The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-24
Dorothy Dix Talks
HOW no sclect a WIG.
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.


The man who is fussy about his
eating and who likes to dress the salad
at the table and has his own chatting
dish recipes should marry domestic
girl who likes to cook. They could
never really bore each other, for
hunger is a passion that springs
eternal in the human breast, and they
will enjoy an idyNfc existence invent
ing new dishes, surrounded by a per-
petual aroma of connubial bliss, and
good cooking
The man who has no sporting blood
in his veins. and who wishes to play
safe, can, make no better choice than
a widow. When a man marries a
young girl he is undertaking to guess
conundrum because she is still an
unknown proposition. No one can
tell what she will be. In ten years
the little figure he admires SO much
may have degenerated into scrawni-
ness. Or the acknowledgements
may have become fat.~ But If he mar
flies a, widow he knows precisely what
he is getting. She has arrived. What
she is going to be in mind, and char
acter, and disposition she already is,
and so he takes no risk. She is the
one safe, bet in matrimony.
The man who desires an adoring
slave for wife should chose a
fused any number of good chances
in her youth, but as she sees age COM
ing On, and lonely life staring her
in the face, and realizes that her last
call to the dining car has sounded,
she is filled with undying gratitude TO
the man who has sense enough still
to recognize her charms and marry
her.
She is the true husband spoiler, and
for the NAH with ways" who likes to
be coddled and fused over; for the
lazy man who wants to be waited upon
hand and foot; for the egotist who as
pireS to playing Sir Oracle in his home
and who. asks nothing better of life
than a wife, who will burn incense at
his feet, there Is no choice equal to
that of a woman of what is diploma
tically called a certain age"
With all ofthese tips staring him in
the face-and every woman wears a
tag around her neck SO that he who
runs may read to what class inteIlec-
tually and sympathetically she belongs
lit looks as If no man should have
a difficulty in picking out a wife with
whom life would be a grand sweet
song unmarried by discard. But he
does, and the way the world plays
at matrimonial cross purposes would
be funny, if it were not so pathetic.
Congeniality of taste is the secret of
domestic bliss. for one must have
something on which to found an in
during friendship after the fire of
passion has burned itself out, vet,
few men ever consider this until they
wake up to find themselves out of
love, and into a life sentence of COM
partnership with an incompatible
temper.
Never was there a more untenable
theory than the one about the attrac-
ton of opposites. The people who Jar
US are those who sing off key-a com
panion is someone who will agree with
us, not someone who will contradict
us-someone who rides the same
hobby that we do. and who will enjoy
cantering along atIour sides.
Hence when a man picks out a girl
for wife who has the same religion,
and politics that he has. and the same
taste in cooking and musical comedy
he may approach the altar without
a tremor of fear, for he has picked
the right one for himself. She's in
his class.