The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-23
Dorothy Dix Says
CRUMB OF COMFORT FOR THE UGLY DUCKLINC
BY Dorothy Dix
The World, Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY Dorothy Dix
The World, Highest Paid Woman Writer.

combating his wife's jealous suspicious,
and the unmarried man avoids her for
the very practical reason that he is try
ing to keep from leading himself into
temptation
In addition, experience has shown
every business man that living pic
turc IN the office lowers the efficiency
OF the whole place II is not in mascu-
line nature TO forget that any pretty
woman Is a woman, or 10 refrain from
making eyes at her, or indulging in
passing gallantries
u had TO let Miss Blank 60" said
an employer when asked what had be
come Of certain peachy little secre-
tary he hal had. 81 hated to do it,
because she was competent and as nice
little girl as YOU ever saw. but she
was so good-looking that there was
never minute that half the men in the
Office weren't looped over her desk
and the other half grouching away
IN green-cycd Jealousy because they
weren't After this, me for the homely
sister that no man will look twice
upon
Another employer. who ran a shop
much patrOnllcd by men. explained his
preference Tor plain faced girl clerks
by saying that customers wasted too
much time trying to ilirt with pretty
girl employcS When a man buys a
thing OF a homely girl, he takes his
package and goes" said this merchant,
but If he is waited upon by a young
woman who looks like an understudy
OF Lillian Russell, he hangs around and
jQllieS her until he has wasted so much
OF her time khat 1t eats up the margin
OF profit on the sale"
Still another reason that the plain
faced girl has a better chance OF get
ting job than little Angel Face is
because the ugly ducklng knows tha,
she has go, TO make good on the job.
She's got no pipk and white loveiness
TO atone for bad spelling Neither do
her eyes look so much like violetS
drenched by rain when she cries that
no employer will have the heart TO
scold her for adding up columns of
figures wrong She is on the same
footing as any man in the office and
she has to turn out as good brand
OF work
Moreover, she gets busy trying to
master the details Of whatever she has
undertaken 10 do because she knows
she's likely to do IT for the balance
OF her life, and she wants to learn how
to do it well enough to draw down a
pay envelope, whereas the beauty work,
half-heartedly and with little interest IL
her Job because she's always expect
ing to exchange II for permanent
situation as a wiie
For all these reasons we NAV Dit,
the poor pretty girl when she has I,
look for work, and extend our con
gratulations to the homely girl VIII,
finds her best recommendation in look
ing useful and servioeabIe
Nor in reality is beautN hall as grea
an advantage 10 girl in securing
husband as we think. Men are neve
more inconsistent than they are in thei
attitude toward this matter. To hea
men talk. one would think that the,
were such beauty lovers that no WON
an, who was not a second Venu,
would have the ghost OF a chance a
catt5iing one OF them
But IL YOU will look around amons
the married women Of your acquain
tance YOU will observe that the aver
age Of good looks is extremely low
Nor do YOU see that the raying beau,ie,
make the best matches. When IN,
richest young man IN America marie,
year or so ago he passed by all o
the wondrous living pictures that ar,
gathered together in the worlds SHOW
place OF beauty and selected as hi
wife a young woman whose sole claim
to good looks is her kind intelligen
expression,
From this one may well argue tha
} while men admire beauty in the alb