The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08

band, have a lib & !, X eral allowance, ant < sH by being saving lszsss1 1xzzs ". lsi4l have all the spend- , ing money I want. l usually attend two shows a'week.
 Now, what gets me is that everyDody talks about what an easy time l nave: My daughter will say, Mother, II l just have an easy time like you when I am married I will be glad" The church people will cay, "Oh, you have such an easy time," and then my hus- band will chime in about what an easy time I have.
 Now, Miss Dix, do you think I am having an easy time, or that l am do- ing my share of the work or not?
 MRS. c. c.
 Answer: I think, Mrs. c. C., that you are one of the 100 per cent ef- ficient women, who are an example to all the female sex, and hope you are not going to ruin it all by self pity.
 You are strong and healthy and ca pable. You have the vigor of body and the intelligence that enables you to do easily and swiftly the work that other women muddle over and wear them selves out trying to do, and you should go about rejoicing in your superiority. Don't imagine that your family and friends belittle your achievements when they say that you have an easy time. They are paying you the greatest com pliment they can offer you.
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 A great many women feel that they
 are persecuted when they have to work, and that we should shed tears of sympathy over tkeir unhappy lot. do not feel that way about it. do not feel that a woman has any more right olead ah idle life than a man has. l think none of us has any right to exist unless we do some honest-to-goodnes constructive labor. unless we do something that builds up and makes the world a happier and better place in which to live.
 No one does that more than the woman who makes a comfortable home for her family, who cooks them good food, who gives them a clean and or- derly place to live in and who makes nice clothes for them. It Is the hus- band and children from the homes that are held together by the work of just such a woman as you, Mrs. c. O., who are tn ebackbone of civilization.
 Don't think that I consider such work easy. It isn't. It is the hard. est, the most never-ending in the world, but 1t is the most important work, and the women who are called to that labor perform the greatest service in the world.
 You go about your duties with the brains that make tn ehead wait on the hands. You have learned to systema- tize your work, and that makes it seem easy to the bunglers. It is a pity that you can't become an efficiency expert and teach some of the women who think that they are having hard time, mud ding through the same tasks that you do, how to make their work easy.
 But you are making one mistake.
 Mrs. c. c. Any woman who has an 1S-year-old daughter should not have to sew for her or work for her. She should have taught the daughter to be her helper. DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Miss Dix: I have been married six years and have two beautiful chil- dren. would be perfectly happy if my husband would only listen to me, How can l make 5im do my way?
 / A. B. c.
 The time-honored way of wife making her husband listen to her ia 6y nagging. Eve started it in the Garden of Eden when she talked Adam into eating the apple. But consider where it got her, and where l tgets every other womna who practices it. The edivorce court and poolrooms are full of men, who have been nagged into them.
 But why do you want to force vonr husband to do your wav7 Arc Uo,, sure tha tyou are so much wiGer +6on ns ne lsA Are you certain your way is tne pest way! Have you made a much Sreater success of life than he has? Are 1A you sure you could manage the 1amny affairs better than he does? It Is curious. thing that the ones m 1T family who are determined to rule It never take into consideration their own qualifications as dictator.
 Indeed, as general thing, the one who IS the most set on bossirg every thing an dhaving his or her way is the one with the least sense and Judgment. For it is only narrow, stupid, bigoted people who can see only one side of a thing who are de- termlned to forc<etheir opinions on every one else.
 Believe me, A. B. C., you will not
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