Show DOROTHY DIX TALKS I or Dr DOROTHY DIX BIX the Hie th Worlds World a Highest st raid Pal WomAn WHAT A PITY SO EFFICIENT EFFICIENT MANY HUSBANDS AND WIVES MAKE AN JOB OUT OF MATRIMONY INSTEAD OF A HAPPY CONTENTED AND CONGENIAL COMPANIONSHIP ONE NE O other ot tho greatest troubles trouble tr of ot matrimony said a a. man to me the wIfe should day K be js IJ thai that women follow their own Ideals of what a good instead of trying to live up to their husbands' husbands Ideal of ot ofa ota a good wife The two are not often orten the same and the general result Is that the man feels as 8 you do dowhen dowhen when you are handed a large chunk of ot bread and but but- butter butter ter when whon you crave a luscious slice of ot plum cake You may know well enough that the bread and butter Is s wholesome and nutritious and that Is t. t it probably probably p ably better for tor your our stomach than the plum cake would be but there is nothing about It that I Ibe y piques your our ap ap- appetite ap- ap appetite petite and that makes snakes you ou cry for more n That Is the way with v. my wife wire and myself In n nany any bench show of wives my wife would register ft per cent efficient and get tho blue ribbon She Is a aa a li good wife and a good mother She is a a. good cook y 4 a good go housekeeper She Is 18 Industrious and thrifty x ji She Is is perfect wife according to all of her stand stand- ards But nut unfortunately her standards and mine dif dif- differ fer DOROTHY DIX DIJ I didn't marry to get a working partner Neither did I marry to get a combination gas gal range vacuum cleaner and savings bank What I wanted In a wife was a companion My ideal of a wife Is a woman who keeps herself looking neat and pretty and who when I come home of an eve eve- evening evening ning will have taken the trouble to doll herself up for me and have on something soft and fluttery and pretty slippers and who who will look In a measure like the girl I fell in inlove inlove inlove love with and courted and picked out to spend the remainder of my life with I lOr 1 want her to greet me with the traditional glad sweet smile I want her to fuss fUll over me and make me feel that my return Is the big event of her day I want her to be pleasant and agreeable and Interesting and entertaining T I 1 WANT her to take pleasure in things that I do and to like to togo togo togo go out with me to places of amusement And when we do go out to places of ot amusement I want her to act as if it she enjoyed It iL I dont don't want her to interrupt the most soulful passage in an opera to 10 ask me whether I forgot to put out the cat or to clutch me in the critical mo mo- moment moment I ment of a picture and demand hoarsely if Ie I think the house has caught fire tire and the baby bab is burning up in its bed I And when I take her out to a restaurant I dont don't want her to pick out the tho cheapest dishes on the menu and when I order things that cost I more than 50 cents c to poison polson the meal meat by counting up the cost and re rev reminding minding me that we could have got a ham sandwich at the delicates delicatessen sen shop on our way home that would have stayed stay d our appetite Just Justas as well as a 5 supper I Now my wife's conception of being a model wife Is to work herself to death for me and save every penny Conse Conse- Consequently Consequently when I go home of an evening she has cooked and swept and scrubbed until she has worn herself to a frazzle and andIs andIs andIs Is nervous and Irritable She Is I. too tired to dress and fix her her- herself herself self up Besides she considers it extravagant to waste a pretty frock on a mere husband Consequently the she he Is no household ornament on which I 1 can feast my eyes is too busy b sy with her housework to ever find time to read or to toJ J visit or play plat pIa bridge or to belong to clubs She Is down on the tho women who ho do these things and who spend hours as she says say's gadding I I the streets But as her interests are confined to the four walls of her I home she has nas nothing to talk about except the awful price of butchers butcher's meat and the incompetence of servants ants and how hard she has bas worked II cleaning the attic and turning out all the closets A dull line of con con- conversation conversation believe me meMy me My M M wife considers that she is giving a star exhibition of oC the tho domes domes- domestic domestic tic virtues when she pinches every penny and end saves my money for me mt If I ask her to go on a little trip with me she refuses If It I ask her to togo togo togo go to the theatre or out to take a a. meal It is the same thing Why h spend money Cor anything you can do without is i her motto In n a word my wife believes that she Is being a paragon of ofa a wife and doing her full duty to me when she makes me physically comfortable and saves every penny for me She has lias never once taken into consideration my Individual character and temperament It has never occurred to her that I am a aman aman aman man who needs love more than I do bread that I crave good companionship more than I do good pie and that I am of a gay l pleasure loving pleasure loving nature and am mere anxious to have a good time while I am living than to leave a big estate when I die I lit THE HE result Is that we e are In In a continual argument and quarrel over i THE A everything and because my m wife is unattractive to look at my eyes rove love after atter other women Because I am bored at home I seek enter enter- entertaining entertaining i companionship elsewhere and because my m wife wont won't go out I with mo me I find plenty of others who will and who dont don't look at the price check as long as I pay it itI I know that there must be bo thousands of women in just the same I II sort of ot fix that I am wives am-wives wives who are married to good men who think that they the are good husbands because they live up to their ideal of oC al algood a I good husband but who do not fulfill one single requirement of the I womans woman's ideal of a good husband I What a pity we dont don't scrap our own Ideas of being good husbands and wives and try to give satisfaction to those who are arc married to usi For after all they are the ones whom It Is Important to please DOROTHY DIX j Copyright by Public Ledger Company |