The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-12

Dear Dorothy Dix@-I m in trouble and do not know what to do, and so come to you for advice I have been a good wife to my husband, helping ir the fields, for we are country people. We have eight children, the youngest five years old. My husband has been mistreating me cruelty ever since my second child was baby. Now he tells me that he Is tired of me and that he doesn't love me any more, and that he wants to be quit of me
 But he loves his children and wants to stay with them, and so he proposes that we shall go on living together in this house, as we are doing, but that I shall regard him as boarder instead of husband.
 1 am willing to do anything that will make him happy, but do you think this Is right?
 A HEART BROKEN WIFE.
 Answer: It seems to me this is very good way out of bad situa- tion, and that wife who has dis agreeable husband should be glad enough to. change him off for a boarder, because. boarders have to show their landladies more courtesy than mere husband does.
 Boarders have no authority over their landladies and cannot dictate to them about what they do. Boarders are compelled to pay good hard money for having their food prepared sfor them and their rooms kept in order and their clothes washed and 1nended and their comfort looked after. Also boarders frequently fall in love with tlieff landladies, and the mere fact that you have ceased to regard your husband as a husband and have quit making any wifely claims upon him will do more than anything else to revive his interest in you.
 Consider also, oh Broken Hearted wife. how much better such an ar rangement is for your children than divorce would be. In this way you keep the family together. You can assure them of support and of an education that you gould not give them if you werer<separated from your family and had to earn their living. And you do not deprive them of a fathers influence and authority, and that means the salvation of the children.
 It Is heart breaking thing to any woman for her husband to cease to love her. but when that tragedy occurs she is fortunate if she can save even the semblance oflher home ead keep her children with her
 It is the children who have to be considered in such cases, and, thank, God, there are women brave enough to accept any sacrifice for the sake of the helpless little ones they
 DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Miss Dix-I want to tell you the plain truth and want your best advice. When my wife and I got mar ried 1 had good house, and l have worked hard ever since, and used economy, and have had good luck and have accumulated all of this worlds goods that I need. Our chill dren are all grown up. and we have nothing to trouble us in our old days except that we can't agree on any thing. ~e .s
 My wife is selfish and scornful. and she nags me all the time. Every thing I do Is wrong. I want to treat everybody right, but I am human and l want them to treat me the same way.
 How can I make my wife quit nag ging and make her treat me right?
 A WORRIED OLD HUSBAND. # Answer:
 Do you know what I would do if were in your case, MT. Man? I would go off on nice long trip and I would leave my Wife behind me, and I would fix it so that she would be good and lonesome while was gone
 oYuknow. .-after we live with peo- pie a long time they often get on our nerves. particularly if they have dis agreeable habits. And we get so that everything they do and say rifles" us. This Is particularly the case with husbands and wives who live so close srsctiye on each others virtues, and