Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-12-26
DISCOVERY OF AN UNKNOWN
SPECIES.
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer.

E have grown so accustomed tc
y" the New Woman that she has
w ceased to be a novelty. We
have grown Injured to the New Chilc
Heaven help us-who has to have
the best Of everything and who monop
oIizes the conversation, and holds the
center of the stage generally. Are we
now to have the New Man, and above
all the New Husband with different
tastes in women and different ideals oi
wifely conduct from those cherished
by his sex from Adam to Wilson?
II looks that way. More! |, myself
have been privileged to gaze upon and
hold speech with two of this new
species.
The first New Man was, oddly en-
ough, a successful moving picture pro
ducer. Perhaps he was fed up, as our
English cousins say, on feminine pull
chrit6de and was satiated with large,
lovely eyes fnat didn't have a ray OF
intelligence in them, and a-weary OF
little heads and golden or raven
black tresses were nothing but solid
ivory Anyway, this is what the man
said to me in regard to his demands In
a wife:
Il don't care a rap for beauty. When
60 to choose wife l am not going
to take a second glance at her COM
plexion, or notice the color of her eyes
or her hair. Neither do care wheth-
er she is fat or thin. The one thing
that am going to look for in wife
is BRAINS.
81 don't mean canned college brains,
either. Any girl with a good memory
can grind through college and acquire
enough text book knowledge to en-
title her to a degree. Why, some OF
the stupidest women and the biggest
bores / have ever met were college
graduates who were entitled to tack
half dozen letters after their names!
No, when / speak of woman having
brains ] mean a woman who has got
native Intelligence, quick wit, keen
comprehension and q mental alertness
that makes her keep always in touch
. with everything that's going on in the
world.
That's the kind OF woman who
makes q wife OF whom q man never
grows tired. Conversation In the home
OF woman like that never slumps
down into dreary recital Of the ser
wants imperfections, the high cost OF
butchers meat and the misdeeds of
the children. That kind Of a woman
cant go down town without seeing a.
dozen funny little things that make
good storiesE
She's always read the last book
and has seen the last play, and she can
discuss them interestingly with her
husband IL he has had time to read
and see them, too, and II he hasn't
she can tell him all about them so
that he won't miss single one OF
their good points. Why, I've got a
woman friend now that does that for
me. She reads the books cant, and
administers their contents to me In
sort of predigested literary capsules
that are extremely stimulating and
strengthening to my mind. DO you
suppose any man would ever yawn in |
the face OF wife who has sense en-
ough TO keep him entertained? Well
/ guess not. p -
t1tis the women who hand out luke
warm. dish water conversation as the
only refreshments at home who drive
their husbands out into the wicked
world to try TO find some sort OF d.
version that has little pep and ginger
init. I've often wondered that women
never took q tip from the old tale of
Schezerade. who saved her own life,
after all her beauteous predecessors
had been slain, by keeping her blood.
thirsty old guy Of husband so fascin.j
ated by her conversation that he hung
on her words for thousand and one /
nights. Believe me. as a permanent
attraction, brains have got beauty
dashed to the mast every time.
"Then, too, il ! marry woman with
gray matter In her head shall be
sure of domestic happiness, because /
will be married to a reasonable crea-
ture who viii be willing to take ma
trimony on a giye-and-take basis. The
only hopeless people In the world are
fools. The less brains people have
the more full Of prejudices they are,
the more determined they are to have
their own way, the more immovable
they are in their point Of view. There
fore, when marry an intelligent wo-
man shall eliminate the sickening
hopelessness of having to deal with a
wife who can never get any angle on
4 subject but her own and who goes
into Mysteries every time she is
crossed.
"As to whether my wife is domestic
or not do not greatly care. There
are plenty of good hotels and trained
servants to minister to my physical