The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-02
BY Dorothy Dix
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer

TlIE first desire OF a wiic, as
showed IN my prcuou, article, IS
to be treated a. perpetual bride
even when she Is a grandmother.
The second desire Of a wife IS tp he
treated As doll baby, vet ,cercsS.
Now the mistake that the average
husband make, s that he treats his
wlic either as doll baby, or a' a
rational human being, and he never
finds out that she is not altogether
either one or the other, but that She
IS partly both
No woman is wholly 4 fool. and no
woman Is wholly Wise but every wom-
an display, unexpected and startling
bursts OF intelligence and Stiffness. In
fact. It may be said that the normal
feminine mind is built after the plan
OF the best Irish bacon-a streak Of
lean and streak Of fat This IS the
reason that il is so piqdant and ap-
petizing a dish on the menu OF lie.
Only few men. who have them
selves much Of the feminine tcmpcra-
mcnt. ever sense this great initial fact
the same platform on which YOU can
deal with a man. because what a man
IS, he u.s. but what a woman is, she
isn't Therefore, the average good
husband. loving his wife and anxious
TO do his duty by her and make her
happy goes laundering into the mis-
take OF treating her in exactly thc way
she doesn't want to be treated and
that makes her get that wiShiul Reno
look ON her face
suppose the man, for instance. is OF
the David Copperiicld type who has a
prediction for baby faced girls, with
large adorlng eyes and cute way oi
looking up AZ man so that he feels
about seven feet high, and tha, he has
the chest measure OF Jess Willard. OF
course, child wives are a lot more al
Turing and fascinating as swccthcarts
than they are as wives, and after the
man gets his bargain home he is apt
to wish that he had made another
choice
But he that as It may, he is jus,
man and a good sport lie rcNilcS that
such ~ his wife IS. he picked her out
from all the multitude OF women and
married her OF his own accord so he
doesn't propose to blame her for the
qualities she is shy in. So he accepts
her a. doll baby and does the hes, he
can by his pretty little toy
II she makes an intoletablc mess OF
housekeeping and can't manage sery.
ants OF cook herself he stores the fur.
rrturc, and goes TO hotel to live, how.
ever much as he may pine for a real
home lie heroically tolls overtime TO
dress his little doll IN fine clothes, and
give her an automobile 10 ride in. He
listens patiently to her twadding talk.
and trotS around with her 10 parties
that he loa,heS, and generally kceps
his pretty little plaything IN cotton
wool even after the years have begun
to wear off the red paint and tho gid.
ing
The man hasn't a douh, but wha,
hi, little doll Considers herself very
happy and lucky little doll but she
doesn't for the very good reason that
the human doll. after all, isn't really
stuffed with sawduS, Somewhere IN
IT'S anatomy there Is heart and a
brain, even II they are not very big
ones.
The doll baby wife may he silly. but
she isn't fool enough not 10 know she
is nothing hut toy to her husband.
that she Is not real wife She know,
that she is outside of his lie. not the
center Of II, and that she knows nothing
of what he really thinks. what his real
ASPIRATIONS are what he really hopes
and plans She knows tha, he wouldn't
turn 20 her u he needed advice or
someone on whom 10 lean
Aud the knowledge cuts her like a
knife She rcsents her husband regard
ING her as his mental inferior. She re
sents his treating her like a child. She
would like to be chums with him, and