Evening star., 1936-10-01
That Summer Lassde Blown Away by Crisp October Breeze
Dorothy Dix Says
Ideal Husband Harder to Find Than
Proverbial Needle in Haystack.


present too great q contrast 10 her
and it would be too wearing to try
to live up to his perfections. Besides,
the main pleasure that women get
out Of their husbands Is trying to
reform them. II you deprive them
Of that sport marriage would fall fiat
and dull.
And what would women have 70
talk about If it were not their Johns
minor faults; their complaints abu It
what q time they have in getting
John to put on his dress clothe, TO
go to party when he comes aome
tired at night; how Tom hates to
hang pictures; how Sam Is simply
no use in the kitchen and uses every
pot in the place when he undertakes
to make WEIGH rarebit on Sunday
nights?
On the whole, I think your list Of
dos are fairly good, though per-
sonally should feed rat poison TO
q husband who crooned, but there
is no accounting for tastes. And I
think you make mistake in demand
ing that he should never lose his
hair or his waistline. What about
1t when you get the middle-age spread
yourself? You wouldn't want to be
brought in invidious contrast with q
husband who still maintained his boy.
ish figure. I am strong for fat men.
There is nothing that domesticates q
man so completely as weight. No
husband Is really safe until he gets
to the place where his feet hurt him
at night and all he wants Is to put
on his house slippers and sit down
In an easy chair after dinner.
If every girl demanded as much of
husband as you do, there would
be a falling off in wedding bells.
But. happily, nature arranges these
things and when some chap who
catches a girls fancy comes whistling
along she gets up and follows him,
no matter If he hasn't a single quail
fication that she has always considered
A@SSSooo4y IA 4lCI IluSDd1Q.
X II
DEAR DOROTHY DIX: am very
much in love with a young man
who Is everything fine a girl could
ask for. He is kind. sympathetic, con-
siderate, well-mannered, ambitious.
These things to my mind mean ev-
erything. but my mother opposes the
match because the young man belongs
to plain people. They are good, hon.
est, respectable people, but not Of nv
ov-l class. In other words, they have
not had the education nor the back
ground that I have had. am 80
years old and think I am capable Of
deciding this matter for myself.
Don't you think a girl can be happy
with the man she loves and admires,
no matter if his family isn't as aristo-
cratic as her own? BUNNY.
Answer.-It is rather ridiculous to
make such great point Of social
position and background in America,
where the wheel is continually turn
ing and people are up today ana down
tomorrow, and you cannot make ex-
cursions into many family back.
grounds without skinning your shins
on the washtub or the pick.
80 II your young man Is al that
you say he Is and you find him con-
genial and you love him, 90 ahead
and marry him. no matter II his
rreoY,io aro y,lo;, x-ift, ns,% sln~f>
signer or Mayfower ancestor on their
family tree. 1t is from that kind Of
stock that most Of the men who are
doing the big things in the world to-
day have sprung.
Rxk
WHEN I hear Of a mother who
w keeps her daughter from marry
ing worthy youth she loves because
Mother doesn't think his blood is blue
enough. or his people live on the
wrong side Of the track, always think
Of a case knew.
A girl belonging to an aristocratic
family fell in love with q boy who
came of a poor and humble family.
He was q fine lad, brilliant, energetic,
ambitious, who worked his way
through school and college and grad.
uated with honor at the head Of his
class.
But, when he asked the girl to mar
ry him, her mother simply had hyster-
les at the idea and was able to domi-
nate the girl so completely that she
prevented the marriage. Later on
the girls family lost all of their money
and they went down in the social scale
as the boy climbed up. He became
Governor of his State and Senator,
and his wife's automobile wheels
splaSl1ed mud on the shabby clothes
Of the poor, overworked old maid whose
mothers pride had ruined her life.
DOROTHY DIX.