Show Dorothy Dixs Dix's ix s 's Letter Box I h MISS TWENTY FOUR MARRY nv AN UNSUCCESSFUL GENIUS OR A MONEY MONEY- MONEYMAKING MAKING LOWBROW DOES A WIFE HELP HER HUSBAND MOST AS BUSINESS ASSO ASSO- ASSOCIATE dATE OR HOME MAKER IS A GIRL t BOUND TO BE LIKE MOTHER EAI MISS MISS' DIX DIX I I am 24 years of or age ago and an 1 have the opportunity of marrying two men One is on my own o intellectual plane but unable to make mace a living I In the five years ears that I 1 have known him he has from place to place and al at- although F thought though he Is 30 ho he hasn't yet discovered what ho Is best fitted for Tho The other m Ul Is la also 30 30 but he lie has bas made tremendous progress progress ress eec and Is at the tho head of a large firm and t thas has an excellent income However in his 1 I 4 anxiety to get ahead financially be he has over over- overlooked overlooked I looked the Intellectual side of life ICe and an 1 al although al ai though he ho has hos two or three years of or college m ho he doesn't indicate it Now Miss ss Dix which which- Is the better bet I matrimonially speaking the first fint man mm with I- I whom I 1 can speak but who Is a II failure fi 5 fi financially r r or the second man who is 13 a suc sue success suek k cess in business even though there is an In in- Intellectual gulf between us PUZZLED Answer I should say that your choice DOROTHY DIX would depend on whether you pre pre- preferred preferred to feed your body or your soul loul But whichever one of these men you marry you will regret It and wish that you had chosen the other Suppose you tate taUe the the intellectual man with whom you jou OU can dis dis- discuss discuss discuss cuss transcendental philosophy but not the grocery bill lie would 1 make you ou a wonderful husband and an 1 you OU would enjoy a marvelous companionship If It C alas you jou OU were not under the painful necessity Uy ot of o eating and having haYing somewhere to lay your head nn H custom did dl 1 nol not require you to go about clothed clothe 1 Nothing is more moro idyllic than to think of or having a husband husban 1 who speaks your language who is Intel ested in the things you are Inter Inter- Interested interested ested este 1 In In who is absorbed in poetry and music and art and who Is Ismore Ismore Ismore more thrilled by a new thought than by the stock market About nine twenty days of the month that sort of a man fIan would prove a most moat satisfactory husband but on the thirtieth when the bills commence coming In when the landlord Is clamoring for his rent and the butcher reminds you that your credit is exhausted and everybody else has a new frock but you and you are so shabby that you are arc ashamed to be seen why then you will wish you had married the man ma who didn't know so much about books and knew more about making a living Also a a. woman gets gels sick and tired 1 of oC sympathizing with a poor unappreciated genius who cant can't sell his wares or turn his talents to any use It gets on her nerves having to explain his failure to her friends and she surely comes to the place when she has a a. pitying pitying- contempt for him as a weakling On the other hand a woman Is bound to respect man who succeeds In business because It takes strength of character it takes brains it takes grit and courage and self self- denial and the ability to take punishment for a man to win a place In the sun in the commercial world In this day of fierce competition But If you marry the business man you may may find yourself lonely at times longing for a more Intellectual c than he gives you I ISo So there thore you OU are One man may feed your our soul and nd tho the other your our body One may starve stanc you the other othe bore you ou But between the two I should say that the best matri matri- matrimonial matrimonial bet was the go For you can cn n c find plenty of ether people who wh will supply you with all the Intellectual conversation you need but nobody Is going to pay your board bill and shopping ticket Cut But why si marry either one of oC Why not wait watt and an 1 find finel one who is both a high brow nod ami a money maker DOROTHY DIX DIN EAR DOROTHY DIX DIX Se Several oC or us have has been discussing this DEAR D question Does it Increase the love of ofa a husband hus and and wile wife to and each other hour work stork together in business every day see every esery of the day or are they most fond of each other when the s sat at home and the husband is away all day at business only return return- returning returnIng ing lug In the evening Dots Dot's a wife help her husband most by helping him in his business or by b being a maker home DAILY IL Y READER 1 I Answer It depends altogether upon the character char of the Individual man nian whether he lie is minded broad-minded or so narrow minded that he Is Jealous of his wife's wICe's success Undoubtedly there Is no stronger bond between a man and nd woman than community of interests and the tho husband and wife who are working shoulder to shoulder in a business planning for Its success making sacrifices for It torn by the tho same anxieties for it It are drawn as closely together as any two human beings can be They Thoy think thin tha same thoughts have the same aspirations aspiration the same hopes and desires After nil all there Is nothing that we wo are ara more interested In than talking shop and so the th man and woman who work together never run out of conversation as do the husband and wife who know little of each others other's activities As a general thing married couples In this country live lI In 10 differ different ent cut worlds The man in a world of business of or which the woman knows nothing The woman in a feminine world of housekeeping and shopping and bridge brIde partly part part and teas of which the time husband knows nothing And so when they come together they have hue not the mutual Interests of or the husband husban 1 and wife wiCe who work together But sometimes the gray mare Is the tue better horse Some Some- Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes times the wife has a cleverer business head than the hus bus husband band has Sometimes Sometimes' she Is II a better saleswoman and shrewd shrewd- er r buyer a better executive Then unless the husband nd is very minded broad and generous he Is filled with a Jealousy that kills his love and makes him hate her Very often orten two writers or two actors will marry but If the wife wire proves the more mora popular of or the two the marriage almost Invariably ends in divorce Many men do not want ant their wives wises to bo be In business with them They prefer to separate their working life me and their domestic life me and it rests eats them to come home borne to a II wife wire who is waiting for them at the door and who has a fresh line of or chatter and does not thresh Over tho the business worries of the day Any woman who makes a man a comfortable peaceful happy home does her part toward helping him Often the fact that the wife Is helpless and knows nothing about busi busl business ness floss Is the goad load in the side of a man that drives him on to success But how a wife can help a husband Is an Individual problem problem lem that they alone can solve DOROTHY DIX DOROTHY DIX Do DIX Do you OU think a girl bound Is to be like Etc e her DEAR D mother My mother Is most unselfish and kind but she Is an exceedingly poor housekeeper I am ant engaged to a man brought up upu In u a home where everything Is Immaculately neat and I have heard him ilm him say that he would expect exp ct his home to be kept orderly and amid clean when hen he married d. d Dont Don't you think t since I like everything clean and know how to keep it that way that I will wilt not drift Into mothers mother's ways In later years yeara GRACE GHACE B. B Answer Surely Grace Very often our parents are warnings In Instead In In- Instead stead of examples to u us UI and those of us who have suffered red from their weaknesses go to the other extreme Most of our self made men are the eons of shiftless well neer fa fathers fa fa- fathers and some of the best housekeepers I have ever known n were the daughters of women who never swept a bed bedor bedor bedor or cooked a decent meal In their lives DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger |