Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-13
Dorothy Die Says

curiousest nation of people dat dere is.
Experience has convinced me that
she was mistaken. Cooks are not the
most curious nation of people. Hus-
bands are. I've been married to John
for over thirty years. and he has still
got me guessing.
Now, my husband is a good man
He is an intelligent man. He must have
married me because he loved me, fol-
there was no other reason for doing So
as | was neither rich nor socially impor-
tant. l suppose he loves me still. OBJ
viously he trusts me. Possibly he ap-
preciates what 1 do to make him a com
Portable home, and be a good wife and
mother. Undoubtedly he believes i'm
plicitly that he is so attractive that no.
body and nothing on earth could pry
my affections loose from him. But
granting all of these things to be true
he still keeps me wondering.
81 wonder, first, that in all of these
years it has never once occurred to him
TO study me or to take the slightest in
terest in the real me-my real, inner
most self. l should think that ne
would have some curiosity about what
the woman, who hits across the drop
light from him of an evening, is think
ing as she sews long seams or darns
He has never once tried TO find out my
real opinion of a book, or a play, or to
get my viewpoint on life.
"All that he knows about what l think
is that I'll make a row about TWO OF
three things, which he calls my cranks
but as for the balance my mental pro-
cesses are of absolutely no Importance
to him, and he has never thought II
worth while to investigate them. II tooh
him ten years to remember that L liked
the breast of the chicken instead of the
leg. He never notices whether I'm sick
or we'll unless I'm i'll enough to be in
bed and send for the doctor. He never
observes when l have on a new dress
and when l ask him if hat is oecom-
ing he merely grunts He forgets. my
birthdays and gives me money at CHRIST
mas, because he doesn't know what J
want for a present, which, Of course, Is
merely a frank declaration that he has
never been interested enough in my
tastes to discover what 1 like.
Yet 1 am the woman that he plckec
out of all the world for wife, and
don't think that he has ever regretted
his choice. He would have treated any
other woman the same way, and it's be-
cause he. in common with the majority
Of other men, don't consider woman
worth studying. Occasionally there IL
a man who does study US women. anC
the sensation of finding one who thinks
II worth while to probe into our minds
and souls, instead of looking at oul
compilations and figures, Is so novel ano
fascinating that we go down before him
like ripe wheat before the sickle. That
the psychology of the lady killer.
"There's another thing 1 wonder n,
continually, and that is my husbands al
titude on the money question. He ism
stingy. On the contrary, he is lavish. he
wants the children and me to live wei
and dress finely, and make splash. IT
a way we are his show window where hC
can display his prosperity and success
but I have never had a dollar since
was married that I could do with abso-
lutely as / pleased. mean a dollar tha1
1 could use to help some poor friends o.
relative as 1 would if 1t were my owr
money. 1 have to give an account of ev
cry cent I spend. 1 have to ask for ev'
cry penny I get. I have never had Z
bank account My husband trusts me
with his name and his honor, but NJ
doesn't trust me with his pocket book.
'I wonder If he never thinks how
humiliating it is to me to have TO &
to him like a beggar for every penny.
wonder if it never occurs to him how bit.
ter this dependence is to me. wOnd 81
if It never crosses MS nina now unJuS
il seems to me that l should not have
even a servants wages for my very owr
in return for the eighteen or twenty
hours a day work that I do for him am
his children. I wonder If he, and other
men, never think how their wives hat,
them at times for holding them in this
domestic slavery
Another thing that | wonder at /:
my husbands calm acceptance of the
theory that there is one way of life fol
man and another for woman. He
comes home at o'clock in the morning