Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-02
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

RT AND HOME
But girls aren't hard to please.
They are dying for attention, and
they eat up love talk, SO you can't
so astray at your wooing.
Dear Miss Dix have girl chum
who is most attractive, but she loses
out with the boys because she sim
ply talks them to death. She is
goodlooking, and dances well, and
men are attracted to her at first,
but she never holds them, and they
never come back the second time
because she talks too much. Is
there any way to stop her?
CURLY LOCKS.
Answer:
You might tell her that Mum" is
the word that spells fascination in
women, but / am afraid it would
not do any good When a woman
is of the babbling brook type she
runs on and on forever. and no
matter how much you dam her you
can never stop her flow of speech.
Her only chance is to find a boy
who doesn't like to talk, and who
is glad to leave the conversation to
any one who will undertake the job.
Every now and then we meet up
with a silent man who is married
to woman who is a human pho1o-
graph, and they seem to get along
very comfortably together.
Generally speaking, however, a
girl can have no more fatal fault
than a perpetual motion tongue.
Most men avoid her as they would
the plague, not only because moth
ing is so boring as to have to listen
to a monologist but because men
like to do the talking themselves.
The chief object of interest in the
world to the average man is him
self. That is a subject upon which
he can spiel by the hour, and have
a perfectly glorious time telling
about his fads and fancies, his car,
his dog, what he said to the boss.
and what the boss said to him. the
girls he has known. and how he
knocked the James cold. And wise,
indeed, is the girl who listens to
these "reminiscences without coun-
tering with any of her own.
The chatter boxes are seldom pop
ular with men. 1t is the beautiful
but dumb maidens who can listen
unweariedly by the hour, and who
contribute nothing to the CONVERSE
ton but ooh, how wonderful!' "How
strong and brave you are" "It
must be simply great to have a mind
like yours who need a bookkeeper
to keep all Of their dates.
Dear Miss Dix-Three months ago
my husband eloped with the wife
of his best friend. In about a month
my baby daughter was born, and
ever since I have been struggling
to take care Of her, and keep my
home together. Now the two run
Always have come back, and wish to
be forgiven, and to begin all over
again. The question is, should |
take my husband back? 1 loved him
dearly when we were first married,
and I feel that there is still some
love left, but do you think that it is
safe? GRASS WIDOW.
Answer:
1t is for you to decide whether
you care enough for him to condone
his faults. Nobody can settle that
question for you.
But you may be very sure Of one
thing, and that is if you forgive
him and take him back now, you
will have to be continually forgiving
and taking him back. Marriage is
not a permanent contract to that
sort Of man. 1t is a temporary
makeshift. He will always be find
ing lady loves, and taking little ex-
cursions with them.
1t seems to me that a man who
has not only SO little affection for
his wife, but so little sense of hon
or, and obligation, and duty as to
leave her alone to face the ordeal
of motherhood while he went phil
andering off with his friends wife,
is so poor a creature that he isn't
worth having on any terms. You
should be glad to have lost such q
husband, and let him stay lost.
DOROTHY DIX.
Copyright, 1920