Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-20


! where she has worked under the
most unwholesome conditions for
her, morally and physically, or a
nervous, overweight shop girl, than
strong. healthy, well-nourished girl
who has lived in a refined home and
been brought into daily contact with
gentle people.
Yet which girl is better fitted to
| make good Wife-the girl who is
| an expert houseworker, or the girl
who has run a power sewing ma
chine, or a printing press, or done
nothing since she got her working
papers but sell bargains in a base
ment? Which girl is going to stand
the strain of wifehood and mother
hood best-the girl who has been a
maid in a family, who has had the
best food the market afforded; who
has had her own bath and good
room, or the 9:rl who has herded in
tenement with other factory work
ers?
All work is honorable, Annie. It's
whether you do it badly or well that
makes its place in the estimation
of the world, and it is because do
the worst done work in the world
that so many people scorn it.
1t rests with people like you to
raise it to the dignity of learned.
profession. Why, it hasn't been Ions
since writer's were looked down upon
with contempt, and doctors were re-
garded as entirely outside the pale of
good society, while to become an
actor was to become an outcast!
And believe me, Annie, the day is
coming when sensible men will look
for their wives in kitchens instead of
factories and shops. and when hus'
bands proudest boast will be that
he married Mrs. Millionbuck's high.
priced cook.
DOROTHY DIX.
Dear Miss Dix-About two years
ago [ married a girl with whom
lived very happily until last fall
Then we had a disagreement and
went to Florida for the winter and
told her she could go back to her
parents home. When I got back
found she had gotten a divorce from
me. She is spoiled and selfish, her
father and mother having INDUCED
her in everything she wanted, but I
think she still loves me, and God
knows [ love her. So far she won't
consent to a reconciliation, as she is
of a stubborn disposition. Can you
tell me how to win her back?
K. G.
Answer:
1t is the tragedy of love that it
is so easy to lose and so difficult to
regain. Surely if young people real
lied that they would be more care
full Of the precious jewel that fate
has intrusted to them. Older and
more worldly wise people always
view lovers quarrels, and the little
foolish squabbles of young married
couples, with shuddering horror, for
they know that no disagreement is
ever quite made up. The heart stab
given by the hand we love never
wholly heals. There is always a
sore that bleeds, always a ranking
scar.
You will find it harder, K. c., to
win back your wife than you found
it to win her in the first place. You
see, she knows you now and is wise
to all Of your little tricks and man.
ners, and can make a good guess at
what life with you will be. Evident
ly she didn't find it endurable in
the past, so you will have to con-
vince her that you will make things
pleasanterr in the future.
If the fault of the disagreement
was yours, be man enough to admit
it to her, and ask her pardon for it,
and promise to do different. If the
fault was hers, tell her that no mat.
ter how thick her sins are upon her
head you would rather have her than
any pin-feathered angel woman.
Finally q whisper this. for it is
treachery to my SEX make yourself
picturesquely miserable before her.
Convince her that you cannot live
without her. Show her your broken
heart. Write her letters sodden with
tears and remorse. There's some
thing maternal in every woman tnat
will not endure seeing the man she
has once loved suffering like a hurt
child. We are just bound to com
fort him and let him weep out his
troubles on our breasts. And that's
where bad husbands get the upper
hand of U.S.
Copyright, 1929