Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-11-08

Answer:
I think, Joanna, that your guar
dian angel is working overtime try
ing to save you. Listen to the voice
of the warning, and as you value
your happiness, do not marry a
man with a high temper.
Temper wrecks more marriages
than drink and infideIity and every
other cause combined. 1t is a worse
vice in either man Or woman than
drunkenness or unfaithfulness be-
cause it is more continually in
dulged in. A high-tempered woman
can make any home on earth a hell.
So can a high-tempered man.
If you marry high-tempered
man, you will go in fear and trem-
bling all your days because the
dread of rousing him will hang like
the sword of Damocles over your
head. You will live in continual
dread of saying something that rifles
him. of doing something Of which
he disapproVes, and you will have
heart failure every time anybody he
doesn't like comes to the house, or
the monthly bills come in, or the
roast is overdone or underdone. You
will be mortified a million times by
having to \go through scenes in
which your husband behaves like a
fool and a crazy person because
waiter made a mistake, or a taxi
driver overcharged him, or some
body TESTED him in public place.
And the chances are, your hus-
band will be a failure in business
because high-tempered people never
get along in the world. Nobody ex-
cept a mans wife is going to bother
with a man who has to be handled
with gloves. A high temper is
nothing but selishness and lack Of
self-control but it's a bruite's
weapon with which he clubs his
family into doing his way. And
there is no such domestic tyrant in
the world. as the high-tempered
man.
Marry any other man under the
sun rather than the one with
temper hung on hair trigger.
DEAR DOROTHY DIX-Will you
write something about in-laws who
are perpetually underfoot. My wife
is the dearest little woman in the
world and I desire above everything
else to make her happy. but we
come pretty near to scrapping over
the perpetual visits of her family.
1 realize that she loves her own peo-
pie and desires to have them with
her. and l do not object TO this in
moderation, but in the two years
that we have been married we have
not had a single week to ourselves.
Mother or father. or sisters or
brothers are always camped in our
guest room. [ haven't the nerve to
chuck them out, so the Lord knows
what I am to do about it. Can you
suggest any remedy? JOHN ~
Answer:
Alas. John, there is many another
poor husband in your fix, whose in
laws regard him as their meal ticket.
Indeed | have heard more than one
mother say complacently that it was
so nice that Ethel was going to
marry a man who lived in the city
because it would be such an advan-
taoe to the younger girls to be able
to spend their winters with her. In
fact, it is quite the usual point OF
view for a family to consider that
their daughters husband runs free
hotel for the remainder of the fam
lily. SO, if it is true that misery
loves comfort you have the conso-
lation of knowing that there are
thousands of other young husbands
in the same boat with you.
OF course. there is no justice in
a family thinking that because
young man assumed Ethers support