Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-19
(By Dorothy Dix

BRING less intelligence TO pear on sow
ing it's problems than they do to any
other question on earth A man gives
hundred times as much reason and
judgment to doing the simplest daily
tasks by which he makes his living as
he does to trying to make his married
life a success. He uses a million times
more tact and diplomacy in getting
along peaceably with his boss than he
does to smoothing down his wifes fur
the right way.
A woman uses up thousandfold
more gray matter in trying to find out
what colors She can wear than she
does in trying to understand her hus-
band, and she is a billion times more
concerned about how to retain her
figure than she is about how to keep
! nef husband enectlOnS.
Practically all of the tragedies Of
married life that break hearts and
wreck homes and cover names with
the slime of scandal, people bring on
themselves because they did not use
| the brains of a rabbit in conducting
their matrimonial affairs, and if
most people who applied to the divorce
courts to sunder their matrimonial
bonds received the sentence they de-
| served; they would be committed to an
asylum for the feeble minded
There are to blame for the catastrc-
phe and could prevent it had they
shown ordinary human intelligence.
Here's a case in point, The other
day a young woman came to me with
her tale of woe She isn't thirty yet,
but she married when she was mere
child, and has three children that she
loves. Her husband is a good, honest,
handwriting fellow, who tolls from
early morn till night to support his
little family in comfort When he gets
home he is dead, dog tired, and after
he has had his dinner he goes to sleep.
The woman is a good wife and a
good mother, so far as making a COM
Portable home for the family is con-
oerned. She works hard, too. in the
home, but when night comes and she
has her babies into bed, she wants
change. She wants some amusement.
some Of the pleasures and gaieties that
she missed as a girl through her early
marriage.
Her husband won't take her about,
He is sound asleep, and the inevitable
other man has put in his appearance.
He takes the wife to theatres and res
taurants, and she's fallen in love with
him-or thinks she has-and she looks
with disdainful eyes down upon her
poor, Woodworking dray-horse of a
husband.
But the woman's conscience hurts
her. In the midst of the gayest scenes
she thinks that she should be back
home with her babies and she wonders
what her husband will do when he
finds that she is galavanting around
with another man, but the tempter
tells her that her husband doesn't love
her, or else he would be taking her to
places Of amusement
And the woman stands at the turn OF
the road, drawn one way by a sense Of
duty and the other in her love of pleas
IRE, and actually asks-which
way she shall take. She isn't using
he common sense of a gnat in decid-
ing her fate and that of her husband
and children.
She is acting like a hopeless idiot,
and yet she has got plenty of intelli-
gence and sound enough judgment
about other matters. If you would
show her real genuine diamond and
rhinestone she wouldn't hesitate for
an instant about which one was of the
most value and which one to take, yet
she hesitates between honor and
shame, between man who is pure gold
and another who 10 NOTHING hut HaShv