Show Dorothy Dix Talks THESE BE THE CHIEF PET PEEVES OF ALL ALt WIVES THE HUSBAND COMFORTER WHO SOOTHES AND UNDERSTANDS ALL DISGRUNTLED MARRIED MEN THE WOMAN WHO ADORES COOKING AND THE BARGAIN FIEND WITH THE ECONOMY LINE CHIEF among the women that wives Ives hate said the woman in the v J sport suit is the Husbands Husband's Comforter Every circle has one ono of her in it and all the other women regard her with the same sentiment they entertain toward a rattlesnake find and all the themen themen men wonder why their wives wIns have it in for lor that I nice sweet amiable little creature who is so pleasant and so soothing She Is I a trouble hound who has an art unerring scent for a family spat apat and k every married man She makes make him t e. e feel that he Is a martyr who la Is being sacrificed on the domestic altar and i that she Is the only one who appreciates ates atea how brave and heroic he Is to bear his sufferings In silence Instead of beating It to the divorce court j ui TET ET a husband and wife have hav a perfectly f LI L legitimate fight light over the tho hour hI he got homo home last night or the price ot of her new fur lur coat or DOROTHY DOR T HY DIX OIX what's the the matter the morn tag ing and cant can't we have eggs and for breakfast and she is on hand to bind up hubby's wounds and kiss the place and make it well Instead of letting it leave a scar or two to remind him to watch his step next time Her long lonO suit 1 Is sympathy which she pours out without stint on every husband who comes her way She Just purrs purr over disgruntled gentlemen whose wives dont don't understand them and misconstrue their attention to blond ladles are Ire not their real rell so anyhow About the only husband that the Husband Comforter isn't sorry for and doesn't un un- understand understand is her own husband AND AND it is the Husband Comforters that make it unsafe for lor any wife to toJi tobe tott Ji tt be away from home more than three weeks at a time because if she does about the time her husband begins to miss mies her and feel leel lonely and to think that he didn't realize how ow much he depended on his Mary Jane along comes come come that female lemale serpent who begins to hiss hissin hissin hissin in his ear about how STRANGE It Is that a woman who had SUCH a FASCINATING husband as he is COULD go away and leave him ALONE and neglect hIm And than th n all the fat Is In I the fire and if husband hasn't found a perpetual comforter and sympathizer Its It's because gets home In time to put an end to the dirty work at the atthe the cross cross- roads But I am telling you the Husband Comforter Is chief of the wrecking home crew THE THE woman I hate said the lady in the blue hat is the one who is isI 1 I always telling your husband how she Just LOVES to cook and how she DOTES on gas range and Is NEVER so HAPPY as when she is in the kitchen preparing some sone dainty for lor her husband Now Im I'm no quitter Part of ot my Job as wife and mother Is to tOo cook the food lood for lor my family and I turn out a good Job if It I do say it myself Nor do I howl over my lot at having to spend a good part of my time in the kitchen But Bat it is hard work and antI there Is nothing ro ro- romantic romantic mantic mantle or thrilling about it H and I get beastly tired of ot it all and would like my husband sometimes to realize realize- that I occasionally deserve a pat paton paton paton on the head hend at least for lor doing uncomplainingly dull and uninspiring labor And Id I'd get a little appreciation noVi now and then If there thera didn't come along this hypocritical little cat meowing about how she LOVES to cook and what FUN It Is to spend three thre hours cooking a meal that Is eaten up In three minutes more mor or less She makes mlles my husband feel fe 1 that he 1 Is giving m me methe methe the time of my life when he lets me amuse myself doing th the cooking and that any thinking right woman would rather have hav hava havea a set of aluminum pans than a diamond bracelet for her birth birth- birthday birthday day present UTHE one I hate said the woman in chiffon is the woman oman who is IsI THE 1 I always bragging before me about what bargains sho she gets Let Lether Lether Lether her get Into any gathering of ot married people and she begins to boast about how little it costs her to live lire and that she really doesn't spend ANYTHING on her clothes and that she doesn't see WHY people complain about the high cost of living SUE SHE Just keeps house on next to nothing As she along you can see every husband In the crowd pricking up his ears sars ars and mentally taking notes You know as well as you are are sitting there that every wife Is going to have that thrown In her teeth for the next two months and It is a good thing that looks dont don't kill or else murder would be done on the spot ACCORDING IC A ACCORDING to that pest ot of a woman she always knows some little It milliner who makes perfectly stunning hats for lor Just nothing and sho has always just happened in on a rate cut sale where she got a frock that had been marked down from Irom 99 to and she has some magic by which she can make a tough round steak taste like a filet lIlet mignon and so on It makes your husband think you are a waster and anda a spender because you cant can't run a house on air and cant can't look like a adaily dally daily hint from Irom Paris without spending good money And the worst part of the thing Is that the woman U Is a faker who spends just as much as the rest of us and she Is only pulling that economy line because It Is always a good one that makes a hit with the the- men But she makes the first of the month a thing for crying out loud for f r the rest of us and andI I am hoping she will be struck dead sometime when she tells a particularly big whopper about her penny A AMEN responded the other women DOROTHY DIX i-i i Copyright by Public Ledger |