Evening star., 1933-04-02

and If they do. Will the ladies be faithful to
them?
Many men write that under the stress Of
q great love they promised to forgive and for
get, but that. although their wives have been
true and faithful and discreet, they never can
quite trust them because they feel that the
women who did not have the strength to stand
by their principles once win yield If assailed
by temptation again.
MANY married men write that while their
wives are good, they're not good enough. and
that for a woman Just to be virtuous and q
good housekeeper doesn't I'LL the bill Of what
man expects In life companion. One man
wrote his wife had not had new idea since
they were married or talked about anything
but the children since the first baby was born.
and that he was going to quit because he was
bored beyond endurance.
Plenty Of other men write asking what to
do with nagging wives and viragos and slovenly
wives and wives who won't get up and get
breakfast for them, but on the whole think
husbands are more patient with their wives
faults than wives are with their husbands.
Boys mostly write when they are driven to
the wall by girls who are determined to marry
them before they are through college or before
they have any way Of making q living and
these always advise to take to the tall timbers,
because there are times when fight is mans
only salvation. And every now and then get
letter from one Of these boys who has taken
my advice and he calls me his savior for now
he has met the right girl and is in a position
to marry her, and he shudders to think what q
mess he would be IN had he married his bread
and-butter sweetheart.
~ A ND so they go-these letters, all turning
different lights ON the same great prob
lem OF humanity-love and marriage and
children and happiness and misery and
divorce; heart throbs and heartaches, but each
individual problem having its own particular
angle that is different from any other IN the
world. And so it viii go ON as long as humanity
lasts"
Dorothy Dix win tell you nothing much has
happened IN her life but work But she Is
Enthusiastically modest when she tells you
that. Honors have been heaped upon her.
Tributes have been paid her in many climes
and many languages. She has received hon.
orary degrees from three universities, and was
recently made an honorGy member Of the
Medical Women's National Association, a dis
tinction conferred upon but two other women
in the world. The citizens of New Orleans
where she makes her home. once held Dor
othy Dix day" in her honor, and on her world
wide travels she has been received by Gov
ernors. Ambassadors, civic and social leaders
everywhere
Yet she remains simple and mspoiled, q
loving and greatly beloved little woman with
the wise eyes Of . Buddha and heart big
enough to take In all the sorrows Of the uni
verse. have seen the tears how down her
cheeks when she was reading the pitiful letter
Of wayward girl, for she never grows calloused
or Indifferent to such expressions of human
misery.
Perhaps that Is the secret of her success.
That is one Of the principal reasons why she
Is the best fitted Of any woman in America
today capably to answer the question: Are
the heart problems Of today any different from
those Of 40 years ago?"
tcopyrisht. 1888,