Evening star., 1940-12-24

derlng husband is to have mysteries
all over the place, though she knows
that there is nothing that man
breads so much as a scene; to re-
proach him with his ingratitude for
all she has done for him and tell
him how she has given the best
years of her life to him and to make
him generally feel like a heel. Also,
her technique of rousing his interest
in her once more is to go about
looking like a tear-soaked bundle
of wet rags.
That gives her about the chance
of winning out against pretty,
gay, f1attering woman who makes
things pleasant for the man that
popgun would have against a
Big Bertha.
Yet, for all of that, the wife has
plenty of weapons to her hand If
she will only use them.
To begin with. she shouldn't let
herself be bowled over by the first
shot. She shouldn't begin packing
her trunks just because she hears
that her husband was seen lunch
ing with some pretty woman. She
should refuse to take seriously even
his assertion that he is tired of her
and has fallen in love with another
woman
No matter how it hurts her face,
she should laugh them off. And
if she regards his little affairs as
harmless f1irtations the chances are
her husband will come to look upon
them in the same light. And she
should hang on to her marriage
license with both hands and her
teeth.
And she should strengthen her
defenSes. She should take her little
bag of tricks and airs and graces
out of the moth balls and polish
them up. She should get some good
clothes and new hairdo and begin
going around a bit. She should
cease being just g wife and mother
and become an attractive woman
once more. She must stop present.
ing an invidious comparison to the
other woman
There is patience which nearly
always wins out in the long run.
The man who has a rowing eye
will always be seeing younger and
prettler faces. The husband who
tires of his wife will tire of other
women If she just gives him time
and will eventually come back to
her. because she has been steadfast
and he is tired of roaming.
Then, all the forces of society
| hight for the wife. And, most potent
OF all, she has an invincible weapon
in the children.
So sit tight, lady. Fight for your
own. And you will get it.
Dear Dorothy Dix: Mr.. and Mrs.
A. have been married 80 years. He
has always been fortunate in having
a good job. but their prosperity is
owing to the thriftiness and saving
OF his wife. Recently he became in
fatuated with a young girl who was,
OF course, the 'only one who under
stood him. After making spectacle
OF himself for few months, he
asked his wife for a divorce, so he
could marry his soul mate. She
hesitated while, but at last said:
Eyes, I'll give you a divorce. but only
on one condition. You must sign
over everything you own to me. The
money we have managed to save
together, the house we live in, our
car-in fact. everything-then I'll
set you free"
OF course he raised objections, and
SO did the soul mate. When I
married you all that you had was
your job and two or three large
bills that you owed" she said, "and
this other lady can marry you on
the same platform, and she will if
she loves you as much as I did"
Whereupon the soul mate gave Mr.
A. the air. and he has returned to
his clever wife, much the wiser man
A SPECTATOR.
Answer: Fine! 1t shows that there
is remedy for divorce, after all, if
wife has gumption enough to use
it. Another wife I knew settled the
problem by telling her husband that
if she gave him a divorce he must
agree to take all Of their five young
children to live with him and his
affinity. And that was that.
DOROTHY DIX.