Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-31
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

took in boarders to support her
lazy. shiftIeSs, lOafer of a son. And
when Mamie saw that she would in
herit mothers job if she married her
oodfor-nothing son, L was all off
with her. You never saw such a
completely cured girl as she was
when she got back home"
my Sally was engaged to man
of whom L highly disapproved, said
another woman. II knew she didn' t
really care for him. 1t was just
one CT those summer filtration af.
fairs that are a mixture of moon
light and mush and general senti-
mentality, and L didn't believe that
the man was any more really in
earnest than she was.
II was at my wits end TO know
how to prevent the folly of such
a marriage, but when the man came
to see Sally, L got my cue. [ saw
at once that he was selfish ana
stingy and egotistical. SO L received
him with open arms and told him
how glad l was that Sally was go
ing to marry a big, strong man who
could take. all the cares of life off
her, for she was so frail that she
had to be cherished like a flower;
how thankful [ was that she was
getting a husband who would be
able to indulge her in beautiful
clothes, and fine cars, and all the
other luXuries she loved and must
have; and how relieved [ was that
7she would be saved from all the
sordid work of housekeeping
81 pOI116 coo that tho idoo Of how
ing a sickly, extravagant, useless
wife didn't appeal to him, and I
could feel his enthusiasm going
down to the congealing- point as 1
talked. The result was that he
and Sally quarreled the first day,
and broke the enga gement, and Sal
ly doesn't know to this day how
it all happened"
"Propinquity is a great match
maker" said the third woman,
but 1t is just as effective as a
match breaker. When my girls
think that they are in love with
men of whom I disapprove, 1 don't
forbid the voting men the house.
[ simply pull them in and give the
girls overdOses of their society. This
is especially effective in the sum-
mer, when the days are hot and
long and sticky, and Z have never
had a love affair-~that survived a
week of country house in August,
without any other guest to break
the strain. The affair is always
called off by mutual consent"
Another good way to break up
a match is to get the girl or boy
out of their own environment and
into yours said a fourth woman
Maud Muller, raking hay, ravished
the judges fancy, but he would
have gotten over it in double-quick
time if he had seen Maud using
her fork like an agricultural int.
plement at a dinner party. Moth
ing so dissipates the romantic charna
of a movie hero or a chorus vamp
like getting them among cultured
people, where they are aWkwarc,
and i'll at ease, and don't know wnav
to do. You remember old Major
Pendennis saved Arthur from mar
rying his elderly charmer by cas-
ually remarking, 'Ah, [ see she
spells affection with one e. The
plan still works as 1 can assure
you from personal experience"
Ut have kept my son from mar
rying unsuitable girls by affecting
to be surprised that he could be so
easily taken in," said the fifth WON.
an. II meresay say, I did hope hiatt
when you married you would marry
the girl, instead of letting a girl
marry YOU and that settles that
Perhaps these recipes for break
ing off match are not always eff
fective, but they are worth trying
in cae you need help.
Copyright, 1929