The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
The Difference Between the Sexes
DOROTHY DIX
THE WORLDS HIGHEST PAID WOMAN WRITER.

a person, and not a thing. She has
had to work a man and not a ma
chine for her bread and butter.
and so it was more important to
her to understand the psychology
of a human being than it was the
mechanical principles of q thing.
This has cultivated what we call
intuition in women, and it is why
the silliest little goose of a girl can
see through the mightiest masculine
intellect, as IL 1t were a transparent
veil, and tell just what string OF
vanity, perhaps unsupported by the
man himself. that she can pull to
get out of him what she wants, or
what chord of chivalry and tender
ness in his nature to strike that
makes him respond to her every
selfish whim. even when he recognizes
the folly OF doing so.
Every woman is at heart a Delilah
who never rests until she worms out
OF her Samson the secret of his
strength. There is no woman who
does not know her husband, or her
employer, through and through. with
a detailed knowledge that he does
not himself possess and that only
Women go about this vivisecting
of the men they are thrown into in
| innate contect with quite by instinct
| and simply because people interest
them more than anything else in
the world. If they are clever wom-
en- or bad women, they use this per-
sonal information to their own ad-
| vantage. II they are dun and stu
pid, they make no use of ii. But
all the same they have the man card
| indexed and filed away in the pigeon
holes of their brains.
1t would amaze many a husband
who thinks he is pulling the wool
| over his dull-eyed wife, and that he
has fooled her into believing that
he is a demigod, to know that she
has ticketed his every weak kness. and
has his number down to the last fig
ure-that she is perfectly aware that
1t Is his conceit and his boasting that
makes men shy off from him at the
club; that the reason he doesn't get
| along any better in business is be-
cause he lacks courage and push, and
that the way his little. incompetent.
red-headed stenographer holds her
Job Is by telling him what handsome
eyes he has and asking him IL he
doesn't write poetry.
On the other hand, men have neveh
had to study women, and they haven't
oone II. They have contented them
serves with saying that the fem
mine sex was an unguessable conun-
drum. and letting it go at that. The
\ only time man ever takes any cog
nizance Of what a woman thinks Is
when she dares to disagree with him.
and then he doesn't try to find ont
why she thinks it, He merely at
tempts to make her think his way.
A woman knows her husband down
| TO the last fiber of his soul. She can
tell to dot what he will do under
any given circumstance. A man has
/ not even bowling acquaintance with
his wife's soul, and he admits that
he hasn't the slightest idea of1which
way she will jump in any emergency
This is pity because IL men knew
women as well as women know men.
and IL men thought women as well
worth study as women think men. the
two sexes would arrive at an under-
standing that would make for mutual
! good.
, Now that under the changed condi-
| tions of the world women. are no
iohScT ucpcHuont on men tOr- a -lV0lf-
hood, and men are becoming depend
ent on women for work. this differ
ence between the sexes will doubtless
be eliminated to large degree. When
woman has no longer to Jolly. her
frills and furbelows out of man, she
will be less interested in studying his
moods and lenses because she win
not have to piacate him in order TO
get him.
And when she realizes that shex Is
not Just mafBing ume in working
while she waits fer q marriage ring.
but that she has got to support her
self as long as she lives. she will un-
doubtedly develop greater interest
in things. and go at her job in the
same spirit with which a man at
tacks his career.
The war Is bringing about great
changes but none greater than the
effect 1t Is having on moulding men
and women into new characters.
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