Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-27
DOROTHY DIX
DISCUSSES
LIFE
BY DOROTHY DIX
DI DOINO1 II DIIN
VTTHAT profession produces the
wv best husband as a by-prod-


No sensible girl marries an idle
man, no matter how much money
he has. Especially, she doesn't mar
ry an idle American man, because
American men do not know how 10
loaf, and an American man without
definite, exciting, soul-satisfylng
business is about as agreeable to
live with as it would be to be shut
up in a cage with a sore-headed bear.
In this country, at least, the ideal
husband is the man who goes to
work at 9 o'clock in the morning,
and doesn't return until in the
afternoon. Heaven pity the woman
who is married to man who comes
home to lunch!
A woman, then, marries a mans
job along with him, and it be5ooves
her to consider well, therefore, not
only what the cash returns of said
Job are, but how it reacts upon the
man, and how desirable itamakes him
as a husband.
Necessarily, in this connection, the
lady should also give careful consld'
Grafton to- her own temper and tenn
permanent, and realize that while GER
tain men, following certain profes-
sions, would be highly eligible to one
type of wife, they would be absolutely
barred to woman OF another ols-
position.
Take doctors, for instance. Medl-
cal men have / peculiar fascination
for women, but woman who has
the slightest inclination toward Jeal-
ousy marries one at her peril. She
knows that it is the pot, cy of her
husband'sI personality, and not the
power of his pills, that secures the
clientele of feminine patients that
enables him to ride in limousines.
She knows that the more white
hands he holds, and the oftener he
is called in by near-invalids, who
recline in pink silk and lace negllgees
on niles of beribboned cushions, the
more he makes, and the more re-
noWned he becomes, yet to save her
life the wife can't help getting
green eyed over her husbands busl-
ness, and wishing she had married
a butcher instead of a seon.
Nor should any woman inclined
To be Jealous marry a clergyman.
Every sister in the congregation
carries on a pious Irritation. with
every good-loc'king clergyman, ana
while they talk of souls instead OF
hearts, the net results are the same.
Clergymen are fed on feminine adu-
lation, and no mere wife can hold ner
own unless she can spread the save
thicker than her rivals. And that
is a job that grows trifie cloylng
i. the course of years, and in the
face OF the revelations OF matff-
mony.
Another profession that is taboo
for the jealous woman is that OF
the actor.
The wife who pits her own at.
traction against a succession OF
beautiful and gifted leading ladies
has her nerve with her, to begin
with. Nor is it in any woman, born
of woman, to listen to her husband
making passionate love to another
woman, and see him raining burn
ing kisses upon her lips. even IN
the way of business, without want
ing to wiring that hussy's neck, and
take a rolling-pin to hubby. There
fore. it is almost an axiom that the
better the actor the quicker his wife
divorces him. @'.
Naval officers, travelling men and
engineers may be sad to offer a
fifty-fifty sporting chance as they
are always away from home SO i
much. Their wives can either be
happy when they are with them. OF
happy when they are away, as the
case may be. Obviously, though,
none of these professions will suit
the woman who can't be satisfied
unless she is tagging her husband,
and whose local attachments are
those Of a house cat.
Army officers, offer the great adj
venture to the women they marry.
Keeping one is a great life if you
don't weaken, but no woman should
it who hasn't the spirit
of the gambler the pluck of pio-
neer and the fighting qualities of
a soldier
Lawyers capture a woman's fancy
before marriage, but after marriage
they drive her to a frenzy by refus-
ing to divulge their professional Sc
crets, for to the average woman, to
know her husband knows something
that she wants to know, and that
he won't tell her. is torture unspeak-
able.
Therefore, the nosey woman, who
knows herself to be sister to Eve,
and Pandora, and Bluebeard's eighth
wife, does well to pass up the law
yer for some man who can be vince
died into telling the last juicy scan
dal he heard, instead Of having to
keep mum about it.
As for. DoliticianS thew are hlS-
bands in name only. They belong
to the public. They have no time for
home ties, and no woman should
one unless she has more am
bition than heart.
Perhaps the one best bet in mar
rage is the business man.
He may not be quite as interest
ing as the professional man. or fur
nish his wife as many thrills, but
he is far more satisfactory as fire.
side companion.
He has learned that no venture is
all profit. He is accustomed to
making the best of his bargains, and
standing by his contracts. He knows
how to strike a balance between
profit and loss, and he applies these
principles to matrimony to the adj
vantage of both himself and his
wife.
But, after all, husbands and pro-
fessions are q matter of individual
preference, and each woman to her
taste.
Copyright 1929