The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-15
One of Effects Of War viii Be
Moulding New Characters
for Both Men and Women,
Dorothy Dix Says,
By DOROTHY DIX,
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer

hTOW that the war has forever done
N away with that small and cir
cumscrlhed circle that was called
"womans sacred sphere" and has
forced hundreds Of thousands of women
into occupation, heretofore exclusively
followed by men, employers are begin
ming to note with interest the essential
differences between the two sexes
They say that girls learn more quick
" than boys, that they are more accu-
rate, more faithful and better al routine
work than boys They are more careful
in handling goods, they break and
waste less, but they have less initiative
than boys and no desire whatever, ap-
parcntly, to know why they do such and
such a thing
Their Vision Limited
They seldom even trv 10 understand
the mechanism OF the machine they OPP
crate, ar TO learn the history OF the
goods they are trying to sell They are
content TO do their little part and get
their little pay envelope, without visual.
lzing the business as whole, or feel
ing that they are an important cog in
the wheels OF a great enterprise.
But, according 10 the Consensus Of
opinion among these new employers ot
feminine labor, while the boys are in
different to the men over them except
~ 50 far as they are good bosses" or
bad bosses" the girls take a lively
personal interest in their superior Of
iiccrs, and will do apprcciably more
and better work for supcrlntcndcntS
that they like than for those they do
not like Also the girls are found most
effective in work that brings them in
contact with other people.
In other words, boys are interested in
THINGS and girls are interested in
PEOPLE. This is one Of the funda-
mental differences between the sexes
that you may see illustrated from the
cradle up. 1t is never the little girl who
takes the clock apart to see what made
the tick inside OF il, nor is it the little
boy who plays lady-come-to-see and
pretcnds that she is mother gone avislt-
ing.
OF course there is biological prin-
~ ciple at the root OF this differ
cncc between the sexes Nature de-
creed that mans chief interest should
be in things and in learning how to do
them, because it is his business in the
world to provide the shelter and the
food for the sustaining of a helpless
family Of young ones And nature i'm
plants an undying interest in people
in woman's breast, because II is her
| province TO manufacture human beings.
Woman Depends on Person.
Another reason why women are more
| interested in people than they are in
things is because, up to the present
moment, woman has alway had to get
her livelihood from a person, and not
a thing. She has had TO work a man
and not a machine 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 mcchan-
ical principles OF thing.
This has cultivated VIII we call in
tuition in women, and It is why the sill
hest little goose OF a girl can see
through the mighteSt masculine intel
lect as If il were transparent veil,
and tell Just what string OF vanity, per
haps unsuspectcd by the man himself,
she can pull to get out of him
what she wants, or what chord Of chiy-
airy and tenderness in his nature to
strike that makes him respond to her
every selfish whim, even when he rec
ognlcs the folly OF doing so.
Every Woman Delilah.
Every woman is at heart Delilah
who never rests until she worms out o.
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 his recording angel exceeds.
NJOMEN go about this vivisecting
w Of the men they are thrown into in
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