Evening star., 1935-05-11

EAR MISS DIX am
young man Of as, married
to the most wonderful girl
- in the world, and we have
three small children. The
depression dragged us into arrears
financially, but with conditions pick
ing up that Is not my worry. Just
now is the season In which my COM
pany does the most business. and my
two brothers and myself are working
almost day and night to make our
business q success and bring 1t back
to where it was before the depression.
I am working nights as well as days
at this time and this peeves my wife
very much. She feels neglected and
accuses me Of putting my business
before her, while all that am trying
to do is to get out of debt and provide
for her and the children. What you'd
you advise me to do?
UNDECIDED.
A NSWER-I advise you to pay no
y attention to your wife's COM
plants and not to let her keep you
from pursuing what you see to be
the wise and sensible course. Believe
me, son, man makes no greater
mistake than when he lets q fool
woman interfere in his career.
You have a chance now to reha-
bilitate your business and make good
the lean years. You have an oppor-
tunity to get established on a sure
foundation again and thus be able to
provide for your family, and if you
let your Wife's whineS keep you from
doing so you will be as silly and weak
as she is.
HAVE seen many women ruin their
husbands by interfering in their
business. I have seen wives nag their
husbands until they made them give
up good trade in which they were
making money because they did not
consider 1t elegant. have seen wom-
en- block their husbands advance
ment by refusing to go with them to
some place where fortune called. be-
cause they would not leave mother
and the girls.
know one doctors wife who killed
his practice by secretly muff1ing the
telephone at night because she didn't
like to be walked up. have seen
women ruin their husbands business
by dragging them away from it to
dance attendance upon them at teas
and parties And l have seen plenty
of women who killed all of theil
husbands ambition by being jealous
of their husbands work
pUT I have never seen one of these
women who was willing to abide
by the consequences of her act, and
who was willing to do with less money
in order to have more of her hus.
bands society. On the contrary. they
want to have their cake and eat it
too. They want their husbands to be
at their beck and call and still be
go-getters.
would have more respect for these
wives who are always complaining
that their husbands neglect them fol
their business and that they can never
tear their husbands away from their
"old Offices" and that all their hus-
bands think about is their work, il
they would say occasionally, Il would
rather have more OF your time than
a new car" or Il would be content
to live in a poor house instead of q
fine one if you wouldn't go of on Sc
many business trips" or Il would
rather have an evening with you thar
a new dress"
RUT have never heard of one doing
~ it yet. These women always as
sumo the position that a man slave!
at his job just for fun, and that it i
some curious and perverted taste tina
makes him prefer to labor in no
office all Summer instead of going of
to a cool Summer resort, when the!
must know. if they have any intelli
gence whatever, that it isn't super