The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22
DIX'S TALK
WHEN E
by DOROTHY DIX,
h Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

A young woman Of my acquaintance
married a worthy young man about
three years ago. The husband Is very
well to do, very, generous and very
much In love with his wife. He has
given her a beautiful home, and every
luxury and Is kindness itself, but the
wife has decided that she doesn't love
him, and she wants to leave him and
take their baby with her.
The husband refuses to let her go,
Wherein he Is making a great mistake,
IN my opinion. He should let her go and
find out for herself what the life she
longs for so ardently Is like-what 1t
means to a woman, who has had a fine
home, to live in a hall bedroom and a
cheap boarding house, and who has had
a strong man to stand between her and
the world to know that she has only
her own weak hands with which to
fight the wolf away from the door.
FOR surely a woman, who broke her
wedding VOWS for no better reason than
that she had ceased to consider her
husband a figure Of romance, could not
expect him to go on supporting such q
gutter as she had shown herself to be.
1t would do a lot OF women who are
ungrateful, inappreciative and dis
own resources for Il while, and find
out by actual experience what poor in
competent creatures they are, how ut
terly unable they are to hold their own
III tne Herce pattle LOT Drehu, ana what
a soft Job they had as wives. They are
so used to being thought for, to being
protected, to having their wants sup
piled by their husbands that they take
as n matter OF course, without
thanks, and they need a good hard Jolt
to wake them up.
1t Is women like these who have
everything soft who cultivate imaginary
sorrows, who discover hat their hus-
bands are not their soul mates, and
that some lanky, long haired poet, or
musician In their real affinity; who
despise their husbands for being sordid
money makers while they waste the
money the men toll for; who morhidly
gloat over their d~isillusiop in finding
that their husbands are just men in
stead Of matinee heroes, and who make
themselves perfectly miserable by dis
secting their emotions, and deciding
that they no longer love their husbands
because they are not affected with
| Chills and thrills every time they hear
their lord and masters footsteps,
Such NONSENSE! or course nobody Is
Economically In owe after three years Of
ling to a woman after she has lived
| with him for three years any more
than she Ia an angel to him. OF course
after three years all OF the illusions that
any husband and wife may have origi-
nally entertained about each other are
d~isslpated into thin air. or curse you
can't go on forever aaking anybody
"oose ducky daddle Is 'oo7'
BY that time husbands and wives
have seen each other unshaven and un-
shorn, and In curl papers and wrap
pers, They have seen each other when
they were sick and cross and worried.
They have discovered zach others tenn
pers and nerves. weaknesses and faults,
and they have come down from the
temples OF omanc to the plain work
1 a-HaN world NghAYn nv N I rAnI1u 1iNA
Men are so busy with their work that
they make this transition from senti-
ment to sense without much danger,
but II Is a heart breaking descent to a