Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-04

IS stayed faithful for three or four
years while you are away he would
almost surely make a devoted hus-
band.
Dear Miss DIX have been mar.
ried nine years, and have two dar-
ling little children. My husband has
always been good to me, but L have
just found out that he has been
Icing the double life ever since we
nave been married. He confessed to
me when one of his women friends
was going to squeal on him. He had
no cause to treat me SO, as | have
done everything in the world to
please him and he admits that
have been model wife.
l guess | can so on living with
him, but l can never love him as l
did before What shall / do?
A HEART-BROkEN WIFE.
Answer: No one can decide such
vital question as that for you,
but there are many sides to the sit
uation that you should consider.
The first, of course, is your chill
dren. Have YOU an independent for
tune of your own, enough money to
support them and educate them as
their father will do if YOU stay with
him? Or have YOU some trade or
profession by which you can earn
a good livelihood for yourself and
them?
If not, make the best Of your bad
bargain for YOUR children's sake and
keep your home together.
Put no faith in trying to make
your husband support you and the
children if you are divorced from
him. Alimony is virtually uncollecti-
bic unless a man has real estate
And, anyway, by hook or crook, a
man gets out of paying it by spend
ing so much money on his vices that
he has none left for his children.
Also, as long as you keep your
home together you have a living, a
settled place in society, and you are
that much better off than you would
be if you were thrown out on yoIr
own resources and had to earn your
bread and butter in an office or be.
hind d counter.
OF course, you can never love and
trust your husband again as you
have done. Possibly he is one Of
the men who do not have it in them
to be faithful to one woman. But
even 90, can you not put love out Ot
your life and be friends with him,
and put matrimony on a business
basis, and SO find yourself better off
than you would be if you were di
Vorced?
[ am strongly of the opinion that
as long AS a man is kind to his
wife and pleasant to live with, she
is wise not to break up her home
because he is unfaithful to her. II
even seems to me that there are
worse faults that a husband car
have than philandering, which is
after all, a matter of the flesh. He
can be spiritually untrue to her. He
can be cruel and torment her very
soul out of her, and these are the
unforgivable sins.
Dear Dorothy DIX am twenty
three years, old and have been keep
ing steady company with a young
man. 1 love him very much, but al
the least disn greement we have he
threatens to take his life if I don't
give in. This worries me very much
What would you advise?
MABEL.
Answer: He is coward, Mabel
Call his bluff. l knew a woman who
had that sort of a husband. Fol
years he tyrannized over her by
keeping her terrorized. Finally, wher
he threatened for the millionth time
to commit suicide, she said to him
Go to it. You will find you
razor in the top bureau drawer.
loaded revolver is on the chiffoniel
and the rough on rats is on thu
kitchen shelf. Help yourself" Ant
that was all of that.
DOROTHY DIX.
Copyright, 1924)