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

Answer:
 fuse to be any longer the family goat and that the only way you can Keep from being offered up as a sacrifice IS to leave home.
 One of the things at which mover cease to marvel is the injus-
 flee of mothers. They seem inca
 pable of holding the scales even
 and giving each of their children
 fine same sort of square deal. In
 almost every family there is one
 snoiIed daughter who is waited on
 hand end foot by all the other mem
 hers ,~ the family and who has
 twice as many pretty clothes as the
 other girls, or one lazy loafer or
 son. who is supported by his indus
 trious brothers and sisters.
 T have seen mothers take the money that n hard-working older daughter had earned, and that she needed for de- cent street suit, to buy a party dress for n giddy little younger daughter Who lay on A corch and read novels when she was not amusing herself. nave seen mothers force frail, delicate girls to support husky, drunken, good-tor- nothing brother.
 And. apparently, it never entered
 into the minds of the mothers what cruel. unnatural thing they were
 doing. You see, the mother would
 give anything in the world to her
 favorite children; she would deny
 harsolf anything for them, and she
 cannot see why their sisters and
 brothers do not feel the same way
 about it. Furthermore, she IS ut
 terly incapable of realizing that
 she has no right to rob one Of her
 children for the other, or that her
 children have equal rights.
 When a child has that sort ot
 mother, the only thing it can do IS
 to defend itself as best it can and
 to refuse to permit itself to be made
 the victim of brothers and sisters
 who are quite as capable of work
 ing as it is. DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Dorothy Dix: Have 19-year- old girl and a 21-year-old boy seen enonSh of life to settle down and marry and be happy? What are thelr chances of happiness against those or wait;nr two or three years? What is your opinion of early marrlagesE DO you think the young people snou!d marry while they are very much Tn love? Do you not think that long en- ragements often end disastrously, es- Deciallv when the parties concerned are A MOTHER READER.
 Answer:
 The divorce statistics answer
 vour question about the chances Of
 making A success of marriage that
 10-year-old girl and 21-year-
 old boy have. A perfectly appal-
 ing number of such marriages go
 on the rocks. Among the thou
 sands of letters that l get every
 year from men and women telling
 me of their matrimonial woes near
 ly everyone begins by saying,
 married when was very young'
 and nine-tenths of them end by say
 ing. s'I am now in love with some
 man, or woman, who IS my real
 mate"
 The girl of 19 and the boy of 2l are still children, undeveloped' uh- formed. They have no idea what they are going to be themselves. when they are grown. Still less do they know the kind of a man or woman shey VIII want for q husband, or wife. : Of course, occasionally boy ana girl marry and grow up and develop alike, but it is miracle when it does happen. Far Oftener they grow apart, or one goes on and grows and the other stays just the uniformed boy or girl that he or she was at the time of marriage. And there are no greater tragedies than that.