Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-25
BY DOROTHY DIX.

i've enough to marry, it enhances
her value in all other mems ewes.
1t makes her q blue ribbon prize
winner, so TO speak, that every
one of them wants. Whereas. if
woman reaches middle age without
ever having been married at all. he
feels that she is a second rater that
the good judges have passed over,
and even If he admires her he
hasn't the courage to pick her cut
on his own Judgment"
THE reason why every widow
can always marry is because she
is q professional fisher of men.
while the unmarried woman is onlv
an amateur. The widow knows
from experience what bait to use.
and to what flies a man win rise.
and by what arts and wiles to land
him, whereas the unmarried wom-
an only guesses, and she generally
guesses wrong. Any woman who
has gotten along for ten or fifteen
or twenty years with man, who
has acquired skill in Wheeling
money out of him, and dexterity in
sidestepping his pretudices, Is an
adept in managing men with whom
no mere spinster can ever hope to
compete
II think" said the next woman,
that the reason that widows are
the preferred matrimonial risk with
men is because men realize that
when they marry woman who has
had a previous matrimonial expe-
rience, they are getting q wife who
is broken to double harness, in
stead of one that they would have
to break in themselves. And, be-
lieve me, this is no small advsn-
tage The average girl nlarries
without knowing how to keep
house, how to manage money, and
with the most idiotic highfallutin'
notions about what matrimony is,
and what she has right to expect
of her husband.
She Plays Up to Him.
by the time she has killed OF
one husband with dyspepsia, and
made him glad to die by nagging
him about smoking and coming
home on time, she has learned her
lesson and is ready to be a COM
Portable, 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 q
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 woman, SIS to be found in
the fact that she plays up to a man
instead of expecting him to play up
TO her. The unmarried woman, and
especially the young girl expects
every man to burn incense at her
feet. The widow lights the loss
sticks herself before the man she
wants-and lands him.
Inc unmarried woman Ndih
about herself. her aspirations ana
plans. She drags the man about TO
the places she wants to go. she
makes him spend money he doesn
want to- or can't afford. The wido"
never mentions herself. She puts
in the golden hours telling man
how great and wonderful he Is;
and she is apparently just as We
pleased to sit at home and fan nm!
with hot air as to go to the grand
opera. Also, she feeds the brute Oh
home cooking, instead OF making
him buy her expensive food in hig7
priced restaurants. Hence the
double peal of wedding be''s .o
her"
So said these women, bat W.T..
can really explain the psychology %.
the charming Widow You're Fl
WITCH" said one Of the lovers lo
the play. I'm a widow respond
ed the woman, as If the two We're
twins And Wen have to let 1t go
at that.