El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-15
HTRTY-SFCOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION
The Lure of the Widow
Why She Catches a Man. When the
Girls All Fail; She Knows the
Recipe Perfectly.
Ry Dorothy Dix
Widow

THE heroine Of one OF me mos

3 BY DOEoAAa IL
THE heroine Of one Of the most
charming and successful plays
h of the season IS a widow who is
fair. fat and-4S, ana who has grown
SON Notwithstanding these lmpedl-
mcnts every man in the cast. AID in
the audience, Ialls head over heels IN
love with her at sight. and This mas
renewed the ancient discussion Gun
corning the why and the Wnere1Ores OF
the fascination Of the widow
PerhaDs men understand LnlS- ON
Len don't They merely accept II as a
fact that a widow appears 20 posses
hypnotic powers that enable het 10 put
the cOme-hither over any man she IAN
cies and march him OH TO the dllaTs
while other women, better IOOklngs
younger, and apparently more Hesll-
able, sit LWlddllng Inelr LAuuDS III
, perpetual spinsterhOOd- Indeed above
all others, the widow seems 10 reallze
the prophecy of the Scriptures, that
more abundantly.' for the woman VINO
has had one husband seems aDle 10 get
take away from her sister the one Dedu
The Are Always Young.
What / don't understand about Wild
Oygs is why they are always young IN
til they are ready to drop dead with
old age" said a bachelor girl at a tea
RACED 1UrlOusly- woman Of a. IL
she is unmarried, is. called an old mdla,
and is supposed TO have reached the
time Of lie when she has put her
matrimonial aspirations on the shelf,
and begun to devote herSeIE 10 pnIlan-
thrOpy. But a widow Of 40 is inVari-
ably referred to as a young widow,
ana conceded to have perfect right
to be a gay and giddy young thing
"WidOWhOOd is a sort of fountain OF
Perpetual Youth in which woman
dips herself and washes OF about ~
years.
me thing that always puzzles me
about widows is WnV men prefer LnGru
TO women who have never been mar
RED" said another woman. but they
any other woman in her class any daV
in the week. She can even knock
debutante's nose out Of joint. II a
woman reaches the age OF 40 or 40. Tor
instance, without ever having been
married at all, her chances Of getting
a husband are simply nil Nothing
short Of miracle enables her to cap
ture an eligible man.
But a widow OF 40 or As, although
she may be two or three times Wild
Ow. can have her pick OF the good
catches OF any community
Men Are Like sheep.
ooh. for that, said the third
woman, men are all like sheep where
women are concerned They follow
the leader. and because some man has
found a woman attractive enough to
marry, it enhances her value in all
other mems eyes 1t makes her a
blue ribbon prize winner. so TO speak
that every one OF them wants. Where
as, IL a woman reaches middle age
without ever having been married at
all. he feels that she is a second rater
that the good Judges nave passed over.
and even If he admires her he hasn't
the courage TO pick her out on his own
judgment
'-fhe reason why every widow can
always marry is because she is a pro-
fesstonal fisher Of men, while the IN
married woman IS only an amateur
The widow knows from experience
what bait to use. and to what flies q
man will rise, and by what arts and
vii az M Ha na n "a r.
ried woman only guessess and she gen
orally guesses wrong
I think said the next woman. that
the reason that widows are the pre-
ferred matrimonial risk with men is
because men realize that when they
marry a woman who has had a pre-
viOus matrimonial experience, they are
getting a wife who is broken to double
harness, instead Of one that they would
leVe me, this is no small Advantage
The average girl marries without
knowing how to keep house, how to
otto highfalutin' notions about what
matrimOny is and what she has a right
to expect Of her husband
She Plays Up to Him
BY the time she has killed off one
husband with dyspepsia and made him
smoking and coming home on time, she
has learned her lesson and is ready to
De a comfortable. companiOnable wife
She has acquired the art OF cookery,
and learned to make the best OF a man
and overlook the worst: and for that
reason she makes an ideal wife You
almost never hear OF a couple in which
the wife was a widow. figuring in the
divorce courts"
The real explanation OF the widows
fascination for men" said the old WON
an, lis TO be found in the fact that she
pays up TO a man instead OF expect
1ng him TO play up TO her The unmar-
RED woman, and especially the young
g1rl. expects every man to burn incense
at her feet The widow lights the joss
sticks herself before the man she
Wants-and lands hin
The unmarried woman talks about
herself, her aspirations and plans The
widow never mentions herself sac
puts in the golden hours telling a man
now great and wonderful he Is and
she IS apparently lust as well pleased
10 sit at home and fan him VITA hot
arr as TO go TO the grand opera Also,
she leeds the brute on home cooking,
instead Of making him buy her expen-
slve food in high priced restaurants.
for her"