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

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TO MARRY OUT OF YOUR CLASS
This is true whether marry above below
Yourself whether you have to undergo Of
band or wife are forced to humiliation
agony OF being hosted up to his her level There is
no peace nor happiness IN either process
II you would be happy though married don't marry
out of your own class either financially socially. intel
important In equality is the matter
rich man without endanssrng tbepr chances ay dn+t
bliss since custom makes the purse bearer
woman the recipient of his generosity but poor
marries a rich woman at his peril
Marry In social class, Men make the mia
take of marrying out of their order oftensr
women do because there is tradition that the husband
lfts the wife to his social level That be
though he took her from the siums but it is not in
his country where women make society and whers
ANOTHER ILLUSION.
Illusion obtains among men that thew can de-
geop their wives and girl can be changed into any
who OF cultured refined people and
whose mother and sisters are gentlewomen
rtesa girl far beneath him In the social scale.
has had little education whose family is loud
ana whoae associations have oeen common and vulgar
likeness of his mother and sister but
her people You cannot change blood breeding
The Flanders mare remains the Flanders the
Of the chapter. She becomes thoroughbred
the man whose taste is for thoroughbreds will him
self and her too long they live demanding from
the impossible expecting in her the qualities that he
no right to expect
AS for the woman who marries OF her so
ca class, God pity him and her both for there moth
ing else earth that gets much q
as husband of whom she Is ashamed. and assuredy
there be nothing more decorating to vanity
wife in the attitude OF a school
mistress and mistress of department, con-
tnuay correcting him and telling him what do
and mustn't do.
THE REAL CAUSE.
Nne-tenths of the tragedies of matrimonv are the
direct results of people not marrying in intel
lectual class Men captured by beautiful marry
women whose heads stuned with sawdust Tmmatur.
girls blinded by romance marry men with no more in
telligence than tailor's dummy, are mere
noney-making machines Then these and women
who big-braIned great-soued broad of sympa-
thy find that they tied life to those with
they have thought or aspiration in com
mon, who do understand them II 81 as II
one vitality alive bound hand TO a corpse
Finally. marry in your moral class you are
and the conventions marry the same Tx
whose conduct squares with Ten Command
you forgive his-or her--fault and that you will
reform him o
forgive but you will forget and AWAY.
blackness Of the has beer dopa ana
cannot be ignored will shadow your happiness
Not often marries a past Ocoa-
onally does however almost never turns ont
we'll No matter how straight the walks the bus-
always Suspicious Of domestic
stress by word or look he throws up to her the thing
that she most wishes forgotten. 1t cowardly and
ungenerous thing to do but very
The who has wild oats fare bettar
the woman when he marries SO does for men
ana women sinners are not judged by the
ard. and it is less Notifying know thar
people recalling her husbands past than II Is
for husband know gossip with his vifs's
but all same doubtless man with noble
Christian wife, who is lifting him up the higher
life could unfold tale suffering that wouldD,t gvs
the early anything him
We had well face the truth as last that han
piness In matrimony is to be found only congenl
with those who are born to the things that we
were. who have about the amount of money the
same education who are used 10 the same conventions
and who the same tastes in literature THAI
we havo