Evening star., 1936-01-21

1t Is now, because they didn't eYpect Ia
begin life where their parents were
leaving of. When a poor girl. who
was marrying a poor boy, bought her
trousseau. she didn't think she had tn
have monogrammed towels and sheets.
lace and embroidered tablecloths and
cutwork cocktail sets. She bought
good, plain, substantial linen and cot.
ton that would last 1or years.
She was satisfied with a small
amount Of good. practical undies that
would stand the wear and tear Of
home washing. She bought herself
few dresses that would last and could
be made over. But the modern bride
would rather die than not have silk
and lace lingerie in pastel shades. eve
ming dresses, wraps and an assortment
of shoes that cost more than her
mothers whole trousseau, and sport
clothes and evening clothes and q
show wedding.
The poor young couple vent to
Housekeeping In two rooms and the
girl did the housework and walked 10
blocks to hunt bargains in food. They
didn't step out to a party or a show
once in a blue moon.
RUT nowadays unless the young
couple can have an automobile, a
radio, go to the movies and dance
places whenever they feel like it. give
cocktail parties, have good clothes
and beauty treatments and all the
comforts and luxuries they have been
accustomed to. they consider marriage
failure and rush to the divorce
courts.
1t is because young people haven't
the grit to stand a marriage that calls
for self-denial and hard work that
parents warn their children against it.
They know how weak and spoiled are
the youngsters they have bred and
that they can't take it.
Marriage is just as good a propo.
sition today as it ever was. and If the
young people were willing to live as
their parents did there would be no
need for them to wait for raise in
the boys salary.
DOROTHY DIX.
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NEAR MISS DIX: have been mar
ried three years to one of the
grandest men in the world and We
are very happy. When we are alone
at home he is the most gentle and
loving husband any woman could hope
for, but in public he frequently causes
me embarrassment by correcting ev-
erything I say. He never lets me
finish telling anything. He inter-
rupts me and starts the story all over
again, saying I am wrong, and fin
ishes it his way. That starts an
argument unless / shut up. which I
do to save the listeners from scene.
Will you tell me how to handle this
problem tactfully? L. T.
Ansver-You seem to be doing that
already. and I salute you as feml.
nine diplomat of the first order who
carries on under trying circumstances.
Not many women would have either
the finesse or the self control to hide
their chagrin at their husbands UNI
warranted rudeness behind a smiling
face, and to keep silence to save
other people from the embarrassment
of having to witness family spat.
EVIDENTLY your husband is Just
trying to show off when he is in
company. That is why he corrects
your every statement and tells your
stories for you. He is calling atten-
ton to how much cleverer he is than
YOU Many husbands do this. though
why they want to disparage their
wives and make every one think they
married FOOLS nobody knows.
Many other husbands exercise all
of their Wit upon their wives. They
build up all of their dinner-table
stories around some mistake or blum
der their wives have made and hold
them up to ridicule. They think
that is being funny. They little know
that they don't rouse mirth in the
breasts of the listeners. They are
making every decent man and woman
long to throttle them.
I doubt there is any cure for these
wife-baiters. but you might tell your
husbands how other people feel about
it. DOROTHY DIX.