The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-02
Dorothy Dix Talks

An Unfair Bargain-2.,


Nothing interests man quite so
much as to keep him guessing, and
any woman shows strange lack of
perspicacity who ever lets one find out
what she really thinks of him until
she has got on her wedding ring.
Also, competition is the life of senti-
mental trade as well as commercial.
and the more beaux girl has, and
her, the more anxious every man is to
do it.
Men distrust their own, Judgment of
a woman, and like to have their opin-
ion backed up by that of their fell
lows. They like to be seen out with a
popular girl, and consider it a tri-
umph when they can take her away
from other men who desire her.
Therefore, a woman seldom has just
one admirer, or one proposal of mar
riage. She either has many or none
AS regards the attentions of men,
girls illustrate the Biblical precept
concerning the luck of the lucky. For
unto her who hath beaux, shall be
given beaux even more abundantly
and from her who hath but one beau
fish that she hath. A sad phenome-
| non, that you must have often OBJ
served when some poor Mabels steady
! left her in the lurch. when he Joined
! the ranks of the incense burners
around the feet of the new girl who
| had come to town.
! Bearing these facts in mind, the
prudent maiden gives the cold turn
| down to any young man who has the
| nerve to propose to her, to let hin
isolate her from the society of Other
men, and discount her chances o!
| marrying somebody else, while hi
takes a couple of years to try to de
eide whether he likes her we'll enough
| to condescend to marry her in the
end.
effect, "I don't bind myself to any
| thing at all by this arrangement
Don't get it into. your pretty little
head that there is some sort of 6
| gentleman's agreement that will
| make good some time, for there's no
anything of the kind. may get tirec
of you. 1 may see somebody 1 like
better. in which case, of course, I'm
perfectly free to follow my new fancy
for we're not even engaged. See?"
And if the girl doesn't see she'l
binder than any bat II she can Sc,
her youth and freshness gone Will,
/ she waited. She can see herself Gu
down to one man, who takes her out o.
not, as he happens to feel. She car
see herself tyrannized over, ant
brought to book, as much as a jealous
| husband could do, by a man whit
doesn't nave TO pay her bills. And Il
| she looks hard enough, and far enough
into the future. she can generally Sc,
herself left forlorn. when her stead.
proves unsteady and goes off tt
greener fields and newer pastures.
! Don't play any such confidenc,
games, girls, with any man. Dom
narrow your chances down to one bet
| Never let any man monopolize your
society until he is ready to name the
wedding day.
When he asks you to keep compan,
| with him, tell him that he will be vel
| come among the crowd, and you will
file his application on your waitint
list Don't throw yourself away on
| man whose attentions are without in.
tention. Men take women at theil
own valuation, and the higher the
price. the more they value them. It'll
the girl who holds herself so cheapl,
that she throws herself on the bargain
counter for man to take or leave
who in the end generally get left.