Show I Dorothy Dixs Dix's Letter Box WHICH IS SUPERIOR SEX WELL THAT DEPENDS SHALL THE TH QUARTER WIFE FORGIVE OR DIVORCE HER UNFAITHFUL HUSBAND ADVICE TO WOMAN WHO HATES HOUSEWORK DEAR DEAIl flEAR MISS DIX An DIX An argument has arisen In a group croup of which I am a a. aa a member over which is the superior sex Bex and wo we decided to ask uk you what you think about It IL We mean the tho superior sex sot only In the domestic way but also In a business way JAMES VAN R Ti rl x f. f Answer k t Which Is best rout or Ice cr cream m 7 If i Potatoes or reset Automobiles or rail rell railroad road rOld trains Sunshine or rain Your YourI I question Is Ie foolish and cannot be an an- answered anI ani i we red because neither sex lex Is II wholly I superior to the other One excels excell In one thing the other In another thing to r and It Is II Idle to contrast them with with- without without out defining Just what qualities you W mean xv i 1 0 t If you jou ou mean mun physical strength undoubted undoubted- undoubtedly 1 r t ly Iy the tho male Is superior There are no female or No woman outside of ofa ofa Ii a circus who can lift the loads louds that a a. husky longshoreman throws about yet after the child I DOROTHY HV OIX DIX bearing period perlo Is over oyer the length of life me among women is longer than among men and many a IL trail little mother out out- outlives outlives lives all her stalwart sons I When hen It comes to courage the male sex Is superior Many women are afraid of mice Very few women at a. a brave enough to stay alone In a house at night But the woman who trem trem- trembles trembles bles bies at the very thought of a burglar will climb upon an oper oper- operating operating operating table without a tremor and let surgeons cut her to pieces piece while most moat men have to be driven to the dentist by their wives Any doctor will bear testimony that women have ten times th the nerve about bearing pain that men have When it comes to Intellect the male sex Is superior We have haves bad no lady lad Shakes pears or or No woman has writ written written ten a supremely great book or painted a 11 supremely great picture or built buill a a. supremely great creat edifice or made mado a 3 great Invention or a great captain of Industry I i But perhaps the creator Is as great a as the thing created and the reason that women have achieved no great triumphs In literature or art or Industry U Is I because their genius has hat gone Into the bearing and rearing of children For woman shares with God Cod In the making of man When it comes to business tho the male sex is superior because men arc are better equipped by nature for tho tue struggle of money mal They have stronger constitutions and fewer nerves than women and can better stand the strain of hard dally daily labor It is safe sate for them thee to go goto goto to places vi where here It would be dangerous for a 11 woman to go They have bave been In the business game since the beginning of time and have ac ac- acquired acquired acquired an en inherited natural aptitude that most women lack They are not subjected to the temptations that women are Their sex Is II an asset to them Instead of a handicap to them as It Is to a woman And they are more apt to succeed than thana a woman because when they go Into a business or profession they do It for a life work Instead of just as a temporary make make- makeshift makeshift makeshift shift until they get married as a 3 woman does Nor do they have to give up their careers when they marry as so a woman generally does But Dut while men in general are superior to women in business there are many exceptions to this rule There arts aro many omen who are financial geniuses and the backbone back bono of ot many an office is the tho wo vo woman wo- wo woman man private secretary who has all nil of ot Its details at her fingers fingers' end ond Also women's tastes and knowledge of their sex gives them a a. pre pre- preeminence preeminence eminence as buyers and sellers in women's wares ares 1 And when it comes to getting the most out of a dollar and saving savin money any ordinary woman can make rings all around the men of her family Very few men ever put anything asIde aalde until they get married and the savings banks will wiil tell you that their female depositors far outnumber their male When It comes to the moralities the female sex is superior Far more women than men walk the tise straight narrow and narrow path and It is the women of every community who ho are the backbone of the churches and Of every good and philanthropic work The female sex Is superior to the male In the domestic vir vir- tues There are many more faithful wives than there are faith faith- faithful faithful faithful ful husbands many more wives who try to make happy homes than there are husbands But Bu it Its itis Is s foolish to try to compare the sexes All human human- humanity humanity humanity ity is la cut off the same bolt boit of cloth and they are much of a DOROTHY DIX I C I DEAR flEA DOROTHY DIX DIX After After living together for twenty years and aDd andL L raising a family ot or children who v. v ho are grown and married d I Sad find that my Dl husband Is unfaithful to me He lie aslee forgiveness and promises to go straight from front now on He lIe has always alway been beSa good to me and never glean me an aJ unkind word but I feel leel this is such a disgrace that I cannot continue to live with him and am thinking of getting a divorce But ButI I have bave not told my children of this yet I wanted to ask you first drat Dear Miss DIx is it my duty dut to forgive and forget and give him another chance WISCONSIN Answer It tt Isn't a matter of duty dear der lady It Is a question of how haw you can salvage the most happiness for yourself out of the tha wreck of your yo life ills No one who has not experienced It can Imagine the shock and horror It Is to a woman the Insult It ItIs ItIs itis Is to her wifehood to discover that the husband who she ahe has hu loved and trusted the father of her children Is false falle to her It rocks rock the very foundations of her world and makes her he feel that there Is nothing In heaven or earth In which she ahe can be believe be belleve lieve or to which she can tie You are going through that experience now and the natural human hu human man Impulse Is to break all ties that have bound you to the nun nian who has deceived you jou OU You feel that he Is something unclean and that jou want to got get away from Irons him as far as at possible You have the right that the law gives you jou OU to do so 80 If you jou OU wish You have ave no further duty to the husband who has hall betrayed you But before you take the fatal step consider well If you will really benefit yourself by leaving him Divorce Is not net a magic panacea that will heal your hurt heart hurt or make you forget or put you back as a girl where you were twenty five years yun ago You cant can't co do away with your marriage and Ind all that has gone with It If you get your divorce orce you jou will bo be homeless You will probably e have to go and live with one of t your married and that will wilt not be pleasant In laws In-laws laws may take taka you In I out of pity and charity and a sense of duty but they never nover want waist you and your children will be better oft off without you in their Ih lr homes You will have nothing to do no Interest to fill in your idle hours Even Enn if j you have enough money to live on on your situation is Ia not Dot greatly Improved because no women omen are more moro forlorn than the elderly women who drift from frons boarding house to boarding house houto and hotel betel to hotel with no occupation save time So I think that for your own sake aake It will bs hs best for you to forgive and forget your husbands husband's nd offense against you It seems to me that you might well overlook this slip lip In a hus hus- husband husband husband band who has hu been good and end kind to you Many a woman does that thel and lives happily ever after DOROTHY DIX a C S S MISS DIX I I am a woman 50 years old My Iy mother lead had ten tenI DEAR I children and all of my life lite I had bad to do the dirty housework Then I got married and ond I still had to do housework which I hated bated My lily bus bus- band died and I went to work in a 0 factory and for tor the first time In my mi life lite I got to do tho the kind of work I liked to do and enjoyed doing But my children have worried at mo me until they made me glee give up the factory and stay at home and now I have to d do a again RnE the 8 housework u I hate ate A TIRED OUT MOTHER AnswerS Answer Ans r Dont Don't t be chicken pecked Go 00 back to the factory and do dothe dothe dothe the work you like to do Not every woman Is domestic In her tastes You have served your turn at cooking and washing dishes Let the youngsters do It I a while DOROTHY OROTHY DIX Copyright by 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