Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-30
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

welfare and happiness. 1t is not
right for the old parasitic vine to
wrap itself SO closely around the
young oak that it stunts its growth
and kills 1t.
Dear Miss Dix-Some months ago
I met very nice young man who
has been coming to see me and show
ing me a good deal of attention ever
since, although he also goes to see
another girl with whom he has been
keeping company for three years.
Do you think that if he cared for
this other girl ha would pc wasting
time on me? I would not ike to in
terfere between them, but l like this
man very much. What do you think
about it? ROSE.
Answer: All is fair in love and
war, Rose, and until a man is mar
ried he is fair game. You need not
have any twinges of conscience
about cutting the other girl out, for
man who can be won away from
his allegiance cares but little for
the girl he forsakes. If he really
loves her, he is Vamp proof.
1t often happens that a man thinks
he is in love with a girl, but when
he gets to know her better finds
that her charm disappears for him
like mist in the sunshine. He may
find that she has characteristics
that are obnoxious, tastes that are
antaSonistic and she may even
come to bore him.
Under such conditions q marriage
would be q fatal mistake and bring
happiness to neither.
Any man may mistake liking for
love and not know the difference un.
til he meets some girl who sets his
pulses thrilling, who fires his fancy,
and whom he knows almost at sight
for his mate. This is no fault of
his or the girls. 1t is Just nature.
and under such conditions it would
be criminal to all concerned for the
man to go on and marry the first
girl.
The matter Of loving or cot loving
is not in our hands. 1t les on the
knees of the gods and ali we can
do is to take what they send
Dear Dorothy Dix-What shall l
do? l have Il husband ard a child
which | dearly love, but there is a
girl who runs after my husband. He
can't go anywhere that she doesn't
follow him. He cannot go off on a
business trip for a day that he does
not find her on the train when he is
coming back. He tells me that he
doesn't care for her and tries TO
avoid her, but he cannot help her
| following him. I feel like shooting
her down like dog and I nave wor.
ried over it so that it makes me sick.
My husband goes wild when I tell
him that I am going to leave him.
and says that he will kill himself if
[ do What shall 1 do?
WORRIED.
Answer-Why, 1 think your best
plan would be to call your husband S
little bluff. Take your baby and &c
away, and break up his acme for a
! bit. If he really loves you, and
means to run straight, he will get
rid of the girl.
Any man can protect himself
against a woman if he so desires
| He has only to tell the police that
q woman is annoying him and they
will lock her up. And, as a matter OF
fact, no woman pursues a man long
unless he encourages her.
But for heavens sake don't lei
your mad jealousy cause you to dc
such a. crazy thing as to kill the
woman. You wouldn't make your
self happier by staining your hands
with blood and disgracing your child
by becoming a murderess. Your
poor, weak, infatuated husband isn't
worth it. Besides, if you will just
be patient and wait, he'll come home
That sort always do.
DOROTHY DIX.
| Copyright, 1924