The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-28
Dorothy Dix Says
WIVES AND BUSINESS.
BY Dorothy Dix
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

d0d that II he didn't 10 it we would
i1rNc, but sometimes | think | would
rather Starvc than have him do it"
Md that was why women as 4 whole |
Nmpathised with Mrs Carmau when
She pu, a dNtagraph IN her husbands
office so that SHE could listen to what |
ne 'a'd TO his patients and wha, his |
ratcntS said to himi& They could IN. !
lerNtand the gnawing jealousy that |
drove woman to do any act 10 find |
ont what went on IN that secret and
mysterious place devoted to the cSer-
cNc OF a mans profession and int
winch mere wife may not penetrate
l'ut II is not only the professions IN
which mems patrons are chiefly women
that inspire the jealousy o( wives. It's
any and all business Listen To the
talk of wives They almost ALWAYS re
fer IN invidou' terms 10 that hateful
old office or that horrd old shop"
IN which their husbands earn their iiv-
ing, and their tones drip venom when
they speak Of their husbands being so
absorbed in their business that they
have no time or thought for ANYTHING
else and cant be dragged away for
winter trips and summer excursions.
| When a man IS late for dinner. Or has
/ to break an engagement with his wife.
/ and gives some cNlgcnCy OF business
as his excuse, she feels lust as much
injured and that she has lust as much
/ OF a grievance as If he had been de.
i tanned by some fascinating siren,
II is business that takes up her huS
bands time and thoughts and keeps him
away from her. that ahsorbS him so in
/ the market report OF a morning that he
does moi notice that she has a head
ache and looks pale and that exhaust,
| him so that he's too tired to anusc
her IN the evenings Observation
teaches her that no woman who has
been married to a man five wears can
raise the thrill IN his bosom. or bring
the light 70 his eyes that ten -point
rise in stocks docs And 50 the wife
unconSclou'ly comes to look upon her
husbands business as her deadly foe
II it wasn't for the "old store" and
the "Old office" she feels sure that her
husband would resume the lovcrlikc Al
titudc OF their honeymoon when he put
aside air business and spent the time
IN telling her how beautiful and won
dcrful she was, apd marvclng at hi,
luck IN securing such an angel for a
wife
In their jealousy OF their husband 5
occupations women overlook the fact
tha, they live upon the bounty OF their
hated rivals and that /, is out OF the
vampire store and office thar comes
the money that keeps them soft and
: comfortable II they would reflect a
while on the connection between man
devotion to his occupation and the
number Of new frocks and hats and Jew
els and automobiles that they enjoy
they might cease tormcnting their hus
bands with their jealousy and thu,
, make IT easier for him to earn the dol
! lars they have such pleasure in spend
ing
The professional man who has 10 bc
= forever combating his wlteS suspi
! cIonS, and the business man who Ina
to he eternauy explaining that h,
doesn't work fourteen hours a day jus,
= for the fun OF the thing, are handicap
) ped Just so far by their wives silly
jealousy.
OF course il may be said in excuse for
the women who are jealous OF their
husbands occupations that the woman
who has never worked for her living
n a,
the business world To her going down
town means gong on a lark. doing
something's interesting and delightful
and she thinks of it in terms ol shop.
ping ICE cream SodaS, teas and lunchc,
N fashionable restaurants and matt.
nccS.
So she pictures her husbands depart,
ure every morning to his business a.
nothing more nor less than A perpctu
! ally recurring picnic OF what II
, means to the man IN labor, and Swca,
and anxiety and toll she has no conccp
tion II she had she would pity him a,
the helpless victim of a savage monster
instead OF cnvy,ng him as one who iriv
OILS through some delightful and anus
ing game.
, The only way ~ cure wives of thclt
icaloSv ot their husbands business is (,
take them into /, and make them par,
ncrS in II and lct them do some Of IN,
work and bear some OF the burden
themselves Thl, is the French plar
where every middle class woman toll
side by side with her husband, and f,
works out beautifully both as regard
prosperity and domestic peace and hap
plncSS