The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-24
DOr0thy DiI'S Letter Bcr
The Sucessl Young Business Girl Who Hesitates Tt . Maavy-Does One Unhappy Marriage KiH AL Faitbt In e Possible Second?-What Is Love? And How Do You Recogeize It?>

that I will never have home like the one of which I have dreamed. And I have seen men who I thought would be true and loyal, but when I think of marrying one of them the horror of what I have been through is in my mind and dare not risk it. What do you think? DOUBTFUL JEAN.
 Answer: Because you happened to get hold of a rotten apple, doesn't prove that all apples are decayed, but it cer- tainly does dull your appetite for that particular kind of fruit. The fact that you were unlucky in your first matri- monial venture does not indicate that all men are deceivers, but it is enough to make you look upon men with a sus- picious eye.
 I confess that it is a perpetual amazement to me that divorced people almost invariably remarry. You would think that they would have been So disillusioned of the holy estate thAt wild horses couldn'ts arag them, back into it t;' and that, hasing known the treachery. and the cruelty of a mean husband or wife, nothing on earth would induce tbem to trust their happi- ness in another wohan's %or mans hands. You. would think that "Once bitten, twice shy,.' would be the motto of those who had been unhappily wed.
 Not so, however. The victims of brutes, and traitors, and tightwads, and viragoes, and spendthrifts go blithely forth and risk their happiness again in the matrimonial gamble. And sometimes their luck does change, and often number two is as satisfactory as number one was a failure. i.
 For there are good husbands and good wives, just as, we'll as bad ones But it takes courage to make second marriage when the first has been fail ure, I'll tell the world that. :,
 DOROTHY pix,
 Dear Miss Dix: What is love? Is it just liking person, and being friendly with him or her? Will I know when love comes to me? How does it make one feel? How will I know if some particular man is my life partner?
 UNKNOWN.
 Answer: ''
 According to the novelists,, the symp- toms of love are pretty much like those of malaria. Hectic flushes, chills and fever. You thrill at the touch of a hand. You have .palpitation of the heart at the sound of astep. These symptoms are complicated with melan- choly when the one he or she is ab- sent. And suicidal mania is in- dicated in cases where the course of true love, is obstructed. Also the per son in love breaks out into poetry, loses appetite and takes no interest in the ordinary affairs of life.
 The common or garden variety definition of love is the obsession that makes man undertake woman's $ board bill for life, and a woman go into mans kitchen and work for him without pay.
 You can apply these tests to your self and easily determine the. state o1 your affection. You may like. lot oi boys. And because you have. a good | time playing about with them, you may think you are in. love with them and wonder if you are. But as long as yuo have any doubts on the subject the an swer is "No."
 When you are really in love for keeps you'll know it without anybody having to tell you.
 Some day you will find yourself thinking that some little measly look ing fellow has got every movie hero backed off the screen for looks, and that you can listen forever to some commonplace chap talk by the hour about himself. When you get to worry ing over what he eats, and whether he