The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-11
Dorothy DIG Says
BY DOROTHY DIX
WORLDS Highest Paid Woman Writer
Girls From Everywhe re.

east or west, in search of a wife 2"
HIM. That's "A hard question to
answer because women have no
geographical limitation There are
pretty girls and ugly girls, clever girls
and dull ones, girls in whose mouths
butter wouldn't melt and girls with
red headed tempers, clever girls and
fluffy haired girls, girls who are\ do
nestle angels and girls who will never
learn how to boil water without scorch-
ing it, in every state and county, city
and hamlet in this broad land of ours.
And some of them will make good
wives, and some of them won't. ire
spective of where theyfwere born and
brought up.
Also, some girls will suit some men,
and some won't, for whether Il girl
turns out to be the right girl IT the
wrong girl as wife depends very
largely on the man and what he ex-
poets and wants in a wife. So there
you are. -
Undoubtedly, however, heredity and
environment are the determining fac
tors in forming character and habits
and modes of thought, and the girls of
different sections of the country are
as different different varieties of
roses, and each makes it's own peculiar
appeal to mans taste.
Take the New England girl for in
stance. She is pretty in a deniure kind
of way. She is a bit of highbrow
and prefers Ibsen to the six best SELL
eTS, anu symphony concerts 10 rag
time. Outwardly she is cold and calm,
but no woman loves with a more con-
Suming passion or is NOR: ftcrcely
JEALOUS, and she has the fascination
that the smouldering-vo1c under
ice stuff always has.
The New England girl will make
you splendid wife, son. She will be
faithful and true, a neat, methodical
and thrifty housekeeper, and SPLEEN
did mother. She will do her full duty,
a mr. g I1n hot
you do yours. She will keep you
lacked up to your highest .evet. and
corralled in the straight and ms rrow,
way. Living with her will be like liv-
ing withy'the still small voice of con-
science that perpetually reminds you
of your faults and weaknesses and
shortcomings. 1t will strengthen your
. moral fibre, and make a nobler and
ticuIarly soothing experience.
Therefore, the New England girl
makes an admirable wife for the man
who is worthy of her. but she is not
the wife for the philanderer who
needs a wife who, can turn irer blind
eye on her husbands galla,'try, nor
for a vain man who needs to be flat
tered, nor for a grounding who wants
to take his pleasures in this world
instead of waiting after the true New
England fashion until you get TIC
heaven before you relax and enjoy
things.
Then, there's the New York girl If
you've made your pile of money. son,
or If your kind father made it for
you and you want somebody to help
you spend it properly, pick out a New
Cork girl for your wife. She's the
greatest little spender on earth, and
can come nearer to getting one hun
dred, and fifty cents worth of show
and fun out of dollar than any other
living human being.
She knows by instinct how to dress,
what make of automobile to buy, how
to COVER a head waiter with, one
glance of the eye, and she's born a
Dancing Dervish, and cut her teeth on
a bridge score.
If you marry New York girl, you
won't have to bother about leading the
higher life. The great white way is
good enough for her. Neither will
and weaknesses. She goes fifty-fifty
IN that, and the only unfor givabIe
crime you can commit is to lose your
money.
The New York girl makes the kind
! of wife that makes people to rubber
when she goes by, and causes her hus-
band to stick out his chest with pride
/ at being seen in her company. Also,
! she advertiSeS her husband s prosper
! ity. and is the only woman in America
who can wear tiara without looking
as if she had busting cap on, but she
is no wife for poor man V no doesn't
want to eat out of paper bags, and
she curls up and dies with homesick-
! ness if she ever gets forty squares
away from Broadway
/ The man who wants a wife who will
! be a real help-meet. to him seek her
+ in the middle west. That is the re-
gion where the feminine hustler
reaches its highest perfection. The
of pioneers, and she is a pioneer her
self. Even as her parents conquered
/ the wilderness, so is she determined
to conquer the inner circles of society
and wealth that lie just beyond where
she was Born.
She is good locker, with skin
as clean and fresh as rose, and eyes
/ as clear and limpid as the waters of
Lake Michigan. And she's strong and
husky beneath her slim litheness.
There isn't particle of coquetry
about her, and marriage to her is more
of a business proposition than it is a
romance. She loves man more after
she marries him than she does before.
because he's the head of the firm
/ then. the firm she means to push on
to success, and to- do that she devotes
| every thought of her head, every i'm
pulse of her heart, every energy of her
/ body.
If you want a wife who will boost
you up the ladder, who will work and
| scrimp and save until she helps you
pile up fortune, and who can then
take off her apron and roll down her
sleeves and come out of the kitchen
/ into the parlor and hold her own with
/ the best, pick out middle west girl
| But being the husband of one is no
| job for a lazy man or Stacker. When
a woman is a live wire herself, she
simply scorches a gutter to death
/ with her contempt
! If you want pal for a wife, seek
! her in the Far West. GU. there they
| grow women as big as men almost,
and almost as strong. glor11usly hand
some creatures with big hearts. broad
| minds. and open hands
They will rush you about in their
automobiles, tire you out in mountain
| climbing. beat you out at pitching a
| camp or shooting birds the wing
or they will run against you for office
and get elected. There's no clingfng