The Washington herald., 1918-10-18
WHY MEN TIRE
By DOROTHY DIX
THE WORLDS HIGHEST PAID WOMAN WRITER.

A young girl who is rather unusu-
ally pretty and bright asks me why
it is that while she can easily cap
ture, she can never hold the fickle
masculine fancy. She says that she
is, in vaudeville parlance, a sure-fre
hit with men on first acquaintance.
but she never gets an encore.
When she meets a man he Is al
most invariably attracted to her. He
comes to see her a few times; pays
her a few attentions, and then-good
night to Mr.. Romeo, He never re-
turns, and it leaves the poor girl
guessing as to why this is thus, and
what she has done TO kill his inter
est in her and scare him OF the
premises
Admittedly the way OF man with
maid is one of the three mysteries
on earth that are beyond human
intelligence to solve. Nobody knows.
not even the man himself, what at
tracts him to the girl and makes him
want to camp on her doorstep and
follow her around like Faithful F1do.
When he gets over this feeling OF
desiring to eat out OF a maiden :
hand and be always Johnnie-on-the
spot. there is a perfectly definite
explanation of his reversal of emo
+ ton.
Somehow. some way, the girl has
gotten upon his nerves. She bores
him, and a man can forgive a woman
every other crime on the calendar
! and love her still, except that. When
she begins to make him tired all
bets are off, even matrimonial ones,
Boredom is at the bottom of all
mans faithlessness.
Now. why girls bore men is an
| other matter already yet, y under
stand, Mawruss. but chief anona
those maidens' who make mer
a-weary is:
/ The girl who is too anxious to
please men. There is nothing easier
for a girl to do than to overdo the
welcome business. A man likes to feel
| that his society is pleasing and his
attentions agreeable to a young wom-
an, but when she hangs flags out
! of the window and rings the Joy
| bell when he comes to make casua,
, call it fills him with a deep, darI
3 SUSPICION lIldl Sllt UOl uSt1 "
| cuDne admiration. and that he has
! blundered into picking out q wal
! flower that all other men have pass.
ed by.
Therefore, the girl who is toe
I anxious to please men is the vic
{ tim of her own desire to please
She is bungling hunter who
scares away her game, a fowler who
a,lr
clumsily. and man flees from her
presence as from the danger OF
sudden death.
On the other hand, there's the
girl who plays Indifferent. She
also makes men tired, because while
a man doesn't want a girl to have
fits of Joy over his paying her some
attention. neither does he cara tC
be treated as dirt under the feet OF
naughty and unapproachable
maiden. Perhaps our great grand
papas fell for the Lady Disdair
stuff, but it doesn't go nowadays.
It takes nice judgment in a girl
i to know how to adopt just the
right attitude towards men. for it
is equally fatal for her to be either
too anxious or too Indifferent; toe
hot or too cold; too gushing or toe
repressed. She must have neither a
Yale lock on her door, nor a mat with
Welcome on it before it.
Another reason why men grow
weary is because many a girl is
cursed with too much family. Heav-
en- only knows how many girls have
had desirable suitors, who would
have made good husbands, driven
away by father and mother, and
little sister and little brother. and
grandmother and grandfather, and
Aunt Harriet considering 1t their
sacred duty to entertain the young
man when he calls. instead of leav-
ing it to Jane.
A man must be desperately in
love, indeed. before he gets to the
pcint-Xhera he-can stand for faith.