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 eyes.
1t makes her a blue ribbon prize
winner, 50 to speak. that every
one of them wants. Whereas, if a
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 out
on his own judgment"
THE reason why every widow
can always marry is because she
is professional fisher of men.
While the unmarried woman is only
an amateur. The widow knows
from experience what bait to use,
and to what flies a man will rise,
and by what arts and wilcs 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 a man. who
has acquired skill in Wheedling
money out of him, and deXterity in
sidestepping his prejudices, is an
adept In managing men with whom
no mere spinster can ever hope to
compete"
q 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 a woman who has
had u previous matrimonial expe-
rience, they are getting a 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 advan-
tagc The average girl marties
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 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 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 oc cookery.
and learned to make the best of n
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 woman, lis TO be found i'm
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 Joss
sticks herself before the man she
Wants-and lands him.
The unmarried woman talks
about herself. her aspirations and
plans. She drags the man about to
liiS pldctS Slle wants To go. She
makes him spend money ne doesn't
want to, or can't afford. The widow
never mentions herself. She puts
in the golden hours telling man
how great and wonderful he is.
and she is apparently just as well
pleased to sit at home and fan him
with hot air as to go to the grand
opera. Also, she feeds the brute on
home cooking, instead of making
him buy her expensive food in high
priced restaurants. Hence the
double peal of wedding bells for
her"
So said these women. but VINO
can really explain the psychology of
the charming widow" "yon'ra -
witch, said one of the lovers i'm
the play. I'm a widow" respond
ed the woman, as if the two were
twins And wen have to let it 20
at that.