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Show Worothy Dix Talks 3M YOU CANT DO IT, GENTLEMEN I"OICt . i ' : DIX the World's Jli-l.-st V:ul- Wivnai: Writer : BySWr ' Irlllr.u me of his' -W ty, fpftS: ' " hMlisa" ikissW"it . r sitK Ir' j. t ' " W K . Mn '' V lasK- I IrT- II JK Hint I nE ': mention of his- I.LK K I Vr", K ; f It,', . Bir mother, ami T'i Ur fnUlU ' ,i iw 1 ; . m I ... i4ntt r the ben ''L lillr' fellow, hut a falher's influence Is negligible beside mplher.li; i am with him two hours a da--. Sin- is with him all the lime: What Is a man to do dn-drr dn-drr such circumstances '."' Nothing. There is absolutely nothing la do. a man can't separate a child from Its mother, becaus? It Is an inhuman thing to do. and because any sort of mother Is better than DO mother at all. A man's mistake N In notpiojeing cut the sort of mother he wants for his children chil-dren In Ton hand instead of nbjecilTiB to (he ine lie gets, lie should even no farther far-ther back than that. He should fjlve her mother the ohce-ovcr, Select the kind of s grandmother you would like your children to have, ami you m nol need to worry about them or their up -bringing-. A great man- excuses are lo be made for the f'-oiish luttrriage that women mak ln-i.iuse a woman )nt' to tale the kind of n husband she can kc-i. i ustom an'l convention do hoi permit iicr to ro out Openly and select her mate anfl the lypt of man that she would like to have for the father of her children, but a man Is free u pick and choose. He can look 'er the whole world of woir.cn and tuke hi- i hon e. So his wirV represents nbso-lutelj nbso-lutelj bis (ab ami judgment And It doesn't SDCak much for rithi one that mj many men marry women of whom they tire before the honeymoon is over. For the unfaithful husband is the tangible proof of a man's had matrimonial matrimo-nial guess The man who marries the woman who satisfies his ideuls Is siren-proof. siren-proof. No ne can lure him away from his own fireside if he finds there comfort com-fort and companionship, and understanding under-standing and sympath)! all lhal soul and 1-od. crave. No man In his sober scnm desires a fool for his wife. No educated man looks forward with joy lo a lifetime companionship com-panionship with a woman who has n rcr read anything deeper than the sK best sellers, and who yawns In his face when he tries lo talk to her about t;.e mm-Jects mm-Jects In which he Is really interested. No man who has his own way to make In I he world desires t he handicap of d ' ICe I I who Is wasteful and extravagant, and! who thinks that a woman's mis&icn In life Is to spend money, Jind a man's to DEO de her with it to "pen I. Yet you ee otherwise sane and 'lslMe men blithely lead to Uie aitar thi -. sort of women they do not wanr a.s wives. Intelligent men marr. drlvcliiui idiots. , i 'ollefie professors marry buttCrflTej l'o ri men capouacTapendera. and then they wail,, land beat upon their braata. apJ cail upon Heaven t" wltheiis thai marriag-j Is a. failure and 10 se What misfi: ...wh. j ihey have got. Their excuse is the same- as niy .'rieni's. I They married the women wiio tired their' I fancies In n e belief that they could cut them over to suit their Ideas, and Ihey found out too late that the thing couidn'-x he 'done. There no other piece of human vanity equal to that which makes us, helleve that We arc more powerful than heredity and environment .ind -.hat sve : i an bhapge lhat which nature lias spent tweni or, more years in building up. Men ar.l women alike hold this theory. Men arc particularly strong for it, hut it nocr works oitf In either case The girl who marries a Inzy ami dlj IQlujte man to reform him. finds tnat he is Just as laiy and dlssoluU- after mar-rlage mar-rlage A" he v.i"- before The man who marries a silly, pleasure-lovlnggj clothes- i mad girl ascertains that she has nu more sense aficr marriage than she had before, and that she Is Just as crazy about : gadding around, and having a good lime, and I hi I finery. If a iiiun should k'o In a shop and deliberately de-liberately select a fragile. 1 resden china ' parlor ornament, and then complain Whl n he got It home that il was nol an Irn pot. or if hi should by a motor tnuic and expect u to suddgply turn inio a satin-lined limousine. We should send hlin I ' 10 the nearest insane as lum. But man asks these miracles Of matrimony every , d o. and . .iiinoi understand why ihey fail (' materialise. The only remedy for the unsuitable psarrlage la prevention. Pick out the sort if husband or wife you want. Instead of trvlnp ! change a man or woman to suit j our fancy. For Ii can't he done. |