Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-21
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

Then there is money. Every man
knows that financial independence
is necessary to every human being S
self-respeCt. Without dollar of
our own in our pockets we are hum
BILE, cringing parasites that must
lick the hand that feeds us, no mat.
ter how much we feel like biting it.,
Every man realizes this about him
self. No real man, no matter how
good, and kind, and generous a IA
Their he had, could endure going to
him every day and asking papa to
please give him his car fare and
lunch money, and enough to buy a
new necktie. His pride wouldn' t
permit him to enact the role of a
perpetual beggar.
More than that if he worked all
day long in his fathers Store or Of
flee and gave the very best that
was in him to building up the bust.
ness, he would certainly feel himself
exceedingly i'll used and regard IA
ther as a grinding tyrant and the
champion tightwad if he got no pay
envelope on Saturday night and still
had to go to papa and ask for his
car fare and lunch money. And it
would be to laugh with derision if
father expected him to be grateful
for getting the money that he had
earned ten times over.
Yet that is precisely the position
Of thousands of women whose hus-
bands refuse to make them any sort
of a, personal allowance TO their
families they give service so great
not ever pay for it, yet they never
have a penny of their own that they
do not have to wheedle out of their
husbands. Surely, if men ever
thought of their wives as human be-
ings with decent instincts they
would not force them to become
mendicants and resort to the tricks
of harlots to get the money that is
due them as housekeepers, and
cooks, and steamstresses, and baby
nurses, to say nothing of their
higher claim as partners in the
matrimonial partnership.
There's demesticity. Love. A
man knows that the human heart is
about the trickiest proposition on
earth, and that nobody can account
for its vagaries or prophesy what
It is going to do. He knows that,
so far as a man is concerned, love
is not a chronic complaint for which
| there is no cure after you once
catch it. On the contrary, he is per-
fectly aware that if you keep the
fire of passion burning you have to
be always throwing fresh fuei on
the flames and keeping the hot-air
| bellows going. He knows that the
woman who retains her husband s
! affections has to be up and doing
and a Vamp who is able to meet all
| corners.
But he never thinks of his wife S
having the same sort of tickle, hui
man heart that he has. He honestly
believes that nothing he could dc
can kill his Wife's affection for him
and that she will go on loving him
no matter how slouchy and per
sonally unattractive he becomes; M
matter how dull and uninterestins
or grouchy he gets to be; no matter
how he neglects her.
All of which is some mistake
Women can fall out of love ever
quicker than men can. They ar,
human just as men are, and thei
love must have something to liv,
on or else it, too, starves to death.
There is nothing in being a wifi
that changes a woman's nature Sh
is still a human being, with human
desires, and if husbands would re
member this there would be yer,
few unhappy marriages.
DOROTHY DIX.
Copyright, 1924