Show i i D Dorothy Drat h Y De Dix lX s 's S Letterbox L Letter eitel B Box ox ADVICE ADVICE INSTEAD TO THE GIRL WHOSE FIANCE IS A KISSING BU BUG I IN- IN IN STEAD OF A CAN CONVERSATIONALIST CONVERSATIONALIST CAN A TYRANNICAL HUSBAND BE WHERE CURED CURED WHERE CAN MISS TWENTY THREE FIND HANDSOME MORAL RICH INTELLIGENT HUSBAND a D r LAP EAR n MISS lUSS When DIX When I T first started going goine with my young man A- A friend lend we Indulged In kissing in order to entertain ourselves rather than to sit up In silence for he be simply cant can't carryon carry on 1 n con con con- conto I gave lae to do all of oC the talking and ho 10 doesn't even enn try to help l IP but Im I'm tired and disgusted with all or of orthis this petting and want to quit IL 11 Yet I like this boy and hate to give him up What would c t you advise JEANNETTE fay Answer 0 1 a Well If 1 I were you Jeannette I Ir h should gently waft my kissing kissing- bug outi out t t ta into their the air ir matrimony 4 F For or believe me my child matrimony Is a inure ure cure for petting and If the tho only parlor g SK t trick your OUI young man possesses Is kissing hissing he het t s s 5 due to make a mighty dull husband to the I ji woman who 18 unlucky enough to get gt him tt t t 1 11 Dont Don't marry a man who cant can't talk 5 imp rrai ja f K fand and ancl out of whom every remark remark has ha tobe to be cork screwed A dumb husband is DOROTHY DIX as depressing an object as you can have around the house He may not really be bs glum and grouchy but he always gives that im im- im imi yu i pressman and anyway a wife can do nothing with him be- be bey because be because y t cause she tha never knows what he thinks She never knows whether he is pleased or displeased and she can never guess what he is going to d da do nor his has she the slightest r inkling of his plans No wife can establish any sort tort of comradeship with a silent husband i Furthermore the dumb hUS husband la is like a douche of ot cold water ou u can cant can't t rouse him to lo any enthusiasm over anything you OU can never l Ive uve any happy times talking things over together and building bu all air apes about all the he wonderful things you are arc going to do elo when your x 1 hip tip lip comes in And half ball ot of tho lle joy In lu being married comes conies In that He He never pays you a compliment He never tells you t I q that you look loek pretty or that he likes your new hat or that you can make Inake better biscuits than his mother can and sov so v c you will go starving for a a little praise all your days i jj i r And you ou will III never have the bliss Miss having him tell you that he ha haves kves yes ves you and that his guardian angel must have bave been blen working fortune e when he got you for tor a wife wile It wont won't to any ally satisfaction 1 you OU to know that ho he is probably thinking all sorts of ot wonderful thIngs about you ou i The greatest menace to te domestic life Jeannette is boredom boree bore bore- e edam dom dam The reason that most husbands and wives who go astray wander from their own fireside is because they were simply bored stiff by the women and men to whom they were 1 f married J i Therefore Therefore they started out ut to hunt t up somebody who could en en- en entertain t them somebody who was interesting somebody wh Who carrle carried 4 nifty nitty line of o chatter about the news or of o the day books and and books and an and theaters and neighborhood gossip f I ISo So really really in picking ou out a husband about the most most im im- im imF F 1 r portent thing to look ice fer Is his ability to entertain you tor to r keep you amused and interested and feeling that you could Ii B listen to him forever without getting tired of him of-him him Dont Don't marry a man until you fin find one of this caliber 6 Pick out a glib talker a It man who loves o es the sound ot or his own ice a It man who can tell a good gool story story- stor who oho gathers up all the lit lit lit- lite lit e interesting Incidents of ol the day and relates them gayly gaI That cl of a man makes the sort of husband who chatters across the themer mer table to his Iris wife and doesn't sit up like a graven Imag image image- of an v cing and only grunt when he is as asked ed a question Neither a iC dummy nor an oyster is a womans woman's ideal of a companionable off t f 1 Dont Don't Dont Don't marry nurry a man who can only entertain entertain you by kiss kiss- kissing kissing ing YO you because he wont won't even kiss kiss you ou after marriage He will just gl give e you a peck on the cheek as he passes by DOROTHY DIX EAR r DOROTHY What DIX DIX What can you OU do with a man who ho turns DEAR DEAn what should be a happy home Into a place of torment by his 1 jetty eUr tyrannies My husband is a good man men moral a It hard worker a It a good provider l for r his family but he is a chronic grumbler and beeps us all right under his thumb We have several se grown girls duro dear sweet good daughters that their father rather bosses as if H they were li Ue c children children Every at time the boys come to see them he be is fur fur- furious ious JollS about It and at 10 o'clock he mortifies the girls by calling out to 0 o them them-an them and sending the boys home hoine It Jl they go to ride on Sunday afternoon and fall tall to get back before dark he ho raises ructions and generally makes everything so unpleasant that I live ll in fear that my girls will leave home Is there any ny way ay to change such a man SUBSCRIBE Answer I fear not Youre You're given In to him too too long The timeto timeto time stop to stop a man from tyrannizing over his family la is before he begins not It-not it not after it tas has become an Ingrained habit Your is one of those men who as the French say are arc the jO joy ot ol the street and lInd the misery of ot the home They are cow cowards ards aids who who bully and browbeat their wives and daughters because they are helpless and dependent on him him an and cannot defend th themselves against t JIm film They take lake out on their families all of the temper and irritability they are too polite to show people whom they wish to tople please c Such u h men are Ire to be despised and yet they are to be piti pitied d too because they are so shortsighted and because they throwaway throw away the rich reward of their families The only pay they can get for this Is In the lov love and admiration of their families Yet by their conduct they kill every Impulse of affection and gratitude that their wives and Wand daughter daughters would have for them For FOP nobody loves a jailer no matter how well he feeds them Perhaps your our husband doesn't perceive that he be Is standing In la the way of o his daughters future by driving young men away from the I home borne ome by his bis surly conduct but but he Is 1 Eligible young oung men are scarce i and they only where there Is welcome printed on in Hi days dars Al 11 w go ov the Hie mat and where they ore treated with courtesy and consideration Perhaps If your husband band realized that that he was alienating his his children him from and driving them away from home he would mend his manners DOROTHY DIX e C 1 T MiSS iS I i DIX I am a girl ot or 23 33 I wish to marry an have havo a ahome ahome aU home hone of my my own Wh Where re can I get a who is good good- looking moral industrious Intelligent Int and rich ALICE Answer Heavens knows Alice I dont don't The best place to ook I ifor for such a paragon would be In a museum where If you found fou d him at all you would find him dead and stuffed If you you want to marry you 1011 had better moderate your you demands demands J DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger |