Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-01
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

Dear Miss DIX have been mar
ried eleven years, and have two chill
dren, a girl ten years old, and a
darling baby boy nine months old.
l have been very happy in my mar
ried life until just now. My hus-
band is good to me in nearly every
way He gives me all Of his money,
he nearly always gets Sunday din
ners to give me rest, as we do not
employ servants, and he never for
gets anniversaries and holidays. But
l have found a Woman's picture in
his coat pocket. He denied all knowl-
edge of it. Said somebody at the Of
flee must have put it there for a
joke, but that sounds very fishy to
me. Should L forget it, or leave him?
want to be sensible and do the
right thing, especially for my chill
dren. ANXIOUS WIFE.
Answer: Forget it, sister, forget
it. The very first quality that a wife
should cultivate Is credulity, and If
she is wise she wears binders so
that she does not see a lot Of little
things over which she can make
herself very unhappy if she is so
minded.
If your husband is, indeed, the
paragon that you describe him to be,
you might well forgive him for
far worse offense than having
woman's picture in his pocket.
A husband who is good and kind
and generous, who Is tender and
sentimental; who is so understand
ing and sympathetic that he gets
the Sunday dinner to save you, why,
woman, you don't know what luck
you are playing in Or what a bles-
| sing you have, or you wouldn't talk
about leaving him, no matter what
he does.
Me, I'd stick to a man who would
get the Sunday dinner If he were
Brigham Young,
Probably your husband tells you
the truth about saying that the
boys put the picture in his pocket
for a joke. At any rate, you may
be very sure that as long as he
gives you all of his money he isn't
doing much philandering. The gold
diggers have small use for men who
turn over their pay envelopes to
their wives. There is nothing that
makes for virtue like the lack Of the
price for wrong-doing.
You say you want to be sensible.
If you do, you will merely laugh
over this incident, and you will
never mention it to your husband
again. You will can your jealousy
and cut out any nagging, and keep
your home and your children and
your husband. To break up your
home and orphan your children be-
cause you found a woman's picture
in your husbands pocket would not
only be wicked--it would be idiot1c.
Dear Miss Dix am puzzled as
to whether or not I should tell the
boy to whom am engaged that l
am stout. We haven't seen each
other for quite a while and during
his absence I have put on lot of
flesh. [ am almost afraid to tell
him. for a lot of fellows don't like
fat girls, and he may be one Of them,
Please tell me what to do.
A WORRIED GIRL.
Answer: AS you cannot MARRY
your man, sight unseen, do not
see how you can conceal from him
the fact that you have become
heavyweight, so you had better
break the sad news to him by letter.
1t is true that very few men love
a fat woman in these days when the
ideal lady love has a lean and hun
CRY look. SO my advice to you is to
go on diet and reduce. There Is no
excuse, except laziness and self-in-
diligence, for a girl being fat. Quit
eating so much. Count your calories,
omit the sweets and starches and
the fats from your dietary, and you
won't be afraid to met your sweet
heart.
Copyright, 1924)