The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-04
Dorothy Dix Says
Every Woman Wants Man Who Will Master Her. Yet Make
Her Feel That She Is Queen.
BY Dorothy Dix
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

balky, or run away and upset the apple
cart
In spite OF ieminism and womens |
rights, there is one right that no won
an wants, and that is the right Of SUI
perlorty over her husband. Every
woman wants to look up to her huS
band. She wants to feel that he i, |
bigger and broader and wiser than she |
IS, and that she can lean on his strength |
and depend on his judgment.
That IS why the happiest families are
those in which the wife begins every
sentence with John said" and while
1t IS true that women do often display
great affection for men who are weak
lngS, that love is not thc real passion |
OF woman for her mate. Il is the |
pitying, protecting maternal love OF a
mother for a defective child
AZ heart every woman is cave
woman, IN strcaks at least II every
woman told the truth, she would con
tess that the way she would like TO be |
woocd would be By some big. strong I,
primeyal male who would propose to |
her the first time he ever saw her. |
and when she refused on the ground !
that this was so sudden, and what |
would everybody say. would seize her |
by the hair OF her head, fling her into !
a taXlcab and rush off with her TO the !
marriage license bureau and marry her
despite her protests
As matter OF TACT. that kind OF
whlrIwlud cour'ship always wins out
There IS nothing that women are SO
contemptuouS OF as a faint heart in a
lover and practically auy man can
marry any woman he wants to If he,
only got the backbone TO order her to
accompany him to the altar instead OF
beSeechlng her to 60 with him
After marriage the same principle
holds Practically every woman would
like to be dominated hy her husband
would like 10 feel that he is the real
head OF the house. for the average
woman hates and fears responsibility
and will always Shunt il on to some
body else'S shoulders If she possibly
can.
You sec this illustrated in the way
a woman calls in her family and her
best friend to go with her when she
buys new hat and IN that way she
consults her husband about her own
private matters OF which his sex makes
him consiltu,lonally unable to form an
intelligent opinion
\ wife will ask her husband a hun
drcd time, whether he think, she had
best get plain hanglngs or flowcrcd
ctctonnc for the guest bedroom. or
whether she should choose taupc or
one Of the new fruit shades for her
afternoon iroCk or course. She doesn't
generally take his advice, but by agree
ing with her Or opposing her. he helps
her TO make up her mind and he re-
lieveS her oi the responsibility OF max.
ing a decision
That IS why husband is regarded
bt his wlic as unlovine and cruel and
coldly indifferent to her II he simply
murmurS from behind his paper. II
don't care For Heavens sake. 90 on
and please yourself and don't worry
me about it, II is also why women
adore men who will argue things out
with them. \ wife never knows what
she really thinks about a matter until
her husband opposes her in it.
Women likewise enjoy parading their
husbands authority before others and
however much OF henpcckcr wife
may be at home. she is invariably a
meek. patient GrlSelda in public. This
attitude at once reflects credit ON the
husband as being a strong ma,tcriul
man and serves the wife as a perfectly
invaluable excuse for doing those
things that she wishes to do and lcay.
lng undonc those things that she does
not want TO do
Dear Mr., Smith. | am so sorry
that ! cannot JOIN Your society for sew.
lng Tor tY INDECENT orphans but my
husband has positively forbidden me
to exert myself any more He Is so
afraid that ! will injurc my health by
oNerwork
Believe me. Mrs Thompson. nothing
would give me greater pleasure than
to be on your committee, but my hus.
band simply won't permit me TO 60
about soliciting funds for a bazaar
I'm SO interested in your hospital
for S,rayed cats, Mrs Jenkins, but my
husband is violently opposed to the
movement. and dare not ask him ior
single penny
Thus doc, tho husbands authority
become the Scapcguat for the wife.
sins aud mdtrimony IS justified. ioi
one OF the chief values oi poSSessinl
husband IS having somebody to ia,
'hlngt IN
But while a woman likes 10 feel iha
she IS married to strong maNcriu
man and 10 Haunt him in the puhlt
eve as more or less of a tytant hc'
secret JOY Is to have the illusion thl
she alone understands him, and know,
what string, to pull TO work him an,
that while he may he brutal to all ,ht
rest of the world. she can wrap hin
around her little finger In all hlynr
the onc woman that every woman en-
vics IS Dcllah when she whecdled ON
~ Samson the secret oi his strength
The onc thing that woman has eve
coveted above all else IS the ability 4
influence men This desire has hccl
her nndoiug The belief IN her poWc
tu influence man and her ycarniug Il
So 1t has tempted innumetahlc wumcl