The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-10-09
by DOROTHY DIX.
1Ae Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer

Writer.
The one question Of PARAMOUNT
Interest to every married woman is
bow 10 retain her husbands affection.
The fear that the man whom she ~
married TO may grow weary OF her,
and lind her less attractive, especially
% her good looks fade, il the ghost
that stalks the happiness Of practically
every wife, and keeps her on the still
hunt for come reliable remedy ~ pre-
yent catastrophe.
Il il middle aged women who enrich
beauty shops that hold on, the fair,
Pond, false hope that they can eamou.
faes age, and give II the illusion Of
youth 40 tha, the husband will still
bee In his griulc headed, stout wife
the golden haired flapper he married.
II 10 the belief lha, man, affec-
tlonS are held by a corsc, string that
| causes elderly ladies to torture them
selves taking exercises tina, make
every bone in their old bodies cteak
and ache. and that nerves them 90
Wsrye themselves in the hope OF at
aiming the figure ot girlhood.
Alas, all these recipes for retaining
. husbands affections are loves labor
lost. None of them seems to work. II n
man continues to cherish a romantic
passion for the woman to whom he
has been united in the holy bonds OF
Wedlock for thirty or forty years, ne
merely does il. and neither he nor she
nor anybody knows why he stays in
love any more than why he iell in
love in the frs, place.
For these things are mysterious
past all finding ont,
II may interest other women, how
ever. 10 know how one woman who has
q most devoted husband whom she has
no fear OF having lost, Nfayed. or
stolen. has solved the problem. This
astute dame decides that the reason
that the temperature OF the affections
OF so many men for their wivc, drop
ped from fever hsa, 10 subnormal, and
why they were generally di'grun,led,
and disillusioned with matrlmony was
!. because the goods they ACQUIRED IN
rwedloek fell SO far short Of the
sample.
They though, they were marrying
b angels with all OF their little pin
feathers perpe,ually slick and glossy,
and in place, and with heavenly dis
positions tina, caused them to spend
their time warblIng nothing but
sweetest harmonies, and when they
found out that the wife they had
plucked out OF the matrimonial grab
was Just human woman full of
faults. tempers. and nerves they felt
that they had been gold-bricked. Also
they felt towards the person who had
taken them in justocxactly as a man
feels toward the individual who gets
the better Of him in a bargain. And
that feeling doesn't make for peace
and harmony In the home.
Nbw the tactics byrwhich 4 maiden
ensnsres the affections Of . msn arc
bsriectly we'll known TO the entire
Sisterhood OF Husband Hunters be-
cause they are thing that every
mother teaches her small daughter ai
her knee along with her catsehism
They arc, briefly, 10 nut the best foot
foremost, and jolly man alonG to the
proposing point
Therefore. a girl spends time, laboi
and money in adjoining herself In alid
Saiment so that she may enhance
whstever good looks she has, before
che presents herself before the eye o'
the man she desires.
, Also she adopts = gentle and al
lmiable mien ss Of one who is so mill
Of speech that butter wouldn't mel
In her mouth
Likewise she listens with bat.t
breath to his every word. She applaud
his stories to the echo. She laughs q
MS jests, and when he relates y ne
the story Of his life. In seven volumes
che bess him to 20 On and tell hs
more.
That this piaa oi campaign work.
b amply proven hy the feet tn
nearly al wom<n practice h and mo-
ei them get married, but 10 aises u
fects are not % hsppy. Far whsa
man discovers hat the good lool
Of the lady Nc hss married Ars mess!
hers BY right Of purshasS, aAd iisd
ont that the one hs thought 90 mesl
has 4 temper concealed About hs
person. and that instead Of being hi
echo. she disagrees with him on prac
ticaily every subject from politics I
pie, he 10 apt 10 become cynical Ah'
soured through matrimony,
So, believing that iofewArned
foresrmed, and that II Il more agree
able 10 have things turn out bette
than you expected, than woese tha
you dreamed could happen. this VII
woman reversed all the usual method
Of the way Of 4 maid with . mai
When her suitos was coming 10 "
her she out on her Oldest and MOI
unbsevn,ing irock. She Vas !
natufed and unreasonable Il time
She eontrsdlsted his oplnionl ilstll
and called his attention to his faut
and weaknesses,
D In spite OF oil this the man persls'
ed In marrying her, and has been IN
state OF beatific amarement ever lint
10 find low pretty and charming she ]
He was prepassd for isul!s and !
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