The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-12
By DOROTHY DIX.
(The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Ur.tarA

Writer)
n NE of the schemes suggested for
raising war money is to place
tax on bachelors. This is on
the principle that taxes should be laid
on luxuries instead OF necessities and
that a man who enjoys the privilege Of
single blesscdness should be made to
pay for it,
The plan for taxing bachelors bobs
up now and again and II is always
hailed with shouts of wild acclaim from
everybody except the proposed victim
For like the fat man, nobody loves the
bachelor, and everybody regards his
pocket as fair game.
Rage and Despair.
IWomen regard the bachelor with SEN
timents of bafied rage and despair,
even while they reluctantly admire him
as one who has been so supernaturally
clever that he has been able TO escape
all seems to them more than human
and they unconsciously attribute it to
diaboliC inspiration.
That's why people speak intuitively
oi wicked old bachelors" and why
noveliSts when they want to depict a
hard, cruel crafty, heartless william in
yariably make him a bachelor, and why
we naively picture bachelors life as
a perpetual orgy of wine woman and
song, although all the bachelors OF our
acquaintance are meek, mild, kindly
gentlemen who are mostly on the water
wagon and the diet kitchen and whose
one and only diversion is work.
Like Elusive Birds.
Bachelors have the awful fascination
and antagonism for women that the
big trout has who eludes you, though
you angle for him summer after sum-
mer under the same rock or that the
red fox has that you are pursuing and
never can catch; or that the riddle has
that you never can guess.
EOR widowers women have soft
tender, half maternal feeling that
fills them with pity and sympathy and a
sense OF protection. Their attitude tow.
ards him is that which we feel towards
the soldier returning manned from the
battlefield He is one who has dared
the dangers of matrimony, who has
fought the good domestic fight and
who is entitled to spend the balance Of
his life in celbate peace il he so de-
,sires Therefore, she stays her hand at
match making so far as he is concerned
Bachelor q Stacker.
But the bachelor she regards as a
Stacker, a yellow quitfer. coward who
has stayed safe'in his club and kept hi:
skin whole instead of facing the demes-
tic bomb. He hasn't done his bit, anc
she feels it her solemn duty to con
script him into the army of husbands.
Therefore. every woman is determined
that no bachelor shall escape the halter
il she can help it, and the very minute
one crosses her pathway she brings uf
all OF her match making artillery and
opens upon him a heavy fire OF pretty
girls aud rich widows that never cease
until he rms up the white flag and sur
renders or flees for his life,
Women Have Resentment.
Besides the passion OF resentment tina
fills the breast OF woman at having
been.outwittcd by the bachelor, there is
also sort of holy rage at seeing hin
spend for his own pleasures and adorn-
rnents the money that she feels ough
to be spent BY some woman on French
frocks and imported millinery.
WHEN a woman is invited to a
w bachelors home to dinner ant
finds that he has surrounded
himself with beautiful and artistic fur
nishings, with servants who make hin
utterly and entirely comfortable, hel
first thought is: What a selfish beast
III bet that humidor cost as much as q
pearl pendant"
Married men don't love bachelors
and, out of sheer envy, would like Il
soak them to the extent OF the law will
taxes,
Hes Female Slave.
No matter how much a man love
his wife and children. he doesn't dis
guise from himself the fact that he il
a domestic slave, He talks about free
dom and independence, but well h,
knows what will happen il he fails tC
punch the family time clock at the ap
pointed hour,
Likewise he realizes that the chic
end 81 a married man is TO pay bills
rent bills, grocer's bills, dress bills, ha
bills and school billS--and that afte
these are paid il is only the deepes