Show DOROTHY DIX TALKS 87 7 DOROTHY DIX th the Worlds World's 5 t p Paid Woman Write THIS HUSBANDS HUSBAND'S LITANY MIGHT WELL BE ADDED A DED TO THE FAMILY PRAYER BOOK FROM PROM taking a girl from a good be home Lome and giving her a mean one one one- Good Lord deliver me I From believing that a womans woman's sweet tooth Is extracted at the al ads tar tar tar- Good Lord deliver me mI mf I Irom From rom believing that Just being married to me Is picnic enough for any woman and all the diversion she could possibly desire desire desire- I St Good Lord deliver dellver me From treating a girl as If It she were an angel beIl be be- before before Il- Il fore marriage and making a II doormat out of ot her at- at af at- afterward Good Lord deliver me 1 l From venting on my wife all of ot the temper and nerves Den es and Irritability ty that I dare not visit on the outside world world world- Good Lord deliver me k From forgetting that the woman I married has hat tile the ute right to be treated with the courtesy due a lady even If she Is married to me the we- thes Good Lord deliver me s From that peculiar mental m l disease that enables x a lover to remember every wish and whim and taste DOROTHY DIX of ot a woman and to recall every sentimental anniversary anniversary anniversary sary and aud that th t causes him to forget every everyone one of them themas as soon as he is married to her her her- Good Lord deliver me From blindness of eyes ees so that I never notice DoUce when my wife has haa hason hason on a new dress or when she has worked herself herselt half haIr to death fixing over the house to please me me- me Good Lord deliver me From dumbness of tongue so eo that 1 I never utter one word one on word of thanks for all the sacrifice that my wife wiCe makes for me me- me Good Lord deliver r me From the lack Jack of appreciation that voices no understanding of how hard she works for me of how many things that she would like that she does without for my sake or of ot her priceless love and an devotion devotion- Good Lord deliver me From the that makes a man gulp down a good dinner without acknowledgment of ot the care and thought and labor It has cost his wife wife wife- t Good Lord deliver me From withholding the tenderness and sympathy that are a womans woman's pay pa for Cor all that wifehood costs her her her- I Good Lord deliver me From the frozen silence that breaks a womans woman's heart heart heart- Good Lord deliver me From the fatuous belief that no DO woman can help loving me no matter how I neglect my my- personal appearance nor how I treat her her her- Good Lord deliver me From being a grouch or a knocker and the kind of a husband whoso whose appearance sends the domestic down to zero zero zero- Good Lord deliver me From being a snoopy husband who x Is always as peering In the gar gar- garbage garbage garbage bage pall pail and checking up the contents of the ice lee box and interfering with the housekeeping housekeeping housekeeping- Good Lord dellver deliver me From being an arrogant ass who nho is always braying about being the head of ot the house and who makes his wife ICe ask him what sort s rt of a hat she may ma buy buy buy- Good Lord deliver me From being the kind of oC a a. husband who never speaks at home and whose wife might just as well be married to a store dummy for all the companionship she gets gets gets- Good Lord deliver me Ii 5 From Flom being the sort of a husband who monologues m about himself and what he said to the boss and the boss said to him and who ho bores his wife to tears tears tears- Good Lord deliver me From getting so much absorbed in business that I become nothing but a checkbook to my wife wife wife- Good Lord deliver me From believing that making a happy home is extensively a femi feml feminine feminine nine job and that it is no part of oC my duty to be a little ray of ot sunshine In loft loft- it It- It Good Lord deliver me From being one of the husbands h who are so henpecked they the say our trousers trousers trousers' 1 s Good Lord deliver me From being one of oC the husbands who are regarded by their n wives Ivel as mere Good Lord deliver me From being one of ot the husbands who are not permitted by their thel wives to carry a latchkey latchkey- latchkey Good Lord deliver me From being one of ot the husbands who trouble when they hear their mistress mistress' voice voice volee- Good Lord deliver me From being a tightwad or a waster wade a coward or a quitter in do matri matri- matrimony matrimony matrimony mony mony- mony IF B Good Lord deliver me s. s From hardness of heart and weakness of ot spine In n dealing with my wife Good Lord deliver me I beseech you to hear me good Lord DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger Compan Company |