The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-28
Dorothy Dix Talks
BY DOROTHY DIX
WORLDS Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Working Girls. Have Best Chance to

Working Girls Have Best Chance to
Marry.
Now every woman knows there are
two difficulties in getting husband.
The first is to find your man. The
business girl does this by the simple
expedient of prosecuting her search
where men conjugate. She is where
she sees scores of men every day,
where she comes in contact with them
in her work, and where she gets to
know them, and they get to know her.
In this way she establishes cordial
acquaintance with men who are too
busy or too bashful to ever call upon
a dressed up society girl with whom
they would have to be formal and on
their p's and as.
why, / know a dozen women who
are now riding around in their own
lmousines, and with money to burn,
Who are married to just that type OF
man-splendid follows, with hearts of
gold, but so shy they would never
have summoned up courage enough to
pop the question to any woman, IL
they hadn't worked with her and got
ten to know here that way
1.-THE second difficulty of catching
a husband is getting near enough to
him to cast your lasso without soaring
L.
woman is camping on his trail, and
he beats it to the tall timber. That's
where managing mothers, who gusn
over men and tell them how sweet
and amiable Marie is and how DO
nestle Susan is, fall down. The stu
pidest man sees her fell designs upon
him and sidesteps them
but business furnishes a girl with
a perfect alibi for always being about,
and it also camouflages any intentions
she may have upon mans sings
blessedness. He is suspicious OF the
society girl who must marry Tor
meal ticket, and afraid to trust him
self in her vicinity.
Hes off his guard, however, WneIe
the business girl is concerned. Sne
got a perfectly good job. and shows
| herself capable of holding II down.
and doesn't have 20 get some man 70
nav her bills. So he feels safe with
| her. and forgets that no vamp on
earth has any such magic to con1ure
with as prepinquity, and that no
other spell is so potent to Draw Two
people together as vital interest," III
the same thing.
"Of course no man ever expects to
| fall in love with the woman with
whom he works. oh, dear, no. III
| he expressed himself on the subject
beforehand he would probably say the
business girl isn't his type. He prefers
something more feminine-more-ef
l-clinging, and domestic, you know.
He isn't looking for first-ciass
stenographer, or a cracker1ack seere-
tary, or buyer. or saleswoman 1er
wife, but for a homemaker.
"Ouite so. And strong in the belief
that the business woman has no at
traction for him outside OF her eIIl-
cheney as a worker, he treats her as
good comrade. one who always under
| stands fellow. and who invarla oly
says the right thing--the soothing
word when he's irritable and his nerves
are on edge, the encouraging word
when his courage falters; the compre-
.hending, plying word when things go
wrong: the exultant word of praise
when he pulls off something good.
"And she's SO capable. And so en-
| thusiastic And so interested in all ne
/ is doing. Talking to her is like talk
| ing to his best man pal-only fellow
can say things to a woman he can
never say to a man. Personal things.
| "Sonehow this girl who knows him
| so we'll and who knows and is inter-
ested in the things he cares most for
makes all other girls seem pretty poor
company.
'Then it comes over him some day
what it would mean if he should lose
the cempanionship that has come to
mean so much to him-and If the girl
feels the same way about it; it's all
over but sending out the wedding an
lnouncement. And the marriage is
nearly always a happy one because the
couple knew each others peculiarities
and angularities of disposition before
marriage instead of finding them out
afterwards.
.tOh. sits no trouble for business
girl to get married. That's why SO
many girls who don't need to go to
work are hunting 5obs-and hus-
f: bands"
III &-