The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-02
Dorothy DIG Says
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer

of them and the conversation had
turned upon masculine peculiarities,
as it is apt to do in such cases, for
women agree with the late Mr.. Pope
that the proper study of womankind
is man"
Il want my young daughter to be
a success in society, to be admired and
have beaux, and eventually to make
a good maria e," said handsome
matron in brown, land to that end
am teaching her to be a first class
Ginger"
"A clinger?" inquired the woman
in the picture hat, as she stirred her
tea
Yes" responded the woman in
brown velvet, "a limp, flabby, dish
rag that will hang on to anything that
is masculine. 1t probably doesn't
sound romantic, but the most valuable
characteristic a woman can have in
life is to be utterly supine, and help
less. She'll always be carried around,
wrapped in pink jewelers. cotton.
She'll get all the sugar plums in life
offered to her on silver SILVER"
Il thought that the floppy vine had
gone out of fashion," remarked the
woman in gray.
with women But she is still the
headliner attraction with men," de-
clared the woman in brown. That's
ter that she must never stand on her
own feet when there are any men
around. She must appear, at least to
be a cripple, or to have such teeny,
weeny feet that they are useless. If
she does she'll have some man always
offering himself for a crutch. And
he'll love to do it,
That's right" exclaimed the wo-
man in gray do you ever notice the
expression of a man who is fairly
shouldering a little fluttering butter
fly across the street, or holding an
perfectly beatific look, because his
som is palpitating with the thought of
how big and strong, and level headed
he is
"And on the other hand" put in
the woman with the picture hat,
kindly take note of the scowl that
adorns the countenance of a married
man whose wife always takes the lead,
who shows him how to cleave thru a
crowd, and who finds her own seat in
the car and tells him where to Sit
don't know what the statistics
are about wife deserters, and breach
| of promise suits, but I'd bet my new
| hat that the women who are forsaken
were every one of them big, strong,
independent, oossy ladies, never little
helpless, clinging creatures asserted
the woman in brown velvet.
You can't shake a porous plaster -
jeered the woman in the picture hat.
Well" said the woman in brown
velvet, my observation is that the
wives who are loved best and who
have most done for them are the ones
who are of no earthly use except as
hangers. I've seen women like this
who were such miserable housekeep-
ers, and SO generally shiftless that you
would have thought that their hus-
bands would break the speed law get
| Z irc fro ANTI he In
They seemed to like it. They even ex-
cused their wives incompetence by
saying, as if they were Dragging on a
virtue, that 'Maudie, or Sadie was
such a helpless little darling
| They are the foxy grafters. the
cIingers," exclaimed the woman in the
picture hat,
And that's no joke" said the wom-
an in gray, the woman who knows
how to do a thing can count on hav-
ing to do it: I always shudder at the
spectacle of these foolish wives Wht
try to show off before their husbands
and prove what sensible, economical
competent helpmeets they are. They
have to make good the balance of theil
lives, and instead of getting the GLAD
hand, no matter what they do, theil
husbands just take it as the usual per
| Torrance"
IF you will notice you will see tina
the men who bring candy and violetE
home to their wives lay these offer
ings at the shrine of some fluffy head
ed little kitten who lives in an apart
ment hotel because she can't bear t.
be worried over ordering things fol
| dinner" said the woman in brown vel
vet. 1.-The industrious woman wht
does her own cooking to save the price
of a servant never even gets an arcti;
gumdrop from hubby. And the rea
son is simply this, that it occurs to {
man to feed a woman who acts like
g. child on candy, whereas he supplies
the sensible woman with beefsteaks
and lets it go at that"
Even so,'' assented the woman IL
the picture hat, let a woman SHOW
that she can make her own clothes
and she'll have to do it. Let he
prove that she can check her owl
trunk buy her own ticket, and sent
i her own kilograms, and she will eve
Y more have to wait upon herself. NJ
chivalrous man is going to arise ant
do her errands. Hence it is the par
of wisdom for the woman who want
to have an easy time to cultivate help
| lessness."
well" objected the woman in tn
tea gown. I've seen men get yer,
tired of the woman who couldn't d.
anything but the flop act. Sometime
a man gets weary of being prop
and then he doesn't think particular,
lovely thoughts about the femal
a leech and sucking his strength.
I've seen helpless, clinging mother
and sisters who kept men from mar
riage and homes of their own. I'v
J seen floppy wives smother their hus
bands ambition and pull them down
and in such cases the men didn't Civ
a very good imitation of admiration
and devotion to the clinging woman.
Its my opinion said the woman
in gray. that men like us to cling il
little things and stand alone in BIZ
things. They like to help us acros
the street, but they want us to be abl
to help them in the battle of life
They adore holding our umbrella
over us, but they want us to be abb
to hold up our end of the real worl
of life
1T is about as consistent as it would
be to expect US to have a backbon
like an elephant part of the time
and be a jelly fish the balance" sal,
N in hr-0x