The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-19
BY DOROTHY DIX.
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer.

Writer.
A WESTERN man aud his wife
~ quafreled over what company
should be invited to their house,
and In refereeing the domestic battle
that followed, the supreme court de-
cided that 4 husband has Just a. much
right to the home as the wife has.
A fair and just decision. The only
trouble with II Is that II will take more
than a bench full Of old gentlemen in
black silk pettieoats to enforce H.
Having q right, and the ability to use il
are two different stories. and women
who are only amenable 10 such laws
as they choose to obey, will simply snap
their fingers at this one, and say. "Oh.
very well. Here | am in full possession
OF the hearthstone Gust me II you
eanp
Husband Has Rights
or course. theoretically and legally,
a husband has as many rights in the
home as the vile. lie even has more
because he is erroneously spoken Of as
the Head OF the House, but in real life
the only right that the average man has
in his home is the right to pay the bills.
Every womans home, whether il Is
1918 palace or a two-by-four flat Is her
castle. and she runs II 10 please her
sell, and no matter how big, and i'm
portant a man her husband may he
somewhere else. he is q mere nobody
at home. Probably II the truth we're
known Mr.. Wilson, General Wood and
Mr. Carnegie wipe their feet on the door
mat before they dare enter their homes,
and hang their haloes UP in the front
hall when they come in OF an evening
His Taste Not Considered.
The average woman's idea Of her
husbands rights in the home is about
like those OF the stage angel who pays
the expenses and lets the star get all
the limelights and the profit She
never even considers hi, tastes and his
preference in deciding where they shall
live, or how the house shall be furn-
ished.
WHEN he makes money she pulls him
w up by the roots from the old house
in which he has lived for twenty years,
and from among the old friends he
knows and loves, and transports him to
a fashionable avenue to exist among
strangers who do not desire his ic-
quaintance. She smothers him with
squashy empire effects, or makes corns
on his anatomy with hard mission
stuff. according as she tries to be
artistic or picturesque IN her furnish
ings.,
Here's Pathetic Spectacle. :
The sight OF . large, fat man wander
ing forlornly around his own house
trying to find chair that will bear his
weight when he sits down is q pathetic
spectacle with which we are all too
familiar. No man would ever be guilty
of buying fragile gilt chairs that break
If you look at them, or hand painted
sofa cushions that woman never for
gives anybody for using. They are the
wife's ideas, purchased with no refer
ence to hubbys comfort or convenience.
And no matter how big a house is,
no man, except one with a streak OF
Bluebeard in his composition, ever gets
a single. solitary room for his very
own. The man who even has a single |
closet for his own individual behoof
and benefit only achieves that per-
qusite after years and years Of struggle
and his wife always secretly feels that
he Is mean, selfish grasping old
thing who is trying to get more than
IS coming to him. And at that he's pc
ruliar, And fussy. Very. What use
can a man have for a whole closet for
himselfI Especially when he knows
that every other closet in the house Is
Just overflowing with her things, but
men never have any consideration for
their poor wives.
Dens Are Only Myths.
OF course every now and then there
is man with daring spirit, and OF
an optimistic temperament, who fits up
for himself room in his house that he
calls his den, and where he thinks he
can gather about him his own personal
belongings, and have a place to keep |
his little collections, s0d his old fish