Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-07

domesticated answer the call of the
wild; the hobbled jump the bars, and
under the influence of q mld-Sum-
mer madness we commit follies that
we spend the balance of the year
repenting and praying that our fam
lily and friends will never find out.
So it behooves us to watch our
steps in the good old summertime
and walk warily among it's pitfalls,
and here are a few DONT'S that
hang like red lanterns along its most
dangerous curves:
For the married woman:
Don't park your wedding ring at
home when you start off on your
summer vacation without your hus-
band. OF course, when you are OFF
among strangers, it is a temptation
to see if you have any of the bait
left a which the fish used to nibble
in shoals before you were married;
of course, you are hungry for ro-
nance, and it certainly would sound
good to have some man making real,
hot, sizzling love to you under a
summer moon, instead of just having
to take it for granted that the man
you are tied to still cares for YOU
because he still pays your bills with
only a reasonable amount of grumb-
ling.
Of course, you still have your
girlish figure and are easy on the
eyes, but you have got great big
children, and you know that you
are slipping, and that this is your
last call to the dining car.
Nevertheless, don't do it. Flirta
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roost with married people, and the
results are generally messy and
divorcy. Many wife has paid for
a silly seasons sentimental jag with
her home and her husband and her
good name Besides, it would lower
you in your own eyes. No wife who
remembers another mans kisses on
her lips can say the things that he
deserves to side-stepping husband.
Don't babble. Because you sit all
day on the gallery of summer hotel
embroidering with other women,
don't let your tongue run away with
you. Don't tell them the story of
your life. Don't tell them that you
are not happy with your husband,
and that you can't manage your
children, and about your husbands
business affairs.
Don't exhibit the family skeleton
Don't delude yourself with the idea
that it is safe to tell a perfect
stranger your secrets because she
lives a thousand miles from where
you do The railroads are still run
ming and the postof1ice functioning,
and the chances are that she knows
your dearest enemy, who will take
Al in n oil
about yourself that you started.
Don't brag. Don't discourse about
your butler, and your French cnauf
feur, and your imported cars, and
your box at the opera. People who
are used to living luxuriously do not
feel called upon to advertise the fact
Don't say that the reason you came
to cheap hotel is because you were
tired of the fashionable life and
wanted to get back to nature.
Don't say that the reason, you
wear no jewels is because your
pearls were so valuable you put
them in your husbands safe. You
do not deceive any one. Every
woman has your number and you
merely make yourself ridiculous.
Don't stay away from home too
long You are entitled to a vacation.
So is your husband 1t will dc you
good to be parted for a little time.
But summer is a good time for a
wife to keep her eye on her husband
if she desires to hold on to him. He,
too, is feeling gay and giddy. and
is lonesome and uncomfortable at
home. When the wife is away the
husband will play, and it is no