The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
DOROTMY DIX TALKS
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Easy Man.

Easy Man.
One of the marvels of nature is
mans perpetual unsophistication
where women are concerned, and the
ease with which he can be sold a gold
brick in the matrimonial confidence
game.
Age, observation, the experience of
others, the familiarity of tricks that
have been repeated million times,
appear to teach him nothing. He still
rises to the old bait, and is hooked in
the same manner as have been count
less others of his predecessors.
In proof whereof consider the story
of the two women who have recently
been convicted of using the mails for
fraudulent purposes. Their scheme
was simplicity itself. They subscribed
to a matrimonial journal and an
swered the advertisements of the men
who sought for wives thru its columns.
These women were literally all
things to all men, and represented
themselves as coming up to whatever
requirements the men wanted in a
helpmeet, but they explained that the
sutton would have to send them
enough money for wedding dress
and the railroad ticket. In this man.
ner they collected three thousand dol
lars before the heavy hand of the law
descended upon them, and put a stop
to their working the gold mine of
mans credulity about women.
They sent along their pictures. Oh,
yes, but these pictures they obtained
by cutting the pictures out of a movie
magazine and FASTING them on bits of
cardboard. IF the men had had any
sense they wouldn't have fallen for
u.s." was the only excuse that the
women urged in their own defence
True. But when did man ever
evince any sense in dealing with
! woman? No matter how clever
man may be. no matter how keen
sighted Everywhere else, no matter
how old and worldly wise and cynical
no matter how cautious he may be in
other respects, when he approaches
the woman proposition he lays aside
all common human intelligence, and
becomes as blindly trusting as a babe
and an easy mark for any vamp who
happens along his way.
Men don't reason about women.
| They are guided by their desires, and
they believe that a woman is just
exactly what they want her to lie,
| without ever trying to find out wheth-
er she is or not
| These farmers wanted to believe
| that they would get wives for the price
| of a railroad ticket and wedding
| dress who could cook, wash do dairy.
work, and be the living image of Mary
! Pickford or Hazel Dawn, or Theda
Bara. and SO they sent along their
money without further investigation.
We laugh at them as easy marks.
| yet are they more stupid than the men
| we see all about US who are letting
/ themselves be lured to the altar by wo-
| men who will make them misera BILE
| wives, and who are accomplishing
| their purpose by means of few poor
tricks so transparent that even a blind
| baby should be able to see thru them d?
There's the rich old man who mar
ries a girl young enough to be his
granddaughter. and is perfectly as
sured that his money has nothing to
do with the case. and that he is loved
for himself alone. OF course he must
have noticed that young girls never
fall in love with poor old men. but the
fact doesn't rouse a single suspicion in
his breast, and when his little darling
tells him in one breath about how she
! longs for a string of pearls. and in the