The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27
Brothers as Matrimonial TIpsters
BY DOROTHY DIX.

man a she does about the habits Of the
: okapi.
From which it naturally follows that
women judge men by their external ap-
pearance, and if the man behaves nicely
and quietly and dOcilely in society, some
poor little gump of a girl jumps TO the
conclusion that he is a thoroughly tanned
and domestica ted animal, that will trot
along in double harness and never try 70
break over the traces.
The dulest man of her acquaintance
could tell her better. He would only have
to take a look at the whites of the man S
eyes to know that ne was one or the IN
tamable bea SITS that would kick the do
nestle vehicle to pieces, and that would
never be cured of the boiling habit as
long as he lived, and that no amount Of
hobbling with wife and children would
ever keep him from jumping over the
bars.
Therefore, it is a wise GIRL who, when
she finds out that herr heart is beginning
to do flip-flops in her maiden breast
whenever the name of Mr.. Percy Perk-
inson is mentioned, goes to her big
brother and asks him for few general
tips upon the kind of a gentleman that
Mr.. p. p. is.
Suppose brother Bob says:
We'll little girl, I'm not saying this
for general publication, for there are q
lot of people who are strong for Percy
He's good looking and good business
man, and well connected, and all thai
sort of thing but-er-er-wen, he's got
past that needs disinfecting pretty
badly, and, though you are too young
and inexperienced to know 1t yet, you
take my word for it that the woman who
marries man who has sOwed the kind OF
wild oats that Percy has has got TO help
him reap the harvest.
ITS tough lines on the wife, but
that's the way it's written. And l don't
want to see you engaged in that partic-
ular branch of agriculture, sister.
And besides that Percy is a cad. And
a tyrant. He is the sort of a fellow that
grovels in the dust before the people
above him. Everybody who is under him
in his office hates and despises him. He
talks to his stenegrapher in tone OF
voice that makes me want to bat him.
He insults his clerks and snarls at his
office boy, and you take it from me that
the man who treats his employees, who
can leave him, that way, will bulidOze
his wife, who can't leave him, out of her
life.
And Percy is stingy and selfish. The
only human being on whom he spends
any money freely is himself and even
then he badgers the shopkeepers to re-
duce prices, and sweats the coin before
he let's it go until he wears off the eagle.
II will be you for the madeover frocks.
and for standing for the hammer when
ever the bills come in, if you tie up with
a closewad such as Percy is.
II know him, for I've been out with
him, and he's the sort that's got Yale
lock on his pocket so that he never can
get it open in time to pay for the drinks
or the cigars for the. crowd"
Or suppose that the girl confides to her
brother that she feels that the psychologi-
cal moment is approaching in which some
youth of infinite charm, but with unfor-
tunate weaknesses. is about to pop the
question. The man has told her Of his
faults and that he only needs her little
hand IN his to change him, and lead him