El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-10
Does Marriage Bore You?
Women Appear to stand the Yoke
Hettern Than Men and Fewer
of Their Sex Complain.
Ry Dorothy Dix
. By DorOthV Ola

49, HY is it that men find matrl-
M mony more of a bore than
W women do2 They do, you know
The woods. to say nothing of the city
streets, are fun of wife deserters, while
you hardly ever hear of woman who
deserts her husband and children
Tt is women who live IN deadly fear
that their husbands viii get tlreQ or
them and run off after some Stral5it
fronted young lady when they get Iat
and forty. You never observe any man
worrying over the danger of has Wlle
getting weary of him because ne Sot
middle-ased and bald-headed ana
bay-windowed-
Why Is This:
It's men that yawn their heads OH
after dinner If they stay at home ana
who either lie down and go 20 sleep on
the couch or doze over their news
papers
than men2 Are they less entertaining
converse tioualists2 Are they personal
" less attractive than mem
Perish the thought still, the truth
remains that the feminine constitution
appears TO stand the wear and tear OF
matrimOuy better than the masculine
one does
Women are more grateful for kind
ness from their husbands than nus
bands are for attentions from their
wives A woman with a really appre-
ciative husband goes about beating
upon cymbalS and calling on hef
friends to observe how blessed she IS,
whereas the man takes everything that
a good wife does for him as no more
The average wife has the longest
hours of any worker in the world.
the smallest amount of outside diver
sion and the least pay. and yet she
finds UatrimOny not only enduraoIe'
but a blessed estate
Men say @Tes.'
In the discussion OF this subject that
has been going on, hundreds of letters
have been received from both men and
women. Almost every letter written
by q man SAYS emphatically that mat
rimOny is bore
One man writes
cor course. matrimony is dull It's
worse than dun. It's purgatory- [
am hard working man. and after
trouble after trouble during the course
or the day, 7 come home to "a dissat-
isfied wife. only TO be bGdgered by
her faUlt-findinE and nagging. L
stand by my marriage vows for better
that I had two children, I believe her
tongue would drive me insane. What
is life with a WOMAN of this sort VINO
Udgs all the time no matter how nard
I try to please herr When I come home
at night very seldom are my. meals
ready-somc times I have TO wait an
hour or two for my dinner cannot
stand this and though I dearly love
leaving my home and going to some
distant land"
And here's another man who escaped
marrying when he was in his salad
days. and who, is offering up thanks
for his luck. He says:
q know from ms own experience
that if / had married ct twenty. when
7 had a bad case or puppy love /
would not be I'm the circumstances that
7 now am Had / married this girl in
my boyhood DAYS I would have been
burdeneJ with a family and compelled
to keep ms nose TO the grindStOne to
make both ends meet. Instead of that,
by staying single was able 10 save
little money. and when opportunity
came my way. to take advantage OF il
and make an investment that has made
my fortune
What do the readers Of The Herald
Think DO they think that matrimOny
is a bore. and that men tire Of Il
quicker than women do? And is so.