Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-05
DOROTHY DIX'S TALK ON
YOUNG man asks me to give
him a few tips on how e
CHOOSING A WIFE
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX

a YOUNG man asks me to give
II him a few tips on how Is
"A select a wife.
The best advice that I can
offer any youth contemplating matri-
mony is to go off to some quiet spot
and have a heart-to-heart session
with himself and honestly try to
find out what manner Of man he real
ly is, and what he aspires to be and
to do in the world.
With this data in hand 1t is easy
enough to pick out the right girl,
instead of one who will keep man
wondering to his dying day what
made him do it, and where the fool
killer was when he led the lady he
did to the altar.
"Know myself" is never such .
good slogan us when a man is choos-
ing life partner, for the trouble
with most unhappy marriages is
merely that they are misfit mar
riages. The wife who drives one
man to drink would have lifted an
other into the Seventh Heaven of
connubial bliss. She who rasps the
nerves of one husband at every turn
would make a soothing and congen-
ial companion to another.
And these uncongenial marriages
are more the mems fault than the
wd:hen's, for men do the picking and
choosing, and it is their poor judg-
ment, and lack of knowledge of what
they need and what will suit them
in the wife line that keeps Reno n
the map, and the divorce court busy.
Therefore, son, when you think
worrying over the girl. Worry over
yoW Rf a little. Consider your own
character, disposition, finances, am
billions and prospects and let this
knowledge be lamp to your Ieet
when you go a-wooing.
for inSt9nPn of
nervous, irritable disposition, with
temper that is hung upon a hair
trigger and liable to go off at any
moment. Can't you see that matrf-
nsony for you will be nothing but.
oark and bloody battle-ground if you
marry some beautiful! slender crea-
nostrils, and lovely auburn hair?
Whereas it will be one grand sweet
song if you have gumpt1on enough to
placid maiden with oxlike eyes and
a nice, fat laugh.
Woman for woman, the two girls
may be equally models of all the
virtues, but the high-strung one will
keep you always up to concert pitch,
while the good nature of the other
| will poultice your, sore nerves and
soothe them, and her optimism will
be a perpetual tonic to you. With
! one you will live scrappily. With
the other happily, Tor there Is not
room hut for one set Of nerves, and
Gre case of dyspepsia in any house.
Suppose when you look into your
own soul you admit to yourself that
! while you are not in. the least vain
Or egotistic, still you, can not deny
that you are q man of most unusua,
intellect, and of judgment as pro-
found that it is entitled to respect
! on every occasion.
will you find happiness If you
marry some opinionated young per
son who is firmly convinced that she
is the latest incarnation of Mrs.
! Solomon, and who considers that a
| wife's place in the home is to rule
| the roost, and tell her husband lust
where he gets off-and stay off. L
| trow not.
You know plenty of men who
| wipe their feet on the door mat be-
fore they dare to enter their . own
| their wives speak to them. Can you
see yourself Qualifying in the hen 1l
pecked brigade, and following meek
| ly in wife's wake?
Then why not pass by the snappy