The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
Dorothy DiG's Letter Boz

make up. For 1t Is true that the shock of the fear of losing wife or husband wakes lp many careless husband or wife and makes them realize of what priceless value is the love they have held so lightly. As for man not being able to get to see his wife, that argues stupid ity, and a lack of resource. What are lawyers for, and friends who would act as go--betweens?
 Whats the matter with the low er's device of stolen rendezvous Doesn't love still laugh at lock smiths? DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Miss Dorothy Dix: I have q 19-year- old daughter who has just been married a few months to a man who is so jealous that he has forbidden her to visit her neighbors. He gets just as angry wi6h her when she speaks to a girl as he does when she speaks to a man. He beats her cruelty and tells her that if she tells me he will choke her to death. My daughter is a quiet, good girl, and never caused me a moments uneasi- ness in her life, What should sht do? AN UNHAPPY MOTHER.
 Answer: don't see how you could ask such a question. In this day and age a woman is coward and q fool who lets any man mistreat her, and your daughter should leave this brute to whom she is married just as quickly as she can get her hat on.
 The idea that a wife has to en- dure either mental or physical tor ture at the hands of her husband belongs to the old times when a wife as such. Physical cruelty is rec ognized cause for divorce allA over the civilized world, and no woman need stand for a beating unless $ le is of suen, a hound-dog disposition that she loves a brutal master.
 If more women had the backbone to resent i'll treatment from mon, we should have better husbands. Il is the wives who demand fair play, decent treatment, consideration and civil speech who get them from their husbands and it is the women who stand for selfishness, for being cursed and Knocked about who get that. Many a man who treats his wife any old way would be on his DIS and as if he knew that he would lose a good cook, and a faithful help mate, if he didn't show her the prop CT consideration.
 Dear Dorothy Dix am greatly troubled to know whether l did right or wrong about the way treated my husband. l married man who was never successful in business. We had a family of fine boys and girls, but I always had to work ito help support them. My husband could never make a living, not even enough to supply his own personal needs Finally my spirit rebelled, and l refused to support him any longer. l made him leave the home, and told him to try his luck in an other city. That has been several years ago. He is more than 50 years old now, and he is still failure.
 Did I do what a woman of spirit would ave done, or should I have shielded him, and allowed the chill dren to help him, too? MOTHER.
 Answer: I don't know. The qles- ton of what we should do with these poor, helpless ones who lack energy and initiative is a problem that troubles many women. Certainly if anything could rouse the latent man hood in shiftless man, it is for his wife to shut her door on him, and tell him that he must either work or starve.
 But often the ne'er- -do-well is a ne'er- -do-well just because nature left out of him the qualities that make for success He is a weakling who can never learn to stand alone. and all that a woman can do for him is just to pity him, and care for him as she would for little, helpless child. And whether it is any wife s duty to do this or not, only God knows.