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luke-warm liking and respect.
Don't think you are doing any girl
a kindness to marry her just because
she has her heart set upon you. It is
the greatest cruelty you could inf1ict
upon her. Keep away from her and
give her a chance to get over her
infatuation. She will recover and
marry some man who will adore her
and cherish her instead of merely
enduring her.
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DEAR DOROTHY DIX: I am
wrestling with the problem of a
philandering husband. II relinquish
all my rights as wife and make a
star boarder Of him, as you suggested
in a recent article, am I not helping
him along in his degradation? Am I
not gutter, as he is? Is he entitled
to the comforts of a home and an
atmosphere of decency for the time
which he may choose to spend there
If he does nothing but pay for it?
How about the influence on the chill
dren of a father who does exactly
what he pleases? Do these men who
take 50 lightly their family obligations
ever come back, having learned their
lesson? A READER.
Answer:
The problem of the philandering
husband is one that no wife can settle
without heartbreak, no matter what
course she takes. Her choice is the
choice between evils, and think that
she makes the better one in q case
where there are children when she
decides to keep her home together at
any cost to herself.
If husband has broken his mar
riage vows and been unfaithful to
his wife, that's that. She can't undo
the wrong that has been done her,
but do not see how she helps him
along in his degradation by living
under the same roof with him and
thereby keeping her home together and
putting up q show of family unity
to the world.
She keeps her children from having
their lives disrupted by being torn
between their parents and forced to
espouse one side or the other. She
keeps their names from being dragged
through the scandal of divorce. She
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world than they would have if their
mother and father separated.
do not think that the woman who
does this is q gutter. think she is
a heroic soldier in the battle of life
who stands at her post and fights to
the death to defend her children and
save her home.
And very often she wins out. For
in thousands of cases mans in
fatuation for some pretty young wom-
an passes and he returns from his
wanderings to his wife a chastened
and wiser man who is never even
tempted to roam again. AS long as
you have your husband under the
same roof with you you have q hold
upon him, but if you turn him out
Of the door you have lost that and
you send him to the "other woman" /"
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DEAR DOROTHY DIX: I am 60
ing with = man who tells me he
loves me and some day wants to marry
me, but says we have lots Of time to
marry in. He Is So and I am "a.
Do you think that there is no hurry
about US marrying7
MISS S.
Answer-I think . man of SO who
is still dilly-dallying about marriage
and putting 1t of never intends to
marry at all and that there Is no use
in your waiting for him. You don't
want to arrive at the altar on crutches.
DOROTHY DIX.
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