Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-05
DOROTHY DIX TAI
BY DOROTHY DIX
TRAINING A WIFI
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
cate, Inc.
A DISTINGUISHED college profes
II that men should be trained TO
n mOny.

ana the one LudI every UOIhOA . udu
them intends to embrace at the fin
it is passing strange thai
negligible lumber of them ever I'd
trouble to prepare themselves for il
seem to think that the knowledge of
be a good wife comes by nature, as %
thought a knowledge Of reading and|
did
Nothing could be farther from TIL
To turn out a first-class job of wifehd
practice one of the learned professi|
re1uires the combined talents and ski
chef, the financier, the psychology
vaudeville artist, and the juggler !
walk on eggs without breaking tho
this being the case, no girl who intend
married can begin her study of the
of matrimony too young. For it's
study. And difficult.
OF course, the training Of girl 1
hood should begin in the kitchen.
normal man has twice as much stomaI
has heart, and he cares only for I'll
the substantial things.
No man is sentimental when he isl
nor can love survive daily diet of Of
meat and underdone bread and sog|
toes. Dyspepsia is death to illusion.
The first time many man disco1
the woman he has married is not the
his dreams, is when she sets him id
dinner that would kill an ostrich; al
he finds out that the home he has BID
ing forward to all his life, is first all
to the undertaken, instead of an 4
comfort and peace.
1t is Just as dishonorable for a vi
marry a man without knowing how
and run a house, as it is for man
a woman without beina able to SUPP
It's his place to make the living, and
make a com Portable home; and ea
Stacker If he or she fails to do his
part.
A girl should be trained for wife
being taught how to handle money
ness girls have not only learned how
money, but how to earn it, and thai
they make SUCH good wives. The
home-stayins girl is left by her crue
to learn the use of money at her b
expense, which is pretty rough on
Husband.
There are tens of thousands of G
have never had ten dollars of their
spend. They have had things cha
papa at the stores; mother has bous
what she thought they should have
have never handled actual mon
haven't the slightest idea Of how Z;
lar will go, or how to get the me
out of it.
Therefore, when they get married
possession Of the husbands pocl
they go wild. Money seems to the
haustible; and before they know it,
head over heels in debt.
Every girl should be taught how
her husbands money by being give
lowance and made to live on it. Sh
be taught how to save here, so she C
there, and . deny herself little th1
she may have big ones.
There is no shorter cut to the divol
than extravaganza and 70 tie binds ;
a woman more strongly than tiff.
woman wants to be happy and pr
wife, she must be good financier.
To be a successful wife, wom
know how to handle her husband wit
and to run domestic machinery with
possible friction. Most women have
that if they love their husbands enou
can treat them as mean as they pleas
Acting on This theory, woman W
burning desire in life is for her hu
be always Economically in love with
appear before him daily slouchy, uni
with uncom1ed hair and uncorsete
hnI h ISh 40
enough to die for him, will nag hi
everything under the sun that he dc
his home comes to be symbol for
Of torment in his mind.
The very A B G of /, girls trail
matrimony should be that If she wal
kissed, she must keep herself kissa
that just because husband and wife
to live so close together is the NOR
for making every effort to keep them
personally attractive as possible.
care, and work, and trouble for q
to keep her halo always polished VI
pays for the effort 1t costs.
It should also be grounded into t
consciousness that when she narr
doesn't become her husband Ja1ler, n
made the custodian of his manners an
By the time a man is old enough to
ried, he has found out What he like
and wear, and read, and how late he
sit up at night; and his wife Is wis
leaves him undisturbed in his littl
And If she is big enough to give him
off without raising ructions about
will arise and bles' her name.
The girl who is going to be married
take a course in diplomacy, and find
million different combinations by
man can be worked. She should le
to choose the psychological time for
for money, and imparting the news
mother is coming On a visit, anu how
upon masculine vanity as upon hs
a thousand strings.
Above all, tn woman who wants
a success as a wife, should be trained
good sport, to take things in life
come, hard anu soft, to be faithful
and a good loser who will stand by
band in biz x-sversity, as she EMO!
good things he lavished on hel in /
perity.
Being a wife is full-sized w>--a
It's no jack-leg trade for amateurs.
business, and it requires highly-trai
fessiona1 TO make a success of it.
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler
cate, Inc.)