Show Dorothy Dix Talks Talk THERE ISN'T A WIFE LIVING WHO WOULDN'T RATHER STARVE STARVE FOR BREAD THAN FOR LOVE LOV THERE LOVE THERE THERE ARE MIGHTY FEW HUSBANDS WHOSE WIVES DONT DON'T DONT BOSS OR NAG OR ITS COMPLAIN ITS COMPLAIN ITS IT'S THE THINGS WOMEN DO AND THE THINGS MEN DONT DON'T DO THAT WRECK V MENS MEN'S JENS n sins silts against matrImony are lire those of ot omission while those ITI ot or women are commission The complaint or of o nine out ot of ten unhappy wives Is not ot of what their husbands do hut but ot of what hat they fall fail fato to do They do not nol allege that their husbands beat them or starve them or abuse them or are unfaithful to them themI S or that hat they are arc in any way unkind to them I I t t-j t i Their grievance Is that they are neglected Apparently they hey h have ve all the aids and props pro that go to make a happy marriage They Th y have ha good homes comfortable incomes bus hus I bands who are e eminent citizens in their cor corn com w j but lUt the th thing thine that turns it all to Cy i cinder ashes and dust is the fact that the men to whom they are arc married no longer r reo cc- e Kard gard 1 them as ladyloves ladylove but Just as ns domes domestic lie 0 conveniences And nl no woman oman wants wants- to b oC of ot 5 I looked upon in the light a gas range or orK II a S vacuum clean cleaner r i g There are plenty cf of men other t other other-j wise intelligent who consider that the sol and only duty of a husband huband II is to DOROTHY DIX be a II payer bill and who honestly think that any woman should be con content tent who has plenty to cat eat good clothes to wear and a house houle to live in And If In addition to these those they can throw inan inan in an automobile and a diamond pendant now and then hen they expect her to gurgle gurgi over with ecstatic bliss and spend her time on her knees burning joss JOES sticks to her luck IT IT I T NEVER NEVEn enters enter enters the heads of nC n these those poor dear de r stupid men meu that th nowa tays n a woman doel does not have to marry for tor II a ticket meal She can earn her own bread and butter and nd cake cake The why she he takes unto herself a II husband Is to get love and companionship and It It If her husband falls Calls to give her these her marriage Is just as aa much mucha mu a failure and she is just as miserable as if Ie he lie were ere actively Cly unkind to 10 her Vet there th re are h husbands good men too according to their lights light who stop all making love at the altar with a suddenness that Jars jarl their brides bride's wisdom teeth 1001 loose and who nev never r thereafter pay their wives a compliment or say one ons tender appreciative ting thing to them or notice what they have on ott or give them a kiss that isn't an insult it I Is so cold and flabby and passionless THERE T THERE HERE are arc husbands who ho never speak to their wives lvIs except to criticise them who knock everything that goes wrong about f the house and never praise the 99 09 per ncr cent with which are run There are arc husbands who never engage in a II pleasant con con- conversation on with their wives but who spend their evenings buried in their papers or or sit up In glum silence and only grunt when alien hen they are spoken to There are husbands who ho never take their wives out to any place pla of oC amusement who never suggest any little treat for Cor them who never do one one ne single solitary thing for lor their pleasure p or give any In Ito Ito- that hat they have the tue slightest concern for tor their personal hap hap- t c And the th curious thing is II that the very men who are so 10 soP soP- i neglectful of their wives and who give them every very reason In the world to believe that they th y no longer care for them generally do love their wives and admire t them em and elate date them and It Is I sheer dumbness that keeps them from seeing s that they arc breaking their wives hearts and wreck wreck- wrecking wreck Ing their lives by the th tit things they dont don't do For th the things of th the spirit are eternally more mor than th the things of the th flesh with women and the th thing that mikes make or mars marl marriage for a woman I Is her husbands husband's attitude toward her not what h he gives her There Isn't a iI wife living who wouldn't rather have hav a blackeye black eye ye ey than a hurt heart and who wouldn't rather Starve for bread than fOr love BUT B R UT 7 it IC f mens men's sins against marriage arc are mostly those thosa of or omission women's wom ns n's are those of oC commission and ami It Is the tho things that wl wives s do that put the skids under many a perfectly good marriage The Tho chief thing thin that wonton do Is II to nag nap although they are per In their saner saner moments that nothing else will so ao au surely ui rely ly alienate allenato their husbands from them A score of times time they have seen acen love bleeding to death from a thousand tongue pricks prick yet they go on nagging their hu husbands bands about a million unimportant little about thIngs things about smoking about the way they thy eat cut about not wiping their feet on the doormat before b fore they come conic Into the house houe about their litti little fads fadl fad and fancies about their ss for an old friend about the th mony money they thy lent and never got oot back about the th mistakes mistake they made In business neu 5 THEY T can cnn never say a thing thine once and let Jet It alone They play upon It continually as upon a a harp with a II thousand strings They nag nag nag until their husbands sit att up In silence allence not daring to ia utter a 1 word for tor lear fear ear the they will start tart something until their husbands dread to como come home horn of ot an n evening and submit to their dally daily torture Another thing that women do da that sabotages marriage II isto I to whine They are fountains of tear tears They are ar tales or of orI I woe They are ar never satisfied never cheerful or happy They They complain about their husbands husband They complain about about their children and whine over how much trouble It I is II to raise Ji a family and keep house houe and 2nd nd they beat upon their breasts breast and lament because they cant can't have everything that million million alree have OTHER O Y women ruin their heir marriages by their extravagance I hy by their heir tempers temper Others by their determination dd to be boss bOSl And |