The Washington herald., 1911-04-28
They Preach One Thing and
Practice Another.
REPRESENTS HUSBANDS TASTE
She Is the One Particular Woman
He Picked Out of the Whole
No Excuse for Him to Make
When he Is Bored by Her.
BY DOROTHY DIX.

ITO my mind" said the third woman,
'the most incomprehensIDle thing about
man is his contradictory attitude toward
woman.
The main reason that there is 50 much
domestic d.scord is because We women
rever know what men really want US Ia
he and TO 60: for they preach one doc
trine and practice another: and the more
We try to live mp to their ideal, the
farther we fall from it
For example. take the matte. Of
dress. T1ere is NJ subject in which men
are so fond of discoursing as upon the
folly and the extravaganza of women 5
fashions They tell Us that We ruin our
health hy high heels. and tight Cursets.
and low-ufc,lcd frocks. and how foolish
We are not to wear loose garments thai
bang from the shoulders and broad fiat
shoes
Frivolous Clothes Catch the BeaTx.
But would girl over h1,c be;iu,
o. cal,r a n.lSbauI Who w,Ii attire
herself in this manner" Neve~ in the
world, Observe any ballroom. and you
will sec thai the maiden abnu. whom
men are st7nding sIX iact deep has On
the most foolish AMI frivolous clothes
tlat money will buy.
"Furth, rnore. just let a wife try TO
dress according to her husbands theories
and ne will be asIis med to be seen out
With her. and demand to know why she
makes 2 trump Of herself. / know. for
l have tried it. and that was how it
worked ont
'Anothc~ thing cant understand
about men is that the poorer wife a
woman is the better her husband seems
to love her. It is the selfish. vain. Sslly.
parasitic wife. who makes her husband
work himself to death to supply her with
money. who gets all the cakes and ale
OF matrimony.
industrious Wife Unnpprccinted.
THAT kind of a woman appears to be
always adored by her husband and
looked IN to by him. whereas the wife
who is industrious and economical. and
tries to do her duty, is seldom appre-
ciated.
A man certainly wants a good woman
for wife, and yet the better wife she
is the moe apt she is to lose him. Her
virtues are her undOing.
still another mystery Of the masculine
temperament is why men marry for a
home. and then are frantic to get away
from it, Probably the man who is al
ways inventiHg excuses to stay away
from home at night, or who puts on his
hat the minute dinner is over and goes
TO the club. would say by way Of excuse.
that his vie does not interest him. that
She bores him stiff.
That's an excuse that should not
count; for every wife represents her hus-
bands taste in women
She is the one particular lady that he
picked cut of the whole world for a life
companion. and there's nothing stranger
than why he should tire of the same
qualities in his wife that he found so
fascinating and aIluring in her when she
was girl
Believe M. there are millions Of lonely
wives who sit up and ask themselves
that question. and why their husbands
should have married them if they were
going TO weary Of them so soon.
Breaks His Neck to Get Her
And not woman can find an answer
to the query. She knows she is just the
same woman that she was: and. for the
life of her. she cant see why the man
who was breaking his neck TO get her
before marriage is breaking the speed
record in getting away from her after
marriage
And woman can't understand why a
4iifAh WIN Gl'l'il tIlSiN lpNtS Ms family
and his home SO seldom takes any active
part in making that home happy or
showing his wife any real affection. I've
seen men who We're frantic when their
wives were i'll, and who couldn't get
enough doctors and trained nurses to try
TO save their lives, yet who never paid
their wives n compliment. or showed
them a particle of tenderness. or gave
any indication of appreciation or affec-
ton.
And I know plenty of men who are
really devoted to their families who are
as cross as sore-headed bears at home: |
who never give either wife or children a !
pleasant word. and whose families draw
a sigh of relief whenever the lord and |
master shuts the front door behind him. !
Gould anything be more incompre-
hensible than the Condlct of these men !
for they work their fingers TO the bone
supporting their families and then, cut |
themselves of from all the rewards in /
love and comradeship that they would |
get IL they adopted a human instead of |
an ogre attitude toward their wives and |
children? II is as idiotic as investing
your whole capital in government bonds |
and then burning up the coupons Yet |
see sensible men do this every day
Sprinp Petticoars Filinv