Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-26
o DIX'S COLUMN
If You Can't Live in Peace With
Your Family, Put 1000 Miles Between
You and Your Relations and See How
You'll Love Them-From a Distance

You and Your Relations and See How
You'll Love Then-From a Distance
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But s@ to have ss s3 yGSr 1 life pc poisoned n%sf. by 70 the : s sdps. Of O. q gns,;
saa o%s ra by ps sfEe ' sssn 3 fs f t9ni IS Of e a IL sSd fsn %aafs;
these ~ p aS9i tS9SSiss s a Spoil Spoil the peace Of or days.
Take family troubles. for example which IRE responsible for ms.
real; heartbreating ney%ending misery y than ana anything ading. else s9i in the World.
ton get married. When that is over, they find that they have not n
tics to pie Their every idea and opinion is antagonstie. They do not
"F 1h aS n mmy be- be- P peepie Of the hfgh he's s integrity. models # all the yrtues
They may try, to o do n their duty duty no Gdh and nbM with n sslf 1@S dsr .I Bqt tneis
like dogs yer a bone and they make life a he'll o earth for each other.
.,as sq aa.a%ss it sm S parent. and and. children 9n@@,o who who s Sn9 Sa,.s get
out a swan. sometimes a swan finds that nature IA be
an %T' ola ni Ing and a%'f the eat eer-rpSc gar around the barn aTs-
t.et o 06ssr P sSs sss. and 4ns sst express ssnq their ss 9saton Ths Gy sash o sP sy sTh Sub u.
armed arm" to the teeth n" ad oa the m @'% SG survivors % " %T feel as" IS IL t Rs@f had FS Ssea
perps sS%gt iom t t6sner is 5 ist % N P PSstl bSTtl % % pI% fn C Il he 4 f9% q u to g sSa Is.
the the peace peaee S aHd harmony SS%6 o." of the ""R Ro %s St !" DO" " at me '00' 20 'n'''s'
Being obliged to live with disagreeable and antagonisuo
SEsGRis IS ss sns sSsats'i l %f IT. St tnt IA We p swsl Il e : sal,s Us.
e gm" buy eH 1s. ne" Better it i" is to- d nma n O. a ho useto o sri in mo6
than " ABIDE i% spS en- or with f% those "% %o a pnra s9 the nsv vs ge soai
Nor arr w, oOnsqled by the fact that the very people who
are SO impossible to We with owe as we'll enough to lie for
anxiety about u.s., that makes her nagg us necessarily and hand out advice
an Is women "% we realize aH st t%st 70 " srS ther in in-a a%s PnoSs0P Phem f %o aSeir %sn
good.
But it is the result, and not the theory, with which W e ar con
cerned, nj a you listen to thu wall If those who cry out against N
congenial marriages, n the moans Of anguish Of the in-laws who dwell
h same roo and listen to the sounds of frahicidal strife, where
everybody could be St happy i. they didn't have to live with each other.
you wonder that so few people have the wisdom and the courage to apply
the ne sure cure for their misery.
Which is to separate. Apart they would be happy.
They ould even W. IA other. They would get a per-
they merely get 81 each s%G others Shrs'% nerves aa' a n%N sat ess eaen
other. F
The old idea that blood is thicker than waters and that
to- "a = S Ss%onnoq Of Gi nd [ss%l, makes makes . a9to@sts3Iy love them.
not wen true in the relationship between parents and chill
dren
As long as their children re young and helpless, most rfofners 6svs
an animal fondnes for them. But when they are older. If VERY ofyan
happens that a mother cannot get along in peace with her children. III
does. not understand them. She as nothing in common with them. and
No theory has been more mischievous than the old n
Rem1ont that people who were Of h same family had tt keen 10
m living together, n o matter how much they rubbed each
other the wrong way o. how unpleasant this enforce com
panonship was. There is n o sense in doing 1t. No rhyme nor M
reason for ii. $50
Because Aunt Jane is Aunt Jane is n o reason why you should take her
in your home an &c bored the balance of you life by herr eminscences
nor is there n reason why you should have your temper continue
rasped b antagonsic sstersa and brothers when there are plenty o. agree.
able strangers N the world.
Try the absent cur on your domestic troubles. Get II
IN leaVe an unpleasant home. You have no idea how mueh
better you will love a lot of o relatives wben M nt
about a thousand miles between you and them. M
DOROTHY DIX