Evening star., 1935-08-06

proof positive that woman
with whom your husband
49, works was manifesting more
personal interest in the man than a
professional interest in her job, would
YOU feel justified in using the power
you possess in having her transferred
from this particular job to one in
which she would not come into such
close contact with your husband?
don't thinK the case, so far as he Is
concerned, is very serious yet, but he
enjoys having his ego soothed by all
the batteries and attentions that this
woman Iavishes upon him.
And have you any recipe whereby a
wife's faith in her husband may be
restored?-H B. S.
Answer am afraid there is no
nostrum that will ever bring wife's
faith in her husband back to normal
after it has once suffered an attack
of the jit1ers. 1t will always there
after be a little subject to agues and
sinking spells. But can recommend
to you a good heart tonic that will
pull you through if you use it as
needed.
I TSE your sense of humor. Keep 1t
working overtime. Try to see
your husband as a figure of fun in
stead of Don Juan. Realize that he
likes to be flattered and Soft-soaped
and that 1t makes him feel young
again to think he is attractive to wom-
en-, and that is about all that ails
him. To start with, anyhow. And
you seem to have diagnosed his case
before it got serious.
So your move is to laugh at him.
Tease him about his crush and about
how easily he has fallen for the near
siren. Don't make scenes about it.
When a wife does that it sends her
husband back to the "other woman"
to be sympathized with and comforted,
and that is fatal.
] think you are exactly right in hav-
ing the woman whom you suspect of
having designs upon your husband
transferred before she gets in any
more of her work. Lots Of men can
stand anything but temptation. So
the wise thing Is to remove it out
of their way. Especially when it is
about half the age and weight of
the wife.
IT Is always a matter of astonish-
ment to me that wives are so care
less in the way they leave their hus-
bands around for any light fingered
lady to steal who happens to take a
fancy to them, or who thinks they
will be good pickings. A woman keeps
her diamonds under lock and key and
her eye on her handbag. If it has more
than carfare in it, but she will do
nothing to protect her husband from
the wiles Of the women who are spe-
cialists IN hcme-wrecking and the
gold -diggers who work married men.
Not many married men start out
deliberately to be unfaithful to their
wives. They really love the old girls.
They don't want their homes broken
up. They don't want to be parted
from their children. They don't want
to pay alimony. They don't want to
be mixed up in all the mess and
scandal Of a divorce. But they are
human and men, and when some
woman begins yes-yessing them in
stead Of no-noing them, as their wives
only too often do, and telling them
how young and handsome and fasci-
| mating they are, as their wives seldom
| do, they simply eat it up and ask for
more. and before they know it the
chiseler has pried them loose from
their hearth stones, while the wife
has been asleep at the switch.
It is too late to lock the stable doc,
after the horse is stolen, but many
time old Dobbin could have beer
kept safe in his stall ard the robbel
foiled if the wife had kept the dool
shut. OF course, wherever a man goe:
| he Is bound to be thrown in contact
with attractive women, and a philan.
derer is going to philander no matter
how much he is watched. but all the
same there is no use in throwing
temptation in a husbands way. Of
hiring Miss America for parlor maid
DOROTHY DIX.
| n *%
DEAR MISS DIX: What do yor
think about the way girls graf
cigarettes? Why don't they use theil
own and maybe offer boy an occa'
sional fag instead of sponging or
their dates for their smokes? Tht
minute you meet a girl she will say
Gimme cigarette, aud the chances
are she won't stop smoking until Sht
has used the last one you have, al
though you can see tnat in her bal
she has plenty of her own. Now thes,
girls all have well-to-do fathers, o.
they work and get jus. ss big salarie!
as the boys do, and they are jus
as able to pay for cigarettes as tht
boys are. Most of us boys are get
ting a mighty thin envelope in thes'
days and by the time We have pait
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