Evening star., 1935-12-31

! feel as II they would like TO nave
little rest and change, or a vacation
that costs them nothing.
That they come unlimited. that
they put us to trouble and inconven-
ience and force us to spend money
on them that we cannot afford. is
nothing to them. They are getting
what they want and they should
worry. If they are despicable para
sites, we are contemplate softies and
fools for putting up with it.
We should have enough courage to
say to them that we are not running
free hotels, that we have all that we
can do to support our own families
and that they will have 70 find shelter
elsewhere. If this makes them angry,
as it probably will, so much the bet
ter. 1t will keep us from being eaten
out Of house and home.
Many women who are cursed with
Sponging relatives are cruelty unjust
to their husbands, for they take all
their husbands make to spend on their
own people. There is always a horde
of hungry aunts and uncleS and
cousins at the table and camping all
over the house. There is always
sister with hard-luck story and a
brother who is borrowing money that
he never returns. Mother is always
needing nice warm coat and father
new suit. The little nieces and
nephews have to have their adenoids
out, the boys and girls must be sent
OF to college and the poor husband
has to foot the bills. Many a man is
sold into slavery to his wife's people
on his wedding day.
think that the wife who does this
gives her husband a rotten deal and
one that he is foolish not to resent.
DOROTHY DIX.
DEAR DOROTHY DIX: Two
months ago was engaged to
be married to a lovely girl, but Just
as thought was slated for a salary
increase lost my job. I went to the
girl and told her what had happened
and though she wanted to marry any,
ray I left her and told her I would
not return until I had found work.
AS yet I have been unable to get a
job and haven't gone out anywhere
for a month because I can't afford it.
I have developed an inferiority
complex and want to die. Should I
try crime? Should I keep on like
this and become q maniac? I am
losing faith in everything and every
body, and feel that my life is a wreck,
anyhow. I am % years old.
HERMIT.
Answer-Buck up, son, and snap out
OF that inferiority complex business.
You should be ashamed of even think
Ing OF throwing up your hands and
quitting before YOU ever have a real
try at life.
Do you think you are the first fell
low who ever lost a job? Why, there
have been millions Of them. The ones
who had any grit in their craws didn't
sit down and give up. They hustled
out and got something to do. Maybe
it wasn't what they wanted to do or
what they were accustomed to doing,
but it was work and it tided them over
the bad days. Do you think you are
the first man who ever had to meet
any hardship, who ever had his dreams
smashed and his plans 60 awry? Why,
son, that has happened to every man
in the world, and only the winners
went under when they met with dis
aster. The worthwhile ones fought
through to success.
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THE trouble is you have taken your
whole misfortune in the wrong
way. You've let it get you down and
rob you Of your self-confidence, and
that is the reason you haven't been
able to find job. Nobody wants to
hire man with hangdog look and q
tale Of woe and who has no faith In
And take this for your comfort:
Life isn't over at %. It has just begun. |
These clouds will roll away and the
sun will shine and you win see the day |
when you will wonder at your youthful |
despair and laugh over the memory of |
your wanting to die just because you
couldn't be married when you wanted
TO. DOROTHY DIX.
(copyrieht. l935.)