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 eve.
1t makes her 81 blue ribbon prize
winner, so to speak, that everv
one of them wants. Whereas, il
woman reaches middle age without
ever having been married at all. be
feels that she is d 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 a 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 man will rise.
and by what arts and wiles 10 land
him, whereas the unmarried won.
an only guesses. and she generally
suesses wrong. Any woman who
has gotten along for ten or fifteen
or twenty years with a man, who
has acquired skill in wheeling
money out Of him, and dexteritv in
sidesteppins his prejudices, is an
adept I'm managing men with whom
no mere spinster can ever hope to
compete"
II think" SAID the next woman.
that the reason that widows ays
the preferred matrimonial risk WITT
men is because men realize thst
when they marry q woman who has
had a previous matrimonial expe-
rience, they are getting a wife who
is broken to double harness. in
stead OF one that they would have
10 break in themselves And. be-
lieve me, this is no small advan-
tage. The average girl mauies
without knowing how to keep
house, how TO manage money. and
with the most idiotic highfalutn
notions about what matrimony IT,
and what she has a right to expect
of her husband.
She Plays Up to Him.
by the time she has killed Of
one husband with dyspepsia, ana
made him glad to die by uasgin2
him about smoking and coming
home on time, she hag learned her
lesson and is ready TO be g COM
Portable, cOmpan1onabls wife sae
has acquired the art OF COOKERY,
and learned TO make the best OF
man and overlook the worst and
for that reason she makes an ideal
wife. You almost never hear Of
couple in which the wife was q
widow figuring In the divorce
courts"
The real explanation Of the
widows fascination for men" sajd
the old woman, rs to be found IN
the fact that she plays up 10 a man
instead of expecting MIN to play up
to her. The unmarried woman, ano
especially the young girl, expects
every man TO burn incense al ne
feet. The widow lights the JOSS
sticks herself before the man sHf
Wants--and lands him.
The unmarried woman lAlhS
about herself. her aspirations al0
plans. She draes the man about ="
the places she wants to go. SI.e
makes him spend money he doesn
want to. or can't afford. The WACO"
never mentions herself She put'
in the golden hours telling a HSH
how great and wonderful he "
and she is apparently just as We.
pleased to sit at home and ran Hlln
with hot air as TO go to the gram
opera Also. she feeds the brute on
home cooking, instead Of mah.HHs
him buy her expensive food IN h'sl
priced restaurants. Hence
double peal of wedding bells 'o
her"
So said these women, bul WIZ
can really explain the psychology "'
the charming widow" You RE-
witch" said one of the lover
the play. I'm a widow, rosPoh.
ed the woman, as II the TWO 81
twins And Wen have 70 .e' nc
at that