The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-25
Dorothy Dix Says
AMERICAN WIVES,
BY Dorothy Dix
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

wv JHENENER foreigners or expa-
w triated Americans run out OF
anything else TO say, they take
few whacks at the American wife, whom
they accuse OF heartlessness, extrava-
gance, laziness and general trilingness,
The latest individual to heave few
verbal brickbats at his ex-countrymen
IS a preacher who has just come back
home after living in Munich for twelve
years, and the things he has to say
about American wives would raise the
very hair on their heads with horror
and indignation II they weren't so ac-
customed TO il and hadn, heard il all
so often before.
The reverend gentlemans remarks,
however have greatly impressed man,
who writes me letter IN which he
echoes the preachers charges, and tells
a pathetic story OF friend OF his whose
wife deserted him because he los, his
money, This is the way the selfish
American wife treats her husband in
the day Of adversely" says my
oersorpn ednt The European woman
devoted only to her husband and family,
would not act So
Pifile. Also, nonsense. There are
good wives and bad wives, faithful
wives and unfaithful ones, the world
over Loyalty has no geographical lin
ltations One swallow does not make a
sprng, nor should one selfish American
wife queer the whole race OF Patient
Grizeldas in this country,
Judge women by the majority and
not the exception One American wife
may have left her husband when he
lost his property, but how many thou
sands OF women have you seen roll up
their sleeves and 60 to work 10 help
their husbands under similar circum
stanees' Don't you know dozens oi
women who have converted their fine
houses into boarding houses after their
husbands failures in busneH'
Can't YOU recall plenty Of women who
have dismissed their servants and gone
into their kitchen 10 do the work, who
have made over their old clothes, and
trimMed their hats, and pushed their
own baby carriages when their hus-
bands became eropper in business, and
who not only turned smiling face
upon the world, but kept their hus-
bands courage so that the men were
able to make fresh start in the world
For any one American wife who Is
millstone about her husbands neck
you can find thousand who are the
ing OF their tender shoulders a ladder
on which their husbands are climbing
to success
Some extravagant American wives
there are, but the great majority arc
far more thrifty and economical than
their husbands, which is abundantly
proven by the fact that not one man
in ten ever saves any money until he
gets married A great many salaried
men turn over their entire pay enve
lope 10 their wives, not because tn,
wives demand II, but because expert.
enoe has shown the husbands that their
wives can take better care OF the money
and &c, more out OF IL than they can
As for the American wife not being
as good a wife as the foreign woman is
that's all tommy ro, At any rate, she
suits the American man better than
any other wife would, because she ha,
been evolved according TO his taste.
and needs. That she fills the bill to his
satisfaction is amply shown by the fact
tina, while the American woman Otter
msrries 4 foreign man. the American