The Washington herald., 1921-09-21
SPOILED CHILDREN
FIND UNHAPPINESS
. IN MARRIEDLIFE
Parents Are Blamed for
Misery That Leads
J To Divorce.
ny DoRorHY DIX.


do you see the kind of a girl that you
hope your son will be fortunate
enough to marry?
When you look at your son do you |
behold the type OF man that you
trust your daughter will be lucky
enough to get for a husband?
Or when you look at your children
do you pray God to be merciful
enough to spare your own son and
daughter from the heart break and
misery that is bound to come to those
who marry such women and men as
they are?
And. if you have reared up a man
and woman. that you would not be
willing to see your own children mar
ry. and whom you expect to palm of
as husband and wife on two guile
less and unsuspecting strangers.
don't you think you have done about
the rottenest thing on earth?
Look at your daughter. A painted
faced doll, dressed in the exaggeral
tion OF the style. Her brains cut
on the bias and frilled in the mid
die. Her ruling passion clothes.
Her one accomplishment jazzing.
Extravagant. Selfish and self-cen-
tered. High tempered and utterly
lacking in self-control. She does
not know how to cook. or sew, or
DO any useful thing. She has no
idea of the value Of money.
A fine helpmate. that sort of a
girl will be to a poor man who has
his own way to make in the world,
won't she? You can see the noun
tains of bills she will pile up for
her husband to pay because she has
never learned to deny herself any
thing she wanted. You can picture
the RACES she will fly into when
her husband tells her he can't af-
ford 10 give her a new imported
hat or frock. Your very stomach
revolts at the thought OF the kind
of meals she will set upon her ta-
BILE. for she has never been taught
how to cook or make a comfortable
home.
That isn't the sort of a wife you
want your son to marry. The girl
you would pick out for him dresses
modestly. She is sensible, and
thrifty. and capable. She knows
l., a., - al
lar. how to cook. and make her own
frocks, and trim her own hats, and
feed a man. and look after the ways
of her household. She is the kind
of a woman who stands behind a
man and pushed him on sometimes.
and holds him back other times,
gins to weaken. and without any
body kowing just how, finally
Jockeys him into success.
The price of that kind OF a wife
is above rubies. What is the real
value OF the gold brick sort off a
wife your daughter is going to be:
J And look at your son. A waster
and a spender No serious purpose
in life. No real ambition to do any
thing worth while. Still hanging
like a parasite on the family tree
instead of having the grit to start
alone. Selfish. overbearing and In
considerate to his mother and sis.
ters. ChurIish around home, which
he considers a place where one car
lay aside good manners and the de-
cencies Of life.
II you were in the matrimonial
insurance business you wouldn't
risk cents on the chance Of hap
piness that any girl would have
who married a man like that. You
know that he will probably never
be able to make even a fair living
for his family. and that he will vent
Ibis spleen over his failure on his
poor wife. You know that when q
man Of that sort finds that he has
- deny his personal indulgences
to support his wife that his love
vanishes. and he hates her because
she stands in the way OF his pleas.
lures. You know just how stingy
and mean. and tyrannical that kind
of man can be TO a woman who IL
in his power.
The man you want your little
. girl to marry is a big, strong, self
reliant man who has proved him
self. who has higher aspirations
than being a good dancer. % slick
ing back his hair. You want a mar
who can take care of her, guarC
her. and who will be tender, and
wise. and true-not a jelly bear
like her brother.
Yet you are going to let som,
other girl wreck her life MARVIN.
the husband you have prepared fol-
her.
Perhaps in all the long history
of mans inhumanity to man tina