The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-01-24
BY Dorothy Dix
Tho Worlds Highest Paid Woman writer

Fudge! The majority Of women to
whom this gospel for keeping hu,-
band is propoundcd will cry out Zen
cusc me There's isn't a man on earth
that's worth that much trouble. II
I've got to hold my husband by stuff
ing hun lull OF compliments whether
feel like knocking him or not, and
agreeing with everything he SAYS.
whether ! think he is right or wrong,
and it,all he cares for me is for my
looks, the sooner ! lose him the better
pleased m be.
WHY ! married a man. not a sing.
vain, little poplnjay that has to be
puiicd up with compliments and c.
JoIcd into behaving dcccntly Moreoyct.
the atmosphere OF home that is full ol
tlattcry and double shuiilng. and lies.
and whccdling to work a man. and cv
tract money and attention painlcS,ly
from him, would be a> ,lckly and ua-
wholesome a the pcriumcd air OF a
medieval harem The very smell ot
home is the clean smell OF truth, and
honesty and soap and water
Equally absurd i, the theory that a
women can retain her husband, aiicc-
ton by keeping herself Young and beat
tliuI. To begin with. that j, an ,mpo
,lhlllty and the time wasted ON it l.,
loves labor lost Age. and work, and
sorrow are bound TO set their seal upon
a woman ard rob her OF her beauty, and
II by the time she is ~ years old and
has lived with man Tor twenty years.
he doesn't love her for something better
than hc' looks, he doesn't love her At
all Nou can't hold man with a rorsct
string, and there, no use in trying.
Still more iallaclouS Is the silly
theory that to keep husband a wife
must keep him entertained The idea
that man wants hN home turned into
a vaudeville performance, with his wiir
dong stunt altcr stunt to amusc and
divert HIM must have originated in the
brain oi paranolac
Can YOU really think oi ANYTHING
more uncomfortable. and more calculated
to drive \ man away from hi, own tr,-
side, than to- find there 4 wife who
would l,rS, tear off "A line oi entertain
ing conversation. m which she would
Jump u,mhly from topic To- topic wHo
. would then execute a piece on the piano.
warhlc a dittN or perhap, even rccitc.
ot do negro or Irish impersonatiou
Have YOU ever visited at a place
where Your hostess icit II her du,, To
/ entertain you' Where something va,
. domr every minute and YOU were
. talked tp until yuu we're ready to ,hri. X
with borcdom' Iha, will give you
/ ,omc idea oi what am afllly,ion wlit
would be II she followed out these
otaClc, advice tu amu,c her husband
after his hard day', work is over
The beauty about a home and 'hs
/ one lhlug that make, It worth working
/ ior, IS that It's a place YOU can relax.
/ where YOU can take oil your good
/ clothes, and Your company manncr'.
. and drop Your role ol being brilliant
| entertainer. or fascinated listener.
and neither have 10 talk, nor hc talked
to, nor look beautiful, nor well gotten
up
The truth is tina, the only recipe TIA,
works ior Keeping husband i, To- keep
him guessing rhe most dcto,ed hus-
bands, and the husbands who stay Low.
! crN 10 the end .oi the chapter, are those
who spend their lives trying to RETAIN
their wives affections and TO please
their wives not the ones whose wiys,
arc making door mats and ho, air ma.
chimes OF themselves Model wives
never have model husbands. but thy
women who are uncertain. coy and hard
to please always have some man whc
is breaking his neck attempting the job
Man is still the huntsman. even after
he gets married and the problem oI
woman is how To keen him under IN,
impression that she i, still bird un tht
wing while she is. in reality, a hen On
the nest II any solomon can suly,
tha, problem. he can tell n, how t.
keep a husband Not otherwise.
Copyright 1919, by the Wheeler syn
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