Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-07
DOROTHY DIX'S LETTER BOX
"You Can Caiole a Woman Into
Doing Anything, but You Can't
Drive Her an Inch"-ThisK nowl-
edge, Applied, Makes Contented Wives

unou sE aHcb AL women We're discussing ssss a long and expensive pleasure trip
y believe 5 ! win &c. toe. if my husband a, will let me- said a third one.
you want to do that your husband isn't anxious for you to DO and IN nothing tsfas
~, to 1Th hat - Just it" said the woman, MY husband husband is $50 so good ana ssaa
honor, you know, not to take advantage of his unselhshness.
"f he were tyrannical would fight for my rights to
me me any nt n pled Is RE o @r ndG GI9s9 n s woaydd f@d a tSat ! sS
a perfect right to oqtwit him, and take everything I could get
the world Q a silver saver if he could, and who leaves very
u" "That oP bfpa sF w % b 10 fIme and m 20 @ as o ond Tease Y9e oyr
your husband to do what he viii Will you"
True" said the first woman. we women are such simple primitive
to marvel that every e "a hasn't 9g %p gt us bs an n f@S rM6t u.s. pnd i9 his l. n thwrS cease IS
could have have her herd like a monkey or a stick that dances at his pleasure he
a wife IS he does to his golf stroke But he doesn't.
of MAKING aMhsn a t Pse nySrass @ os%1s gets 81 m 65 siqs he p .9 %GFs thinks links
would be peace in i his home home and md moneys mS in nf his pocket pGe to . find nd
of us car be worked. sN
who RI r nsys sf m f9r noeSnse as m Sen ~ with t5,S a a5s N d dissatisfied s% ssa. woman
ard Pegsets her husband and children and openly envies every woman oman
ing what so sort of o a d dundeThe a%G Is b %aaan s hs S Swn m nxfas without know
mans place being in the home, and who no never s @Nt takes pf his Wf a0 anys = @e.
feel that when she got Married aPE qM she gt a life life IS Sentences abs sa at h SnG m ns5o4 a hss
hates he her 5 S%s 4 and q br jail. ' and 3 she : is n always s15' trying q . Srsan Is e hat she
.. i HRsf If ana s ;n aaf sr f bstps saS Tss anxious asis 50 es s s y ten e
she would ID be nj nailed p@1 to her st5 W H%ssS ne '"' IKE !" why
and it is the same way with the women who are always Complaints
G Sset tha rn HUSBANDS ban n doa't ta ea sn mBet AZ a t IR Ra@e fhe haV or n 1t IS tbt tbss
fm usot mas H Imnk rnasn a N wooi tS coa is good enough ugh fr them them instead Of the
can pachy any, wife, and make her perfectly satisfied with her lot BY
taking her yin window %, shopping, and picking out the biggest limousine and
he mos costly s .4' n n nos gorgeous tiara: M SAYING to her:
I can't give them Ito you, and show the world what a queen you would
1ook if you had the right setting for your beauty Ninety-nine women III
perfectly contented, and pity the poor milionairesses who had nothing bN
matched pearls and palaces. s
And 7 never hear a man berating his w1fes extrava-
ganee and poor housekeeping, and telling what a IA man.
ager she Is. and what a waseT, without feeling like saying to
him., You poor simp, haven't you got enough sense to
know that you "a cajole n woman intod doing anything, but
you can't drive her an inch? Keep o knocking her for her
extravaganza, and she will u u more bills o n you on of
pure revenge because it is lei only way of getting ven with
you.
a good oB1 %.n If ysu .S wa st her Praise . b be s ss%e Make tel Ssr her ss., What THAT
she is helping you by saving, that you couldn't get along
without Ter assistance, and she will queez every nckle m
til she makes the buffalo howl lin agony! Ns
Nor did any la we get anything except dyspepsia by finding fault
with his wifes cooking, and throwing mothers pies in her teeth. But you
can jolly n woman INTO memorizng the cookbook and making a burnt
offering of herself on the gas range by extohng the merits of her food,
and boasung publicly of the kind of dinners she gives you. t
Managing a wife! Huh! 1t is the easiest thing in thu world. STRANGE
isn't it, that 50 few men ever take the trouble to learn how to do it"
Copyright 1925. by Public Ledger Company