Evening star., 1936-03-21
Dorothy Dix Says
To Keep Husband at Home, Consider
All His Comforts and Be Entertaining.

! tIldL tIIty IldFo CllhLSeu. 4Iey al
ways see their wives as they were on
their bridal day as long as they love
them. We all know haggard wrecks
Of women who have been bedecked
with jewels by husbands who con-
slider them better looking than any
bathing beauty. We know fat women
who make the very scales shudder
when they step upon them whose hus-
bands call them "girne" and baby"
and "little woman"
Inasmuch as men indisputably
marry for love, for it is self-evident
that no man would assume woman's
board bill and shopping ticket for life
without feeling that he couldn't live
without her. why, then. do men so
! often fall out of love with the woman
they have selected from all the world
for a wife? / believe that there are
three major things that set husbands
roaming.
The first Of these is lack of comfort
at home. When say comfort I mean
not only good food and clean and
orderly house, but a peaceful and
pleasant place in which to live. In
these days Of fierce competition in
business and the professions most men
are under a strain which their wives
do not comprehend and with which
they do not sympathiZe. They do
not realize that when man comes
home tired and hungry after a hard
days work, with his nerves frazzled
to the breaking point, that what he
wants more than anything else on
earth IS just sheer physical comfort.
Loving hands to draw him across the
threshold. Cheerful smiles. A good
dinner. Quiet and rest.
MILLIONS of women literally drive
their husbands away from home
by cooking and their nagging and
complaining. They haven't sense
enough to know that the best way
to keep man tied to his own fire.
side is to fill him so full of good food
and make his easy chair so soft that
he will not want to move from 1t.
There is no other such cure for q
roaming foot as house slippers.
The second thing that starts hus-
bands to petticoat- chasing is boredom.
Very few wives consider it any part of
their duty to be entertaining and
amusing companions to their hus-
bands, and the result is that most eve
nings at home are as dull as dish
water. Husbands and wives sit up in
a silence that you could cut with a
knife, or else they enliven it with
quarrels. or wife adds to the depres-
sion husband has been sunk in all day
by telling him all the bad news she can
think Of.
It Is to get away from the prevailing
domestic gloom that makes many q
man jab his hat on as soon as din
ner Is over and go to the movies or
his club. or to step out with gay ladies
who will cheer him up and make him
laugh.
A ND the third way and the COM
monest way of all in which women
lose their husbands is by their refusal
to flatter them and jolly them along.
Most wives feel 1t their sacred duty to
tell their husbands of their faults and
to generally debate their ego. Never
was there o more dangerous pastime.
For every man must have some
woman before whom to pose and strut
and to whom he can boast as he can
not to a man, and If his wife won't
give him the glad hand there is al
ways some lady around the corner who
| will.
After all, If a woman doesn't want
to lose her husband, she has to take
as much care to keep him as she does
to keep a pearl necklace.
| DOROTHY DIX.