Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-02

not care for either when you got
him.
Dear Dorothy Dix: We are three
sisters, aged twentythree, twenty
and eighteen. We are very attrac-
i've looking and very sociable, and
there are many boys who would like
to take us out, but our parents
won't hear of it. They are very
strict with us, and will not even let
us out at night to visit a friend.
When we try to get them to under
stand that we must have some en-
joyment they both get angry and
won't let us say another word Still,
they are always nagging at us be-
cause we are not married.
Please advise us what to do.
THREE SISTERS.
Answer:
Your parents are certainly very
unreasonable in their attitude to-
ward you, and if they will not listen
to you perhaps they will read this:
l would like to say to all parents
that they must realize that the way
to keep their girls safe is not by
locking them up in a room, for any
girl will crawl through the transom
if you turn the key on her, but to
give them plenty. of innocent and
safe pleasures, and plenty of liberty,
with father and mother standing
discreetly in the background, keep
ing wary eye on the youngsters.
Just remember that forbidden
waters are sweet, and the more you
keep them from a girl the thirstier
you make her for them
Refuse to let a girl receive her
boy friends at home, and she will
meet them on the sly. Keep her
from wholesome young pleasures,
and she will slip off and go to wild
parties. Make her a prisoner, and
she will hate you and defy you, for
this is the day of the emancipated
child, and you can't treat your
daughters as they were treated in
the Middle Ages.
Furthermore, how is a girl to get
married if she is never allowed to
have any beaux? Praying for a hus-
band doesn't bring one. 1t is the go
getter who gets them. 1t is moth
er's and fathers duty to help girl
get settled in life, and to that end
they should invite young men to the
house and get acquainted with them,
so that they can give their daugh-
tiers the benefit of their advice about
whom to select as a life partner.
Dear Miss Dix: I am married to a
woman who is all the world to me,
but she insists in keeping up a con-
tinual correspondence with man
under the pretense that he is an
\ old friend. He often writes her tC
meet him in the city at certain
hotels. They also often go joyrid
ing and to the theater together.
Don't you think that if this man had
any principle he would stop all this
when [ tell him that it is making
me perfectly miserable, and ask him
not to see my wife? A. B. C.
Answer:
Your wife is the one who is chief.
ly to blame in this case. If she does
not care enough for you to consider
your feelings, why should you ex
pect the man do so?
| think you would humilate your.
self by begging him to look after
your domestic fences. A man should
be able to do that for himself. Ger
tainly he should not ask his rival
to do it for him. Evidently your
wife holds her marriage vows light
ly and has small affection for you
There is no remedy for a situa
ton such as yours but to forget the
woman, and that is probably the
thing you cannot do for the less
worthy women are of love the more
men seem to love them. Which is
one of the things which keeps good
faithful loving, neglected wives
guessing.
DOROTHY DIX.
DOWNRIGHT 1921