Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-11
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

SO all that you have to do is just
to be patient and time will bring
you your hearts desire
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Dear Dorothy Dix: My husband
and ! have been married five years
and get along admirably, except on
are paid there is nothing left for
my personal allowance. What do
you think about it? MRS. M.
Answer: I think that every man
who does not give his wife a def
mite personal allowance for her own
individual use and benefit, and to
spend as she sees fit, is a tightwad
who should be ashamed Of himself
Furthermore, think that he would
get nothing more than his Just des-
erts if his wife threw up her job
as wife and went to work for some
other man who would pay her wages
for her labor.
Why men are so aVerse to giving
their wives allowances is one of the
mysteries of the masculine psychol-
ogy that nobody can solve. It costs
them not a penny more to give q
wife a lump sum in her hand on
the first of the month than it does
to pay it out on bills or dole it out
to her quarter at a time. 1t makes
the woman happy, because it gives
her sense of financial Independent e
that she never has when she has t.
go and panhandle husband every
time she wants a nickel AMI It
saves friction in the family circle.
IL men only knew how much love
and appreciation and gratitude they
bought with the money they gave
their wives as their personal allow
ance they would no more begfudge
friend wife her pay envelope than
they do their stenographers theirs.
Surely if any woman on earth earns
her salary, it is the woman who
cooks, and washes, and sews, and
baby tends, and nurses the sick, and
Is purchasing agent, and commits
sary, and social secretary, and press
agent, and jollier to her husband
Dear Dorothy Dix: Our mother had
an unhappy marriage and argues
that we are better off single. But
we are two girls of domestic tastes
and would like our own homes and
families. Our father left all of his
property to our mother, and she is
we'll off. We are provided with all
| the pretty things girls love, but we
are forbidden to receive any atten.
tons or have any friendship with
any men, no matter how nice they
may be.
| Nothing ever makes our mother
change her mind once she has made
| it up. Shall we continue to remain
with her and. become old mails, or
seek a place in the outside business
world. where we fear we haven't the
taste or the talent to get AHEAD, but
where we will escape from the ty.t'n-
ny of our mother?
TWO UNHAPPY SISTERS.
Answer: The world is a hard place,
my dears, for unframed girls, and
it is full Of wolves in sleeps cloth.
ling waiting to devour just such in.
nocent little Red Riding Hoods as
you are. How would you make a
living if you left home? You do not
know how to do anything well
enough to be paid for it. Don't think
of going out to fight the battle until
you have some weapon on which you
can depend.
! Certainly, you seem to have a
most unnatural mother, but she
can't lock you Up in a turret room
in these days. She can't keep men
from seeing you or you from seeing
them, no matter how hard she tries,
so you needn't despair of not being
able to marry. In fact, she may be
taking the very best way to enhance
your interest in mems eyes, as Sc
many women are trying to marry
off their daughters that a mother
who won't let her daughters marry
has the charm of novelty Men al
ways want the thing that is hard
est to get, you know
! Copyright, 1920