Evening star., 1938-02-01
Outstanding Glassmaker Of Pre-Revc
EAR DOROTHY DIX: Why
do people have 20 little SYM
pathy for the man who de-

EAR DOROTHY DIX: Why
do people have 20 little SYM
pathy for the man who de-
serts his wife and divorces
her? What Is there about . marriage
certificate that makes . mean, vicious
woman . saint? Why Is all the heart
break and grief Of broken homes laid
1T the door Of the husband, or the
other woman, or the mother-in-law?
How can one exonerate the selfish,
quarrelsome, idle, jealous. nagging wife
who makes her husbands life . hell
on earth and drives him away from
his home for comfort? My mother is
that kind Of . woman and for many
years my father suffered the tortures
Of tho damned. She never said .
pleasant word to him. She never did
. thing to make him comfortable or
happy. At last he came in with his
head high and told her that he had
lived up to her uspicions-that he had
found . woman he loved and wanted
. divorce. Mother had Mysteries and
called on everybody to sympathize with
her As . wronged wife, but at last she
agreed to give him divorce II he
would deed over to her all Of his prop
erty. He did, and as soon as every
thing was In her name she changed
her mind and refused to release him.
My father tried hard to divorce her,
but she was good woman and he
couldn't. and he worried and fretted
and grieved and struggled until it
killed him. My brother and sister and
I never want to 60 near our mother
again. We neither love nor respect
her, and we have had our share Of
nagging and false accusations from
her, too. She has been hard and cruel
and unyielding to all Of us. Yet she
blames every one except herself for her
being left alone in her old age
A FATHERS DAUGHTER.
Answer-Perhaps the reason that
the general public usually espouses the
cause Of the deserted wife when man
who is married to a so-called good"
woman leaves her for another woman
is because the wife publicizes her side
Of the case. whereas the husband
almost invariably keeps silent.
Very few women have enough dig
nifty and self-respect to make them
lock their skeleton in its closet and
throw away the key. On the contrary,
most of them simply eat up the drama
and the excitement of putting on q
show and rafting its bones and call
ing upon the public to witness what
= grizzly thing it is.
4 Il X X
THERE is not one of us who has not
been shocked by having some
woman who was perfect stranger
to us. tell us family scandals that We
had no business to know, and for
which she should have had her tongue
cut out for telling. What makes them
do it, goodness only knows. Perhaps
it is the feminine morbid craving for
sympathy. Perhaps it is because they
get q kick out Of having the spotlight
turned on them, and they would
rather see their names in the papers,
even connected With something shame
full, than not to see them at all.
And, of course, being . forsaken
wife IS just up their alley. They can
pose as martyrs. They can be pitied
as . poor little woman who was be-
trayed by . faithlses husband. and is
the victim OF some siren. They can
tell over and over again what good
wives they were. how they never
looked at another man. how badly
they have been treated, and altogether
have quite q picnic. With alimony.
Now. hold no brief for the philan-
dering husband. but no one can deny
that there are vast number Of men
married to women who are she-devils
and who drive them away from home
by making home unendurable to them.