The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-08

adore my husband, and he assures me he loves me and begs me not to leave him, but his conduct, is killing me. What shall I do? CATHERINE. Answer:
 When men get along to middle life they very frequently have a sec- ond childhood and you have to nurse them through that as you do a baby through a second summer. If you have the patience to do that, Catherine, you will get your husband back and he will come9to you a chastened man, who will be under your thumb the balance of his life. ts-
 What on earth makes good, nice, house-broken husband, who has gone along for twenty or thirty years being perfectly satisfied with his wife and his children and his home suddenly jump the bars nobody knows. Per haps it is some sudden flareup of youth. Perhaps it is an irresistible craving for last bite at the forbidden apple of romance. Perhaps it is re- action against the humdrum monotony of domestic life that drives him into a search for adventure.
 . Nobody knows, but now and then the most domesticated of hus- band answers the call of the wild women. Pillars of the church turn into rounders and men who have spent a lifetime as models of all the virtues turn into awful warn- ings of the fool that a man can make of himself at the dangerous age.
 The world is full of hurt, bewildered, middle-aged wives who ask helplessly what have they done that their Johns should have suddenly grown tired of them! And what's the matter with John, anyway, acting up the way he is doing? And the divorce courts are kept busy grinding out decrees and handing out alimony to wives who don't want either. They just want John back again as he used to be.
 And a lot of misery and heart ache could be saved if these women could only realize that the trouble is just temporary. It is a passing madness. John has gone on an emotional spree that he will get over II they WILL JuSL 6ANO hAAA O little time, for he really isn't in love with the other woman. She has infatuated him for the minute. She is playing up to him for all she is worth, fattering and cabling him, and making him think he is young and fascinating, and she is robbing him with both hands and in a
 little while he will be sick unto
 ae a his soul for the good, faithful, clean honest wife he has neglected for her.
 I don't say that it is easy for wife to be wise and philosophical under such circumstances. It isn't. It is as hard as death. It breaks her heart. It hurts her pride. It outrages her sense of wifely dignity, but she only makes a bad matter worse and turns the knife in her wound if she revenges herself by getting a divorce.
 She breaks up her home. She sac rifices her good, comfortable living. She orphans her children and brings scandal upon their name, and she her self is miserable because, with all his faults and weaknesses, she still loves John, and they have lived together too long for her to have any separate life.
 So think that nine times out of ten it is the part wisdom for the middle-aged woman just to cod - dle her husband through his sec ond summer the best way she can and waits for him to get over it.
 DOROTHY DIX. Dear Dorothy Dix: My father tells me to take all that I can get from the boys, but simply refuse to do it. I do not like boys to make me pres ents or spend money on me. Am right or is my father right?
 B. M. R. Answer:
 You are right, my dear, and should think that the young men of your acquaintance should present you with distinguished service medal or build you monument to show their appreciation of a girl who isn't a holdup artist. Most girls side with your father and think that it is legitimate for them to graft all they can from boys.
 I think myself that there is nothing