The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-01
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
A School for Husbands.-1.

1t Is announced that one of our
leading educational institutions pro-
teach girls not only the arts of house
witery, but the whole psychology of
how to be happy tho married-not
only how to feed the brutes to whom
they are united, but how to jolly them
along, how to manage servants, and
deal with butchers without commit
ting either bankruptcy or murder, and
how to generally oil up the household
machinery SO that it will run with
out a hitch instead of groaning and
squeaking as it goes, as it its present
custom.
out, and a blue ribboned diploma from
this school will be a guarantee that
the holder thereof is a domestic angel
destined to bless any man lucky
,, enough to get her.
This is a move in the right direc-
ton. Ignorance is the blame of life.
1t is sadly true that an experience
comes at the wrong end of things, and
by the time we acquire working cap
ital of them it is too late to use It
And this is especially the case in mat
rimonial experience.
Before a girl has learned to keep
house, or manage a husband, she has
generally killed him with dyspepsia
or lost his affection, and therefore
derives no benefit from her hardly
acquired knowledge. So the advan-
tage to a man of marrying woman
who knows her business and is a
trained professional, so to speak. in
stead of bungling half baked anna
teur bride is too obvious to need in
sisting upon.
1t gives to the fortunate man who
gets her all of the advantages OF es-
pousing widow, without the draw
back of being No. 2, and always sus-
picious that one is being fed upon
| warmed over love. and rehashed TO-
nance.
en- for matrimony fills a longfel,
want, but why should such a good
thing remain a feminine monopoly
After all, marriage is not solitaire. Il
is a two-handed game in which botf
sexes take part. Just as many mer
marry women as women wed men
and there is just as wide a field Tor
missionary effort among prospective
benedicts as there is among prospec.
tive brides.
| I Certainly husband who had taker
| a postgraduate course in the arts, anG
| crafts of domestic life. to say nothing
| of the amenities thereof, would be a
preferred risk, as a life partner, and
| have foxy maidens. with an eye te
| the main chance, pursuing him ever
more strenuously than they do {
| youth with a new racing car.
| Far TOO little attention mas DSSi
paid heretofore to the mans part il
| making a happy home, and keeping
the family out of the divorce courts
1t has been held that was the wo'
| mans business, but the numerous
| matrimonial wrecks with which So
ciety is strewn seem to prove that thu
task is too big for any wife to accom-.
plish alone, and that to turn out {
real first class, workman-like job D
a happy marriage requires the exper
| labor of both husband and wife.
Up to now a mans sole idea OF
| fitting himself for matrimony has beer
to make enough money to pay tho
bills. So far so good Undoubtedly
every happy home is bound to havs
a good strong financial foundation
and the man who can meet the frs
of the month without having mysteries
himself. or throwing his wife into fits
{ has undoubtedly the first qualifica
ton towards being a good husband.