Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-30

knew, and how was she going to endure life to say nothing Of having :
a s % evening @as While seo other @nfs'T %ere @a allowed ged to Ts g ITO to places ~ and % o. to to
an accompaniment Of many tears and much despair.
And / can't talk it over with my father because when I try to tell
nj" AmeT the ne i fms fla a@gny h nae 'q Tapped @sfS away %ay with Hhf her ssn skirts. and
nsT e0 oat Of hf fhe mouths a%@ RF Of P' baSea and sudf sGS ! e0% @"5 r "a aomi For n
one sentence. she had summed up the great tragedy of family life.
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i% a s%d an armed %%' aea as fy eaS ' rs%s to 90 fly at the s others
pa..i 9Gasyys never fp ss1 as s9y'S %9 to os get ' at sasA ' stSess 9 motives sis.
or to understand each others point of view. The minute
the d subject which they disagree is Sd. preached "a N s or the other he
@9yeh5s a an %aq tn @a matter sf TSSa% a to- be ddropped P5 unseaS Se dn the
interests of decency and peace.
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and r Rsii nssns S9 aads aS a. ne IS s 4 a. q State stas . y e%p s;ass Sss..
mag Modern Gnsf grin rls a %d' he f t f@'tS TO back a% his h%% daughter sa Hhf the he sort. ss
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home to joy-ide, or dance in public places.
Moreover. he is under the hanucination that in his day the youns
Visited a a girl they 'p @t up and discussed Sgn topics instead Of skyarfins
@d F fasssHf fathers ag sa patio la0D paushte as w oSI q i like n0T TO- set forth her sid.
of the case to him.
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aat'n it use df to 6 %s S5%s 10 @ foS a " ed o N" do "a" ae Pr Perfectly %%iS
She would like to tell father that she is mor worldly
T%' wa a t% sto ten nm him nt that %G she is E young, ' that she must have
She wants to tell him that she must dance and have good times. and
a s p GsSaI Il. n el se' 10 n play G"S it at a. @ny and aG that Sa% If he e shuts shut hr a u t aS% hom.
do M%s her Tf to a" a bleak 10 joyess old IN maidenhood. ''
II the girl could tell her father these things. and they
could thresh them out together, they could arrive at some
sort If n compromise in which she could ia Ter fur while
he stood like a guardian angel in the background. But they
can't do it, because when they try to talk together he gets too
angry to listen.
The result is that father is miserable, and anxious all the time about
the girl and the girl sneaks off, ad meets boys IN the streets and looks
upon her father as a tyrnnt, and a krltOy.
know a wise woman, married to an irritable and quick
matters with t" her "@ husband Instead, she ay writes @S him a i% ieter
in which she sets forth her reasons why she thinks such and 8
such a thing should be done. and mails it to him at his office.
"f | attempted to tell him that 1 think John ought o be sen off to
college, OF Mary should be permitted to accept a invitation % visit a
school friend in a distant city, he would go up in the air, and want to
know If think he is made of money. He would tell how he had % 70 %
work before he IA their age, and demand to know what the young gen
Grafton is coming to. and launch forth o a general TRADE N the degener-
acy of the times.
II couldn't get in a word about the advantages of education, and
forming good ssocmions o Mary needing a change, and I wouldf finally
have to shut up to end the scene. But when 1 write it all out he is bound
to read my arguments, and he is perfectly reasonable about agreeing
with me-"
And how men rave their whole home life ruined by never
being able to speak freely and frankly to their wives! They
can't talk over the rearing of their children, Or the house
hold budgetor my plans because the wives o into hys-
tercs, Or ray like fsherwomen in burstso IF temper.
1t is a great pity, for there is nothing like being able
to sit down and talk things yer When W G do that we a
can nearly always reach a good working agreement.
DOROTHY DIX
Copyright 1898 bv Public LEDGER Company