Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-08
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

as tired of their husbands and as
much bored by them as husbands
do with their wives, and many a
man with a meel-loolling, little pa
tient Griselda of q wife would get
the jolt of his life if he knew her
real opinion of him.
A sloIchy man with a two days
stubble of beard on his face and
spots on his clothes is as disillu-
sioning and as unhissable an object
to woman as any lady with cold
cream on her face and in curl pa
pers and soiled kimono is to d
man. 1t is just as much a mans
business to keep his wife fascinat-
&c as it is wife's to keep her hus-
band vamped, and it is no more a
Wlfe's duty to be a little ray Of
sunshine in the home than it is a
mans.
Why, then, put the loud pedal on
the Wife's part in making a happy
home and keeping a marriage a go
ing concern? Simply because, in the
words of President Cleveland, sit
is a condition, and not a theory,
that confronts u.s." in trying to set
tie the domestic problem; because
there are certain amenities in mat.
rimony that must be practiced to
make it a success, and men will
not take the trouble or make the
effort or even realize the necessity
of practicing them, while here is
always a hope that women will.
Also, it is more important to a
woman to protect her home than it
is to a man, for the home means
not only the love nest to a woman
it means her meal ticket as well
1t means not only her spiritual well
being, but her physical comfort anG
safety.
When mans home is broken ur
his heart may be sorely wounded
bit that is all. He still has his bust
ness. He still has his money. He
still has all the luXuries to which he
has been accustomed.
But when q woman's home Il
broken up she not only has the
heartache, but she is often reduced
from affluence to poverty. Many &
woman finds that her divorce gives
her with her freedom the necessity
of earning her own living for the
first time in her life. And there is
nothing on earth more pitiful thar
q niddle-aged woman accustomed tt
wealth and ease and being taker
care of, and with no knowledge OF
how to make a dollar, trying to sup
port herself.
Making a happy home is Just a:
much profession as any other gain
full occupation, and when a woman
| fails in that she goes bankrupt JUS
as truly as she would if the sheriff
! had closed her out in any other linz
| of business.
For a woman to say that she will
| not make an effort to make her
self attractive to her husband, o.
| do anything she doesn't feel like do
| ing to please him, is to take an I'm
| fair advantage of her situation. Sht
| isn't playing cricket. She is presum
ing on the fact that she doesn'
have to give satisfaction, becaus
she can't lose her job.
She knows that if she were al
employee instead of wife she would
| have to make mighty strenuou
effort to be agreeable if she go
| along with her boss, and if she go
i any preferment it would be becaus,
she jollied him and handled hin
with gloves. Ard SO it seems to M
that it is an ALLEGATION Of honor TO
wife to try to please the one maj
! who is legally bound to stand her
Because it is good policy and goo,
principle is why / continually urg
women to try to do everything pos
sible to make their marriage
! success.
DOROTHY DIX.
Copyright, 1924)