The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-25
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Danger Signals.


No man would marry an extrava-
cent woman If he was aware that the
iady he was getting for wife would
he first aid to bankruptcy. Yet Wnen
he sees the pretty daughter OF poor
family dressed as If she were a mil
iionairess he never reflects that when
such a woman is married she will keep
her husbands nose to the grindstone
to supply her with the luxuries she
Graves and is bound to nave. Any man
may get dead straight tip on wheth-
er girl will make an economical wife
from observing whether she is rum
ming 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 it,
and that the smell of the kitchen
makes her sick, and that she hates do
mesticity, he never seems to suspect
that her husband is qualifying for .
lifetime of ill cooked meals and un-
! tidy rooms. and wastefulness and mis-
| management.
| Yet man who couldn't take that
| warning in time to stop before he
popped the question would have to be
| knocked down by a ton of bricks.
No man wants an imbecile for a
wife. No man wants to have to spend
| the evenings of forty or fifty years
across the drop light from a woman
whose conversational range goes from
the dressmaker and the department
store to the servants atrocities. and
the children's humps. Yet men
marry girls who never read a line
whose heads are stuffed with sawdust
and who never have an idea beyond
| the cabaret and the latest fashion.
Doesn't 1t 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 off of their dolls?
! And women are just as stupid about
| taking hints about the kind of hus-
bands 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. If
she knew it, who was not tender.
kind, and sympathetic, but when she
sees man who is rude to old women
who is brutal to children. and over
bearing to servants, she does not re-
fleet that when her own youth is
gone he will tire of her, and that when
she is his wife he will bulldoze 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
put she goes her way and will not
heed 1t.
No woman would deliberately mar
| - a AioA WHO Is Sllngy, but she will
see man haggle over the bill at a
restaurant. and pass a blind beggar
with a curse. without suspecting that
when he marries he will have a vale
lock on his pocket book, and expect
! MS VIE to work miracles and make
one dollar do the work of five Every
| time he squeezes a nickel until the
eagle shrieks. it is screeching Done
, 10 her. but she's stone deaf to the
, warning.
) NO woman would marry a man who
would be ne'er do well if she knew
IT, Yet a girl will marry a man who
mas let his old mother take in boarders
10 support him without apparently sus-
pecting that his Wife is qualifying for
, the same job. If any girl wants a line
on whether a man is going to be a
Ianure or a success. and whether his
vile is going to wear silk or sackcloth.
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
8 upright will flourish like the green bay
tree. and the drunkards. the gamblers
and the roues will descend to the gut
t ter, and pull their wives down with
: them. SO there is no earthly reason for
, girl not being able to tell beforehand
, what sort of man she is marrying
It's only our own stupidity that
makes US buy a pig in a poke instead
of seeing before hand what we are
, getting in a husband or wife