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Show i Dorothy Dix Talks I I DOMESTIC HUMOR I . -U. POHOTilY DiX. the Worldg Hiffu h i JSJSSSiSSL, I I A voting, wife- Is very much hurt and bewildered -8he la married to a man' whom sh' loven yvlth all hei heart, and! v ho a pjies r.' to he vety rond of her He1 praises her management f their little I home He hands her bouqqets about hei Hirlit nnd economy He smacks hr. lips' ovei hei .ookinr. nnd when they, an rlone together, or Jusl with members of I' i espeet i e tiunllics, registers ever narmarh oi being n happy ni contented lujsband who thinks that ho has drawn ' :iplt)il m ir.e In ihe mat i" mnnlH I lottery. Le-t Strangers come In. however, or let thei . be out ui nonie party, and It's i le,ent stary, Then the hushund gioans I -i Ihe expense of l,alnK lo .op port ii ramliy. and represents himself as i 1 ieeked creature w ho has to ii-.- - time .-lock on the minute He srarns .ill the unmarried men nol to BS uolisl; . Ire as, and sli their necks Into the domestic ha I tat nnii he boosts that If he wrir frae ii" womiRn would ever he smart enough lo catch him The wife cannot understand Why her husband acts so differently hi home .mil !.:oa.l She is hurt slid mortified i tl,e SttltUde he puts lieT in antl she wonders If he really Is sorry that lie married her, and would hka to be rid of hoi. whv he doexl.'l coma .nit and tell her privately. Instead ol proclaiming 11 public!) i ne ,,o,.i nine nr uoen t Know, as whe will know when ahe has Clll hei mat- rlmefiial wfsdom teeth, that her husband doesn't mesn a thing b his flings at marriage, and hla sspersfon ol her char acter. lie is merely trying lo be Witty, and ll ii sking his little Joke aftei thl time honored forrnula of husbands The oldest wheeze in the world I- th. mother-in-law Joke. The second oldest la i - i tan who ia ai i he-man led j. k-Both k-Both of them dale hack about four thou . sand years Fl. but they are still in. cood working order, and every man who' gets married takes them off the shelf dusts them off. and starts them gofnn a y iln. Why a man houll want lo make thl woman he leveaa fiR-n- ol fun, and hold hei up to ridicule before a lot of guff iMWing fools, nobody knows There is no oihei torture u exquisite as being laugh , I .it siid yet many a husband tuthleaslv subjects hla shrinking, and sensitiv e w if. 10 this cr.iel Ordeal, for the sake of being . i unit) . Ml of u know men who.-e best stones center around some pWullarlt) in their wives. All of us hare aat al dlnnei t.-.lie .ml listened fo some coarse uli. i..l triple-chinned husband, with a hide like a, rhlnOCerOUS relate some nlleged episode iboul his wife w hich show ed her up In j hu idiotic light, while his poor victim j looked at him with the eyes of a hurl rabbit, and tried to smile to hide tin-1 trembling 6f hei Hps. ami we have slshsd thai we could get up und take the en i I n vc knife to hhu. instead of having to DOlltClj I Sppl "id the torture srene. Men accuse Women of having no sense of humor. Perhaps the reason of it Is that women arc so often called upon to furnish the point of in. n a Jokes The- Wmt are not many ..f us who have inch an abnormsll) developed lunnybone thut w bjH tickled to death when the merry h.i H saw oi course, women ire funnv; so are .IH men. The sardonic Jest of creation Is human nature. There is not one of uv whose eccentricities would not make h L screaming cartoon, especially with a little UmM touching up here and there L Thai Whj "r who Is cruel K I HI nough lo pb'k out the mental nt phvsieal UmM defects Of oth.-l people , ,IJ them up to ridicule can always gel thi reputation H oi being amusing, and raise a laugh. But f , It Is ihe cheapest form ot wit, and the most cowardly H Perhaps If nun realized how deeplv thej stabbed into their wives' hearts with FB their domeslii Jokes, they would fon- H beat to use the deadly weapon, even if it dhl make Homan holiday for friend- H Appnentlv it does not occur lo the avei H age husband that it does not amuse his 'wife to hear him say that she la a burden. L and m killjoy to him. and that he regards himself as nothing less than a red Ian tern to-'varn oth.-r men against matri SBBBBBsl BJJJJJBJJ Xor does a msn seem to think thnt his wit. win io anything hut chortle with 1 mirth over lln side splitting account he H glvoi oi hi i ado '-villi the iag man 01 jfl run-ln With th Janitor, though hi .vould nevfi forgive her If she harhed Wt nei ii with his weaknesses, or set corn pai 'Ti .- i vviih thi verai loui account of ihe tltn In bOllght a gold brh k and fought a Humor always depends upon whose ox is gored, and tlc ine(t ol a loke depend UW upon whom It Is on. It a woman has the 111 lurk to be mar i ied to a man v ho thinks he is funnv. and wit irnsjsjjp be . laugh getter, she has I LW0 Bgleces; one is. that when L nun jokes his wife. It In realbj a sign that LH he is loud of her und upproves o her. little It would appeal to null' at. The Vsfl man who is really Irritated by hla wife's lH shortcomings never laughs over them In fl public He swears at them In private, and no man w ho Is actually henpe ked ever mentions the fact The man who pre to afraid ol his wife nnd to be bossed by her. is the one who la per fectly sure that he H the unrUesttonet In , ill of his own house. Phe other consols le for the wife of the i domestic Joker Is to cultivate her sent of Tiumor and while she can probahlf seen how funny she Is herself, sha mi get most amusing vision of hov H ridiculous her husband Is, Irving lo he a I Bl1 is a mailer of fact, ajolc in Ihe I taioil circle I as dariKerouflsVa a bomb. W h ii ii explodes., it shatters the peace, U and somebody always gets hurt H |