The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-25
DOES THE BUSINESS MAN
MAKE THE BEST HUSBAND?
Actors, Artists. Doctors. Lawyers, Clergy
men, Musicians, Politicians. Students.
Authors, and Journalists Have
Few Faults.
BY DOROTHY DIX.

BY DOROTHY DIX.
In America, where all trade is emf
nently respectable, and the only leisure
class is composed of hoboes, it would
seem that mans occupation, provided
it was honest, cuts little figure in his
matrimonial prospects. Nevertheless, 1
am in receipt of letter from young
woman who writes that her future
lords business is distasteful to her, and
asks whether she is justified on that
account in breaking the engagement
Personally, 1 should only ask if the
business in question was sufficiently
profitable to stand my raids on the
bargain counter. This may be, how
ever, superficial view of a serious ques-
ton, and inasmuch as the average man
is merely reflex of his business, with
out doubt a woman does well to take
a mans occupation into consideration
before she marries him. A woman who
is marrying clergyman, for instance,
should ask herself before she takes the
fatal step whether she is meek and low
ly enough in spirit to wear made-over
dresses and last years birds nests for
bonnets, because the congregation hold
that good clothes are sinful in the min
ister's wife She should also reflect that
a minister is saturated with alteration,
and that it win be up to her to give her
husband a double-distilled brand of
fattery IL she keeps in the running.
No jealous woman who cannot distin-
gufsh between a spiritual interest in
q sisters soul and bodily interest in
her heart should marry a preacher I'M !
less she is starting out to hunt for
trouble.
If doctor proposes-a real doctor,
who does his duty-a woman should
take into consideration whether she
would rather have a homeopathic dose
of his society than an allopathic dose
of business mans. She would know /
that he win have no time for society
and little for his family. His hours,
when not office hours, are spent in
study or visiting patients. He never
keeps engagements with his wife, and
life with him is a waiting game, where
she is always on the ragged edge of I'M
matrimony with a doctor is a bad risk.
The curious woman should never
marry a lawyer. If he is successful
divorcing couples who have gone astray
or shielding the guilty who ought to be
punished, he is bound to have secrets
from his little tootsie wootsie wife that
she is dying to find out, and husband
who knows the warm facts in a scandal
and won't tell them is an aggravation
that is enough to drive any woman into
the divorce court.
The woman who contemplates mar
rying an author must ask herself IL she
can bear the inevitable comparison with
the inimitable projections of the hero
ines her husband creates. 1t must be.
little trying to a sawed-off woman,
with a dumpy figure and hay colored
hair, to read the description of a gor-
geous figure seven feet high, with a
rose-colored skin and golden locks, and
know that she is the feminine ideal of
pulchritude her husband cherishes in
his secret SOUL
The woman who marries an actor
must consider If she can stand to see
the man she loves make love to another
woman, and throw enough ginger in the
scene to make it go. without wanting
to tear the stage heroine's hair, and
read the riot act to Romeo when he
gets home. Many women have tried
this. Few have succeeded. Hence the
brevity Of stage marriages.
A politicians wife is either his hoo
doc or his mascot. Men may overlook
his grabs and CRAFTS and forget his past
record, but the barkeeper whose wife
his wife has snubbed, knifes him at the
- a. ~
politician unless nature has gifted her
with the glad hand and who is not will
ing to put the red plush offering of the
'Steenth Ward in the front parlor.
Furthermore, she must reflect that her
husband must give the best of himself
TO the public and that his smiles and
diplomacy are too valuable for home
consumption.
Musicians are almost always nervous
and irritable, and the woman who mar
ries one may look out for discord. Any
woman who undertakes to be a high C
affinity to a musical artist should ex-
anime herself closely and see if she has
the temper of an angel and is thor
onghly inoculated against the tendency
TO talk back. Thus may she save her
self the expense of a divorce suit.
fhe Journalists wife must smash the
clock and burn the time table: the
students wife must be prepared to run
things for her unworltily spouse, while
the artists wife must subscribe to the
theoKy that her husbands admiration of
pretty model is a case ST art for arts
sake
On the whole, though, the business
man Is about the safest Matrimonial
chance. He Is used to charging things
up to .'profit and loss, and he not only
generally strikes a good average of do
nesticity, but makes the most of his
wlfe's faults and foibles.-Esxaminer
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e sT'fs very fortunate.'ti remarked Mr.