Evening star., 1935-12-23
Dorothy Dix Says
It Is Usually the Woman Who Stands by
Her Man, No Matter What Happens.

Of their love that they hide their
shame even from their own eyes. But
the woman criminal has no husbands
love to sustain her, and when she
comes out of jail she finds she has
lost everything. Even her man.
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or COURSE, there are exceptions
to every rule that attempts to
classify human hearts. There are
many men who love deeply, truly,
warmly and faithfully, and there are
women who are as cold as an Arctic
night and utterly incapable Of any
affection for any one but themselves.
But, taking 1t by and large, it is un-
doubtedly true that the feminine is
the emotional sex, and that love
plays far greater part in their lives
than it does in mems. Apparently
nature has endowed them with a Pc
culiar faculty, not possessed by men,
that enables them to love the un-
lovable and stick to those on whom
they have set their affections, no mat
ter how much they revile and mis-
treat them.
There is not day on which I do not
get pitiful letters from women who
tell me they are married to brutes
who have dragged them down into the
gutter with them, who starve them
and beat them and curse them, but
who end their tales of woe by saying
they cannot leave their husbands be-
cause they love them still. In every
police court there are dozens of bat
tered, bedraggled women who lie about
the bruises their husbands have given
them and claim that they got their
black eyes or bloody heads by falling
against door.
That woman's love is more endur-
ing than mans is a fact so obvious
1t needs no confirmation. Only too
often a mans love vanishes with his
wifes youth and beauty, but you never
hear Of a woman ceaSing to care for a
good, kind, intelligent husband because
he has acquired bay window and lost
most of his hair. Indeed, 1t has be-
come so common for middle-aged men
to forsake their wives for flappers that
1t scarcely raises q ripple of gossip.
But for q middle-aged woman to di-
vorce her middle-aged husband for a
boy sheik is so rare 1t creates a scan-
dal that gets on the front page OF
the newspapers.
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TT Is also taken as q matter of
course that a wife's love is great
enough to meet every vicissitude OF
matrimony. We expect wife, for In
stance, when her husband falls sick to
give up her pleasures and amusements
and patiently nurse him through his
illness, no matter If that involves years
Of invalidism. And none of us, not
even the husband, hands her any bou-
quets for the sacrifices she makes. But
let wife get sick and all that we ex-
pect of husband is for him to poke his
nose in the door and ask her how she
feels, remark he Is no good in sick
room and beat 1t for the club. And
| when a husband does sit and hold a
wife's hand or care for her patiently
through years Of illness. we decorate
him with a martyrs halo and sing his
praises in the market place.
That men themselves acknowledge
that women's love is greater than
their own is proved by the fact that
| they expect their wives to forgive them
the things that they would never for
give their wives for doing.
It Is love that makes the world 60
round, but there is no denying that
women furnish most Of the motive
power. DOROTHY DIX.
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