The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-08-22
BY DOROTHY DIX.
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer

Travellers tell US that in Africa
there is a tribe in which the men
and women speak different languages.
Neither understands a word OF what
the other says, and they carry on
necessary communications by means
OF signs.
Such an arrangement doubtless has
It's drawbacks, but it must also be
great promoter OF domestic peace
since il eliminates that storm center
In the home-,he eternal family argu-
ment. Also i, prevents both huS-
bands and wives from telling each
other their candid opinions OF each
others little faults and weaknesses
which has been revealed by the fierce
white light that beats upon matri-
mony.
Many a poor husband, who lies
down and rises mp TO the nagpng OF
wife with the continuous curtain
lecture habit, will turn green with
envy when he hears that there IL a
place where a wiic'S criticisms and
complaints slide of OF husband as
water off OF a ducks back, because
he doesn't understand word she
says.
MANY a vile with a husband with
the m-m-m.m habit, and who only
becomes artculate when he grow's
out some knock about something she
has done or left undone, will won
der what is the price Of ticket 10
the land where the wife can always
suppose that her husband is paying
her flowery compliments because she
hasn't an idea Of what he is really
saving
However. Il I, not alone IN happy
Africa that men and women sneak
different languages In way sex IS
Tower Of Babel In which we are
all walled up. and in which male and
female speak with different Tongues,
and while we can wig wag 20 each
other enough for the ordinary pur-
nose. Of social intercourse, when II
comes TO expressing the 'uh'lcr
things of life We arc strangers talk
ing a language that the other does
not comprehend, although We use the !
same words. P
There are word, and phrases TO
which men attach one meaning and
women another, and the two are |
rarely interchangeable, and from tins |
fac, a great deal OF the msunder
standing between the sexes arises
As a very common illustration OF
thi, take the word nice" Men use
il a. term of high Appreciation
Women apply it TO those whom they
Would damn with faint praise When
man spssks Of a girl as being
"nice" he feels that he has paid her
the best all around compliment in his
repertoire, lie means that she IS
good looking, we'll dressed ,ntc,h.
gent, agreeable, and, above all, that
she is modest and lady likc-thc sort
Of girl that man likes to take
out. and whom he means to marry
some day.
When a woman say, that girl i,
ssice" il mean, that she is a sort OF
bargain remnant that has been let
on the feminine counter and that
while she may have good wearing
qualities she has no attraction TO
boom her. Women apply this epithet
10 the snub messed, dumpy, 'alefatus-
biscuit-complexioned, irumpy girls
who are wall flowers at parties but
who do settlement work and teach IN
the Sunday school. and are as long
on virtue as they are short on
charms.
This is the reason that young men
are never willing to marry the NICE
girls that their mothers and SISTERS
nick out for them, and who would
undoubtedly make some other men
such admirable wives. Never by ah'
possibility arc woman's nice girl
and a mans nice girl the same in
d'vidual.
Nor do men and women mean the
same thing when they sp9at oi
economy" When man speaks Of
economiling he means that he actual
" does without something, and saves
the money When a woman speaks
Of economiying she means tina, she
has bought something that she didn't
want because it has been marked
down from six dollars TO five forty
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