Evening star., 1936-01-30
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Dorothy Dix Says
Parents Have No Right to Dictate the
Careers Their Children Must Follow.

be obnoxious to her was exactly the
thing that appealed to her daughter.
Innumerable fathers have forced
dreamers into business, made lawyers
and preachers Of dummies and turned
boys who would have been great
writer's, artists or musicians into poor
green grocery clerks all because father
thought he had right to decide his
children's lives for them.
THAT is what your father is doing.
There is no greater crime that
any man can commit because the
round peg never fits into the square
hole. People who are forced to do
what nature never intended them to
do are nearly always failures. The
greatest happiness that any of us get
is in following some congenial occu-
patton and doing the thing we enjoy
doing.
In your particular case the way out
is plain If you have strength enough
to follow it. Go on with your teaching
and try to find out whether you have
the ability to write or not. Just want
ing to do it isn't enough. You have
to have a talent for it. And you can
give yourself tryout while you are
still teaching. The school room and its
experiences will give you an invaluable
background, as was proved in the case
of a girl called Myra Kelly, who was
teacher and who wrote such tender
and humorous stories about the chill
dren she taught that she was fast
growing famous when she, unfortu-
nately for the world died. 1t is big
field and one virtually untouched.
AS for your sister, the first time she
faints in an operating room will end
her career as nurse and leave the way
open for her to go into business as she
desires.
nEAR DOROTHY DIX: have been
married five months and while I
was ready to settle down from the be-
ginning and go domestic, my wife re-
fuses to do so. She goes out at night
with her girl friends who are not mar
ried. She spends the housekeeping
money on cigarettes, movies and f1nery
we cannot afford instead of food.
When I come home at night there is
nothing to eat. am very anxious to
make a success of my married life.
Can you tell me how to do so.
JOHN.
Answer: The wisest person in the
world-and I make no claim to being
Mrs. Solomon-cannot tell you how to
make success of marriage with that
kind of wife, because she is evidently
lacking in love for you and all idea
of duty and all sense of what marriage
really means. Nothing but a miracle
can change a pleasurs-mad. selfish,
irresponsible woman into the kind of
wife who is helpmeet to a man. And
miracles mighty seldom happen.
II
1T SEEMS to me that now, before
there are any children to compli-
cate the matter, is the time to have
showdown with your wife. You must
make her understand that you are not
going to put up with such conduct,
and that she has either got to settle
down and be real wife to you or else
you are going to send her back to her
mother. Not many girls are crazy
about going home after they are mar
ried, and maybe that would bring her
to her senses.
Many a wife treats her husband as
she does because she thinks he will
stand for it, but she would pursue an
entirely different line of tactics with
him If she knew she would lose her Job
unless she gave satisfaction.
You are young. In all probability
you have long life before you and 1t
will be a terrible one If it has to be
spent with a wife who is running
around with wild crowd, going and
doing no one knows what, who makes
you no home and who will keep your
nose to the grindstone with her ex-
travagance.
Don't let any woman ruin your life
that way. DOROTHY DIX.
(Copyrisht. 1850