Show Dorothy Dix Talks T Tal al als s fAR MR rf N ii IF YOU W WANT NT TO TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED DONT DON'T PROPOSE UNTIL YOU ARE READY TO SETTLE DOWN AND CAN AFFORD THE LUXURY OF A WIFE THEN THEN PICK OUT THE TYPE OF GIRL WHO FITS YOUR NEEDS AND M MAKE KE HER YOUR PARTNER R DONT DON'T GET MARRIED UNTIL YOU VOLT ARE READY nEADY TO SETTLE DOWN DONT DON'T D ONT r ONT take talce a girl out of or a II good good home where she ah has hal h r companIon companion SJ ship bip and dump her down out of a good house where wh ro hi he is II I e to stay tay put while you step tep out somewhere else e c to enjo It isn't her a fair fall deal yourself giving Women marry to get a fireside s- s companion and until you are ar pre pre pared pared to be one keep away from the altar No womans woman's woman Ideal of happy wifehood i is I being Sister Sitter Annie on the th watch watch tower sitting up by her lonesome lonesome lone- lone some ome waiting for her to stag stag- stagger ger in at 3 g m rn SO CO DONT DON'T marry marlY until a home hom looks look belleto belle bette 3 to you than a cabaret and you feel tha you would get more moro fun fUl out of walking Ii a N Na a coUcy baby than you would dancing the I Charleston and a bigger kick out lt of ot holdinG your wife's had td ha than you would l out t fo to nold I Ing a straight flush lush in a a lok poker r game DOROTHY DIX And above all dont don't get married until you care enough for leme om one woman to be vamp proof As At long as a you want to run with th tha boys and flap with the tha flappers flapper have a heart Pity some girl enough not to marry he her DONT DON'T GET MARRIED UNTIL YOU HAVE T THE IE PRICE TAlE AKE no stock tock in the th old theory that two can Wl Wlas e as cheaply as one one- It Jt Is a wicked lie It t takes take kes three or four times time as much to Ive live on when you are ar married as it does when you are single because a aman aman aman man can live In many places place to which he h could not take not take his wife a womans woman's woman clothes co cost t more than a mans man's man does and besides there are arc generally lore r r than two in the family Sometimes there a are ae c seven or eight YOU yOU ToU never can know how many bills bill the there Q are you OU get let ma mar marl 1 tied led and arni have to pay PolY doctors doctor's bil bill s and druggists druggist's bills and ea ga bills an and electric light bills bill and rent bills bill and food bills blUs and cloth s bills and so on ad Infinitum world without end Now no matter how much touch a It man roan loves his hi wife he sets gets get mighty might little lIlUe pleasure out of matrimony If It lire life is ia I Just one on long agonized e ef et effort fort to keep a lap ahead of the sheriff Nor does It add to a mans man a happiness to see se men of Inferior ability passing pasting him hm In Jn the thi ra and to know that the reason son why ho he is I l beaten is because he hi handi handl handicapped handicapped capped himself so heavily by marrying that he be cannot run ron Neith are arc many men generous enough to really enjoy sacrificing all ll of the ther Ir little personal tastes and whIms whim and giving up all of their little iu in- ia for tor their families Face the fact that a wife wire is just as of a luxury as asan asan asan an automobile s so dont don't contract for one until you can afford alford the price and dont don't have to to to count the th cost cott of gasoline nor have heart failure every time it has to go I the shop thop for repair e h PICK OUT THE KIND JUl-ID IND OF A WIFE YOU WANT en dont don't do this UTis thi They marry on the grab bag grab grab-b e principle and If 1 trust to luck juck that the thing they h have e pulled out will be lie they want when they Get It home And It generally Isn't They ba not brought one particle particle particle-of of human intelligence to bear on deciding tt tl most Important matter that that will ever come como up In heir whole An then they hey have the nerve to rail raU at fate Cate So b fore you pick out a wife study yourself and nd find out what w you require In one If U you love to eat cat marry a girl who is il a good cook If you are intellectual pick out a high high- highbrow highbrow brow for a mate If you are a rounder and yearn for the bright lights there are plenty of wild women to be had fo the fo-the the asking BUT DUT for heavens heaven's heaven sake take dont don't marry a baby doll and nd expect to spend Li Lian an improving evening discussing ll Plato with her hir or feel ourse II used ill the plate fashion you you led to the altar runs run up sta ata ta gering gening bills at the th milliners or pity yourself because you are an bored bord to death dath with the beautiful but dumb creature you picked opt out for your wife f Every mans man's wife represents his hi taste and judgment and he alone alon alonIs Is Is to blame if he h shuts his eyes and selects one without finding out whether she the will suit him or not not MAKE YOUR WIFE YOUR PARTNER v DONT DON'T D T ONT marry any woman who hasn't intelligence enough to unde- unde stand II a afew few elementary principles principle of business and who Isn't hon hon ost est st and loyal enough for tor you to tt be bo able to trust her Irr The Thi reason that middle middle aged ged couple couples so o often drift apart and sit up In sUene when they are an alone together Is because they have hav no common lute est eat except the thi children The Thi husband lives live In a 11 business world wife wife lives live In a domestic world world and neither knows what the thi oth other 1 ono one thinks or-doo or or does Avoid this by talking over your your business with your wife wie and making her h r the th confidant of 01 your hOP hops hopes 3 and plans No two people who can talk shop thop together arc are ever bored with each other Besides its it's the best possible way to get a wo wo- woman wo- wo woman woman man to economize Let Let her feel that she Is to pay py off offa offa a note or expand the business and she will gladly with do out the new car or fur coat on which she had hd set et her heart DEAL FAIRLY WITH Y YOUR OUR UR ABOUT MONEY GIVE G rv personal her an allowance to run the house on and for her own per tonal use and dont don't ask sk her what she did with that quarter you let lel her have week before last There is nothing nothing- thai nothing that a wife resents so bitterly as hay hav- havIng ing to go like a beggar to her husband for every penny of the th money that she the earns carns a hondred times tims over by her work as wife and mother a and d household drudge THERE T THERE HERE Isn't a wife in the world with willi a tightwad h who whoA doesn't secretly se relly hate bate hi and look forward to when thedy the thi iJar when shell she'll get his hia Insurance money momy to sp spend pend nd her I If you yau dont don't wa want t this to happen to you give give- her her hel share of the th family income without her having to chloroform you to get it out of yo you BUT B OUT UT more of this thi on Wednesday DOROTHY DIX Copyright by J Public Ledger ro |