Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-16
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

fall upon them, in the hope that they
might that way escape his wrath
l have seen them sit silent and
hushed at the table, hoping against
hope that he would not single them
out for his TRADES, and when they
had to ask him if they might &C
somewhere, or do something that
they desire to do, L have. seen them
shake as a criminal might in the
presence of a hanging judge. -
I have known moral men who
were faithful to their marriage vows
Men who never philandered with a
pretty woman, or took a second look
at any petticoat except those hang
ing on their own wash line. Men
who were vanp- proof.
But / have seen these same men
as cold and hard as rock to their
own wives L have seen these men
let their wives starve and die for
little appreciation, a little tender.
ness, a little love. have known
many Of these men who never spoke
to their wives after they were mar.
ried except to find fault with them
never to notice or praise anything
that was we'll done, but to have an
eagle eye for every blunder and
every mistake. / have known these
men never to take their wives out
to any place of amusement, never
to devise any pleasure for them
never even to make them pres.
ent.
L have known men who were
spoken of as "such good men, They
were so friendly. So kindly to eV-
cry one. They always visited the
sick, and went to funerals, and
headed donations. They were al.
ways SO pleasant and companion
able.
I have known men like that who
took out all the nerves and temper
they did not dare show customers
and clients upon their families
Sometimes they were men who were
too much gentlemen to swear and
curse, but they held a more 1ethaI
weapon over the heads of their wives
and children. When anything dis
pleased them for some unknown rea
son they would pass into the gloomy
silence, a silence that froze every
body and everything and sent the
temperature down to zero, and his
would last for days and weeks.
I have known plenty of men who
spoiled what might otherwise have
been happy home with tlteil
grouches, and made it a place OF
torment from which the children
fled as soon as they were old enough
to leave.
I contend that the meanest hus
band is the man who is good outside
of the home and mean in it. Ht
is the most contemplate bully ant
coward in the world, because h,
vents his spleen on the only people
who are in his power, and helples!
to defy him. He is the meanes
husband because he respects the let
ter of the law of marriage, blu
breaks it's spirit.
Not all the injuries are physiea
ones. A hurt heart can ache NOR;
than a wound. A bruised soul i.
worse than a black eye. Sarcastic
speeches stab deeper than a knife
A mans selfishness is a more dead
ly rival than any vamp.
AS an illustration of woman's in
consistency it is often remarked thai
women leave good men, apparently
without reason, and stick to mer
who are drunkards and jailbirds, ant
FOUNDERS. But the women know
what they are doing. They know
that these men have some quality
of generosity, of tenderness, of gen
tleness, of pleasantness, that makes
them, bad as they are, better hus
bands than many a good man.
rs" Copyright, 1929 49,