The Washington herald., 1917-09-10
SCHOOL DAYS e.~A@s s:sssa- s--.,' BY DWIG III
Girls from Everywhere.
ny DOROTHY DIX.
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer.


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produces the best wives? II you were
a young man. thinking of getting
married. would you go North or South
East or West. in search OF wife?"
HIM. That's a hard question to
answer because women have no geo.
graphical limitations. There are pref
ty girls and ugly girls. clever girls
and dull ones, girls in whose mouths
butter wouldn't melt and girls with
red headed tempers, clever girls and
funny haired girls. girls who are do
nestle angels and girls who viii
never learn how TO boil water with
out scorching 1t. in every State and
county and city and hamlet in this
broad land of ours. And some OF
them will make good wives. and some
of them won't, irrespective of where
they were born and brought up.
Also, some girls will suit some men.
and some won't. for whether a girl
turns out to be the right girl or the
wrong girl as a wife depends very
largely on the man and what he ex-
poets and wants in a wife. So there
you are.
Undoubtedly, however, heredity and
environment are the determining fac
tors in forming character and habits
and modes of thought. and the girls
Of different sections of the country
are as different as different varieties
OF roses, and each makes its own Pc
culiar appeal to mans taste.
Take the New England girl for IN
stance. She is pretty in a demure KIND
of way. She is Dit of a highorow
and prefers Ibsen to the six best sell
lers, and symphony concerts to rag
time. Outwardly she is cold and calm
but no woman loves with a more con-
Stunning passion or is more hercely
Jealous. and she has the fascination
that the smouldering- yolcano-under-ice
stun always has.
The New England girl will make you
a splendid wife, son. She will be faith
full and true, a neat, methodicai and
thrifty housekeeper, and a spienoio
mother. She will do her full duty.
and. what is more, she will see that
YOU do yours. She will keep you
lacked up to your highest level. and
coralled in the straight and narrow
way. Living with her will be like hv-
ing with the still small voice Of con-
science that perpetually reminds you
of your faults and weaknesses ana
shortcomings II will strengthen your
moral fiber, and make a nobler ana
better man of you, but II is not
particularly soothing experience.
Therefore, the New England girl
makes an admirable wife for the man
who is worthy of her, but she is not
the wife for the philanderer who needs
wife who can turn her blind eye
on her husbands gallantry, nor for
n vain man who needs to be hattereo'
nor for a grounding who wants 70
take his pleasures in this world IN
stead of waiting after the true New
England fashion until you get TO
Heaven before you relax and enjoy
things.
Then, there's the New York girl
II you've made your pile OF money
son, of II your kind father MADE 20
for YOU and you want somebody 70
help you spend it properly. pick Out
a New York girl for your wife. she
the greatest little spender on eartn,
and can come nearer to getting Sl.a
worth of show and fun out OF DOL
lar than any other living human De-
| ing.
She knows by instinct how to dress,
what make OF automobile to buy
how to cover a head waiter with one
glance of the eye, and she's born a
Dancing Dervish, and cuts her teeth
on a bridge score.
II you marry a New York girl, you
won't have to bother about leading
the higher life. The Great White
Way is good enough for her. Neither
will YOU have to excuse your short
comings and weaknesses. She goes
ffty-ffty on that, and the only un-
! forgivable crime you can commit Ia
| to lose your money.
The New York girl makes the kind
of wife that makes people rub
Der when she goes by, and causes
her husband to stick out his ches'
with pride at being seen in her com
! pany. Also. she advertises her hus'
bands prosperity. and is the only
| woman in Amrica who can wear
tiara without looking as II she hac
| a busting cap on, but she Is no wife
! for a poor man who doesn't want t
| eat out of paper bags, and she curls
\ up and dies with homesickness II
| she ever gets forty squares away
! from Broadway.
The man who wants a wife who will
be a real help-meet to him should seek
| her in the Middle West. That is the re-
gion where the feminine hustler reach
es its highest perfection. The Middle
West woman Is the daughter OF
pioneers. and she is a pioneer herself.
] Even as her parents conquered the
wilderness. so is she determined to
conquer the inner circles of society
and wealth that lie Just beyond where
she was born.
She is a good-looker, with a skin as
clean and fresh as a rose. and eyes
as clear and limpid as the waters OF
Lake Michigan. And she's strong and
husky beneath her slim htheness.
There isn't a particle of coquetry
about her, and marriage to her is
more of a business proposition than it
is a romance. She loves a man more
after she marries him than she does
before, because he's the head of the
firm then, the firm that she means TO
push on to success. and to do that she
devotes every thought of her head.
every impulse of her heart, every
energy of her body.
II you want a wife who will boost
you up the ladder. who will work and
skimp and save until she helps you
pile up a fortune, and who can then
take off her apron and roll down her
sleeves and come out of the kitchen
! into the parlor and hold her own with