Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-30
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

definite board at home if the family
is in straitened circumstances, but
her parents have no right to take
her pay envelope away from her
and dole her out a few cents out of
her own earnings. Those who make
the money have the right to handle
it. it gives girl a sense of indie
pendence to have her own pocket
book. 1t teaches her how to spend
money wisely. 1t kills all her am
bition and desire to make more if
her mother takes what she does earn
away from her and makes her feel
she is a slave working for others.
Dear Miss DIX am in love with
a girl who first blows hot and then
blows cold. One day I think she
loves me, and the next day l doubt
it. Will you please tell me if a
tickle girl ever becomes a good wife?
Is there any cure for fickleneSs?
PATIENT FIANCE.
Answer: F'ickleness is merely in
decision. A tickle girl is one who
has not found herself and does not
know what she wants. She is young,
and she finds the world fill of such
number of desirable things that
she can not decide between them.
She is like a child in toy shop, at
tracted first by this glittering trinket
and then dropping that to clutch at
something with even more gilttering
paint upon it.
So here's your tickle girl who
finds one man adorable because he
is SO good, and another fascinating
because he is so wicked who is at
tracted to one man because he is
all soul, and to another because he
is the village cutup; who thinks she
Is in love with some man because of
the cut of his clothes and the way
he dances one minute, and is GER
tain some long-haired poet is her
soulmate the next; who is soft, and
tender, and sentimental just because
it is a moonlight night and the air
is soft and warm, and then faces
about and is as hard as nails Just
because the weather has changed
and she is hungry.
This varying about like a weather
cock is no fundamental weakness of
character. 1t is Just a girl of brains
and sensibilities reaching out bIindIy
in the dark for that which belongs
to her in life. And when she finds
it she makes the best sort, of a wife
and her fickleness is permanently
cured
So my advice to you, Patient
Flance, is to just sit by and wait.
Don't hurry her. Let her take her
time and make IL her experiments,
and if she really loves you she will
come to you at last And if she
doesn't love you, if you are not her
man, you don't want her.
Dear Miss Dix-My prospective
husband and myself have entered
into an argument that we can not
settle and we put it up to you to
decide it:
Who shall arise first in the morn.
ing and build the fire? 1t is a simple
CRATE fire.
PERPLEXED.
Answer: The man, of course. SmalI
Sallantry must a lover possess who
even contemplates forcing his bride
to arise of cold morning and make
the fire by which he shall dress in
warmth and comforti Surely it is
the mans part to keep the home
fires burning, literally as well as
figuratiVely.
AS I have said many a time and
oft, I do not believe that a man
should be forced to help with the
housework. [ do not think that
after he comes home from a hard
days work, he should be made tic
wash the dishes and scrub up the
kitchen floor, and it is lazy and
trifling wife who makes her hus-
band help out with her work.
But starting the fire in the morn.
ing is different proposition. That's
mans job, and it seems to me that
any man who cared for his wife
would hop it.
DOROTHY DIX.
Copyright, 1924.