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Show B j Dorothy Dix Talks I k , ARE YOU A GOOD WIFE? iy UOROTIH tlie WorM's Highest paid VVojrnan Writer !Lo ou wonder If you give satisfaction satisfac-tion as a Wife? When you see your husband or ah evening w.ui the smoke of his cigar curling a.,out Ins head; arta a far away look in lits eyes, do you ,-ver wonder whether he Is thlnklnu thai the best investment he ever made in his life waa when he bournt you a wedding rln?. or it he Is speculating A. upon what the tool-k.Hei was doing HOI tO ' I WS lllllol.iT hi 1 Im V undertook to be your moal t-caei for If you curious lii this subject, apply" l ruse ieiti us.s to yourself: B Have " ruwu away ihe UMI wllli which yob . .it our ttsii Vou butt-1 butt-1 ed your hooix wrtil good look.-. i on H were always so clean, and fresh or.u dainty. With your hair combed to Lc-. Lc-. omingly, aim your nose nicely Ppwd-ered,.and Ppwd-ered,.and your feet and rtinaes tso tr'.m 1 .ind neat Have you grown s)opp and 1 stovenlj and dowdy V Lo yu screw P on hair ui into a little hard knot. B tbdt would make the Venus de MUo look Uke a scarecrow, because its Hie easiest way to get it up.' Do you wear 1 run-down at the heels, slippers around H house and consld.-r a much-besoil- H ed kimona good enough to adocn your- . .Ti elf H for a mere husband? II takes B a man with a superhuman talent for H) lovl'ng to kee eriamored of a wonuwi H w ho Iboks as if She needed to be ositt H to the laundry, and whose kisses tasle of cold cream. H Vou also bailed your hook with tlat- H tery, ou made tne poor sucker who PPWWJ n.b: I i! UH ii ..'I'll b.-llev yjJlM, that you thought he waa the biggest. strongest, handsomest, wisest man in 1 the world. When he expressed an opm- H ion. you appeared to tnink it the utiei - H! anco of an orac.e? You asked his ad- H vice and let him tell you bow he WOUlCj H. run the world If he was at the head ol j things. Vou laughed at his stories and BB applauded his jests- HB Have you quit burning incense at h:s k feet? Do you Interrupt him In the midst of his b st story to tell htm that H the woman next door has got a new H hat? Do you remind him that you' H read the Joke he has just told In the column ol ihe funny paper? Do you, H openly flout his Opinions and rriticize B everything he does, from the way he H has his hair cut to his pronunciation? H it must be a terribly disillusioning; thing to marry a women because vou, H think you are getting an admiring aU-j B dlence in her, and then find out that, H you have got a cricket on the hearth r9B who is the president of the amalgamate ed oidcr oi l.idy knockers. H "' JOU 'ot' iOUr lllMt naby put your! ggMNH husband's nose so completely out oil Ruia Joint that it has r.cvet got in again'' ftflHill So many women never think ot their ,irJ r ;;c1 husbanos as any thing but their chlbl-rcn"8 chlbl-rcn"8 father, a convenience mercirully fE-LH i j ordained by providence to supply the wliBrsi wants of Johnnie and Tommy, an Stjjl.Jjl Mary and Jamy. He has no rights rWcg where the youngsters are concerned, I fcfcjiksu! and If he has to be worked io Ceauil to Indulge them In ev-rythtng their! fc'jejaii'? greedy young hearta crave, well. It's al pity, bl it has to be done. n$il Are you one of these all-mother FfcftSul wives? Do you e( your husimnd st jmt up alone while you hold the baby s telwtit hand while It goes to sleep until some iilW?ll other worn in Iji-kiiih to hold his hand?, KHm Arc you merciless in Sfllieeging WHR moiK-y out of him for the children? I BHHB Do you let him seo that he Is no real, HSm account In the family, and that youl firet thought" Is for Ihem, not hlm?i There are not man) men so humble Brirajl? and with so nttie self-iove that fhpyl dBjjy enjoy knowing that they are nothing! UHibI but the cash-register In their homes i BBBHI Are .you a good housekeeper? No' HUHW matter whether you have every virtue' B under the sun, hut are a poor rook,' H and keep a -messy and untidy house,' H you are a failure as a wife, it's Just H as much women's business to be1 H thrifty and economical andspeml her JSA husband's monie) wisely, as II is his Hf3 business to make the money. Hi.' What sort of a dinner do you sit' r" " ' husband d.-vvn to at nlght IMd AlA It corns out of paper bags, or is it the' MM kind of a meal that a man thinks KBBw cheerfplly of all the way home? Do1 HB you buy finery- that you can't afford. BHjVjVj or do you keep within your income'.' H A man can't think many nice loving H thoughts of a wife wiien he realizes jB that she has sold him Into bondage to RH milliners and dressmakers, and that II . h' whole work goes to their eur)ch hBBbI BjH Are you a good sport? Have you MJBH got the courage to smile, arid buck' tjfH your husband up when things go gjH wrong with him Do you make him HBB feej that no matter what happens, he - one loyal friend who will right gffljaBBI with him, back to Tiack, to the bitter BhjBjjHl end? Or are you ono of the whlners PBHI and couiplaiiiers who are always fret-' BBB ting because they can't have things! Hi !'ke Mis. Astorbllt. and who take the jBI lasl idt id nerve out ofi man by tell-' BBfl nu, him they don't know why hc can't BBl r et along as well OS some other man" ML I)., (,u show jour husband any ap- PBBB preciatlon? The average mnn loesn't BBBpBJ get a thing out of his dally toil except J his board and cldthSS. All the bal- Hf ot ll goes 10 NUppoi I hit fa m 1 1 v ypfl and if his wife takes this tremendous lUHilB sacrifice Without one word of thanks.l jBMaJM r"' I" hUrrd to feel that lie Is the goat -, I hat is offered up on the domestic altar. Do you eve;- tell your husband that you renhze all of thi.t. and how won-ideiful won-ideiful and sublime you think his con-iduct con-iduct to. and that he's one of the unsung un-sung heroes of the world? finally, do you rm:ke your home n pluce of cheerfulness, o.' quiet of peace and rest, a place to wh.in a tired man may come and Ruther up new strength and courage for the next day's buttle? 1 1 r Is It a place of nagging Slid fretting ;:nd quarrels and disco. nrort thai no-Ibody no-Ibody would return to If he could help Ihl'msdlf? Do you think the kind of a home you make is the realization dream of the bachelor you married? I Just listen to the turn of the key In the front door tonight when he ionics home, and you'll have a closo-, closo-, up. as our movie friends sny, f how you look to your husband as a wife- (Dorothy Dix articles appear in this paper every Monday. Wednesdav and l-'riday). |