The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
DOROTMY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
A Tip to Men.

/ countenance spend so little time IN
studying it and trying to find out what
| it indicates.
Physiognomy may not be an exact
science but it makes some mighty
good guesses, and if instead of prais-
| ing the curve of cheek or the dimple
| in a chin or writing sonnets> to ms
! lady's eyebrows, a lover would try to
/ ascertain what traits of character
these features indicated he would
save himself from making many
! bitter mistake.
Man seldom does this. He has yet
to learn that woman is built on the
cause and-effect p a n. Therefore,
sophisticated swans leading thin
| Tipped maidens with quivering nostrlis
| and arched eyebrows to the altar,
without a suspicion that they are
wedding tempers that will keep them
cowed the balance of their lives.
| Also. we observe other men dehb-
erately picking out wives with square
jaws, heavy chins and steady eyes
with a steely CLINT in them, and then
wondering how it was that they hap
pened to get, their necks into the
| halter.
By the same token we see other
men tying up with pale, frail, thin
chested, aenemic little girls, and then
considering themselves cruel victims
of bad luck because they have TO
spend the next thirty or forty years
shaving to pay doctors and nurses and
sanitarium billss while other men es-
pouse pink and white baby dolls with
rosebud mouths and calf like eyes,
and are disappointed TO find out that
the only furniture in their wives
| heads consists of few ideas about
| clothes and the two step.
Men always excuse the mistakes
| they make in marriage by saying that
| you can't tell beforehand what sort
of a wife a girl will make. There
-
! physiognomy nor even plain common
sense 20 their aid when they under
take the tremendous task of select
ing a life mate.
This is a mistake. There is some
| excuse for a woman marrying the
wrong man because she has to take
what she can get. She is denied the
! liberty of exercising her own intelI-
gence and taste in the selection of
| husband, but a man has no such
handicap. He can pick and choose,
and if he gets the wrong woman, as
he so often does, it is simply because
he does not use as much intelligence
in selecting a wife as he does in buy
ing horse or an automobile.
To begin with, most girls have their
characters written in their faces SO
that he who runs may read, If he
| will only look for it. The smirk of
| vanity; the hardness of selfishness;
| the fretful look of peevishneSs and
i'll temper; the smile of good nature;
! the tender warmth of sympathy; the
light of understanding in the eyes
| they are all there for any man to see
| who isn't as blind as a bat
| More than this, very few girls have
the art to conceal their real disposition
| and character. They give away what
| they are and the kind of wives they
are going to make at every turn to
any man who will take the trouble
| to observe them. Hence it is possible
for every man to find out on the side
of the altar just the sort of a wife
| he will get f he marries any par
ticular maiden.
| Take the matter of extravaganza.
| for instance. Every man would like
| to marry wife who would be a real
| helpmate to him, who would be thrifty
and economical and willing to save
and hustle until they got good start
in the world. How is he to tell
| whether a certain girl will make that
kind of a wife or not?
| Easiest thing in the world. Make a
study OF the girls home conditions.
If she dresses far in excess of the
| family means; if her father looks old
and hump shouldered and tagged out,
| be sure that the girl is one of those
who has got to have glad raiment at
iany cost and that she will work her
! husband to death to get it with as
title conjunction as she has her
father.
But on the contrary, if the girl
dresses moderately. if she is tender
to her father, and especially If she is
! one of those girls who have put their
| own shoulders to the wheel to pull
the family chariot out of a rut, she
will make the sort of a wife who will
boost a man up the ladder, instead of
being a milestone which will pull him
down into the sea of failure
| Then there is bossiness. Most men
cherish a desire to be the head of
their houses and wear the trousers. !
! instead Of having these prerogatives
\ usurped by their wives. How shall a |
/ man tell whether a girl is going |
| to make a she-who-must- be -obeyed |
autocrat or not?
| Again. give the maiden the once
| over in her own home. See if your
| adored Evangeline changes the entire |
method of living of her family when !
she comes home from school OBJ |
serve if her father has a nervous and ]
| preoccupied air in her presence. Note i
/ if mother always quotes Evangeline's |
| opinions.
! If you see these signs sticking out, |
you may be very sure that if you mar |
J ry Evangeline that you, too. will go |
away back and sit down in your own /
home She will pick out your neck /
ties, and decide on the length of your |
hair and the way you will vote and /
select your friends for you. and tell |
you the things that you can't eat be-
cause they are bad for your tummy, +
and why you must give up smoking.
The average man seems to con- !
slider it a question of pure luck wheth- /
er he gets a wife who is a shrew and !
I a curtain lecturer. and who makes +
matrimony one long scrapping match. q
or a wife who is ami BILE. good ma tured |
and reasonable and who makes mar
rage long honeymoon. |
1t isn't matter of luck It's a /
question of stupidity on the mans 1
part. for a temper is a deformity that /
a woman can no more hide than she 4
can a hump back If a girl is irrit- 1
able and peevish every time any little /
thing goes wrong; If she gets into
tantrums if she is jealous and strs- /
Ticious, and if she is narrow and
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