Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-01-25
BY DOROTHY DIX.

The most interesting and unsolva-
Bile riddle in the universe and the one
that every woman spends her life
Trying to guess is this:
| Why does love last so short time
with man? 4
| Why is a man, who is madly, fran
tically, romantically in love when he
gets married so very often Indifferent
and neglectful OF his wife by the time
he has been married Ave years?
Why should man who is breaking
his heart to get near a woman be
: ready in so short time to break his
neck to get away from herr
Why should so brief time change
lover from Seething volcano to a
clam on ice?
OF course, many guesses may be
made at this conundrum. One is that
a mans fancy is proverbially tickle,
and that he soon tires OF any possess
sion once it is safely his Another
guess is that the bird in the bush is
always more desirable than the bird
in the hand.
A third guess is that married life is
a stern reality and not a romantic
dream, and that it is more full Of bills
than thrills, A fourth guess is that
men, at least American men, are not
lovers by temperament. Their supply
OF sentiment is soon exhausted, and
the real interest in their lives is not
woman, but business
Perhaps, however, the real answer
to the riddle is that only too often
as soon as a woman marries she
abandons all the arts and articles by
which she beguiled man to the altar,
and the mans waning affection is the
direct result OF his disappointment in
finding out that he has not gotten
the kind OF wife that he thought he
was getting.
Generally speaking, when a woman
starts out to capture husband she
works along these lines:
(s) She makes herself as attractive
as she can to the masculine eye by
means of waving her hair, wearing
beautiful clothes, and using every
other aid to good looks.
CO. She adopts an ingratiating atti-
tude toward the man. She listens with
rapt attention to him when he speaks.
She asks his opinion on every subject
She goes into commissions OF laughter
at his stories.
(c) She affects similar tastes to his.
She pretends to adore music if he
runs the photograph; to worship
poetry if he likes to read aloud; she
makes believe she is fan if he likes
base ball; she tibs about having
cooked the dinner, If he is fond Of
his stomach; she will walk miles in
shoes that hurt her If he has passion
for golf.
I'D She exhibits continually before
him living picture OF perfect amiabil-
ity. Nothing on earth could rifle her
enough to make her lose her temper
in his presence, and she would bite her
tongue off before she would say the
things she is dying to say.
(e) She never grows weary in the
good work of praising. Day and night
she sings sagas in his honor and tells
him how handsome, how wise, and
witty, and noble, and brave, and
strong he is.
Whereupon the man marries her,
and it would seem that the most ele-
mentary common sense would teach
that mans wife to go on fishing with
the same bait with which she landed
her catch, instead of which the fair
fisherwoman generally cuts her line,
with the result that husband frequent
ly fops back into the stream and
swims away.
Nor is this any marvel A man with
sweet tooth would be furious if he
bought box Of bonbons and found it
to be lemons when he got it home. So
in similar manner man who mar
ries a woman for one quality is cha
grined and disappointed when he finds
out that she has substituted an en-
tirely different characteristic for it.
1t comes to this-a man picks out
the particular charm that he wants in