we didn't marry We W feel how much more mor beautiful and perfect life lICe might have havo been If It we w e had bad married him or her ber Instead of the tb ones we le did marry But If It after fifteen or twenty years yan we w go g back we w are aghast What le I this thi fat fit frowsy woman who can cm babble of f nothing but babies bablo and who wh I is I a miserable housekeeper the siren Iren we w have hav been bun pining for f r and with who whom we w have been invidiously comparing our ur own wn and span up date snap snappy py wife all these ther years y ar 1 What Is I this headed bald bay windowed bay windowed fat man the th ambrosial ambr lal youth y uth we w have hav been bun regret regretting ting for tor twenty years year Never again It I Is I all over v r The cure curo le I complete So It your wIre wife were more mor worldly wise wIle she ih would urge urr you oU to togo togo toCO go and pay your first l love ve a ft Isit and It Is a safe sat bet that would break off oft the correspondence However there Is one oce oc very good way for tor a minded broad-minded man nan to tosetti settle the question of whether It Is wIse wis to stir up the ashes of ot an anold anold old love affair by starting a correspondence Would you yu like your yur wife to t open pen up a correspondence pond with one on of f her old lovers lover and to t have the th letters letter come se- se secretly to t he her and refuse refu to t let you yu read them Try it t out outon outon ut on n your oWn wn pl piano plan no DOROTHY DIX jj DEAR doJ DOROTHY DIX First DIX First Does love lov ever last It If so why do J they say that nothing ever lasts luts 1 Second Why do they say that true tru lover never runs run smooth Third How can you prove that the th one on you love lov really love you ou T So many people who think they have loved ft Ket divorced Why are re they deceived A DREAMER OF DREAMS Answer Dont Don't pin your faith to ancient aphorisms aphorism and anI pretty phrases They are ar poor guides to co go 0 by Of 0 course love lov lasts lash last sometimes and the court course of true love lov often rune runa run a as smooth as a ft mill mm pond But there ther le I no n way by which you yu can really rully test love except by time and an experience Sometimes t what wo we w think Is Ith the grand paulo passion p c l n II I le only a pasting passing fancy Sometimes S m It ItI Itle I le the th love lv thit is I I stronger than life and that lasts lads beyond death But the th wisest man cannot tell yu you beforehand which Is whIch DOROTHY DIX 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