The Washington herald., 1917-11-05
A TIP TO MEN.
BY DOROTHY DIX.
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

| 1t is a pity that men who devote 20
much time to admiring the female
countenance spend so little time in
studying 1t and trying to find out
| what 1t indicates.
Physiogncmy may not be an exact
| science but it makes some mighty
good guesses, and II instead of prais-
ing the curve of a cheek or the dimple
in a chin or writing sonnets to his
lady's eyebrows, a lover would try to
ascertain what traits OF character
these features indicated he would save
himself from making many a bitter
mistake.
Man seldom does this. He has yet
to learn that woman is built on the
cause-and-effect plan. Therefore.
every day we see ignorant and un-
sophisticated swains leading thin-lip-
ped maidens with quivering nostrils
and arched eyebrows to the altar.
without a suspicion that they are we'd
ding temrcrs that will keep them cow
ed the balance of their lives
Also, we observe other men deliber-
ately picking out wives with square
jaws, heavy chins and steady eyes
with a steely CLINT in them, and then
wondering. how 1t was that they hap
| pened to get their necks into the hal
| ter.
! BY the same token we see other men
| tying up with pale. fraiI, thin chested.
| aenemic little girls, and then con-
sidering themselves cruel victims OF
bad luck because they have to spend
| the next thirty or forty years shaving
I to pay doctors and nurses and sana-
/ tarium bills. while other men espouse
pink and white baby dolls with rose
bud mouths and calf like eyes, and
are disappointed TO find out that the
only furniture in their wives heads
consists of a few ideas about clothes
and the two-step.
Men always excuse the mistakes
! they make in marriage by saying that
you can't tell beforehand what sort
of wife a girl will make. Therefore.
| they call neither the science of ply
siognomy nor even plain common
sense to their aid when they under
take the tremendous task of selecting
a life mate.
! This is a mistake. There Is some
excuse for a woman marrying the
wrong man because she has to take
! what she can get. She is denied the
! liberty of exercising her own intelli-
gence and taste in the selection Of a
| husband. but a man has no such han
l dicap. He can pick and choose. and
/ if he gets the wrong woman, as he
SO often does, It is simply because
he does not use as much intelligence
in selecting a wife as he does in buy
ing a horse or an automobile.
To begin with, most girls hav,
| their characters written in their face
/ so that he who runs may read. i
he will only look for it. The smirl
I. of vanity; the hardness of selfish
ness; the fretful look of peevishnes
and i'll temper; the smile of goot
! nature; the tender warmth Of sym
| rathy; the light of understanding il
the eyes-they are all these for an.
man to see who isn't as blind as
3 bat.
More than this. very few girls hav
the art to conceal their real disposi
tion and character. They give ava.
what they are and the kind of wive
they are going to make at ever.
turn to any man who will take tn
trouble to observe them. Hence II
possible for every man to find ou
on the safe side of the altar just tn
sort of a wife he will get IL he mar
ries any particular maiden. a
Take the matter Of extravaganza
for instance. Every man would lik
to marry a wife who would be a rea
helpmate to him. who would be thrift
ty and economical and willing TO saw
and hustle until they got good star
in the world. How is he to tel
whether a certain girl will make tina
kind of a wife or not?
Easiest thing in the world. Max
a study of the girls home conditions