Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-04
No. 3 of Miss Dix's Series:
SEVEN MISTAKES OF
MATRIWONY
BY DOROTHY DIX.
-IE third deadly mistake OF matrlmony is:
TO MARRY OUT OF YOUR CLASS.

TO MARRY OUT YOUR CLASS
This is whether you marry above or below
Yourself whether undergo the torture of re-
alizng that you are being dragged down by your
band or wife or are forced to suffer the humiliation and
agony of being hotsted his or There is
no peace nor happiness in either process
If you would be happy though married. marry
out Of your own class either financially socially. intel
lectualy morally
or course the least important In equality
money but this Is only unimportan when the advant
age age OF money is with the man poor girl may marry
oHss since custom makes man the purse bearer and
woman the recipient of his generosity, but
marries a rich woman his peril
Marry in your own social class Men make the mis-
Tits the Wiz t bi ooai taI la' rne huSp t
abroad where the wife a duchess
though he took her from the slums, but it
this country. where women make society, where a
mans social position is determined mainly by his
ANOTHER ILLUSION.
The illusion also obtains among they can de-
relop their wives and girl be into any
thing that husband pleases Mised by this theory
man who comes of cultured and refined people, and
ries girl beneath him in the scale one who
has had little education, whose family horiu
and whose associations have been common and vulgar
He believes that marriage viii change into the
likeness his mother sister is stronger
than marriage she elder grows like
her people. You cannot change blood breeding
The Flanders mare remains the Flanders to the end
Of the chapter She becomes thoroughbred and
the whose taste Is for thoroughbreds viii
self and her too long as they live demanding from
the impossible expecting in her the qualities that he has
AS the man out of her So
cal class God pity him and her both for there s not
Ing else earth that gets much nerves
husband Of whom she Is ashamed assuredy
there be nothing lacerating a mans vanity
mistress and mistress of department and who is
tnualy correcting him and telling him what he do
bnd mustn't do
REAL CAUSE.
Nine-tenths of the tragedies OF matrmopv ara tina
direct results OF people not marrying
lectual class Men captured by beautiful face marry
women whose heads stuffed with sawdust Immature
girls, blinded by romance, marry with in
maxim fnacbines Than t oe men VINO are mere
VINO bigbrained. great-souled of sympa-
thy find that they tied life those with
whom they have not thought aspiration in com
mon. and who do not understand is as IL
vitality alive bound hand and foot TO a cornse
Finally, marry in your class If you are
and even the conventions marry the same iik
and whose conduct squares with the Ten Command
you forgive his-or her-fault and that you viii
reform him her.
You may forgive, but you forget and alvav.
the blackneEs of the wrong been done and
that cannot be ignored will shadow happiness
Not often marries a with a past Occa-
sonaIly does however It never turns out
we'll No matter how straight the vi walks the bus
band is always suspicious of her times domestic
stress by word or look he throws up to her the thing
ngenerous thing to do but very human
The who has his wild better thar
the woman when he marries SO does wife for men
and women sinners not Judged by stand
and 1t is less Notifying to know that
recalling Iurid past than n ~
for husband to know that gossip Is busy fes.
but all the doubtless wit nozzle
Christian wife. who is lifting him up to the higher
life could unfold tale of suffering that wouldn't give
the early martyrs anything him.
had al well face the last that ban
piness in matrimony lie to be found only in congent
alty. and like best, and along comfortably
with those who born to the things we
who have about the of money the
education, who uked to the conventions
and who the in literature pie that