The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-05
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Blonde or Brunette.-1.

blOIuc OF DTunCltCs@1s
A man wants to know which makes
the better wife, a blonde or bru-
nette, and whether I would choose a
womc with golden locks or raven
tresses for life companion.
If / were a man / suppose I should
ch Sc a wife whose hair was the op-
Posite color to my own. II l We're
swarthy man my taste would be apt
to run to dizzy blondes, whereas, If
I were fair 1 should be pretty sure to
like 'em dark and brown. But even
If were a man I hope the good Lord
would give me sense enough to be
more interested in the inside furnish
ings of the head of the woman 1 was
proposing to spend the balance of my
life with, than with the mere outside
adornment.
So far as the old superstition goes
that the color of a woman's hair and
skin is an indication of her character.
it is all fudge and nonsense. There
is a tradition that blondes are true
and tender, gentle and meek, and that
brunettes are fiery and passionate,
jealous and stormy tempered. But
ones own observation and experience
do not bear out these theories. We
all know go1den-headed female devils
who make the lives of all with whom
gatory, and we are well acquainted
with black haired angels who bless
every spot "oon which they tread.
The meanest, cruelest. most abso-
lutely selfish and grasping women 1
have ever met is frafl little crea-
ture with a peaches and cream COM
p1exion, eyes that look like vioIets
drenched in dew and with little soft
tendrils of fair hair curling about her
infantile brow.
And the noblest, the most self sac
rificing. the most generous woman
with the biggest heart and the widest
sympathies that I know, has Jet bla ok
hair, swapping black eyes and the Ia w
of prize fighter.
Think over the women you know and
now little their looks tally with their
real characters and dispositions. and
you will see that the color OF a wom-
ans hair is poor guide to a man
seeking wife. 1t may be true, as
the poet says. that beauty draws Us
by single hair" but it is Just as like
ly to draw is into matrimonial misery
as it is into matrimonial bliss
If were a man seeking a wife. I
should net concern myself over the
color of girls F--ir. It might be
black or brown, golden or hay -colored,
blue or green for all of me. Neither
would I care whet- er it was naturally
curly, waved on hair pins. or straight
as a poker. Nor would I worry over
whether maiden's locks were her
own, or only hers by right of Pur-
| chase.
The thing that I would take a deep
and abiding interest in would be what
| was under the skull, not on II. What
! 1 should worry about would be the
color of her thoughts, and whether her
| ideas were straight or crooked, home
| grown or bought.
| wouldn't bother about the color OF
! a girls hair, because I would know
| that no matter that color 1t was when
married her, in few years time it
would fade to a grizzled gray and then
| turn white, and I should feel that an
advantage so transient as the coloring
| matter in a hair tube was not to be
considered in making life bargain.
| . But the thing that l would try my
| best to find out would be what quality
| of brains was in the girls head and
whether she VIC lid make the kind OF
a wife who keeps man interested
| alert, and alive as long IS lives, Ol
who is so dull that she bores him into
state of coma by the time the honey
moon is over.
| When one is married, one H. gener'
ally married long, long time, and il
| seems longer If your wife's conversa-
tional repertoire only comprises tbs
| kitchen, the nu- 5ery, the price of butch
ers meat, and the small doinss of hel
/ limited circle. A woman who never
reads, who never thinks, who never
| has a new idea. who never under
| stands. and whose husband has to talk
! in words of one syllable, is just As
I afflicting a life companion with on.
| hued hair as with another. :