Show DOROTHY DIX TALKS By DOROTHY DIX DIZ the Worlds World's Highest Pall Paia Women Woman WOULD YOU KEEP YOUR HUSBAND WIVES I TAKE A TIP FROM NATURE SHE MADE MANS MAN'S STOMACH MANY TIMES LARGER THAN HIS HEART FOR POR every enry five flye couples who were married In Chicago during the first t I few months of oC this divorced year one couple was j Why the women In these matrimonial bankruptcy ban cases found Cound mar- mar marriage marriage 1 a failure Is not nor stated but the chief reason given by the men for I breaking their marriage vows was that their wives did not know how to cook and feed them out of oC ofa I a tin Un cans Thus Thua It appear appears that our grandmothers' grandmothers formula for holding a husbands husband's affection Feed the brute still hold holds good Many things change but not mans man's appetite or his love bye of physical comfort and it Is Just astrue as astrue astrue true today as II it ever ev r was In the past that the very foundation stone atone of a happy home 4 Y is ia a swept clean-swept hearth and a well-spread well e table r r I A WOMAN may be a second Venus In looks look buta but A a F fi you Xou ou cant can't eat living pictures and she will not look good long tong to the man before whom she sets DOROTHY DIX DIS poisonous cooking A woman may ma be b a brilliant and scintillating conversationalist con but she will strive In vain lain to engage the attention of oC the man who Is wrestling with dish dish- dishwater dishwater dishwater water soup and a tough steak A woman may have the virtues of or oran an angel but she will rouse nothing but bul animosity In the breast of oC theman the theman theman man who sees his good money monc spent for that Is first aid to the th undertaker When nature made a mans man's stomach many times larger than his heart it gave a tip to women about how to keep their husbands husbands' love And they disregard this hint at their peril EVEN EN EN Romeo would have soured on Juliet and knocked her Instead of oC jollied her If It she had given him dyspepsia by b her bad housekeeping house housekeeping housekeeping keeping or if he had come home tired and hungry some evening to find a pallid leaf leat of oC lettuce or two and a measly sardine and a stale cracker served sen-ed to him as a banquet The truth is' is that when the delicatessen dinner comes in at al tho the door love flies out of oC the window The grounds in the coffee c rree pot have been the real grounds for divorce In innumerable cases For nobody can be sentimental unless he is first well nourished It I is only when we are fed ed and comfortable that we yve are at peace with all the world and have affectionate yearnings toward those about us It Is the starved half half starved who are anarchists and revolutionists re always looking out for change and wondering if they the have got their soul mates Far from criticising the men who have got divorces from fro their wives naming the tin can and the paper bag as aa re co I think they are Just Juat dead right and that they are establishing a good precedent Most of the states grant women a divorce on the ground of non This being the case It Is nothing but fair that men should be granted divorce from wives who will not cook the food they provide IT IS no more a husbands husband's duty to work and support his wife wICe than it is Isa isa 1 IT a wife's duty to work ork and make a comfortable home for her hus hus- husband husband husband band and if IC she falls to to todo do this she is just as much a lazy slacker and quitter as he would be if he spent his time loafing around pool pool- poolrooms poolrooms rooms and let her and the children get food rood and raiment whatever way they could We e can have much sympathy for the woman oman who loses her husband hus hus- husband husband band through waning physical or mental charms because it is not her fault that time robs her of oC her beauty and the little kittenish ways was that hat fascinated in youth are silly and tiresome in n the middle aged But we have no pity for the woman who alienates her hus hus- husbands husband's husbands husband's husbands husband's bands band's affection by her bad housekeeping and makes him dread to come home because home Is the most spot on earth Her sin I is I. upon her own head Cooking Is an exact science and any woman who can read can become a chef if she will and thereby bind her husband to her with bands of steel Foolish Indeed are the women who do not realize that a iI gas range Is a thing to conjure with end and that no vamp can take a aman aman aman man away from a wife who can work magic with pots and pans ONES ONE'S sympathy Cor for the men whose dreams dreama of or matrimonial bliss have hae hav ha e been wrecked on their wives wives' biscuit Is lessened however by the knowledge that probably not one of these men who wanted a good cook took the trouble to fled find out if It he was getting one when he lie mar mar- married married ried Practically every cry ever man who marries marries for a II home He is b bIn In love with some particular girl of oC course but he be is also weary of or boarding houses and hotels and restaurants and sick unto death of oC soggy pie and made up messes and tasteless meats and pasty gravies One of oC the tho chief Compensations that be he expects to get for shouldering the the- burden of oC a II family Is the kind of oC food he likes cooked in the way WilY he likes It St Such being the case you would think that after he had popped the question and asked Maud if It she was utterly sure that had never loved 10 ed before be Core and would never love again that he would put a questionnaire to her dealing with her culinary experience and repertoire But he He never says bean beans to her about the one thing that their whole future happiness Is la going to rest upon He doesn't even find out If she hates domesticity and consid consid- considers ers era making a a husband comfortable beneath her dignity He doesn't ascertain If she thinks la a womans woman's proper sphere along toward 5 o'clock In the afternoon afternoon Is In the kitchen or at the movies or at the bridge whist table THE contrary domestic girls are notoriously n beauless It is the ON O girl who knows the last dance step steD not the one who knows how to cook whom men run after It is the girl who wears chiffon stockings not the one who darns papas papa's socks who gets sets the proposals And as long as this his is the case there will be misfit marriages For a man picks out a wife for tor one thing and then expects her to t be tie something else after aCter he is married to her which calls for tor more versatility than most women omen women possess posses DOROTHY DI DIX Copyright by Public Ledger Company |