Evening star., 1937-11-09
Varying Your GddeCake Mixtures to Avoid Breakfast Monoon1
Dorothy Dix Says
Many Men Do Ali Their Wooina
And Kissing During Courtship.
EAR MISS DIX: ] am a bride
! of two months and much in
need of your help and advice

EAR MISS DIX: am bride
of two months and much in
need of your help and advice
in solving my problem. 1t is
this: My husband is few years older
than I am and we are having Z hard
time getting adjusted to each other.
Our pet peeve and argument Is that
want to kiss him good-by when he
goes to work in the morning and greet
him In the evening with another kiss
to welcome him home. He objects
to this and says that all / have on
my mind is love and romance, while
his mind is on his business. I con-
tend that it Is a mans duty and loy-
atty to his wife to want to be kissed,
but he gets sore when 1 60 up to
him 10 kiss him. I am everything
that man would want his wife to
be-neat, good-looking. 4 good cook,
easy to get along with. want to
give satisfaction as q wife, but when
I try TO cheer him up when he is
feeling blue and kiss him he tells me
to behave and act my age. What am I
to do? DISTRESSED BRIDE.
Answer-How come, little, bride, that
you didn't flnd out about your hus-
bands views on the kissing question
before marriage? If he showed an
aversion to petting in your counting
days and turned his cheek, or the back
of his head to your bps when you
tried to kiss him, and IL he refused
to listen when you told him how much
you loved him and that you would
just simply pine away and die II
anything untoward happened to him.
why, then you have only yourself to
blame il he wants to cut out all the
sentimental stuff in marriage and
refuses to either bill and COO or be
billed and cooed over.
But you have a just grievance II,
before marriage he was . kissing bug
and" after marriage turned into one
Of those insects that flee at human
approach and that are just about as
affectionate and demonstrative as q
frozen eel. A lot of men are like that
They are ardent lovers, but robot hus-
bands. Marriage seems to CONCEAL
their emotions. When they were try
ing to win their wives they would
spend hours begging for a kiss, and
pouring forth words of burning de-
votion until they made the poor,
trusting. credulous girls believe that
if they married them they would spend
the balance OF their lives simply
wallowing in romance and leading the
lives of Mrs. Riley in the moving pic
lures, with Clark Gable for their hus-
bands.
RUT, alas and alack, only too many
men do all of their love-making
and OSCILLATION before marriage. They
drop it at the altar and expect their
wives to be mind-readers enough to
know that they still care for them if
they pay their bills. And there is Moth
ing that the wives can do about it.
If man isn't sentimental, he isn't
sentimental, and that's that, and his
WIG Ai0o W thhN iiiLA VI iCdF6
Which latter she frequently does If she
is OF a romantic turn of mind her
self.
But, personally, have always felt
that kissing between husbands and
wives should be a matter of inclination
and not of obligation. that if there
were fewer kisses they would have q
lot more flavor. In reality, there is no
more meaningless and grotesQue eere-
mony in the world than the perfume
tory daily kiss that husbands feel it is
their duty to bestow upon their wives
every morning when they depart for
business and that wives, for some un-
known reason, consider they are
sighted if they do not get, yet in
which neither party puts a particle of
heart interest.
Most likely the kissers have lust
been indulging in a breakfast-table
spat over the wife's asking for money
or telling him that mother is coming
on nice long visit, or the husband is
upbraiding her for not putting the top
on the tooth-psste tube and wonder
ing why she never puts q shirt where
man can find it without search