The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-07
Bride Has Right To Ask
About Groom S Past Life
By DOROTHY DIX
The Highest Paid Woman Writer in the World

If wives should file bill of rights,
Is some husbands have done in New
York. what should they demand?
They would have a right to ask:
/, That their husbands give them
square deal when they sign them
NJ on the matrimonial contract. The
most cruel and dastardly crime that
any human being ever commits is
when man marries an ignorant and
Innocent young girl, knowing that
he is booming her and her children
to pay the price of the wild oats he
has sown. Compared to that, MUIR
der is an innocent pastime,
The first right, then. OF every bride
Is 10 know beforehand the kind of Il
life man has led in his bachelor
days She can take Il or leave it.
but she at least knows what she is
doing. She isn't being tricked into
a bargain in which she is foreor-
dained to lose out.
Man Must Tell Truth
Nor has any man a right TO marry
girl without telling her the abso-
lutte truth about his income. Every
woman has a right to know whether
the partnership into which she is
entering is going concern. with the
likelihood of prosperous future, or
one that is hopelessly bankrupt.
There are men so lovable and fas-
cinating that crust with them is
better than stalled OK with an
other, but a girl should be made wise
to the situation and know that She
ia Gtt,sr Il IL. 80 t.,, 4
of limousine when she does 1t.
q A wife has a right to demand
that her husband treat her fairly
about money, and give her her share
OF the family income. No man has a
right to humiliate his wife by making
her come to him like a beggar for
every penny. nor has he right to
ask her how she spends her own per-
sonal allowance.
8. A woman has a right TO expect
her husband to do his share towards
making a happy home. That is a
two handed job that no wife. can ac-
complish by herself. No matter II
a woman wears the smile that won't
come off, she cant make a CHEEKY
place of a house In which man sits
around 3 grumpy and grouehy as a
sore headed bear.
Wife's Personal Liberty
4. A wife has a right to demand
some personal liberty She is a far
better Judge than her husband Is OF
the things that Immediately affect
her, and 1t is an affront to her intel
ligenee to have to ask his leave 10
do this, and do that. as IL she were
a feeble minded child. The reason
that so many widows bear the loss
of their husbands with such Christian
resignation Is because they are en-
joying their first and only taste OF
personal liberty. They went from
their parents authority to their hus-
bands authority, and never before
have they ever been able to spend a
dollar without having to account fol
1t, or go to plaes without first
having to ask permi sslon. They have
never had right In all their expert.
ence until they acquired rights By
widowhood.
3. Wives have right to some
pleasure and amusement. or course
most men think that being married
to them Is all the joy and diversion
any woman needs. Also they regard
doing homework and taking care OF
the children as perpetual picnic
OF course they don't enjoy It them
selves, but they think that women
are so constituted that they are hav-
Ing the time of their lives when they