Evening star., 1937-06-05

won't work, then neither shall you
eat"
And we encourage the sensitive to
become more and more thin skinned
and more and more easily wounded
oy handling them with velvet gloves,
coodling them and apologiztng all over
the place when they burst into tears,
or go on into the silence because Of
something they have regarded A a
slight. What We should do is tn make
tnem snap out OF 1t by ridiculing them
and showing them what fools thev
make OF themselves, and not even
noticing when they dissolve in tears
over some fancied grievance. Treat
EN- rough is the remedy for the
slight hounds"
YEAR DOROTHY DIX: Is there
no way to touch the heart. or
appeal to the reason of wives who have
come between mothers and sons? I
am the victim Of 4 cruel and Jealous
vile who, for no reason at all. makes
my life miserable by demanding that
ignore my mother completely. For
the sake Of peace I have done as sh>
desires, but feel that am 4 cad and
nave come to the place where I can
stand it no longer. My mother Is a
sweet woman and it has broken nv
heart to act as have done toward her
Tor she has done everything for mr
that . mother could do for a son and
my conduct has made her miserahle
Why IS 1t that wives so often trv tn
ALLEVIATE their husbands from their
mothers? They love their own moth
ers, invite them to their homes. want
their husbands to make their mothers
welcome and show them q GOOD time.
but they expect their husbands to
forget that they ever had mothers.
well, here's one son who Ia going
back to his mother and who IA irving
to be good son to her, and who
hopes she will forgive him for being
such HENPECKED BOOB,
Answer-Woman's ruling passion Is
possessiveness and that Is the reason
that 50 many wives try to ALLEVIATE
their husbands from their mothers,
They can't bear to think there ever
was another woman in their hus-
bands lives, even II that woman il
his mother. 1t makes them furious
to know that their husbands are
bound to their mothers by ties of love
and gratitude that are the growth of
years; that their husbands and their
mothers have memories and associa-
tions OF which they know nothing:
that their husbands have the life
long habit Of going to their mothers
with their condolences and for counsel
and that every mans mother is In a
way his ideal.
THE monopolistic nature Of women
makes it impossible for the aver
age wife to see this without getting
green-eyed. She Is determined that
her husband shall love no one but
herself; that no one shall have any
influence over him but herself: that
he shall be interested in no one but
herself. So, only too often she sets
herself to turn her husband against
his mother by every art and wile-by
naggtng. by tale-bearing. by tears and
reproaches. She has not the wisdom
to realize that . mans love for his
mother In no wise conflicts With his
love for his wife.
Nor has she the wisdom TO know
that she has taken the surest way
to kill her husbands affection for her.
For while, through weakness and for
the sake OF peace, he may give in to
her, in his heart he resents her tyran-
ny and her unreason. And his con-
science never ceases to reproach him
for what he knows Is q dastardly deed
in turning from the mother who bore
him.
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