The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-01
DOROTMY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writs'
New Years Resolutions.

DeSlnnlnS OF the new year Oo oo1i
claim to be perfect. You may have a
few little weaknesses-if you want to
call personal characteristics weak
nesses-but nothing that anyone could
object to who isn't a crouch, crank
and overly critical, and heaven knows
you're million times too good for
the people with whom you have to
live!
So there's really no reason for you
to make any New Years resolutions
to live a better life the coming year,
but there are lots of people who could
be benefited by wiping off the slate
and taking a fresh start. Don't you
wish, for instance.
That YOUR HUSBAND WOULD
RESOLVE:
To take as much interest in his
home during the coming year as he
does in his business.
To treat you with as much consid-
GRAFTON aid politeness as he does his
customer.
To watch what his children are do
ing and thinking as closely as he does
what his clerks are doing and think
ing.
Don't you wish that your husband
would resolve not to take out on his
family all the nerves, irritabi1ity and
=
and ashamed to snow to the outside
world?
That he wouldn't say things to you
that he wouldn't dare to say to any
woman who had an able bodied
brother, or to his cook or stenographer
who could give notice and leave.
That he wouldn't take everything
y Il do for him as a matter OF course
and without so much as thank you;
that he wouldn't row over the bills
! tsa n
eaten ever particle of the food that
| came into the house, and worn all
the clothes, and monopo1ized all the
light and heat, and occupied all the
furniture.
Don't you wish that your husband
would resolve that during the coming
year he would help you to make a
happy home by being cheerful in it
and interested in it-by being human
| instead of just a check book. or a
tyrant before whom the whole house
| hold trembled?
| That he would resolve to pay you
three hundred and sixty-five compli
ments, each one of which would make
a happy day for you.
That he would resolve to get ac-
quainted with his children and win
| their confidence so that he might give
them the help and guidance that they
need so sorely and that only a wise
/ and loving father can give to his chill
| dren.
| Don't you wish that YOUR WIFE
| WOULD RESOLVE:
| To be a better housekeeper and to
| bring every bit of intelligence that
/ she's got to running her home scien-
| tifically and efficiently.
| To devote more time and attention
/ to the kitchen, and less to bridge.
To make herself look as attractive
at breakfast when there's nobody but
the family present as she does at
dinner when there's company
/ = Don't you wish that your wife
| would make and keep a cast iron New
Years resolution:
Not to drag you around to parties
| when you come home half dead from
/ a hard days work.
h Not to spend money as if it grew
| on trees
| , Not to fret and complain because
she can't dress like millionairess.
Not to nag and thresh over the
same old grievance a million times.
| Not to have nerves and mysteries
| every time she is crossed in anything
and can't have her own way.
Don't you wish that your wife
| would resolve:
To be a real helpmate, to take an
interest in your business and be will
ing to deny herself things to enable
you to get on in it.
To be sympathetic and affectionate
, and to show you that she appreciates
| how hard you work for her and the
children.
To let you see that she admires YOU
and thinks she got a prize in a hus-
band.
i To act like a rational human being
instead of a spoiled baby.
/ And above all don't you wish that
she would resolve:
To always turn bright and cheer
/ full face upon you and make your
! home the gladdest place to come to
! instead of the spot that you'd most
avoid if you dared to.
/ Don't you wish that your in-laWs
4 would make New Years resolution
To keep their fingers out of your pie
1 during the ensuing year.
To visit you only when pressed tc
do so and to make their visits short
when they do come.
: To refrain from handing you un.
solicited advice.
To quit eriticising what you eat an6
) drink, the books you read, your poll
) tics, religion, clothes, how you raise
the baby. and your right to use you
best china when you want to.
Don't, you wish your friends would
make a New Years resolution:
Not to load you down with all theil
troubles.
,, Not to tell you all the disagreeablt
things that they hear about you
Not to believe that friendships give:
them a right to monopolize you and t
dictate to you what doctor you shall
have. what dressmaker you shall go to
what other friends you may indulge in
Not to feel that their friendship
gives them the privilege of invadins
. the privacy of your life and dragging
the secrets of your soul from you.
Not to make of their friendship
burden but a pleasure.
. Don't you wish that mothers would
make a New Years resolution:
/ oil ont h y cd e-a1F I<S
children and rule their offspring in
stead of being ruled by them.
That they would see that theil
, young daughters were decently
clothed instead of letting them go GU
half naked as they do at present.
That they would teach their girls Il
be modest and dignified.
That they would teach their daug51