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Show Dorothy Dix Talks I I WOULD YOU MARRY YOUR WIFE AGAIN? By POBOTgY DIX, the Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer J In most of tho dlvorc cases the' petitioner Is the wife and her commonest com-monest complaint Is unfaithfulness on her husband's part. In society it Is very rarely that you see a middle-aged woman, who Is a wife and mother, neglecting her family fami-ly while shf. toddles around with boys young enough to be her sons, and tires ramp every good looking man she meets, but nothing Is a more familiar sight than the elderly husband and father who disports htms?lf with flappers flap-pers and is a gay Dothario. Every gearrled woman, who has not got a husband whom she Is fond of, lives In perpetual dread of his straying off after some other woman wo-man That is why, when he sees herself getting fat and forty, and unfair. un-fair. sh begins to bant, and play golf, and massage, to try to preserve the charms that captured her lord. Hut a man makes no effort to preserve pre-serve his girlish figure in ordor to retain his wife's affection. He Is perfectly per-fectly satisfied that he couldn't lose her if ho tried All of which goes to show that man has a roving fancy, and .-. wldl taste In femininity, and eo many a Joan as she sits opposite her Darby of an evening, wonders what ho Is thinking about her and matrimony, and whether If he had to make his ; choice over again, he would take ! her or not I ..ft ourse, sn knows that he knows ( that she Ims been a good, and faithful faith-ful wife to him, and a thrifty and industrious in-dustrious helpmeet, and that he would trive her a gorgeous recommendation as u working partner, hut then, art 0 many other things In matrimony besides doing your duty. A woman must be more than Just useful to make her.seif wanted How about It? The man who has gotten his real sou: male would naturally stand pat If the opportunity offered to get a new Ehu'fle rrnd deii and a fresh hand in the matrimonial game, but the man who has married in lhe ordinary or-dinary hit-or-miss. grab-bag way in which choosing one's life partner Is usually conducted, would be very apt to throw tho old wife Into the discard, dis-card, and try- his luck at drawing another an-other queen. At least, that would be Vils first impulse h would look upon his old wife, and perceive that she had grown (grizzle-headed and plain of face, and heavy of figure, and that she always wore her clothes with the air of having borrowed them from her worst enemy. He would think how-delightful how-delightful It would be to have a living liv-ing picture to look at dully In his home Instead of a faded chrome He would reflect upon how pleasant If would he to have n companion who was full of pep and high spirits of youth, instead of one who was full of aches and complaint-, and the dreary forebodings of age. And he Would resolve that his numbei two 1 wife would be easy on the eyes, and something that made a man feel that he had gotten the worth of his money wh- n h dolled b.-r up in Paris clothes and hung pearls around her neck. perhaps, a man would look at his dull, commonplace, domestic wife i ill and think that In all the years that he had been married they had never V .( had one particle of real companion-ship. companion-ship. She had never ca light the point of one of his Jokes. Phe had never read a hook that he had. or under-stood under-stood on allusion to anything that I dldn'1 pertain to ordinary every day life They had never even talked about anything but rent, and butcher's meat and the children, and school, and Clothe.' He would think that If the fates would give him his choice of a wife gain that he would fly to somn . I hlgh-browed lady whose dlscouso would be all of the soul, and not of the body, and v. ho could wander hand H In hand with him down all the flow-ery flow-ery paths of literature. Instead of staving put In the kitchen Or. perhaps, the man w ho is married to a hagger would say If he had a second choice: "Never again! Willi a woman who cannot say a thing once and have done with it. Me for a Wife from a deaf and dumb asylum """ H where they don't even teach the sign language-." And. assuredly, the man who Is married to a wile with a red headed temper thinks lo would never again espouse S woman who wasn't so meek and mild that bitter would melt In her mouth, and the mnn afflicted with a Wife w ho Is a human tear Jug is j certain that cheerfulness is the quality ." that would most recommend a lady I to his favor But If these men were automatical- U, , ly divorced from their wives, and , miraculously found themselves free., the chances are that nine-tenths ofi them would go b,i k. and mnrrv their I wives o.r again The middle-aged , man would reflect that It would be. a lot of trouble to have to play un MKM I to a young and beautiful wife, and that Mandy was content to sit a home with his rheumatism, instead Of wanting to gad around al nights. ! The man with the dull wife would remember that his spouse said It with good dinners, and that If she eouldn t make epigrams, she was a master ', hand at angel food, and that It Is LH easier to find companionship than It LH Is a cook. The husbands of the nag-get-, and the -hrev. and the weeper 1 j would conclude that after they had developed rhinoceros skin that made "ii.m Impervious tp t ie henpeckihg H they are accustomed to. it would h I folly to buck up against a new lino of feminine peculiarities. And so they would all marry again thlr first choice. in proof whereof 0 y tak" this when a widower proposes L marriage to u woman, he almost in- cjliiH variably tells her how much she re- LB minds him of his first wife |