Show Dorothy oth Dix T Talks f THE HUSBAND FOR WHOM ANY WIFE IS MOST GRATEFUL IS HE WHO TREATS HER FAIRLY IN MONEY MATTERS WHO PAYS HER LITTLE ATTENTIONS AND GIVES HER WORDS OF A APPRECIATION I WHO IS I KIND IND TO HER FAMILY AND MAKES OF HER HIS CHUM A j RIFE doesn't thrill with gratitude and falI down apes her ller knees to and and thank God for tor or having vouchsafed the blessing of ot a good hUll hiss bind hus band because the man to tl whom she Is married walks In the middle of the straight and narrow road and provides her hH with food and raiment l t mot She feels that he Is doing no more than his duly duty as and that when he took l 3 her out ot of a good home homp or awa away from aJ a J good job she rhe h had a right to expect from him himi r rS y i I a square deal and as good a living jiving as he hei he could make i t w S herS i B 51 But Bt the things SS that do make her herAl throw flops flip of gratitude are when he observes the amenities of t mony when he adorns domestic life with the tle little frills of attentions andS and t St S SS S as I the embroideries of consideration I Fon pon OR Instance a wife Is filled with wilb a deep ti I A and abiding gratitude to her husband If 1 j tit titA i he will ju treat her fairly y about aboul money honey and ind If It DOROTHY Dl DI DIX x he will give her an allowance voluntarily and aud as her right as a full partner In the firm firmo o 01 Benedict and company Instead of grudgingly handing It out as if to Pr were giving alms to a beggar J Of course In the end most of the money a man earns does go for the support of hi his family and passes through his I 7 wife's hand but it isn't what tho the husband gives its it's how he gives It that counts to a woman rHEnE are husbands who apparently begrudge the very ery food an and f e clothes that their wives and Pond children cat eat and wear Weal There are arc husbands hu out of o whom every cent has lias to be corkscrewed with as an effort that makes makE's It a major surgical operation There are husbands whoso wives have unlimited charge accounts but who never have a single solitary dollar that they can spend as they thy please se I No wife is thankful for money she has to hold her hu bus bus- t hus band up for or wheedle out of him or graft from him but she Is pathetically grateful considering grateful considering that she has earned 0 her share of for it-for it for her husband being just enough and big IJ II enough to give her an allowance and nd never ask what she doe does with it A A WIFE is as grateful to her husband for throwing her a few kind H words as a starving do dog Is for tor a bone Undoubtedly the great majority of men continue to love their wives after marriage and still consider that they were good pickers and that the ladles to whom they are united in the holy bonds of o wedlock are the best lookers i ithe the best dressed the cleverest and most desirable of ot thir sex fi i a But Dut so BO far as as the average wife knows her husband never ne takes c ca a aloo 1001 loon as her leer after he leaves th the altar except to notice some defect defect defect- If if she fishes for tor a compliment and asks him how bow she looks he grunts and says Bays Ugh hugh getting fat fal arent aren't you ou If It she calls tails his attention atten- atten lion tion to her new dress he gets out his little hammer and aed tells her that lt too ton gay or too short and demands to know why a middle aged woman cant can't buy bur sensible clothes like his mother used to wear He r hisses lIes her mistakes but she gets no glad hand for tor her successes 1 Now a womans woman's husband is her audience to whom she site plays and there is nothing that pleases her so much as to know that she has made a hit with him If he will only give her a round or two of applause and tell her that she looks o better to him than any of the flappers and that she is the theS best wife ever and a great little manager she Ghe will prostrate hers herself lf before him in Sheer Cheer gratitude and let him make a doormat out of her if he ko so desires A A WIFE Is humbly grateful for lor a few rew attentions from her husband i o- o oA Tl A A bunch ot or violets the gratification o ot of some little foolish Coolish wish l c A A little treat trat now and then Even taking her out to the movies with with- without without out her having to badger him Into doing It it Remembering her birthday birth birth- day ay and the anniversaries ot or when they met and when they became t engaged and when they got married Anything that shows that he still loves her lier that he still thinks or of o her as a woman and not a mere household convenience will simply make any wife wiCe slosh over with gratitude s Its It's the little litte personal touch the giver who gives himself with his gift girt the giver who shows that he lie has put put tender ob ob- ob y 1 of all is wife's wiCe's and thoughts into what he gives her that makes a thing precious in a womans woman's eyes And yet there yet there ere are husbands who wonder that their wives arek are f k j not more appreciative when they hand them a check cheek and say sayi i- i Get what bu you bu like lake I I dont don't know what you want s OMEN are grateful to their husbands for tor making chums ol or them WOMEN W Nothing pleases and flatters natters a wife so much as for tor or her husband to take her into his confidence and talk over o his business with heraD herand her aD and treat her hr as ac it If she Rhe was a reasonable being with wilh almost human Intelligence In Intelligence And nothing flatters hatters her so much as for him to ask h her r C for r advice i Finally and most of all women are grateful to their husbands hus hus- husbands bands for trying to get along with their mothers and being kind to their families and not looking like an early Christian martyr every time any ny of their laws in-laws come to pay a visit DOROTHY DIX DIN Copyright by Public Ledger |