The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-07

There are girls who are born busi- ness women, and others who have busi- ness careers thrust upon them.
 The born business woman is never as happy anywhere else as she is ;n an office or a shop. She likes her part in the handling of big affairs, she en- joys the contact with the outside world and the excitement of barter and trade. That sort of woman is never con tented housewife. She always feels that her energies are, wasted/ A woman of this type who had really been the brains of a large retail gro- cery, and who married and gave up her job to keep house in a little two-by- four flat, summed up the situation to me once by saying; For me to run little house is like putting thousand horsepower engine to pull one horse power load"
 A crackerjack business woman often makes poor housekeeper, because her heart is never in her work and there fore it seems the part of wisdom for her to go on with the work that she likes best and use the money in hiring somebody to do the work for her at home that is distasteful to her. There is no idea more absurd than that every woman is a born housekeeper and dotes on pots and mans. Not all women have nat ural craving for cooking any more
 than all men happen to be caTpen- ters or bricklayers We don't ex-
 pect a man to give up the occupa- tion he chose for a life work when | he gets marr.ed. Why should a woman do so!
 As a matter of fact, within the
 next twenty-five years only the women will give up their jobs when they marry men who are misfits in
 the business world. and who pre-
 fer homework to office work.
 Certainly iE is a great help to a young man who is trying to get start in the world for his wife to be wage-earner. It means that they can get home, or a start in business, that will make their whole after life more comfortable.
 Of course, when the babies come
 the question automatically settles
 itself, unless there is a mother or
 some elderly relative to take care
 of them. Raising her children is
 a woman's real big job in the world,
 and everything else must give way to that.
 As to the disposition of the money where both husband and wife work l should say that the fair thing would be to put it in a joint checking account, or to invest it in property that IS in both names.
 One thing, Ruth, warn you
 against. Don't try to keep on with
 your job and do your housework
 at the same time. That will break
 down the health of any woman in
 the world and make her cross and
 irritable and unlivable. Either
 board of hire a housekeeper, so that
 you won't have to come home and
 get dinner after a hard days work.
 DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Dorothy Dix: I married very pretty girl because I was very much in love with her, but l find she has the worst disposition l have ever known. Nothing do pleases her. She is hateful to my family. She does not hesitate to make a scene if she gets angry at any place, and it surely IS embarrassing and makes me feel and act like a whipped dog.
 She has absolutely no control over her temper, and she has never been able to get along with her own family. can't see how can go on the balance of my life with her, but she has some very good qualities, and I don't want