The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-31
Dorothy DIG Says
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
1t is mans greatest vanity that
makes the financial situation acute
in most families.
BY BRINK ERIC

womans greatest vanity is the
egotism that makes her believe that
she has the power to alter mans
| nature
Mans greatest vanity is the neces-
sity he has to look down upon. wom-
an, as from pedestal, and to always
feel her his inferior, and to sacrifice
her, if the occasion arises. to his lord
4 ship.
These two exhibitions of feminine
| and masculine vanity are at the bot
I tom of half the misery in the world.
1t IS the woman's vanity that causes
her to marry the lazy, the trif1ing, the
no-account man, the drunkard or the
roue, because she thinks, in her blind
conceit, that she is capable of inspir-
| ing in him a passion that will work
miracles in his character.
| It's the mans overwhelming vanity
| that so often makes him pick out for
a wife the brain1ess idiot, the silly,
| heartless mindless, soulless girl who
! is utterly incapable of understanding ;,
him, much less approaching him. he
wants somebody for a wife who Will
| look up to him, who will think he is
a marvel of intelligence, and before
whom he may pose as a cooling.
! 1t is only the occasional man who
wants to marry a woman who is his
equal There is nothing alluring to
the ordinary man in the idea OF being
married to a wife who is Just as Well
| educated just as well read, just as up
to the minute on every subject as he
is. This is why, any little g1ggnng,
foolish, pink and white doll baby OF
a girl can marry forty times where
the college graduate can marry once.
IT also explains why the ratio of di-
vorces is high among men who marry
| fools and is almost nil among men
who marry educated, Intelligent Wom-
en-.
the man who is exceptionally modest,
who is willing to marry woman VINO
is his equal and to treat her as MS
| equal and such marriages are sure
| to turn out we'll On the other hand
while it is soothing to mans vanity
| to be so exceedingly superior to his
wife that she is not on his plane at
all it has the disadvantages of being
| lonesome 1t takes some of the edge
off of the joy of Old Man Know-It-All
| whose wife is Ounce when she is so
stupid she doesn't understand what
he is talking about, and so dun she
| never catches the points OF MS gooo
stories.
If YOU will observe, you will notice
that the superior husbands always
| seek society outside OF their own
homes and are strong for affinities.
/ IT is mans vanity that makes the
! financial situation so acute in most
ia miles. The husband refuses to give
the wife an allowance, but makes her
come to him for every penny she must
| snend because every time she asks
for money it visualizes for him his
mastery over her and her dependence
| on him.
He doesn't mind giving her the
| money He wants her to have all he
| can afford, and perhaps more, but
he's bound to have his vanity tickled
nv his wife humiliating herself before
MIN and wheedling him
Another curious way in winch the
vanity of man asserts itself is that
/ every man wants his wife to help him,
but he wants her to do it in secret.
lunobtrusive way that nobody viii
know For instance, when a poor
man marries a girl who has been
trained to some gainful occupation,
he demands that she give up her stu
alton at once although he puts her
into A kitchen where she works ten
times as hard as she did before, in
| order to assist him
/ / have seen a girl give up fifty
dollar week job to become house
hold drudge. l have seen her pretty
| hands ruined by the washboard and
scrubbing brush, her complexion burnt
| out over the kitchen stove, l have
| seen her worn and exhausted, and
shabby, doing work for which she was
| untitled, and for which there was no
pay envelope.
Her husbands vanity would not per-
| NIT him to let her continue at the
profitable work in which she was en-