The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-22
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DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
How TO Make a Happy Home-1.

A young couple who are about to
marry have asked me II I can give
them a reliable, acknowledgements
you-cannot-fail recipe for making a
happy home.
Certainly. Easiest thing in the world
I guarantee that any newly-weds can
make angel food of life If they will
observe these precepts.
Begin by going off by your lone.
some. Getting acquainted with the
person you have married Is a danger
GUS and a delicate job and one in
perilous. When you have the newt
able little spats that occur when any
couple are going thru the painful
process of adjusting themselves to
each other you don't want any out
slider refereeirg your fights. and urg-
ing you to stand firm, and your SPAR
ring partner not to give in.
Left alone Birdie will cry 1t out on
the second button Of your vest. and
you will kiss her back hair and call
yourself a brute, aud nobody will be
the worse for It. But 1t isn't so easy
to back down and take water when
her or your family have taken sides
in the quarrel and turned what was a
tempest in a teapot into a real storm.
Also being off by yourselves makes
husband and wife depend on each oth-
er, makes them necessary to each 9TH
er. and that's about the strongest thing
in the bond that ties two human beings
together.
Go TO housekeeping. Don't got to
live In a hotel. Don't board. Don't
go to live with mother or father. Set
up your own Lares and Penates tho
you establish them in your wardrobe
trunk. Boarding Is as demoralizing to
| bride as drink or dope would be. 1t
starts her off in married life on the
wrong foot. She has nothing to do.
nothing with which to occupy her
mind, or her hands. and it makes her
grow lazy and shiftless. and forms in
her habits of extravaganza that lead
| to the divorce court.
! Women who have nothing else to do
but to kill time soon get to Staying
their moral sense along with It, For
lack of anything else to do they haunt
the shops and grow extravagant. Dress
becomes an obsession with them. For
| want of other interests they grow
| fl1rtatfous, and that's the beginning OF
| the end.
Women need work and to have du-
ties laid upon them to Keep them Out
| of mischief, and no man has a RICH,
to subject his girl bride to the tempta-
tons of a hotel or boarding house life
AS for living with parent on either
side, that keeps young wife a per.
petual minor in which she never ha.
a chance to develop into a rea
woman. 1t dwsrfs her and is only one
degree less Objectionable than the
hotel or boarding house.
| Go fifty-fifty on life, its work a.
well as it's perquisites. A man who
cannot make enough money to sup
port a home in decent comfort is q
poor weakling who has no right te
marry. A woman who does not make
her husband a comforta BILE home, who
Is not thrifty and industrious, who
does not spend the money he make.
wisely and judiciously, and who doe:
inot keep an orderly house and a gooc
table Is a miserable Stacker and q
gutter, and she has no right to in.
| fict herself on any man. It is Just a.
much a wife's business to work fol
the success of the matrimonial part.
nership as it is the mans.
But having done so, she is entitled
to an equal share of the profits of the
concern. No woman should have te
| ask her husband for money. She
should have just as much right to pu
her fingers in the family purse as ths
husband has.