Show L Dorothy Dixs Dix's Letter Box x I MUST A MAN TELL HIS WIFE ABOUT HIS BUSINESS THE PRO STUDY HAT V IS PER PERSONALITY PERSONALITY PERSONALITY LEM OF THE BOY WHO WONT WON'T AND HOW CAN IT BE DEVELOPED I IDEAR I MIS Ml S BIX I mX-I I am am- ama a t oung toung married woman love my husban I DEAR very much and would do anything any thin In the world for Cor him but 1 lie Ii I his social HI elf elfIn life I never er tells tolls me an all anything thing about his business or about In fact act when I Inquire ho he tells me mo It is none of oC n m my mt t business Yet Vet ho wants to know everything e that I d dand do Just what ho be says at a I I and I must be bo willing Milling to make a I home 1 Is minutes minute's s notice He lIt does not try to I that fair AN INTERESTED 1 I Answer h f It isn't fair It Is Just as much a marts mart's 1 V place to help make a happy home as It Is a it r womans woman's It Is just lust as much the duty of a aman aZ I. I I Z man to wear the tho smile that wont won't come off as al asIt 4 It is the It is just as much up to a aman aman aman man to handle his h's wife with tact and diplo diplo- diplomacy diplomacy macy and sidestep the topics that rile ner nor I and get on her nerves as It is a wife's place to rub her husbands husband's fur the right way I There is no more reason why a woman DOROTHY ui In t should read up on politics and baseball in I order to enable her to hand out a nifty line I of conversation to her husband than it Is why her husband I should not pursue the fashion Journals and be able to talk in intelligently intelligently to her about ensemble suits and the new neckline I But nut my dear lady matrimony Is one of the Institutions that snap Its ti fingers Angers in the face of Justice It isn't run that way It Ills t is s a thing e or pe penal Mal privileges and concessions and husbands never pia play fair Cair wit lot lotmore than Is due then them their r rives Ives Sometimes they gi e them item a more Mos 1 l' l hey boy give ghe less but wives never ne get t anything Just because the thc theare I are entitled en I tied to it n. I the inevitable which Is that If I So you will have to accept a ept there Is any adjusting done in your family you will be he the one who will have to do it it You will have to adapt yourself t your husband He will never fall In with your ways If you are ar to make it it And consider consider- considerIng considerIng have a happy home you will have to Ing that a man contributes the money to support the home perhaps it Is not so unfair after all for the woman to throw in inthe Inthe inthe the good will Anyway whether you think you are doing more than your i share or not it will pay you to do It It It making a happy haPPI home as well as in everything else those who achieve success and do more 1 overtime are the tho ones who are willing to work I than they were paid for about everything he does an am and As for your our husband not telling lelling you yott OU eyer resenting your our curiosity about him that is a human weakness that man manof many of us have both male and female We hate hale to be asked questions W We hate to flU fill in a questionnaire and be forced to give I e an account acco nt of wha whal wo we have done every eer minute of or the day So I would earnestly advise you to cut out putting him through the third degree every time he comes home Bite your tongue off rather than ask him a single question and the chances are that he will tell you himself far more than you can canever canever ever find out when you try to pump him Whether a man should tell t his wire all aU about his ills business or no poi nol depends dt upon how he feels eels about It There are arc men who like to tall tali hop There are other men who like to put their business out of hell thel minds when they close their office doors dool behind them and who find that tha only by forgetting their work for a few hours are they able ablo to lo a clear mind to the solving of ot their problems DOROTHY DIX I 0 e 0 e 0 eDEAR I IDEAR MISS DIX DIX I I have ha a son an only child who plays playa and Idles idiot DEAR away his time in school He will w III not Dot put his mind on his hi studies and tells teUs me untruths about his school work Ho IIo has failed twice In Ji his 1111 examinations although he be Is Js as bright as a dollar and is on an n th the I alert about everything but his studios studies I spend hours every try day to 0 help him with his lessons but can cn can do nothing with him Ills His father Cather has baa whipped him about it without avail and because he deceives decel us i about his work lIe He is perfectly healthy and normal in every way Cat Can A DESPERATE help you I 1 Answer You can lead a boy to the tho spring but you jou ou cant can't make him bin drink unless his for Cor the waters ot of knowledge It H is tragic that thai not able ablo to get gel one while Willie I for education are who an o 0 o many boys yearn earn education ort them the reluse to tc toOf trying to thrust an an boys bays t t are take ake it V Jv-V K- K KT T l V f V Of course the question with your boy is to get him interested inter inter- inter interested ested ested- Perhaps if Instead of his going to school you had a tutor for him he might be able to make your son see that his his- history history and geography Is an tory is more thrilling than any romance Interesting as a movie But your tutor would have to be a avery avery avery very high grade man with a 3 special insight Into psychology and a lot of imagination himself so that he could throw a glam glam- glamour our that your son thinks are dry dryas as dust talent Perhaps he Is Perhaps pt your boy has some special mechanical In that case you might wake him up by sending O him to one of the excellent schools where they put into practice one day the thing they have ha e learned the day before But Dut it Is 18 ahard hard a to make a child who doesn't like to go to to school that studying is la anything but bul useless drudgery to which he 1 ls I Ic c by misguided parents DOROTHY DIX mx PAR R DOROTHY DIX DIx Will you OU please tell teli me DIe what whal Is 1 personality t tIan B Diy R Can Ian one develop personality or it something one is born Dorn wIth I WANTA KNOW Answer No one can define personality in any set terms It is some some- something something something thing intangible the little something that differentiates one person from another Speaking by and large when we say Gay that a man and woman have personality we mean that they have some little trick of manner or speech that sets then ther apart from others but in what this consists we often cannot tell For instance one man can do a bit of fooling Cooling that Is uproariously uproarious humorous and aDd makes us scream with laughter but bul when another man him and does loes exactly the same thing he seems idiotic and bores bore us to tears We all have hae friends who can say things to us that we we take without offense but which would make us furiously angry an II JC nother Bother friend Raid Mid them to us That's personality attracted at first sight We meet people leole to whom we are irresistibly TV Wre We meet other people who repulse us Not Nol one of us but who has some somo shortcomings shortcoming we overlook because ho has bas hasa basa damp jamp mp we lo 1 and whoso whose letter better people more worthy a winning way with him While While- there are of 0 our affection and our help for Cor whom we do io nothing Just because nor charm ot of o manner ner rael f aey have no grace Personality P y is II a lift gift 4 itt of the tho gods the magic that the good fairy bestows the fortunate in the tho cradle And if nature failed to endow one with it it is very difficult to supply the he deficiency oi of synthetic personality by Of course one can acquire a sort originality In dress dreas so that one does not look like every other man and woman In the crowd by specializing in some one par par- particular particular titular study or fad and by cultivating an agreeable manner but after fter all it Isn't the real thing The genuine blown the glass personality is born in you DOROTHY DIX Cop Copyright right by Public Ledger Compact Compan |