The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-10-03
Dorothy Dix Says
THE COMPLETE ANGLER.
BY Dorothy Dix
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

A GIRL Of sixteen writes me that
young doctor, and she wants to
know whether she shall disclose the
'tatc OF her affections to him ot not
She saws that he has never made love
10 her, but that she can tell that he rs
madly devoted to her by the look IN his
eyes, and she i, afraid that II she does
not let him know ths, she loves HIM he
will wander of after some other glrl
II is to laugh and it is to cry, TO read
such a letter. Poor little girl fisher
starting out to angle for masculine
hearts before she understands the ilrNt
principle oi the art. or even what bait
TO use on her hook No wonder that
she doesn't catch anything, or get even
a nIbble of sentiment out of her Young
man, or that she is driven to lmagln-
ing that he is filled with unuttcrablc
longlngS instead OF hearing them ex-
pressed viva vOcl
OF course there is no use IN telling
sweet sixteen that she is too young to
know what love really Is, because II Is
We are III the throcs OF dcathlcSs AMI
unchanglng passion. After We have eN-
perIcnced several deathlcSS and un-
changing passions for different lndl-
vlduals we begin to discount our emo
tluns.
Nor is there any use IN telling a
young girl that no woman in the world
has ever been wise enough, nor psychic
enough to read what is in mans eyes
or tell from the way he looks at her
what he really thinks of her Two
things bar her from this knowledge
One is that when woman looks IN a
mans eyes she sees there only what she
wants to see They become a mirror
that reflects her own desires. The 9TH
er thing is that the light that lies IN a
mans eyes hes and lies, and lies.
Still less is there any use in telling
girl that men are not bashful about
asking for what they want, and that
no man who really loves a woman
keeps silent about It. The John Alden'
who are afraid to do their own court
ing arc pretty figures IN poetry but
they do not exist IN real lie. The
minute a man feels that some particu'
lar girl is the only girl in the world
for him, he hastcns to impart the glad
information to her, and he keeps on
monologuing about it until she shuts
off his flow OF oratory on the subject
by accompanying him to the altar
But perhaps sweet sixteen will listen
to the reltera,ion OF the old bromide
truth that nature has made man the
pursuer, and implanted IN his breast a
horror of being pursued and that this
makes it a fatal thing for woman tC
take the initiative in love making 1hl,
is why the women who wear thelr
hearts on their sleeycs never have any
man troubling to pick them off, int
why women who are openly husban,
hunters never bring down their quarry
The peach that man Graves Is tn
one that hangs highest on the tree, no
the overripe one that is ready To dro
into his mouth. The bird that he stalk
through tireles days and nights is tn
wary one that is always on the wing
not the tame barnyard fowl that !
ready to come and eat out of his han'
at his first pipe, And the woman tha
he wants most is the woman VIII,
wants him least This is a consti,u
,ional peculiarity of man. Thus is h
built, and there is no use in arguin,
with the specifications
For this reason in the love gamhl
between the sexes woman's one best be