The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-09-01
BY DOROTHY DIX.
The Worlds Highest Paid Writer

lhe WoIlon hiHhoN PAid writer
A Judge recently granted a new
triel TO man on the ground that the
accused was entitled to a reheariug
OF his case because he had been con
yictcd on the evidence of women.
This blow is enough TO kill mother
but his honor softened il by saying
that although womans testimony on
the witness stand wasn't worth hill
OF beans as testimony, woman had. in
reality, a higher moral sense than
man. The only reason that she
didn't tell the truth the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth on the
witness stand was because the ex-
uberance of the feminine magma
ton prevented her from being able to
distinguish between fact and fiction.
Little as those OF US who are
strong for the equality OF the sexes,
like TO admit tins. there IS a certain
degree OF truth N the JUDGES con-
tention, I, must be admitted that,
a, a general thing, women haven't
the faculty OF seeing dead straight.
They see things upside down, or
topsy-turvy, or cut on the bias and
shirred in the middle or like they
want them to be, or like they should
have been to he properly thrilling
and dramatic
This may disqulliiy them for be
ing star witnesses IN a murder trial
but it is what gives the salt and
SAVIOR to ordinary everyday life. and
enables us to endure it. Therefore,
4 lively imagination in gool work
ing order is not a drawback TO a
woman. II is her Chief charm, and
her most desirable asset, and she is
to be congratulated upon possessing
il.
One shudderS 10 contemplate how
dull society would become IL women
were as unimaglra,iye as men, and
stuck as closc'to the literal facts.
Conversation would degenerate into A
series OF grunts, because there would
be nothing interesting to tell. and
nothing anyone cared 10 hear.
People meet together in social in
tercourse to relate fairy stories con-
ccrnng themselves and others. and to
indulge in surmiseS about their
nelghbors II is our fayorlte indoor
sport But how little we should
have to say. what yawning abysseS
OF deadly silence there would be il
we only told the things we reSHx
knew, just exactly as they happeT u
Women are never guilty oi this
fault. They fetch out their magma
,ions and do few fancy stitches Of
embroidery, and 10, they have turned
the most prossic OF situations into a
romance, or a scandal that makes us
thrill with interest and excitement.
A man, for instance. will see a
married woman and handsome
young fellow sitting together under
the palms at ball and I. Is sim
ply couple, and a shrub to him and
nothing more. A woman sees the
same couple, and the same palm out
Of the corner OF her eyes. and she be-.
holds in it a three volume novel full
OF misunderstanding, and broken
hearts, ard elopcments--o- else noble
self-abnegation--and divorce, or a
secret sorrow nobly born.
Another place where women'S
imagination stands them in good
stead and where they have the ad.
vantage over men is in the dome,.
tlc relationship When a man makes
a mistake in marriage and finds it
out. he doesn't try 20 blink the fact
to himself If he is Of the stuff oi
which heroes and martyrs are made
lie grlts his teeth and bears his mis-
cry as pamely as Ne can. Bu, he
doesn't pretend to himself that he IS
happy. or that the shrcwish, slat,ern-
", unsympalhetic creature TO whom
he is married is his ideal OF fem
iune perfection.
Not so with a woman. When she
narries she wraps her husband W
in SO many layers Of the pink chii.