Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-04
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

knock everything their wives do
and treat them with rudeness they
would not dare to show the cook.
They would mend their manners if
they knew that their wives would
quit cold if things were not made
pleasant for them.
And how about money? When you
got married you founded the firm
of benedict q Co. Your wife put
and brain and heart. She has work
ed harder and longer hours than you
have to make the company sue
cess. She has sacrificed more.
Have you given her her share of
the profits? Does she draw down a
certain amount of money of her own
every month, the just pay for her
labor, or do You keep all the profits
of the concern, and make her come
to YOU like a beggar, for every pen
ny she has? Would any man part
ner be satisfied to be treated the
way you treat your wife? Would he
renew a contract on such terms?
And if he wouldn't, what makes you
think that your wife is satisfied and
desires to continue such q bad bar
gain?
DO you think you give satisfac-
ton as a husband? A woman wants
a husband to show her daily that he
loves her. She wants tenderness. She
wants appreciation. She wants her
husband to give some sign that he
still takes an interest in her, and
looks upon her as something more
than a kitchen adjunct.
How about it, Mr.. Man? Have YOU
kept the love fires burning in your
wifes heart, or have you let them
go out because you ceased to feed
the flame? DO you pay your wife
delicate little courtesies? DO you re-
member anniversaries and surprise
her with some little thing she
wants? Do you tell her she is pref
tier than any of the flappers, or are
you one of the men who never take
another look at their wives after
wedding day, or show them any lit
tie attention, and whose wives would
drop dead with surprise if they paid
them a compliment?
Take it from me, Mr.. Man. there
is many a husband who considers
himself a good husband because he
doesn't beat his wife and pays the
family bills, whose wife woudn t
marry him again on a bet if she
was given a new matrimonial deal
She would take chapce on a new
conner because she would figure out
that she couldn't do worse than she
did with number one.
And how about yuo, Mrs. Woman?
DO YOU think your husband is salts
fed with you?
He is a domestic man. He expect
cd to have a real home when he
married, with good home-cooking
and the kind of pies mother used
to make. He expected to have wife
who would be thrifty and economi-
cal and helpmate to him.
When he comes home at night to
an ill-kept house and sits down to
dinner that would give an ostrich
indigestion do YOU think that he
thinks that YOU are playing fair with
him, or welCh:ng on your part of
the bargain? When YOU run up ruin
ously oXtravagant bills and he sees
himself being sold into lifelong slav-
cry to shopkeepers, don't you know
that he wishes he had the Courag sc
to break up the partnership at once,
and that he feels like having YOU
prosecuted for having misappropri
ated the firms money?
b DO YOU suppose any wife gives
satisfaction who is a neurotic crea-
ture full of morbid fancies; or who
is a igh-tempered shrew whose
tongue keeps her husband in perpet-
ual fear; or who is a wilmer and a
cOmplainer, or who is dull and stu
pid; or who is too lazy and inert to
even keep herself properly dress
ed?
NO man marries to get that kind
of wife, and every one of these
ladies' would be out husband-hunt-
ing if matrimOny was a time con
tract instead of life job
What sort of FCharacter," as they
say at employment agencies. would
your present husband or wife give
YOU, Mr.. Man and Mrs. Woman? 1t
is a salutary problem to ponder.