El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-04
Make Love to Your Wife
When Husband or Wife Quits Max
ing Love TO the Other, Some
body Else Begins
By Dorothy Dix.

IN a recent divorce case, young
and pretty woman testified that
4 her husband was no companion
to her, and that even at hotels and
summer resorts she would sit up lonely
and forIorn. with nobody to speak
to while he spent his time perusing
the financial news and studying the
stock reports
As a result Of her neglected ap-
pearance, a good looking young man
undertook to console her, and among
other things said to her. You are
too pretty a woman to have man
read a newspaper in your face"
without discussing the merit of this
particular divorce case that one little
phrase, you are too good looking a
woman to have man read a news
paper in your face" contains ser
mon that every married man and
woman may listen TO with enlighten-
ment, and apply to themselves with
For the gist of it is this-that If
you don't make love to your husband
or wife. some other woman or man
will
If you want to keep your own. you
must look after it
The DeIusiOn.
When you leave the door unlatched.
you invite thieves to come IN and steal
It is part of the vanity Of human
nature that none of Us can ever i'm
agipe such an improbable thing hap
penny as for anybody who has once
loved us ceasing to love US In our
own eyes. we are always 50 trans
cendeEtally beautiful. and wise, and
fascinating that It is impossible for
anyone to break away from our hyp-
motto spell. no matter what we do.
Hence we take liberties with love- in
the placid assurance that nothing can
Kill il.
Not one man in a thousand ever de-
liberately tries 10 make himself enter
tanning to his wife He feels that he
doesn't have to. and he never realizes
that. after standing about so much
Of il, she'll get up some fine day and
go out and hunt up a man to talk TO
who IS interesting and sympathetic.
Or perhaps as is often the case. a
man is frankly brutal to his wife
The Exception.
Such a man and millions like him
are satisfied that their wives will go
on admiring and adOring them, no
matter what happens.
Most women do stand neglect and
i'll treatment with whatever patience
heaven sent them! but now and then
one with more spirit and less endur-
ance than the rest fOrsakes this
death-in-life existence There would
be mighty few women would ever look
entertain them, somebody to sympa-
thize with them somebody to show
them tenderness. If they had anybody
at home TO pay them any attention
Precisely the same thing may be
said of men It is almost invariably
the wife who prepares the way for
the other woman It is the nagging
wife who sends her husband away
from home to find peace Tt is the NOR
bid wife who does nothing but fret
and complain and weep who drives
man away to seek cheerful compan-
iOnship
Man Needs JoIIyfnE.
Every man has got to have some
body to Jolly him along. and tell him
that he is the handsomest. biggest.
bravest man in the world. and II his
wife won't do IT he will hunt around
until he finds some other woman who
Will Also, every man has got to
have some woman to love him and
make a fuss over him and baby him.
and If his wife won't do il some other
woman viii
Men can't confde in each other. and
ten other men what wonderful things
they are going to do. but every man
mas got TO have some woman who
viii listen unweariedIy. fntelIigentIv
and sympathettcally to his day dreams
and If he doesn't find this sort Of lis
tener at home he does find her IN his
Office or on the next street
Just paste this little motto on your
mirror, dear Sir and Madam:
when quit making love to nv
husband or wife, somebody else is 90
ing to Begin