Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-13

Answer: Your wife is just insanely
Jealous Of your mother and, alas,
there is no cure for jealousy. 1t
originates without cause. It needs
nothing to feed it. 1t cannot be rea-
soned with. The only thing you can
do Is just to submit to the tyranny
it imposes upon you, or else make a
clean break with it. There is no
hope that the person afflicted with it
will ever change.
do not think that any man Is
ever placed in q crueler position than
the one whose green-eyed wife calls
upon him to make decision between
her and his mother. On the one side
is the devotion Of lifetime, the graft
tude for mothers unending love and
tenderness and sympathy, apprecia-
ton Of the many sacrifices she has
made for him, all the ties that bind
him to his past.
And, on the other side, a mans
love for his mate, his interest in his
home, the dreams he has of future
with home and children in it. Which
ever way he decides there Is heart
break in it. yet many possessive wives,
who cannot bear that their husbands
shall have affection for anybody but
themselves, force this bitter alternative
upon their mates.
/ think you are acting the part of
a man In insisting that your mother
shall be permitted to visit you in the
house you support and OF which you
are the ostensible head, but even if
you force your wife to receive her it
will be an empty victory. She will
treat your mother so badly and hurt
her in all the little mean ways that
women know 50 we'll that there will
be no pleasure tn the visit for your
mother.
But, II your wife forces you to re-
frain from having your mother come
to see you, her triumph will be dust
and ashes in her teeth because you
will never forgive her and there will
always be between you the bar of
your frustrated flial love and a sense
OF her tyranny and unfairness.
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NEAR DOROTHY DIX: II you
were a young married woman who
worked in an ONCE and earned most
Of the family support, scrimped and
saved and went without everything
you needed in order to give medical
attention to a sick baby. what would
you do If your husband took all of
your savings to buy new car?
DISILLUSIONED.
Answered. tell him to take the
car and drive as far away in the other
direction from me as he could 20 and
never come back. A man that If
responsible and lacking in all sense
of husbands and fathers obliga-
tons is not worth bothering about.
YEAR DOROTHY DIX: This is
my first year in college and
can't decide whether to continue my
education or get married. My girl
friend writes me such pathetic letters
that I cannot concentrate on my
studies and have almost decided to
forego school for marriage. But I
hesitate because the difficulty is that
I have no way Of supporting q wife
and my home town affords little
opportunity for future. Please
advise me as to which course should
follow. BROWNIE.
Answer-Unless you have 80 little
brains that college education would
be wasted on you, keep on with your
schooling. Do not rush into a mar
riage-for which neither one Of you
Is prepared-with a little feminine
nitwit who evidently has no more
judgment than you have.
Can't you see that such q marriage
Is bound to bring disaster upon you
both? Surely even a freshman can't
be so utterly lacking in all worldly
wisdom as not to know that when two
children marry they are simply
houting fate and asking for the
punishment they almost invariably
get. Their tastes change as they
grow up, they get tired Of each other
and sick Of the responsibilities with
which they have burdened themselves,
and by the time they are old enough
to know that love really means nine
times out Of ten they have fallen in
love with somebody else.