Show Dorothy Dix Talks 1 HAPPY IN m A BY DV MAKING HIM YOU CAN HELP YOUR HUSBAND HOME BY TAKING AN INTEREST IN TIDY WELL KEPT HIS BUSINESS AND BELIEVING IN HIM HIM BUT BUT ABOVE ALL BY SHOWING HIM YOUR LOVE AND APPRECIATION A LITTLE brido to bo asks me how she e can be a help to her husband A It That depends of course upon tho Individual man Some men need needa need a wife who pu put on a wife who will step stop on the gas cas and some men the tho brakes Some men need to 10 have their heir ego ego- egotism v Inflated and other men to hove have their gM gao bags punctured There are wives who haTe hare helped their husbands to fortune by being and other wives whose husbands had to set Iet up and hustle so to pay their bills that they became millionaires Generally speaking however th the thet t very beat best way In which a wIfe can Is I. making him help her husband by happy A mans man's domestic felicity hl his hie being In love with his hie wife and happy and satisfied In his home has haa an ac cc actual aCtual ca cash value and Is I. an Important factor In his hi success 4 One of the big credit agencies ha hu has Jf made the statement that when a mans man business begins to go to pieces and DOROTHY DOR THY DIX OIX he cant can't meet his hie bills Investigation nearly always alway shows show that there Is trouble and arid discord at home And It Is a a matter of common ob oh- observation to all of us how often family dissensIons dissension among our friends frienda not only ends In divorce but bankruptcy for the an anTHE TIlE reason for this Is easy to see No man can give the best that Is IsI THE I in him to his work if he has to keep driving out of hIs thoughts the memory ot of bitter quarrels qu with wilh his wife or If it there Is is' rankling In his mind a sense of ot her Injustice and cruelty toward him I f Nor does it seem worthwhile to a II man to put forth every effort 1 to achieve success to lay at the feet of ot a wife who Is nagging and fault fault- faultfinding faultfinding faultfinding finding and querulous So If It you want your husband to lo succeed make snake him happy Keep him free from worry and give him something worth worthwhile worthwhile while to work for You can un help your husband by making him a comfortable home The man who comes cornea home at night to a home that Is I. a haven of peace and rest goes forth the next day as II a giant re refreshed re- re refreshed ready for the battle UIS taut nerves relax His courage revives lie gets the tho right 11 It live tire again on things and you never hear of ot him breaking down at middle age ago as do men me whose homes ho are e places of ot turmoil and strife And you can help your husband by feeding him property properly Our stomachs have Just as much to todo do with our success as aa OUI our brains SEND REND a man out to work on a a breakfast of ot mean coffee cortee and soggy V 5 cakes and greasy eggs and he will be so tilled filled with pessimism that that V that would have made his for foro fortune fortune he will wili turn down a gilt gilt edge edge proposition tune anti and so dyspeptic and irritable that he will quarrel with his hia part part- partner partner ner ncr and Insult his best customer or client You can help your husband by encouraging him M Many Miny ny nyman i iman man falls because his hla wife Is a wet blanket who chills every enthusiasm and takes the starch out of every plan They keep their husbands tied to little Jobs job because they are afraid to te take any risks They concede that other men can do certain things but when their husbands want to make some venture they croak failure at him until they shake his faith In himself DON'T DONT fONT be one of these Bolster up your husbands husband's bus bands band's belief In himself I for a man can only do as much as he thinks he can Make him feel that you jou ou expect great things of him and he will break his hll neck trying to Justify your belief in him Many a mans man's success is II the result of his trying to be the man that his wife expected him to be You can help your husband by taking an Interest In hi his hi business Most men like to talk shop and many a at man ha has haa got his big Idea while threshing over his hi business problems problem at t thome home with his wife And It helps a man ma tremendously for hi hla hia wife to be he willing to sacrifice for the sake of the business and to gladly forgo the new car or the vacation trip In order to enlarge the plant or pay payoff off a note or to meet some other necessary ne necessary es- es essary sary expense And It helps for a wife not to be antagonistic toward her husbands husband's business and to resent the calls call It makes make upon him IT TT IS pretty hard on oa a man to have havo a wife who yawns In la his face faca I every evory time he tries to talk to her about the subject In which he Is absorbed and aad who always speaks disparagingly of the old office or orthe orthe orthe the old factory who never can understand why ho bo cant can't leave it Il all aU aUto to play around with her and who generally displays a senseless jest jest- of the business which she looks upon as a deadly rival instead of the benign providence that supplies her with all of her comforts and luxuries You can help your husband by making friends for him HALF of the time lime the reason reaton we send for Dr Smith or get our teeth U fixed by Dr Jones or buy our groceries from Mr Is III because those gentlemen have hl-e charming wives who have made themselves agreeable to us f Finally you can help your husband by showing him some appreciation Give rn j the glad hand h nd now and then and tell him how wonderful you think he Is Is' and how grateful you are aro areto areto to him for all of his kindness and goodness to you IT IT IS no wonder so many husbands get slack and lose their pep and andI 1 I ambition and got to the place where they ask themselves Oh what's wh ts t's the usef when have hare wives whomever use they so much as say Thank you jou There Isn't much Inspiration In la working for tor a woman who only oaly grumbles because she has to live lire In la a 2000 apartment Instead of a al l one and because her sedan se car isn't a limousine Of course there are a. a a. a million other ways way to help s a husband huband but If you will only love him and make him happy md jolly him up and set him down to a good dinner every night In a tidy home the othera others wont won't matter DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger |