The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-07
D0rOthU Dir'S Letter Boz
The Moher-n- Law angle from The tJifes Viewpoint.
 Shall The Youth 0f ghteeo Hope With Sweet Sixteen 1 How Can She Make Tim Realize That He Loves Her2

Dear Miss Dix should woiaa'. associat te with a mather-'n Jaw who is constantly arta goristng her aHd t1era'v ruiuiny both hsr health and Gisia De-.
 Inc u.ti owe it to my children to put euch q person out of my life, so that ! may De able to give them the hasS. Of which ! am capable? Should a hI(abanG protect nla W fe so that she Svill not have tu endure such treatment, or ahoulC he seen silent bec.dse she is hiq o1o6her.
 UAder the existing circu;r stances, 1t is mpossibla fcI ne to b. the mother ] srould be. and I feel that, through na fault oi .ay own. ' au cheating Hose whom l am responsi- ble for br gins intH the world.
 What would you 6, is you were :" s'ahNp1Na ALoNB.
 Answer: There iS TO ether suct illustration of the a4ago es,9t We never learn from oth@t heopiGS' eN. perience as the fact ths men ktt.u on marrying men when thcv lSnG " that they are going to hay 70 lit 2 with their mothers-in-law -t C-G commonest observation sho hem that once in a hundred times his experiment successful. Indeed, .ar- tain is it that a mans wife an, his mother are sure to fight and bring misery on themselves and upon him, that it is a criminal thing for a man tu ask a woman to marry him unless he can give her a home of her own. And it is certainly foolhardy of her to accept unless she Is assured of a roof under which mother-in-law does not abide.
 It Is useless to discuss who is to blame in such cases. Probably both. Possibly neither. It is just nature for the two women who love a man to be jealous of each other, and for each to resent his attentions to the other. It is also nature for every young wife to want to run her own home according to her own ideas, and it is likewise nature for every old woman to think that she knows everything that is to be known about keeping house, and raising chil- dren, and to interfere in everything that is done in her sons home.
 Thus friction Is inevitable. The two women get on each others nerves and irritates each other to the point of madness, and the only remedy is for them to separate. The trouble should be stopped before it SldEIS Dy lHSlr HCVeT attempting to live together, but if they have made the mistake, the sooner it is correct ed the better.
 It Is pretty hard on the man to have to choose between his mother and his wife, and to be called upon to support two establishments, but undoubtedly his first duty is to the woman whose life he has taken into his hands, and to the children who are being raised in a house of dis cord from which they should be re- moved as soon as possible.
 But surely wife might have some pity for husband, some apprccia- tion and understanding of the love that he has for the mother who bore him. and who has sacrificed so much for him, and not expect him to side with her against his mother, or do anything that he can avoid that will hurt her.
 Every woman with children may well remember that some day she will be law, and that she should treat her mother in-law as she will wish for her sons wife to treat her. DOROTHY DIN.
 Dear Dorothy Dix: I am a young man eighteen years old, desperately in love with girl sixteen. but her mother will not allow me to go and see her. Under the circumstances, would you think 1t wise to go away together and get married? l cannot stand being away from her. I have 8 little money saved up and I have A good trade, and will always keen a steady job. M.
 Answer: Don't think of such a thinC as getting married at ,,our age, my boy. You know the old saw ing that young man married is A young man marred. Believe me, son. 1t is the truest thing in the world : and if you marry at eighteen, 'you put a handicap on yourself that you can never overcome.
 I am not going to tell you that you are not in love, because you are: and a boys love ia the prettiest' sweetest, most romantic love of his whole life But it is just dream, and it passes away and is forgotten like