The Washington herald., 1918-05-22
DANGER SIGNALS
By DOROTHY DIX,


, bound to have. Any man may get
dead straight tip on whether girl
will make an economical wife from
observing whether she is running her
father in debt or not, but how few
ever take the hint in time TO save
themselves!
No man would marry a woman who
wouldn't be a good housekeeper and
manager if he knew it. but when he
hears little fluffy ruffles say that she
can't boil water without scorching II.
and that the smell of the kitchen
makes her sick, and that she hates
domesticity. he never seems TO sus-
pect that her husband is qualifying
for a lifetime of ill cooked meals,
and untidy rooms, and wastefulness
and misnlanagemcnt.
Yet a man who couldn't take that
warning in time to stop before he
popped the question would have to
be knocked down by ton of bricks.
No man wants an imbecile for a
wife. No man wants to have to spend
the evenings of forty or nifty years
across the drop light from a woman
whose conversational range goes
from the dressmaker and the depart
ment store to the servants atrocities.
and the children's mumps. Yet men
| marry girls who never read line,
whose heads are stuffed with saw
dust, and who never have an idea
beyond the cabaret and the latest
fashion.
Doesn't it seem that it wouldn't
have taken a Sherlock Holmes for
these men to have deduced that they
would be bored TO death as soon as
| the paint had worn OF of their dolls?
And women are just as stupid about
the kind of husbands that men are
going to make as men are slow in
| reading the high sign that women
give them.
No woman would marry a man, II
she knew il. who was not tender,
| kind. and sympathetic. but when she
! sees a man who is rude to old wom-
en-, who is brutal to children, and
loverbearing to servants she does not
reflect that when her own youth is
gone he will tire of her, and that
when she is his wife he will bulldose
her because she is weaker and has
no way to defend herself. and he will
| lord it over her because she is In
/ his power. 1t is heavens warning
to her. but she goes her way and
will not heed 1t.
No woman would deliberately marry
| a man who is stingy, but she will
see a man haggle over the bill at a
| restaurant. and pass a blind begger
with a curse, without suspecting that
when he marries he will have yale
lock on his pocketbook. and expect
his wife to work miracles and make
81 do the work of s.. Every time he
squeezes a nickel until the eagle
| shrieks, 1t is screeching Don't" to
her, but she's stone deaf to the warn
ing.
| No woman would marry a man who
would be a ne'er do well If she knew
it Yet a girl will marry a man who
has let his old mother take In board
ers to support him without apparently
suspecting that his wife is qualifying
for the same job. If any girl wants
a line on whether a man is going TO
be a failure or a success, and whether
his wife is going to wear silk or sack
cloth, all she's got to do is to study
his past performances.
The hustlers are going to get on
and the loafers will continue to be
paupers and dependents. The sober
and the upright will flourish like the
green bay tree, and the drunkards,
the gamblers and the rouss will de-
scend to the gutter, and pull their
wives down with them. there is nc
earthly reason for a girl not being
able to tell beforehand what sort OF
a man she is marrying.
It's only our own stupidity that
makes us buy pig in a poke instead
of seeing beforehand what we are
getting in a husband or wife.
Copyright. 1915. By The Wheeler syndicate