The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-16
Dorothy Dix Tails
Women Are Bad Sports.
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Yoria.a HiEhest RAID Woman Wrter.

Women arc bdu SlPofsS
But the men are good sports They
have assumed certain obligations, and
they set their teeth. and determine 10
fulfill those obligations. They made
bad bargains and they blame nobody
but themselves. and so they grimly go
on enduring the unhappiness they
brought upon themselves as best they
may.
But the women are not good sports.
They also assumed obligations. They
also made bad bargains, but when
they realize what they have done, they
do not even try 10 make the best OF
their bad bargains. They go weeping
to the divorce court
Every young girl marries with her
head full of impossible. romantic no
it TO be a perpetual picnic in which
she will be fed upon Strawberries, STU
gar and cream, and have nothing TO
do but to enjoy herself. Furthermore
she expects her companion at the pic
mic to be a combination of a matinee
hero, Mr.. Rockefeller and Job-a
superman who will always make ro-
mantle love to her, furnish her with
unlimited money, and be a meek and
humble door mat for her to tread
upon.
The fact that she has observed that
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| life, nor any of her friends, and that
she has not personally encountered
any husbands who have any OF tho
ear marks of the one she is confident
, that she will get, do not shake her
! faith in her belief that she will escape
| the common fate of married woman,
nor the common variety or husband.
And when she marries and ascer-
tains that she also has to work and
! economize, and nurse teething babies.
,, fnRf
/ band, she throws up her hands and
lpowls out that she had been gold
rDricked in the matrimonial Stransac-
/ ton, and she gets cold feet, and turns
gutter. .---.
Half the married women you know
are winners. Their only conversation
! is about their troubles They go about
| with dropping shoulders. and sagginG
mouths. railing at fate because Of their
| hard luck. and when you slit Their
! grievances down, nine times out OF
=, ten, 1t amounts to nothing except that
they are too lazy to work. and too
cowardly to fight, and they haven't
got enough pluck in them to take a
little punishment without bowling to
heaven over it. They lack Ihe SPORT
ing blood that makes an individual win
out because he doesn't know when he
is whipped, and keeps fighting on.
Women are bad sports in the face
of disaster. There IS nof hing else more
pitiful in the world than the fact that
when a man comes cropper In his
business, the thing he breads most
about 1t, the hardest thing about II. is
having to tell his wife. OFTEN rather
than undergo this awful ordeal. a man
commits suicide.
1t is a time when a man needs to be
cheered, to be braced up, TO have ms
heart filled with hope and courage by
his wife, but instead of her doing this,
she rends the air with her lamenta-
tions or goes about looking like per-
secuted early Christian martyr. She
hasn't got the sporting spirit that
mocks at danger. and fights its hard
est when the odds are all against it.
They say that athletics will teach
women to play the game of li2e fairly
and squarely. and develop the sport
ing spirit in them. Lord send it, They
need ii.
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