Evening star., 1937-03-09
Dorothy Dix Says
Children Should Be Taught to Pay Their
Debts No Matter How Small.

it should be made to live within this
allowance. If 1t spends 1t foolishly
it should be made to do without the
things it wants the remainder of the
week. There should be no begging for
nickels and no borrowing. But if it
does borrow. the parents should see
that the debt is repaid to the last
penny.
When you have taught q child to
take care Of money, to do without
until it has the money to pay for it
to spend wisely and well and to pay
It's debts, you have laid the founda-
tion Of an upright character on which
an ediflce Of success and prosperity
Is sure to be built.
nEAR DOROTHY DIX, a d.
vorcee, have read your advice
to women to look before they leave
their husbands and not to leap from
the frying pan into the fire, but ]
raise my voice loudly to those wives
who are miserably married and
urge them to get divorces before it
Is too late for peace and happiness.
Hear me. you poor creatures. If your
Skirts are clean, your standing in q
community will not suffer from a
divorce. You will also find, to your
surprise, that single woman is more
f~1N rr-sF
Don't be stupid or cruel enough, if
you have children. to think any kind
OF a father is better than none.
There Is nothing so harmful to a child
as a bad parent. Nothing SO good
for child as happy, peaceful home.
Don't be afraid to give up your
caviar and artichokes If you have
to. You don't know how good plain
bread and butter tastes If you are
happy. So say to you wretched
wives who have truly lived up to your
marriage VOWS: Leap to safety and
happiness! A DIVORCE.
Answer-No one will deny that there
are many cases in which divorce is
q surgeons knife that cuts away the
cancer that is eating out a woman S
life, but no one would be foolish
enough to contend that every little
pimple or abrasion on the skin re-
quired q major operation, or that an
arm should be amputated because OF
q pin prick on the finger.
And that is Just about what hap
pens in the great majority Of divorce
cases. So many wives get tired OF
their husbands or get bored with
them. They sigh for their lost free
dom and imagine If they were divorced
they would somehow get back their
gtrlhood and be attractive to mer
and make a better second marriage
Or they think that they can have
their cake and eat it, too, by forcing
their husbands to give them enough
alimony to live on, yet not be bothered
with having man about the house
So they make no effort to get along
with their husbands or placate them
and they make mountains out Of mole
hills Of every fault.
It is these wives, and they make ur
the great majority Of divorces, who
would be well advised to stop, look
and listen and then go back home
from the lawyers office before they
rush into divorce. II q woman has
come to hate her husband, or il
he is q brute who abuses her, she
is indeed happier without him even
though she has nothing but bread
and peace. But divorce is no panacea
for jealousy, nor for hurt heart
nor for many of the sorrows a woman
has to bear whose marriage does not
come up to her ideals. And, wher
such q woman breaks up her home
often her last estate is worse thar
her first. DOROTHY DIX.
Copyright. 1877