The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-08
Dorothy Dix TALKS

By DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman Wrisex.

Judging a Girl by Her Clothes.
1t is a safe thing to judge a girl
by the way she dresses. Her clothes
are her shop window in which she
displays to every passerby the line of
brains, and heart, and general char
acteristic she carries in stock.
Is a girl sloppy and untidy in ap-
pearance? Would her blouse be bet
ter for a visit to the laundry? Are
her shoes run over at the heels? Does
her suit need pressing, and her gloves
and stockings darning?
She is lazy and trifling. She will
make the kind of a wife who feeds
her family out of paper bags who
wastes money, and against whose lack
of thrift her husband will struggle in
vain. By the time she is forty she
will have degenerated into a fat Slat-
tern who lives in a frowsy wrapper,
and eats chocolate creams all day,
and reads silly novels, and who weeps
because her husband and children like
every other place on earth better than
home.
But if the girl always looks spick
and span, and as if she had just come
out of bandbox. it shows that she
has energy, and pep, and the deter
mination to achieve results, and get
there. For 1t takes time and labor to
keep we'll groomed. and only the
woman who isn't afraid of work and
trouble looks de luxe when she hash
de luxe pocketbook.
No psychologist has yet explained
the exact moral effect of corsets on
the feminine character but there's a
subtle and occult connection between
the two. The woman who doesn't grid
her waistline up, doesn't grid her mind
up either. The woman who is sloppy
in dress is invariably sloppy in her
thinking.
She is never direct; concrete with
a settled purpose in life, as is the
woman who laces herself into her
straight front as the warriors Of old
buckled on their coats of mail before
they went forth to battle. Both OF
| them are full of fight, and out to win
And they do it.
Therefore. if you want a Hopping
clinging vine of a woman pick out a
| foolish one. She'll be soft and mushy
physically and mentally. But if you
want a dependable, helpmate wife
who will carry her half of the domes-
| tic load. choose one whose moral back
bone is reinforced by good whalebone
| Does a girl always wear a hat thai
| looks as If her worst enemy had
picked it out, and clothes that turn 6
| searchlight on her bad points instead
! of throwing the mantle of charity over
| them and distracting attention from
| them by emphasizing her good ones
1t shows that she lacks taste. an6
| tact. and the ability to make the besi
of things. Such a girl always fumbles
| the game of life. If her husband il
rich she will spend twce as much or
| her establishment and get half the re
suits another woman will. If her hus-
band is poor she will never help hin
rise in the world, for she will never
/ know how to make the right friends
| for him, or to give that illusion oil
l
| prosperity.
| And always such a woman is vain
/ opinionated, and pighea3ed, one of the
| kind who never takes advice. Else
she would realize her lack of clothe:
| sense and go to good dressmakel
| who would turn her out properly.
| Copyright, 1920. by the Wheeler Syndicate
| Incl