Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
BY DOROTHY DIX
It's the Wise Wife Who RecOunts
Only the Amusing and Success.
full Incidents

The woman who tells husband |
everything thinks that she is max
ing a great hit with him. Far from
it. She is merely putting in his
hand a hammer with which to knock !
her faults. Nlnety-nine times out of |
a hundred a man would never find |
out that his wife made fool bar
gains, and spent too much money |
ager, if she didn't tell him so her |
married before, and so has no stand |
ard by which he can measure what |
she does and spends.
The first inkling he gets that he
has been stung in the matrimonial
bargain is when wife comes along
and confesses that a glib book agent
has talked her into buying The
Lives of the Presidents" in forty
seven volumes, S. down and the bal
ance in installments as long as you
live. Or when wife weeps and tells
him that she knows she was ex
traVagant in buying an imported
hat. Or when wife laments that she
just can't get her housework done
because she has no system.
1t is when man has it from
woman's own lips that she's a poor,
miserable makeshift of wife that
he begins to get sorry for himself,
and thinks what q mistake he made
in marrying the one he did. Also
he gets busy trying to correct the
faults TO which she has admitted,
and the results are decidedly un-
1,1ca ca pt for tho 1adV
How every woman manages her
husband is her own trade secret that
she should never reveal to any one.
and especially not to her lord and
master. But the main provision of
it is that she should never tell him
anything but the things she wants
him to know about herself.
When she makes a pan of biscuit,
that are better designed for cannon
balls than the human stomach, she
should slip them into the garbage
can, and clamp the lid down on it
tight. and say nothing about it. But
when her angel food is as light as a
feather, she does we'll to discourse
long and loudly upon it. and call hus-
bands attention to what a grand
cook she is.
She should be mum about her bar
gains that are not bargains, but she
should never fail to call upon hus-
band to admire her financial sagac-
ity when she buys something cheap.
And the result will be that her hus-
band will brag about what a wonder
full manager and housekeeper his
wife is.
Every wife has to "sell'' herself
to her husband, as the commercial
phrase goes, and he believes her to ,
be exactly what she tells him,
Women who boast that they tell
their husbands everything think that
they are entertaining their husbands
by reciting to them the small chron-
icles of their day Far from it.
The reason husbands leave home
is because they are bored to tears
by having to listen to a reverend
ing monologue about the ice man.
and the butcher, and the baker, and
the candlestick maker, and how high
vegetables are, and about Johnny
pulling Mamie's hair, and Mamie
biting Johnny's nose, an the cook
breaking the meat platter, and a
million other little, dull, drab wor-
rieS.
No man wants to know these
things. No woman can recall her
husband ever having asked her to
sit down and recount every unpleas
ant thing that has happened during
the day. Every man has his own
troubles, and when he comes home
at night he doesn't want his wife to
dump hers on him. He wants to
he entertained, to be amused to
have his mind shifted into pleasant
channels.
All that he is concerned with
in his wife's work of running the
house, and raising the children, is
the result. He doesn't want to be
bothered with hearing about all the
CORY details, and the successful wife
is she who keeps her troubles to
herself, and only tells her husband
the things that it amuses him to
hear, except, of course, when there
are big troubles and big issues that
they must discuss together.
The woman who tells her husband
everything Stays romance with her
tongue.
The people who keep us perpetual
ly interested are those whose minds
and souls remain a perpetually un-
discovered country that forever
lures us on. We never weary of
their companiOnship because we are
always discovering some fresh flow
err Of fancy, some new we'll Of feel
ing, some unsupported sparkling
stream of wit, soma rich pasture
land of philosophy and wisdom. some
mountain cliff of experience beyond
which lies we know not what mem
cries of other days.
But the woman who tells ua ev"
eryhing she knows and thinks IS
like shallow bureau drawer that
we turn out. and are done with, be |
cause we have seen the whole OF !
its contents.
A very famous man once SAID TO |
me that his idea of the kind of wife !
of whom man would never tire |!
was q woman to whom a man could !
he married for seven years without |
finding out whether her hair was |
her own or not.
l recommend that bit OF mascu' |
line psychology 10 the Cabling |
ladies who tell their husbands every !
thing.
Copyright. 1920
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