The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-30
Dorothy DiT Says
By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
Ware the Summer Girls, Boys.


and nothing your mind heavier
than your new split straw.
All thoughts of matrimony, and dis
ease and death, and the other cataS- J.
trophies that are liable to overtake
mankind, sooner or later, are afar I
from you; yet anon shall you return /
engaged and spend the balance of
your life wondering how it happened.
So sudden, like that!
For no one has warned you against |
the perils you are about to face, or
handed you friendly tip to the effect
that summer is the open season for
husband hunting when all girls go
cunning for their prey. Nor has any
one told you that the summer does !
strange things to a woman's looks so
that the maiden who was merely nice |
looking in the winter is a tearing /
beauty in the summer. and she with
whom you would have discussed Ib-
sen and Shaw and suffrage in Deem
Der you will make love to in July.
Nobody knows why these things are |
so. They merely are, and that's all |
there is to it. If there were no more |
summers there would be precious few |
nection between the state of a mans |
affections and the thermometer |
which is amply proven by the fact that |
the farther south you go the rarer
become old bachelors, until when you
reach the tropical ATTITUDES you find
But, be that as it may, what we are
concerned with now is not the fate of
those who marry early and often, but
OF those who desire to defer the bliss
ful day until such time as they have
mad a raise in salary and can contem-
plate the high cost of loving without
having cold chi1ls chase each other IN
and down in their spines
Forewarned is forearmed," saws
the old proverb. To know where dan
a ms n of lao
TO defend himself against it, Let us
then, consider some of the types of
summer girls against whom a young
man should be on his guard unless he
IS ANXIOUS TO qulck-step up to the altar
TO the tune of that Lohengrin thing.
First, and most obvious, is the GEM
Inc, Ola fashioned, blown-in-t the bottle
summer girl in white muslin and with
d dropping hat wreathed with flow
ers. She's a summer annual that has
peen blooming ever since the Garden
OF Eden, but every successive genera
tion OF men, from Adam down. have
1alien for her, because she looks ex-
actly IKE every man thinks the ideal
woman ought to look
To all outward appearances she iS n
gentle, shy, fluttering innocent. and
When she glances demurely 10 in a
mans race from under that flonnin@
l 5 pfim his heart turns over like
dying fish and he's done for. IF vor,d
get all the men you know WIZ ~
married to flahby wishy-washv d,,11
sIliy wives on the witness stand and
make them tell how and when and
Mnere they proposed to the ladies' To
go; riGi 1, tiIey are tied for life, you would
.iilo lnat nlne-tenthS of them nonnad
the question to a white muslin drass
Oh a starry night in June
the muslin Dress SON. as vo,,
vSiue your freedom. Reflect thai
49, - "ie not always what they seem
h
INNS and carrotty hair looks like an
anger IN white. Also reflect tbat
Nui-ary comes high, and the SIMMER
oress is the more it costs There
r. 6 mLen the maiden in white seeks
70 oecoy you into strolls in the moon
1isht along the beach. saw her nav
Keep her under the big electric light
IN the crowded vereEda, lest Won he
come the victim of her millinery.
IWln sister to the White Muslin girl
is the helpless Cltnging Girl Who is
ways having things happen to her
mat require masculine assista noe
She mas little feet and she can never
| learn to tie her shoe laces so they
an with a No. foot to tie a shoe
strlnS IN a knot that q tornado could
u budge.) If she goes for a walk
lshe spralnS her ankle and has to lean
on some strong arm. If she takes an
automobile ride, she's always getting
frightened and eIutching at some man
Tor protection
1t all very pretty and appealing
son, ana 1t makes you feel about seven
ieet nigh and as strong as Jess Will
lard but watch out. Some day you
will put that protecting arm around
her TO guard her-shes such a tirnid
little thinS,-and You will neglect to
take 1t away in time to save yourself
from becoming II human trellis that
VIII nave to support her the balance
of your days. Which is not at all
what you intended, but is exactly
what she intended
| Then there's the Hammock Girl
She's attractive because she is so quiet
and still in day of feminine unrest
She isn't forever tearing around doing
Things like most of the girls She
stays put. She Tolls around in a
comfy hammock, and looks cool and
restful, and keeps the powder on her
nose instead of being sunburned and
blowsy. And she has always got a
book IN her hand, and before you
know it yon find out it's your favorite
poem and you are reading it aloud to
/ her
How beautifully you read" she
murmurs- How wonderfully dra-
4 matically you interpreted that pass
age What soul and understanding
you put into iti'' And then she asks
you II you have ever thought about
going on the stage, and says how she
would love to hear you read the love
scene in Romeo and Juliet and be-
| fore you know IT you will be doing
it, and everything will be over but
announcement of your engagement
Still more dangerous is the Good
/ Fellow girl who is as good at games
as half the men you know. She looks
awfully natty in her sport clothes,
with her stubby little flat heeled
shoes. and her rolled up sleeves and
brown arms. And she's such good
pals. No nonsense and sentiment
! about her. Why. she knows more
about Christy Mathewson than she
does about Browning, and had rather
talk big league, and Ouimet's golf
score than listen to anybody quote
poetry. You feel perfectly safe with