Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-27
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME
N HEART AND HOME

at each other s little peCuIaflLleS
with a humorous instead OF a critical
eye. The woman who is always late,
who never does anything on time.
and who always arrives at an ap-
pOintment with her tongue hanging
out, and her hat aWry, pinning her
self together as she comes, is just
as amusing as she is aggraVating, if
only her husband could get COM
edY slant at her.
And it would save many a WON
an nervous prOStra ton if she COulC
perceive what human joke she had
in an old-maid husband with fussy
ways, who raises TuctiOns if his
brushes are moved from the exact
spot on his chiffonier in which he
has placed them, and who eats every
m0uthful as if he were samplinG
poison, for fear the cook hasn't got
the exact flavor to a sauce or cooked
the meat to the precise degree of
rareness he likes.
!. And could anything be more ride
ulOus, when you come to analyze it,
than the family spat? Ninety-nire
times out of a hundred it begins
about nothing. The husband says it's
a pleasant day. The wife says she
| doesn't think so, that it is too hot
or too cold, and she feels perfectly
sure it will rain before night Hus-
band bristles up, and reptile that he
doesn't know why she always con
tradicts him. Wife responds that he
is a bum weather prophet. and re-
minds him Of all the mistakes he
has made in forecasting the tempera-
ture.
Husband begins to warm up, and
retOrts that that is the fool woman
way of looking at a ~thlng. Wife
comes back with some snappY little
remark about his being no Solomon
or else he would get along better in
business, and then they go to it,
hammer and tOn9s, until they have
dragged in every relative on both
sides of the house and every unplaas-
ant episode that has ever taken place
Ibetween them. And it ends by the
mans banging the door behind him
and the woman dissOlVing in tears.
Domestic Quarrels are pretty grim
jokes, but they are jokes because
they are much ado about nothing.
and if husbands. and wives could
only realize how absurd they arc,
getting red, and excited, and shrill-
voiced, arguing over matters that
they really care nothing about, and
saying things to each other that they
will be sorry for, and for which they
will have to apologize, why, there
would be no more foolish family
fights, and peace would reign in
many a home that is now the scene
of a perpetual guerrilla warfare.
Moreover, a laugh is the best
known remedy for many other do
mpstic ills. IT is n sovereign cure
for a Crouch because the only way
tho great, silent crouch can get in
his work is by being taken seriously.
When you laugh at his pose, and he
finds that he furnishes the family
amusement instead of striking ter
rOr into it, YOU have spoiled his lit
tie game. and he has to cheer up
and be natural.
Same way with the woman who
gets her way by going into mysteries.
The only way to call her BLUFF is to
regard her with amusement instead
of pity ..,. .@
A sense of humOr will do more
than anything else on earth tn keep
Us sane That is why it IS SO much
needed in nlatrimony. Lucky those
who can see the funny side Of the
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