Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-24
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DOROTHY DX'S COLUMN
A Sense of Humor viii Do More
Than Anything Else to Keep
Us Sane - That Is Why It'll
Much Needed In Matrimony
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good imitation 4 a oms doing a certain lecture when her
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by his big and bossy wifi.
ANY vaudeville actor who "a give a nfsnke impersonaaon IF a drunk
and virtually all fMees are built around the dsnshnniy humorous
miads-sssd wife while he sports IS !" around with Nth beau ii young q g creatures
when the merry ssa Gs IS IS e1% our. sF%e' '' '''' q . -
tina. F tsss. i Il. .G &lsiBspa In biz i; snt HUSBAND. %anGl0F %s. q . his ) S !. s sos.Ssa alas
headed he may look back and laugh at his wnss first attempts at house.
didn't @%T ZEE ' anything Vt ins to nh laugh haa ss IN gse ouu s9 s0Sn bills anu %a'u nns sasS ~s dinners ss
fun to . others but he doesat lof that way ~Ss to am nay ''A : ''' .
til. a Ms ~G@s footsteps :ss had ana 'a ss. n.s sRss . si A ss a s. ss sn s: at
sss sn the: 9 r sh "a Dh r asa sAi husband 1sssa ana may si :. . the f.ss assl
side ycid; to his wife hey are not comedy but trasedy
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things IN domestic life IL % over " which cS's = m nasri i. nss 20 o n srg
and it is SO much better to smile than t. wsspi j
Undoubtedly. married people would do much to relax the strain Of
HGmes ! humorous nS u th sy.s oSiG o r. = Co . at sIs each = other Soma little - Dss ~
Hate, who never does anything on time. and who always arrives Al a 3.
lpointment with her tongue hanging out and her hat awryp inning herself
together as she comes is just as amusing as she is aggravating, If onlvh her
husband could get a comedy slant at her.
And it would save many a women from nervous prOsra-
ton If she could perceive what a human joke she had In n old
maid husband with fussy ways. who raises rucuons II his
which he has placed them, and who eats every mOuthfui as
If he were sampnng poison, for fear the cook hasn't got the
exact flavor to a sauce o. cooked the meat to the precise
And could anything be more ridiculous, when you come to analvzes n
han the family spat9 Nlnety,nlne times out of a hundred II begins about
think 10, that IT is too hot or toe cold. and she feels perfectly are IL win
rain before night Husband bistles up, and replies that he doesn't know
lprophet n reminds him Il all the mistakes he has made IN forecastfng
tie temperature.
way Of looking 1t a thing. Wife comes back with m snappy little re-
mark about his being n Solomon or else he would get alon better In
business. n then they go to it, hammer and tones, until they have
dragged In every relative o n both sides of the house and every unpleasant
episode tina las eve taken place between Them. And II ends bv h
banging the door behind him and the woman dissolving in tear.
Domestic quarrels are pretty grim Jokes hut thav a.
jokes because they are much ado about nothing, ana II hus-
bands and wives could only realize how absurd they are, get
that they really are nothing about, and saying thing to
each other that they will be sorry for and for which they win
nav % apologize, why, there could be n o mor foolish family
fights. and peace would reign in many a home that IL nov y
seen Of a perpetual guerrilla warfare.
Moreover a laugh is the best-known remedy for many other domestic
Ills 1t is a sovereign cure for a crouch because the only va IN -rNsf
silent crouch al get in his work is by being taken seriously wbe1 von
laugh at ais pose and he finds that he furnishes the family amusement
INSTEAD Of striking terror into it, you have spoiled his little rame ~ -
has to cheeru and be natural.
Same wy with the woman who gets her way " sofnx into vnsersos
of pity Ns@1
A sense of hunor will do more than anything else on
eatn TO keep us sane That is why 1t Is SO much needed A
martimony. Lucky those who al see the funny side Of the
HS est@us. -. -. DOROTHY DIX