Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-06
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

1t is impossible for any two peo-
pie to live together, day after day,
without each knowing just the
things that most irritate the other;
just what topics are as good for a
scrap as a nickel is for ginger
cake. Yet in spite of this knowledge,
in spite of a thousand experiences
that all turned out the same way,
husbands and wives deliberately say
to each other the fighting word.
There are millions of households
that are places of torment and strife
instead OF Ravens of love and peace,
because people will not let each
others religion alone, or their pol
itics alone, oil they will harp on
some old mistake, or will try TO
domineer over Independent souls
who will not stand for it.
What a pity that wives can never
learn from experience that naggng
their husbands only drives them
away from them. and that the only
way you can keep a man q t home is
to make home the pleasantest pace
there is to go. What d pity hus-
bands cannot learn from experience
that knocking Wjfe's fault does
no good, and that you can lead a
woman anyW here but you cannot
drive her an inch. What d pity par
ents do not learn from experience
that they only anta9Onize their chill
dren when they try to keep them in
leading strings after they are grown,
and that there is nothing else on
earth so insulting to the young as
unSOu ght advice
But they don't. In spite of per
petual family rows and tears wives
keep on harping on their grievances,
husbands keep on finding fault with
everything their wives do. parents
keep on meddiing in all their chill
dren's affairs, and trying TO put
grown-ups to bed at 8 O'Clock after
Il bread-and-mil supper. A lot of
people are miserable who might, be
HAPPY if they'd only>learn from ex-
per4ence!
And, perhaps, the most curious
thing of all is that experience
teaches us nothing about money.
You would think once bit, twice shy,
and that those who had bought gold
bricks, or had their money charmed
from their pockets by some glib
tongued talker, would be forever
wary of anything but the mostS gilt
edge investment. Not at all. ] Not
only is a sucker born every minute,
but the suckers come back again
and again to swallow the same bait.
it's the same class of people who
buy fake stocks and get caught in
crooked bucket shops and invest in
hOOO1 town real estate.
Among the most pathetic people in
the world are those who have in
herited money; who have always
been used to the Injuries Of life:
who have eXtravagant tastes and
ha bits, and who spend or lose their
money and come to poverty. They
do not know how to be poor, and
every detail Of the life of the poor is
a crucifiXion to them.
Sometimes these people come into
money again, and you would think
that their bitter experience would
have taught them thrift and econ
omy and the desire to grips every
nickel until the buffalo howled with
agony but it seldom does. Nearly
always they go back blithely to
spending and come again to poverty
because they have learned nothing
from experience.
IT is inevitable that we should
all commit q thousand follies and
make a thousand plumbers. Happy
those OF us who can learn from ex-
perience and who never make the
same mistake a second time!
DOROTHY DIX.
Copyright 1929