Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-20
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

am very unhappy because my trust
in him has been shattered. Do you
think that i can ever get back my
faith in him. READER.
Answer:
Not in its entirety, my sOrroWing
sister. Something precious and beau
tiful has gone out of your relation
ship with your husband that moth
ing that he can do, nor that you
can do, will ever bring back, any
more than you could make whole
again a crystal vase that had been
shattered, or restore it's freshness
to the flower that has been dragged
in the dust.
[ do not mean by this that your
husband will not deserve your trust
A burnt child breads the fire, and
many man and woman get such
a lesson from their Wrongdoings that
they are practically temptations proof
the balance of their lives. But while
we forgive the sinner, we do not for
set. In the back of your Smemory
there will always be a scar. But it
is up to you whether you will let
this wound to your love heal, or
whether you will keep it an open
sore that will poison your whole
life. You can do this by thinking
about it continually, by your sus-
picIons of every woman your hus-
Dand meets, by watching him.
Don't do this. Wipe off the slate
Let your common sense teach YOU
that a man who has slipped off the
straight and narrow path once and
&c.
apt to walk warily thereafter. Keep
the faith thought in your mind all
the time and you will be happy. And
remember this-nothing is more sure
to drive man into being untrue to
his wife than the knowledge that
she distrusts him.
Dear Dorothy DIX am 81. full
of pep, and extremely attractive as
far as face and figure are concerned
But here is my problem Instead of
attracting the quiet, seriouS-minded
men whom L admire, the only atten-
ton L get is from the wild ones who
believe in always having a good time
and never settling down.
may look like a Vamp, although
[ try not to, but at heart | am lust
on old-fashiOned, home-loving girl,
who wants a home of her own and
two or three babies.
[ have tried TO act demure, and all
that, but they take me for a vamp.
nevertheless.
My looks are evidently against me
and | can't change them What shall
do? misunderstood.
Answer:
lis a sad story. mates Evidently
you are one of those unfortunateS
who are afflicted with what old
fashioned novelists used to call the
fatal curse Of beauty" The late
Anna Held had the same trouble.
She had a song about it, in which
she deplored that she could not make
her eyes behave.
My heartfelt sympathy goes out
to YOU and | should certainly like
TO help you if L could. You might
wear a mask, or if this doesn't APP
peal to you, suppose you alter your
mode of dress. Don't have your hair
waved. Slick it back, and do it into
a hard knot at the back. Cut out
your makeup. Don't use a lipstick.
Wear nice, thick, sensible clothes
instead of alMring chiffons.
All of that should help along in
taking you out of the vamp class.
And if you would quit going to
cabarets and jazz parties, and go
to Sunday school, and PRAYER meet
ing, and join some circle Q. earnest
thinkers, / feel reasonably sure that
you will get away from the frivolous
young men you deplore and meet
some industrious and worthy young
man who is out looking for a do
meStiCally inclined wife.
But bear up anyway. There are
worse sorrows than being beauti-
full!
DOROTHY DIX