El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-12
Healthy Girl Best Wife
Things to Look for in n Wife Are
Sense Of Honor, Health, Liberal
Spirit and LOVeabIeneSs.
By Dorothy Dix.
.HE other day had a letter signed

" He other day had a letter signed
by Is young girls asking me
what qualities, in my opinion,
they should look for il a husband Now
a club Of young men asks me to write
an article on what qualities I think
men should look for in their wives.
If 1 were a young man contemplat
ing matrimOny the first thing that
should look for in q wife would be
health The very foundations of do
nestle happiness are a sound stomach
and steady nerves. No woman can
take a bright CHEEKY outlook on life
If she has got chronic dyspepsia. No
woman can be amiable and good ma
tured if her nerves are in a culver all
the time.
Man Who Picks SIckIy Wife Hunts
Trouble.
Besides which 1 should not look for
ward. with any degree of favorable
an ticipation, to spending my life pay
ing doctors bills or sending my fragile
Marie to the seashore in the summer
and Florida in the winter, and to COM
ing home at night after a hard days
work to a house where 1 would have
to walk on tiptoe for fear of disturb
ing my suffering spouse.
The next quality 1 should look for
in wife would be a sense of humor
Laughing Girls Most Desirable.
The girl who has a laugh hung on
slightest jolt Of her funnybone. would
get me if 1 We're a man, Tor I should
know that there are lots of things in
matrimony that a woman has either
got to laugh over or cry over, and
should prefer a home where the sun
shone to one that was always damp
and fOggy. Believe me, son, the wom-
an who sees the funny side of things
and can make a merry adventure of
the ordinary mishaps of life is the
sort Of a wife to tie to.
The third quality that I should look
for in wife is what New England
ing equal to any situation that arises
and knowing how to do things. 1t
means the kind of a wife who can
cook, and wash, and sew, and trim
her own hats, and help her husband
make his fortune, and then, when he's
got il, she can help him spend it as if
she never did anything in her life but
transmit orders to an English butler
and wear hats from Paris.
So, If 1 We're picking out a wife, I'd
choose a girl who knew how to turn
her hand to anything that bobbed up.
No helpless, dOll-baby woman for me
that would be like a milestone about
my neck and prevent me from ever
winning in the race for success.
The fourth thing that I would con-
slider would be the line of converse
ton. If 7 were looking forward to an
uninterrupted session of about 80 or
40 years of a WOman'S society, l would
edllS llS 70 IlAu Out II She interested
me TO such an extent that 1 wouldn't
be liable to yawn my head off When
l had her for steady company I would
try to ascertain if the woman I pro-
posed marrying had any brains in her
head, if she was educated, and had
some ideas about what she read, and
II her taste was sympathetic to mine.
1 should want a wife who would be
a companion to me, and so I would
marry no lady. no matter what sort
of hair she has on the outside of her
head, if the interior furnishings didn't
match my own mental complexion
The fifth thing that l should look
for in a wife would be liberality of
spirit. I wouldn't marry girl who
was narrow, and jealous, if she were
as beautiful as Venus. and as rich as
CroesuS, and a MODEL of every other
virtue on earth. For I should know
that that sort of woman thinks that
marriage constitutes a wife her hus-
bands jailer and entities her to ex-