Show DOROTHY DIX TALKS Dy DJ DOROTHY DIX the Ole Worlds World's World 1 Highest Paid Pahl IAl Woman Roman LETS LET'S TRY TO MAKE THINGS PLEASANTER AT HOME BY RE RE- REFRAINING RE-I RE FROM NAGGING AND GIVING UNASKED ADVICE AND PRYING INTO THE PRIVACY OF THOSE WITH WHOM WE LIVE i I DO YOU ever eer consciously try to make yourself more agreeable to those about you jou ou I wean mean to your our own family to those thole of your jour own household the People who ho cannot escape you and who have hive to endure your jour our society 36 days a A. year through innumerable lo years We Ve are arc compelled to be bo pleasant to strangers stray gers Otherwise we would be ostracized In society and RC JO bankrupt In business So In public we wear the smile that won wont won't t como oft off and use tact and diplomacy x In n dealing with those with whom we wish to placate But nut In the family Caroll circle we feel Ceel that we can slump and do as we please and that If we aro are moral and a d do dc doas doas as we please and that If we are moral and upright and dont don't t get drunk or swear and break up the furni- furni furniture ture that we 1 e have ha done all that anyone any an one has a n right to tc expect of us If It we go a step beyond bat and actual actually actually ly display good manners and are polite and consid consid- considerate considerate erate crate and do our duty as husbands and wives and an parents parE and children and sisters and brothers wo we E hurl bouquets at ourselves and that our relatives appreciate how bow Providence has blessed them In be I DOROTHY DL stowing us upon them But alas the cold fact remains that one may be a model of all the virtues and yet be a most disagreeable Individual with wl h whom to live Some of the best men In the tho world are arc the worst husbands Many of the most conscientious unselfish and self sacrificing self wives and mothers drive their husbands to drink and send their thel children to the uttermost parts of the earth to get pet away from them Few brothers and sisters ever quit q lt fighting and get on friendly terms until they separate and go their different ways In life truth Js is It Isn't their good qualities that make people pleasant plasant THE 1 to life ll lh e with but their little was wa s And so It behooves es us all to take stock of our own personal peculiarities In order that we may correct cor cor- correct correct such Buch of them as daily dall and hourly bourly afflict those with whom we H live P Let us then stop nagging nagging even even the the children Lets Let's say saya a thing once and let it go Instead of harping upon it until we wear everybody's nerves to a frazzle refrain from telling Johnny every enry time he be comes conies In the tho house LETS LET'S to take off ort his cap and not to bang the door and not to sit on the the tho back of his neck and not leave his spoon in his cup Let Lets Let's s not greet oun husbands when they come home of an evening with the usual monologue about the old automobile with Its Hs many de de- defects defects de- de loots and how much we wo need a new car nor demand to know why we cant can't have hac a limousine like Mrs Million Ducks Bucks Lets Let's not ask our wives for the millionth time Ume why wb it Is la that there never can be a decent cup of coffee coce in the house why she cannot think of something to have I for breakfast besides bacon and eggs and how bow came the gas bill hill Is IsEO isso s so EO big and why wh she doesn doesn't doesn't t make Susie stay at home of nights and I read improving books Instead of running around with fool jellybeans to parties Lets Let's suppress our curiosity Lets Let's refrain from prying into the letters of other members of the family Lets Let's can the ques ques- and not ask every everyone one who leaves the house where he or she Is going what they are going to whom they ex ex- expect expect to see what they said to the other people what the other people said to them th m and Why they are going to do what they are going to do anyway Lets Let's refrain from giving unsolicited advice Lets Let's permit other members of the family to eat what they want to eat cat In peace without telling them how bad everything they like Is for their digestion Lets Let's let other members of the family exer exer- exercise else cise their own taste In buying their clothes and their furniture and their automobiles without our trying to force our selections selections selections upon them T ET ETS ET'S S not tell Mary Iary how she should run her house and raise her chil- chil children LETS LET'S L Li dren nor John how to conduct his business nor Tom and Dick and Susie where to get on and where to get et ort oft in every move mote mo e they make Lets Let's not tell home homo people home truths Lets Let's not tell Mary that her ber hat Is ten years rears ears too young joung for her and that she looks like old sheep masquerading as spring lamb iamb with bobbed hair Lets Let's not tell tel telEmma Emma that she Is getting fat and Jane that she looks like a living skeleton and Tom that we e have heard his funny funn story a dozen times before Lets Let's not interrupt those who try try to to tell us some Incident that thatIs Is b at least Interesting to themselves by interjecting remarks that show that we haven't haven t been listening to what they said at all Lets Let's try not to bore those with whom we any more than we can help Lets Let's not make ourselves a perpetual sub sub- subject subject of conversation and lets let's keep tab on our stories and rem rem- so that we shall not repeat the same ume things until our families feel like screaming when they hear us start on the old familiar repertoire Lets Let's have a little respect for the privacy of others and re remember re- re remember remember member that we get as much on tho nerves of those with whom we live as they do on ours and that they would like a littlerest little littlerest littlerest rest from our society now and then Lets Let's respect the belong belong- belongings belon ings Inge of others and reflect that the ties of blood gives us no right to sponge on them THERE Is nothing that so much needs improving as family life Lets Let's THERE help along the good work by trying to make things pleasanter for those with whom we live DOROTHY DIX DIS Copyright by Public Ledger Company |