The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-18
Dorothy Dix Talks
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

The Business Woman as a Wife,.
The business woman remembers
that when she stumbled across her
threshold of an evening. all she
wanted on earth was a hot bath, and
some good food, and for nobody to
speak to her until she had time to
rest and pull herself together. There
fore she greets her husband with a
smile, and coddles him silently, and
feeds him swiftly. and let's hinS do as
he pleases.
She does not meet him at the front
door with a recital of everything that
has gone wrong during the day, nor
get peeved and think he is grouchy
because he doesn't feel like talking.
nor does she quarrel with him because
he went put on his evening clothes
and go out to party with her.
The domestic woman doesn't see
what on earth there is TO tire a man
out in sitting at a mahogany desk in
an artistically decorated office all
day. She thinks he should be glad
to go out and dance until 1 o'clock
TO get some exercise. The business
woman has been there, and she knows
that battle is fought over that ma
hogany desk, and in that artistic Of
flee every day. that takes the last
ounce of vitality out of a man. and
she wants to pity him, and mother
him just as much as she would any
wounded soldier that was brought to
her off of the battlefield.
The fourth reason why the business
woman makes a good wife is because
she has been disciplined. and has
learned to can her precious feelings,
and not to leave them lying about all
over the place for an unwary foot to
step on. Likewise she has learned
how to control her temper and her
| tongue.
| The first requisite of holding down
a job is to learn to take criticism inn
! personally, and when your faults are
pointed out to you to correct them
| instead of getting angry and feeling
| that you are insulted. The second
requisite of holding down job is the
ability to get along with people, and
mob to be in an eternal wrangle with
those about you.
This art the business woman has
acquired, and she does not burst into
a passion of tears every time her hus-
band says the coffee is mean and the
eggs too hard, She gets busy and
| ing. Nor does she pull the tempera-
mental stuff and make scenes over
every little thing that goes wrong, as
| does the girl who has never had tC
suppress her emotions, or get fired
| from her situation.
|
a better wife than the domestic wo-
man because in working with men
| she has learned a lot about the mas
culine psychology. She has found out
how to jolly men along, and how to
dodge the angles in their disposition
and when to ask favors and when to
keep silent. and a lot more useful in
formation that it takes the domestic
woman about thirty years of matri-
mony to find out. For any business
| office is an intensive course in the
study of mankind, that turns her out
a postgraduate in the gentle art OF
managing a husband.
Against these advantages of the
business woman may be set down the
fact that she starts out with little
practical knowledge of housework
but that does not count. Any cir
who has had sense enough to make
| her own living can learn how to cook
in month.
! Copyright. 1919, by the Wheeler Syndicate
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