Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-03
DOROTHY DIX'S TALK ON
Being a Woman
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer

her deserts every mother would wear
a Eero's medal, with palms, upon her
breast.
A woman must be a soldier. A
woman must be fascinator. Every
woman who gets a husband must
have :. certain dizziness in casting
she must DO this subtly and insidu-
ously, for custom does not permit
her to openly go forth and choose
he- mate. In some secret way she
must coniure to her side the man
she is in Tor a lifelong job of vamp-
ing so that he will not perceive that
she grows old, and fat, and loses
her girlish figure
A woman must be a soldier She
must be siren. She must be a
household efficiency expert. She
must know how to cook, and how
to jew down the butcher and the
baker and the corner grocer, and
keep the bills down to the last penny.
She must know how to camouflage
mutton stew into a ragout, and make
cake, with one egg that will taste
like angels food. She must be a
seamstress who can take an old dress
and twist and turn it until it looks
like new, and convert last spring
hat into a 1920 creation that even
her dearest enemy will not recognize.
A woman must be soldier. She
must be a siren. She must be
household efficiency expert. She
must be a thrift campaign and a
savings bank, for on the woman who
is at the head Of a household depends
whether the family shall go on to
prosperity or down to the poor house.
No man can make Roadway against
a wasteful and eXtravagant wife, for
most mon are wasteful and extrava-
CANT themselves, and depend upon
their wives to keep the Yale lock
on the little old family pocketbook
A woman must be soldier. She
must be siren. She must be house
hold efficiency expert. She must be
a financier. She must be doctor
and a trained nurse and a health
commission, for she holds the physi-
cal well-being of her family in her
hands. She must understand dietetics
and give her husband and children
the right food: She must be bac-
teriologist forever on the still hunt
of the nimble and deadly microbe.
She must know what to do for minor
ailments and be able to bind up
Johnnys cut finger and nurse Mary S
cold, and take care of hubby when
he has a headache and thinks he is
going to die. And she must be able
to be on the job of a sick nurse more
hours out of the twenty-four than
consider.
A woman must be a soldier. She
must be a household efficiency ex-
pert. She must be a financier. She
must be doctor and trained nurse.
She must be diplomat of the first
class, who knows how to walk on
eggs without cracking a she'll. She
must know how to wheedle money
out Of. stingy man in the way that
makes him think that he is generous.
She must know how to rub a cranky
mans fur the right way. She must
be able to make a man who is a
conceited domestic tyrant think that
he originated the plan of the things
she wishes him to do. She must
be able to smooth down the quarrels
between the children, and keep the
cook and the chambermaid from pull
ing hair, and any woman who can do
these things-and millions Of wom-
en- do do them every days worthy
to be ambassador extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to any court
on earth.
And these are only few Of the
stunts that belong to the job Of be-
ing woman.
copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)