Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-17
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME
was gloomy and peevish and whiny,
and who fretted with her children
and spatted with her husband.

and who fretted with her children
and spatted with her husband.
Whether a woman makes a sue.
cess or failure of matrimony de-
ponds altogether on whether she
has a sense of humor or not. If
she can see her husband as one Of
the most mirth-provolling side
splitting, uproarious human jokes
that nature ever perpetrated she
will be happy, and he will bless
heaven on his knees for having
given him the paragon Of wives. But
if s. g sees him as an Awful Prob
lem, or a subject for reformation,
neither one of them will ever know
a happy hour, and the marriage will
either end in a divorce court or a
long endurance contest.
The women who wreck marriages
are the ones who take their hus-
bands seriously, and who get tragic
every time their husbands look at
another woman, or play a little
poker, or fail to come home at the
appointed hour, and who weep when
their husbadns forget. an anniVer-
sary, or fail in some little attention
they consider their due.
The women who keep their hus-
bands enslaved from the altar to
the grave are the women who laugh
with their husband over their little
faults and peculiarities They make
a joke OF their husbands weakness
for pretty face; they have dozen
funny stories to tell about how they
helped their husbands out Of
scrapes, and, instead of feeling i'll
used and assuming the pose of a
domestic martyr when their hus-
bands forget their birthdays, they
go out and buy themselves a par
tIcularly nice present, which he
pays for without a murmur because
he knows that a wife with a sense
of humor is worth anything she
costs him.
A sense of humOr is even more
necessary to a mother than it is to
a wife. The humorless woman takes
her children too tragically. They
wear her out, and she alienates them
from her by her ceaseless nagging
because she thinks that every little
foolish thing they do is full Of dire
full significance. The mother with
a sense Of humor knows that youth
IS as subject to certain follies as it
is to the mumps and the measles
and the Whooping cough, and that
1t must go through these expert
ences, as it did through the cycle Of
infantile diseases, but that they are
not fatal if they are carefully
watched
She may not approve of all the
manifestations of flapperism and
jellybeanitis, but she knows that
the remedy for them is laughter and
not tears, and so she keeps her
young ones in bounds with good.
natured ridicule. Nor does she
break her heart with dismal fore
bodinSs about the terrible fate that
is bound to overtake boys and girls
who do not dress and act as did
their grandparents. She has seen
too many silly young people develop
INTO fine men and women to borrow
trouble worrying over what is going
to become of the race.
In it's last analysis, a sense Of hui.
NOR is just the sense of proportion
that enables us to see things in their
true relation to life. It is the thing
that keeps us from making noun
tains out Of molehills, and that gives
us the courage to smile instead of
cry. Happy the woman who has this
gift, and thrice happy the man who
gets her for a wife.
Copyright, 1924