The Topeka state journal., 1922-01-04
Dorothy Dix Tails
BY DOROTHY DIX
Werla's Righess Paid wsman Ws4tsE.
Our just Desserts.

Our just Desserts.
We all have just the kind of hus-
bands and wives, we deserve, declares
Mr.. George, the famous English novel
ist and essayist, who has devoted
much of his life studying. the do
mestic problem.
At first blush, most of US would
be inclined to disagree with him.
At least the unhappily married will
dissent, for the popular conception of
the situation is that a disagreeable
husband or wife is an affliction visited
upon one by a mysterious Providence
for purposes one cannot even pretend
to understand.
There are few people who have the
courage to admit that they brought
their matrimonial misfortune down on
their own heads by not taking a suf-
ficiently long and careful look before
they leaped into the holy estate. And
there are still fewer who are willing
to admit that the domestic ills from
which they suffer are no more than
their coWardice in weakly submitting
to maltreatment, instead of fighting
for their rights until they got them.
Nevertheless this is true. We get
just what we demand of life, and we
do have the sort of husbands and
wives we deserve, Notwithstanding all
the martyred husbands tied to She
cat wives, and all the angel ladies
united to bruteS that we know.
Because the martyred and the
angels could have called time on the
vixens and the brutes if they had had
the nerve to do 1t. Probably they
could have reformed the wrongdoers.
At any rate, they need not have stood
up and taken years upon years of
punishment. Nobody need stand at
the stake and be grilled at a slow fire
unless they want to, in these days.
a Ln fS5- hn x4rbn &c
married to a woman who regards him
merely as a meal ticket. AS We have
watched this poor fish working him
self to death to satisfy the wants of a
woman who continually cried for
more. we have pitied him from the
bottom of our hearts.
Such a good man! Such a kind
mani So humbly grateful for any lit
tie attention of kindness! What a
shame for him to be married to a
woman who spent everything he made
before he really made it, and who
kept his life a prolonged nightmare
with her extravaganza!
But hasn't such a man got exact
ly the kind of wife he deserves? When
he was first married, if he had put
his foot down good and hard on her
wastefulness, and refused to pay un-
reasonable bills; If he had made her
an allowance and required her to live
0AE II. ne WOulu nave IlppeQ Ine evil
in the bud, and have made a thrifty
wife out of a waster.
After all, the hand that holds the
pocketbook, rules the roost. M
woman can spend more of her fus-
bands money than he permits her to
spend. She can't buy houses and mo-
tors without his consent. tacit or
open; and SO any man who lets his
wife ruin him with her extravagance
simply pays the price of his weakness
The same thing may be said OF the
man who lets his wife henpeck him
All of US know men who live in cring-
ing terror of their wives, and who
cannot call their souls their own
They do not dare to invite even thei1
| own mothers to make them a visit in
the houses they support. They cannot
spend a cent of their salaries without
| rendering an account of it. If they
| fail to punch the home time clock on
the exact minute, they have to think
up some plausible lie to stave off tn
tongue-lashing they are due to get
from their wives
Copyright, 1922 Dy the Wheeler Syndicata
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