The Washington herald., 1918-02-18
Which Sex Has the Greatest Influence Over the Other.
BY DOROTHY DIX.
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

her. and no man CveI lived who was
miracle worker enough to breathe am
b!tiOn into n lazy. sIouchy. indolent
woman. She that Is joined to a Mother
Hubbard cannot be separated from her
GODS.
OF course. in countries that have a
h,rcditary aristocracy a man confers
Ca his wife the rank he enjoys. A
.'Ghc's wife is q duchess, no matter If
'r was n barmaid. but in this coun-
ny social precedence goes through the
.vnalc line. and 80 times out OF 100 a
I.sIn takes his wife's position instead
OF her taking his.
This is specially true IL he marries
beneath himself. His wife tills the
house with her family and friends and
turns a cold shoulder upon his connec-
ton. and before he knows it he r1ndss
lie has descended to her set instead OF
having elevated her to his own.
When YOU enter home you need be
no Sherlock Holmes to tell whether
! the husband or the wife is the culti-
yatcd one of the family. For the
woman makes the home and sets her
S,sn manual upon il.
- oAiO - hhNflAAHNtlNs anu NthtdltN,
nd artistic you will sec il i'm the har-
nony and Appropriateness of the fur
IituTe. You will perceive it in the
books, the music and pictures. You
breathe it in the very atmosphere that
pervades everything.
But the most intellectual and refined
man alive cannot make this sort of n
home if he is married to a silly. un-
educated, vulgar woman. Tho uncul-
tivated man will laugh a little at his
cultured wife, and tease ner about
hcr worship of Ibsen and Wagner. but
he is secretly proud Of her attain
Tents and cheerfully contributes the
money to sustain them.
The intellectual wife has no SYM
pathy whatever with her uninteIIect-
ual husband. and she sweeps his books
and collections to the garret. or else.
frozen out at home, he takes himself
end his treasures to his office.
Morally, the same effect of a wom-
ans influence over her husband may
be observed. When a man marries a
large-hearted. noble, tolerant woman
he almost invariably expands in char
acter through association with her,
and becomes big, and broad himself.
But let a man of wide sympathies and
great vision marry a silly. narrow,
prejudiced woman, and little by little
you can see him narrowing to her
inch-wide gauge.
A woman who is stingy and penu-
rious about money will in time
teach her husband to take a death
strip on his purse strings. \ wom-
an who is fault finding and back
biting will turn her husband into
pessimist as bitter as herself,
whereas the woman who is gener-
Gus in thought and deed will make
a philanthropist and optimist of
her husband.
But a man neither hinders nor
helps his wife as she does him.
What she was when he married her
she remains to the end of the
chapter. All that matrimony
seems to do for a woman is to in
tensify her faults and virtues. 1t
Is sort of mordant that sets the
color her character was dyed in
her family vat.
In summing up the question, there
tore, which sex has the greater in
nuence over the other, the answer
seems to be that men have the
greater general influence, and
women have the greater individual
influence.
Which is illogical, as any con-
clusion is bound to be that has a
woman in IT.
Copyright. 1918, by the Wheeler Syndicate. Inc,