Show I I IDo L Do Dorothy o hy nix's Dix s 's Letter Letter Box I I WIFE TO FORGIVE 4 N WHY IT IS OFTEN BETTER FOR A HUSBAND l THAN TO DIVORCE RC HIM HOW FAr SHOULD A MODERN GIRL GOl GO best wife wit In llio would 0 tI d h haveL vc DEAlt HEAR BAIt I t sin aID married to the D tout little that 1 I adore andain and ain aims a prosPeroUS businessman GOd Cod with n a woma woman roan A short while ago aeo I 1 sot got Into Inlo an all affair arr be us I never neier t t we It ft how or dr or uh ehy hy hot I thoroughly r- r ta tab for Car fiu ashamed of oC myself and n as trying hard bard to Lt i gOt out of the mess incas I was In when some med F women woman called DIY wife over the tel tel tel- 1 I phone and ana told tUb her bet nil all all and h ht more re W MY wife wHo 1 immediately took the children and returned with lIh the avowed owed Intention or of I to her parents parent ut e not returning to Iv with ith me roe I am wild I with remorse and with love and longing for Cor CorlIer her lIer and l my children We lite are both youn joun young I h haiti had hod my bitter bitterle L le 1 Dont Don't you you think thit that it the she he w uld Ar me 1 TIC tie iel et el be hAppy II It 1 F M it k 1 Answer If she li cart n fat dive e yes yoli yes But husbands ask dk that thai DOROTHr DiX ness easily arid and the they do OS d no hoi ot Hallie how hard It Is for tot a wife t to O bestow w ll It It The man n f fels f feels els that witha with a f few W t tears l t F repentance peni n h he c cI h wipe th the thi li slate siale t clean and start lit life all ti over v again witha with a il s sort ri of f hone honeymoon m ori on BUt Bill bh eh i- i itile the tile wife'S wife heart the whole story of his faithless faithleSs faithleSs- faithleSsness faithlessness I In n ness ness ss Is etched In with bith add Nothing can cart ever eral erasE erase th that tl fl thing can can ever AltAr v r k her hr f forget rg t H Her r dream h has be been n thAt shat shattered I tEt Hr d Her I Her f iSh killed d while sh she hC may may l live v vC her and be lorry ty sorry for him and and be hll happier i r with even even th the poor poor bat battered tereci disfigured love she has hili lhart sh she hE would be be without l it Ii tf AC arid the best thing in life has gone from her liar ever t tr tor r v F There will vilt be ho more circling wings and singing trum pets trum pets for fr her again fi f p J lint nul Eul In Iii l a caSe caSc case such sheb its is as this I think tile the wife Met wisely wl ely and well tit to forgive no matter malier at what bat cost to her hel pride and her dignity of wifehood To begin with w very nry often oftOn it Is true that tit husband has haJ had his lesson altO Has learned JI biLlet lie I experience arid arill deadly l fent bt bf losing wIre wife and nd borne home and amI children m to 0 be cautious In ht his deal deal- dealings deal Ints ings with Inh pre predatory t ii w women en and nd t to avoid tempt temptation And In the next place the outraged wife who ruSheS ruthes off to the the divorce divorce court when when she Che he discovers that thai her husbands husband's nd middle hame Is not Jo Joseph eph finds ls WH h tier her anger h has i ool i Mid her j jealousy abated b ted that that a a d r e absolute b is ia riot riol a II p panacea s Ka ita Ha ca tor t dt r her hH woeS woes She Sh h hOC hilt c revenged t d herself lipori the m h who tho hat has betrayed y d her but List does nol not solace her It does hot fill lII up Ul the Ike void In her lite or make her less ies lessl l ely Or or f callie her fin t to l long ng less for th ih t tOuch louch Jeh of remembered r d darms arms And she abc finds that it It is s a hard thing for thO the woul n h h hs has s had Iad her hei or home h diO i t to b be hOng up upon upon n the llie world homeless Even h nhen shen ii h her r Me are are able to glue slie her het shelter she the feels Cels feel that thai she lies has no real pl ce la iii n the C family circle ircle She cannot but bit bilt feel teel herself an unwelcome burl lie lIen Her r father and nd mother poor her but SitU i itJi their pity Is mingled patronage that Is Ia s hard h rd t to 0 endure Often Orten the woman who gives elves ti up her lier home because because she sho Is js T with her husband for Cor some some flirtation tl n finds lt-h lt when ri she Ol ilams l iris hi h her r door behind her that she the hISS Mas 1 s t to eo so ou out Into Inlo a II world world for to or which she is tin tin- un Ul unfitted fitted 16 10 t earn card eard bet lier own own And nd as II Ih she sits in her th shabby little r rOdni room m c cooking her meagre dinner after a hard days day's work she wishes that he he had taken counsel with prudence and salvaged at least a II corn com comfortable support out of the wreck of her romance i FIn Finally tt l e U are the children They They Ore are re the the real reat i is s In n every c divorce ant and no woman oman should deprive her ber b little ones one of ot a fatherS father'S love abd cOre care unless 11 It Is absolutely necessary Certainly she Isn is Id n not t j justified lit 10 to doln-ao If It net bet childrens children's father r has tak taken n only one step off oft th the straight bed and nd narrow path p th It If he b persists in ill in n the downward down road that Is I s another f matt matter r And so sa I think a l woman does well when she pick up her stumbling husband nd who is iI ashamed and sorry and for forgives gives give him and f after alter keeps silent about his F she sh cannot but while you ou c hnot make the brok broken n vase vue h hold ld you ou can often mend It so so neatly neally th that ChIt t the hArdly show DIX DEAh tAi I bAI Miss lIsS We Veat e DI We are a group croup of or 1115 attending a girls school J and we w ve otter often wonder tI hOW how far tar a a modern modem girl lm-l lm go So o many manyo ot of the girls eirls aud and smoke and neck and we want Tant to know if it a aboy aboy boy expect ls th theta these i oi or a a girl girt Dont Don't you think lh that l being In a girls girl's chool causes cause girls girl t to be more b crazy boy TIlt TIlE MO J nN SEVEN I ih The limit to which h It modern girl should go Is determined by the fundamental mental principles of or and ancl morality that has set up Small things such as the of ofa ofa ofa a skirt do hot not count beCause mod modesty ty In dr dress ss JS Js s a matter of custom The South S Sea Islander ulander with nothing o on but a string of heads beads la Is I Just juat as modestly dressed as the Eskimo is with five live layers of fur on It would have been vulgar fOr tor C r our grandmothers to have dis- dis dis displayed played their ankles but nobody gives give a second glance glanc glance at granddaughter ter knees Also AIo it is proper for Cor to go out without a ah chaperon h peron while grandmother w would ud have hav h bOn been ln considered a boll bold thing it If she ventured beyond the shadow ot of her mothers mother's wing wine Like Like- Likewise Likewise wise granddaughter may luay discuss With Impunity m mAny many ny things that I no properly brought UI up youns girl would then have ha dared to mention be- be because because be because cause our on these things havo has changed But there thre are are are- other things that remain unalterable unalterable The girl or of f today may no m more re drink than the thi th girl of yesterday because alcohol has hai ha Just exactly the same tame eff effect Ct on women r now as at It had a hundred or a thousand year lean years ago and the girl who wh gets geb Intoxicated Is It just Juit u so a for her eon conduct con con- conduct duct and Just aa u maudlin and Just as disgusting u a every drunken woman always alway ha hat hai been DOROTHY DIX Copyright b by Public L Ledger |