The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-06
DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Blonde or Brunctte.-2.

Therefore, If I were a man, when I
went a-court.ng I would not pay much
attention to how many cute ways q
girl knew how to comb her hair, or
If she always had her locks done up
in the latest thing in coiffeurs, nor
should l be beguiled by her wearing
| rose tucked among her curls The
thing would be looking out for would
be to see how many new and interest
] ing side lights she could throw on any
old topic of conversation, and IF she
| understood the war news and could
| discuss the latest novel, and whether
she wore the flower of sentiment in
her soul.
1 would know that I would grow
| tired in time of looking at her hair
but that wife who would keep me
| entertained would keep me enthralled
to the end of the chapter. Her hair
| might. grow old and gray and thin,
| but her mind would gIow richer and
| fuller all the time.
| l wouldn't care whether a girls
hair was straight or naturally curly,
| but 1 would be terribly interested to
find out if she had little curleycues of
| humor in her disposition.
| 1 would a million times rather
| have a wife with a head as slick as a
peeled onion than one who didn't have
a riotous thought in her whole system.
| and who lived her life according to a
|
| about her to do the SAM way.
Life is SO full OF things over which
we must either laugh or cry, and only
those are happy who see the comedy
! of little mishaps and misadventures,
| that the literal minded turn into trag
ady for themselves and all about
| them.
Therefore, if were man, in
choosing my life companion I would
be far more Interested in the funny
bone of the lady I was proposing to
spend the next forty or fifty years
with than would be in her hair. efo
/ I should pick out a girl who could
| take a rainy day as a joke, instead o1
a dispensation of Providence. shoulsl
| pick out one who could get some real
| fun out of the adventures of poverty,
instead of regarding herself as a
martyr because she wasn't a million
aire, and who could laugh and make
flivver jokes in a cheap hired automo-
bile instead of bewailing her fate be-
cause she wasn't rolling around in a
try to get a wife who would look upon
my faults and shortcomings as hu-
moreus eccentricities of a lovable per-
sonality instead of regarding them as
evidences of total human depravity.
would rather have a wife who v as
as bald as a poIl-parrot and who had
a jolly, sweet tempered, easy going
disposition than wife who had hail
enough to make a hair mattress
coupled with a sour. nagging temper
and a tendency to take pessimistiC
view of the world. 1t is the way g
womans lips curl at the corners wher
she smiles that man should watch
out for, rather than the way her lock.
curl at the temple.
And if 1 were a man hunting a wife
I would try to find out the color of 6
girls ideas about marriage. I woult
like to ascertain, on the safe side o1
the altar. whether she regarded matri
mony graft or as a partnership
I should like to know if her idea o.
the holy estate was a sort of loafins
place in which a woman did her full
duty if she turned a house over Il
servants to waste and steal as the,
pleased; her children over to hire
. lings to raise, and devoted herself tt
bridge and clothes; and whether he
idea of a husband was merely a hu
man cash register whose province 1
, was to simply provide the money TO
his wife to spend, or whether she con
sidered that when a woman married
! she was in honor bound to worI
shoulder by shoulder with him, an,
bear her half of the domestic load.
) Oh. there are many things about
/ woman that I should consider NOR
/ important than her hair, If ] were ,
man picking out a wife, and when
| found a girl who was intelligent joll,
and good humored. and had sound
sensible ideas of life, 1 shouldn't car
one rap whether she was a blonde O
l a brunette.