Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-10

locked tight and fast. But If the
door is bound to be opened, it is
better for you to do it than for a
stranger You can at least shape
the grisly figure within it in what
ever excuses and extenuating cir
cumstances that your affection for
your mother can conjure up.
And it will be better to do it be-
fore you are married than after
ward, because it will show the young
man that you gave him q. square
deal. If he finds it impossible to
overlook your mothers conduct and
il shakes his faith in you, it will
be less sorrow for you to give him
up now than it would to live with
his continual reprOaches and suspi-
cions.
OF course, the old saying, Like
mother, like daughter" is generally
true, and you cannot blame man
for being afraid of girl whose
mother is lacking in moral principle
and who not. only has not been
reared with any ideals of purity and
innocence, but has been taught, by
inclinations.
example that q daughter follows,
but an awful warning to her not
to do certain things Many a girl
sees her mothers fault so clearly
that she flies to the opposite ex-
IRENE. Just as among men some
Of the most fanatical prohibitionists
are the sons of drunken fathers, so
some of the most discreet and aus
terely virtuous women in the world
are the daughters of weak, loose
living mothers. Indeed, there is a
proverb among women that a lazy
mother makes an Industrious daugh.
ter, and that the thriftiest house
wives are the daughters of shiftless
housekeepers.
Your sweetheart need have no
fear that you will follow in your
mothers footsteps, but you cannot
expect him, if he does marry you,
to want you to be much with her,
nor to be under her influence. Still
less will he want his children to be
brought UP at the knees of a grand.
mother whose petticoats are mud be-
spattered
You say your mother has been a
wonderful mother to you. Perhaps
for your sake and to secure your
happiness she will be willing to sac
rifice her own guilty love and turn
back to the straight road.
Dear Dorothy Dix-While in col
lege L fell in love with a coed. She
returned my affection and we be
came engaged, and for q while we
were very happy.
But, later on, she broke the en-.
gagement because she decided that
we were temperamentally unsuited
to each other. She said that she
was too highly idealistic to marry
man who was as practical as /
am. Personally. I think that most
girls are idealistic by nature, and
that men are more practical, don I
you? And, inasmuck as we have
the same tastes in books, and amuse.
ments, and many other things, this
should not separate us. What do
you think? J. o. F.
Answer: I think the young lady
is kidding herself. Lots of women
like to think that they are all soul,
and that they yearn after the what
ness of the what, and the aintness
or the It's, and they affect to deSpiSe
as materialists everyone whose feet
are on the ground instead of dang
ling from the clouds.
But it is all tolnmyrot. Just a
pose. When you come down to brass
tacks, these transcendentalists hank
er after the fIeshpots just as much
as the balance of us. They come
down out of the ether for three
square meals a day and are just as
keen about good clothes, and good
cars, and good houses as the go-get-
tiers who are expected to supply
them.
Personally, I think tina you will es-
cape lot of trouble if you miss
getting the idealistic young woman
for wife. But you won't. Just
give her time and she will have a
CLEAN of sanity in which she will
see the advantage Of having a prac-
teal husband.
The idealistic men who are the
soul mates of the idealistic women
never have enough money to get
married on. DOROTHY DIX.
Copyright, 1924D