Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-15
DOROTHY DIX'S LETTER BOX
There's No More Heartbreaking and
Impossible Task Than Trying to Put
Backbone Into a Lazy Husband-Love
and Respect Are Lost in the Attempt
A girl said the other day:

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h 5sal Ia. 9 Zee Is lot S'' years. 's2 i e. an: :sn 1slf POSITION Hs got he 'l' dSs. Of l ss41 ss "
's" M. HIS motto a% is Ne YER do anything today that you can put OF until
pa %4'h h% of the ne ca S9a s%S \ He M nsasP answers S%a o. a l %s@'P a1d nd um sss
Ing . me. and I have az . % wait "% and wan any ad wait until I am in s a sss ss ssss
push "% sHa p si RS in1 is @ as%Sse9 ! . &c ss'e Of e sim.siH behind hin. and
MY dear" said / don't you undertake the job unless
gT arr ut md hunting n J for trouble m, and hand hav a eosmie urge for
undertakes as notwithstanding a task al does the one who sets
have both = gotten f IN their 1T G deadly "S wo X before o"% she Aa H sVr
When" When 4, a "a isl, born tired the do; LON sign Is set
though she skin him alive. =" Gasiness goes to the bone. =
worm nW RI nSsth besq tS9 an . i19tstqI T P@p. 3 ARE s% ssaaa t% Of the ns,, hoo.
their energies, I do not Know ne ii"'''0 WI" some So" 0H'sa70 . paaVzss
But do know that laziness is an incurable vice, and that you cam
it It oo aGsn to whom S@n ia Re i the to 1lSfm nS% oS ss9 of te %Sn ID ~ and whose tns s 6%T
her. aad n St' %fs . no q m matter qn'E How nv %aes e OF %o% a nam %sn d d91aaa to she work na s sS1
o opPR f@ women @@n mS 0Ss ast t@ hiSd lmp eo mae te nm but a s tSss all ,sh Many ny
s%p p%I s"P his sP Blackstone asF with S%hR hsg o nS spinal 'f SS% Quinn 1n q h'00' husband :
keep r hn f }se 4 s0 ap All n ss. afm sHy THAT +. of another g e. t sH tsyiq Fs to
get Husband 1. The .oS only ttr infect ct Of s6d : y Ss keeping e pin : sS %sF. my, 1 ss;:
She become a thorn in the flesh; She !. the outward and y.D,. align
a perpetual a%S reminder rem IS' o dG his o1Sn' shame hi hf being to to- y" weak and inert to 90 .
mo mans love survives having his wife tell him of hi.
i@e't that at Re e cnnta@ n noq Important @ss Ts9% n t t e oatsid %@ xo sis.
She n ahaT Hab beIge pe% in Ris nt that n' h @ sha nan measure aa%re' u nf to t hsr
standard of manhood.
Therefore, o cannot picture a nan finding much comfort in ths
speed, urging him to take the hazardous jumps; Nor a you imagine :
he has done this and why he hasn't done that, and throwing up to him
the achievements of other men.
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mo. Domestic happiness is predicated upon husband
and wife holding a mutual admiration society instead o. an
anvil chorus, and the wives who IRE best loved r those
who m most adept at incense burning, and who never grow
weary in the good work. A a must have some woman to
admire him, and if his wife doesn't, he hunts u p some other
woman who does, which is an elemental fact n masculine
psychology that women do we'll to bear in mind.
Being a mans inspiration, which is the way women camoufHge their
intention of making a vertebrate a out Of mush, is something that p
lpeas o the feminine love of meddnng in other peoples business. But in
real practice it is neither as diverting nor as successful a 8 it promised to
lbe. Putting aside h difficulties of the task and its boomerang rewards,
women find that they SOC lose interest in the undertaking.
For wOmen do not love long where they do not respect and
n oma respects the mn who las o strength to stand
alone, III who as to len o. a woman, no. can she respect
the mar who is just too inert to hold his W among men, -
TX a woman, jutp plain lazfness, lack o energy, slth-
full sef-indulgence in ase, are the unforgveab1e sins. She
could more easily condone the breaking IF all thu Ten Com
mandments. And when she finds ut she is married to a man
who Is afraid II work, Owe flies out OF the window.
80, ny dear" I said to the girl, don't marry a shntless nan with
the idea Of making him over Marry a hustler who doesn't need to be
made over"
DOROTHY DIX.
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