The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-12
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest PAID Woman Writer.
Making a wife To Order.

Making VIE TO Or0er-1-
The case of the western school
master who married one of his pretty
girl pupils with a view to forming
her character just to his taste and
who is now applying for a divorce be-
cause he somehow failed to turn out
the workInaniike job which he con-
fidently expected to Is the tale that Is
only new as to time, and place. and
name
Probably Adam tried the same ex-
pertinent on Eve in the Garden OF
Eden, and we all know what happen
ed to Adam. Certainly a large pro-
portion OF our first fathers male de-
cendants have been blithely taekling
the same stupendous undertaking ever
since. and always with similar results.
In his heart. every man secretly
cherishes the belief that IL he had
been consulted about the creation OF
woman he could have saved the AL
mighty from making some mortifying
blunders, and prevented His turning
out the-poor. weak female creature
that He did. II he had the opportun-
ity to revise the original specification
of the feminine sex. no man would
ever have put his o. X. on II as it
stands.
He would have made a woman who
was faded. half tone picture OF him
self, one whose bumps of meekness
and humbleness. and reverence for
her superiors. were far more devei-
oped than they are in the bundle of
contradictions. emotions. nerves, and
inconsistencies that the Good Lord
foisted upon man and called woman,
and that has kept him guessing and
trying to placate her even since.
Having mi5sed his chance of altering
the feminine species now and then a
man is rash enough to try his hand on
moulding the character of an individ-
ual female. Then he marries a girl
/ child with the intention of training
her up in the way he wants her to go,
and the Subsequence proceeding gem
orally interest the community very
much. and form part of the divorce
record.
The idea OF marrying a woman and
forming her character to suit himself,
is zone that has always had a -At8f
fascination for man. Every man be-
lieves it can be done, and that he is
the man to do II. for in spite OF volumi-
nous evidence to the contrary, he still
persists in believing woman to be a
cross between a porous plaster and a
| lump OF putty-a thing whose ad-
hesive qualities are such she will stick
to him like his skin. thru any kind
OF treatment. yet VIII is so plastic
that he can mould her int any form
he pleases.
theoretically. the character mould
! ing business Is not only allurlng, but
appears dead easy. A man has only
to catch 3 girl when she is very young
and ignorant. inexperienced and un-
sophisticated. All the balance follows
| automatically. He impresses his
ideals of conduct and of life upon her
He forms literary and social tastes
He teaches her his religious and po-
| litical beliefs, and, presto! The thing
! is done.
There she is. all hand made, accord
| ing to his own measurements, and
guaranteed to. fit any mood, and with
the name OF her maker indelibly
stamped upon her. Nothing could be
simpler. And yet-have you ever seen
any man turn the trick? Did you
ever see a made over wife? Believe
me, she would have the Bearded Lady,
/ and the Albino, and the Woman Who
| Writes With Her Toes backed out OF
the tent of the side show as a real un-
approachable curiosity, the like OF
which human eye had never beheld
before