| Show r 1 Dorothy Dix s 's Letter Box J IS THERE ANY CURE FOR A SULKY HUSBAND THE YEAR 18 OLD WIFE WHO IS DISILLUSIONED WITH MARRIAGE AND WANTS TO TRY FREE LOVE AS A CURE WHY MODERN GIRLS WISELY SHUN STEADY COMPANY DEAR D r EAR MISS What DIX DIX What would you OU do with wIlh a husband who sulks My husband Is a good man and gives me a generous allowance than I need but It If anything dl displeases him he will sulk some some- sometimes sometimes times toia for toi- a week at a time He lie will kick over furniture sIt git up all alt night in a chair and refuse to eat or speak but It if I agree with him about everything he be Is as nice nico as can be I am not a dumbbell and was a avery avery 4 V very successful saleswoman before I marrIed MABEL f PS Answer 4 Well Mabel I 1 think that the wise thing for you to do will be to SV V sit down and balance your book of life so to t speak On the asset side of your ledger I i you can ca write down that your husband hus hus- husS S t V band is a goodman good flood man who loves you In his nis queer selfish way and who Ish Is h t generous DOROTHY DIX It Is a big thing for a woman especIally as she gets gels along toward middle lire life li to have havea a good home and a good provider and some man to stand between her and the world It wouldn't be so easy for tor you OU to be a saleswoman now DOW as It was In the days ds's when you OU were young oung and peppy and eager interested And it would take a long time for you ou to work up II 4 the place where you OU could make enough money to live as comfort comfort comfort- bly as you are living now V Also after a woman has been married she Is It seldom sat sat- sat satisfied to live alone She has got used to companionship and to and to being necessary to some one and she finds It pretty dreary not to have anyone any one to look out for nor anyone any one to cook for And strangely enough this is true even when the husband hasn't b ben en very amiable and 5 pleasant She even misses not having any any- an body anybody to quarrel with V V Thus even as matters stand youve you've got a good deal to put down on the thc credit side of your your your- ledger On the debit debit debit- V side side youve you've got an unreasonable grouchy man and that sort of a husband does come pretty near to being a total loss So having considered what you ou get out of matrimony and V V what you have to endure you can decide If your husbands husband's good qualities outweigh hi his bad ones and whether he Is worth putting up with or not V I dont don't believe belie there Is any cure for sulkiness Its It's Just ing ing selfishness and childishness and those who indulge in It need to lo be turned across somebody's knee and given ghen a good spanking Un- Un Un fortunately Unfortunately you cant can't do that to and aud grown gron men Uen women and alid so the only thing you can do is js just not to notice It St Sulkiness is 15 a cowardly weapon which both husbands and wives use in order to get their own way so the more you OU give gire Into In to it it the moro more your our man will indulge In It V Therefore dont don't be weak enough to apologize all over the I V place for things you haven't done dono and try to cajole him out 1 oP his blue devils Just put on your hat and tell him you cant can't stand living with anybody so disagreeable and that V V y you OU u are going away to stay until he gets in a good humor and V he can telephone you when his spell has passed By the time he has cooked himself a couple of meals he will decide that it doesn't pay to grouch But it you OU can keep your husband in a good humor by agreeing him on every subject why start arguments t V DOROTHY DIX S S S SEAR DEAn EAR MISS DIX I DIX I am 18 IS years old and have hae been married three I L rears years and and have one child I am tired or of my husband and sick C pi cf matrimony and am thinking of leaving and going away wIth man ayoung-man a oung man who says he loves me and will take care of me V V VV V A SICK HEARTSICK V GIRL Answer S If If you are disillusioned with matrimony you are taking V a strange cure for your trouble by running off with another man What advantage do you think a law common wife has over a leaI legal wife What charm will there be in an illicit rela rela- relationship relationship that that a respectable relationship lack lacks 7 The thing that rubs nibs the gilt oft gilt off the gingerbread of or Is ls the dally daily companionship of a man and a woman Romance cant can't survive a 3 womans woman's arIng a man with a two days day's stubble of beard bearden beardon n en his lace face ace and a soiled collar and In his stocking feet Illusion perishes pei when she ends out that hat be he has funn funny fussy little ways was and that he swears a a I blue streak when his collar button bullon rolls under the tle and is Irritable when dinner Is three minutes late and Ll that at he Is unreasonable about bills and hard to get along with and thinks he is about to die every time he has a headache and in gen gen- general gen gen- general general eral Is just a plain ordinary faulty human being Instead of being a demigod as she supposed supposed supposed-he he was V But believe me my poor foolish child you will find Just V exactly the same things to contend with in a lover If you to live with him every day as you find in a husband Only more so because In addition you would always alwa's be afraid th t your our lover loer was about to leave you OU and he would visit upon you OU irritations arise out of o a I situation that Is not coun- coun coun countenanced by decent society Every time people looked at snubbed him you would have hare to pay And what about your child 7 Are you going to abandon V Vit it it Do you think you will find much happiness when you lie awake at night wondering if your baby Is crying for its moth mother er And nd do you think you have any right to bring up a child V In in the atmosphere it in which you are proposing proposing to live Do you think any any child would respect a mother living the kind of life you are arc thinking of living Answer these questions honestly to yourself and you will stick to your job DOROTHY DIX DIX- S S S S D r EAR R M MISS SS Why fIX DIX Why dont don't modern girls wish to keep steady co company company Dp with bo boy L E B S V Answer Ver Because they ar are are learning to have a little sense In keeping company the boy get gets everything the girl noth-Ing noth noth noth- In Ing A boy can monopolize a girls girl's time through all the beet years of her girlhood He lie can keep every other man away from her and prevent her from ma making ing a good marriage and then ride off and leave her lamentin lamenting He ic doesn't commit himself to anything lIe He doesn't have ha to file any declaration of his intentions with ith his attentions He lie may never have the slightest idea of o ever marrying the girl but he has ruined her chances just the same I think think that any girl who gives up all other men for one man until after she is definitely engaged and the wedding day set seti i l I such an imbecile that she should not be allowed out without a keeper DOROTHY DIX V Copyright by Public Ledger |
