The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-16
Dorothy Dix Tails
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worries Highest Paid Woman Writer.

Don't Take n Mans Love for Granted.
| But while we would be bored to
death If condemned to perpetual
duet with one women, we like to join
in the chorus with many women. We
| enjoy feminine society as a whole. We
like to go out with a pretty woman.
We like to automobile. to golf, to play
tennis with sporty little girls in smart
| sport toys. we like to discuss poetry
| and the last hroblem novel and play
| We like to pour out our troubles and
tell our hopes and plans to some sym
pathetic feminine ear.
"Oh, there are a thousand reasons
why men go to see women, ana adore
petticoats, and take them to theaters,
| There are lots of men who hang
around the women who feed them.
! There are other men who spend their
evenings with their women friends be-
cause they have nowhere else to go.
Mary Bellies parlor, that is warm in
winter and cool in summer. is cheaper
than a club, and just as comfortable
Besides the majority of men are sim
ply bound-to have aEeminine audi
ence, for man will tell woman
things that he couldn't bring himself
to tell any other man.
$50 a man will get into the habit
of going regularly to see a woman be-
cause he is hungry and wants home
cooking, or is lonesome, or he wants
to talk about himself. and he thinks
he squares it with her If he takes. her
to the theater now and then. or sends
her a box of candy. He never dreams
of being in love with her, or of hav-
ing any intention OF marrying her, but
she. poor credulous creature, is sure
that he is just breaking his heart
about her, and she wonders why ne
doesn't speak, for she is obsessed by
siren that no man could be around ana
not fall for.
s'Then, after awhile, the man goes
away. or he marries somebody else,
and very often the result is real trag-
edy, for the woman has allowed her
self to become interested in him. 1
have been called on to weep with
more than one of these forsaken dam
sells and always the burden of their
moan is, L was sure he loved me- he
must have loved me, because he came
to see me two or three times week
for years, and he always took me to
places and 1 thought that the reason
he never told me he loved me was
because he was bashful, or be just
was not one of the leve-making kind.
ITO which I always reply, My good
girl, there is no such thing as BASH
full man, or one who hesitates to tell
his love when he is in love. Never
take q man seriously until he comes
and pops the question at II O'clock in
the morning and brings along the en-
gagement ring and names the day.
Initiate your grandmother who never
permitted herself to even think of a
man until after he has proposed. and
who was then so surprised that all
that she could do was to calculate,
This is so suddenp
Then there's the woman who can
read sentiment into every word a man
says, and every act he does. If you
ask her to pass the salt at the table
she considers it equivalent to a decIa-
ration of your undyfng affection. II
you discuss Harding's foreign policy
with her, she thinks you are feigning
an interest in world politics to hide
your broken heart. and she goes thru
life numbering you among her victims
and giving every one to understand
that the reason you never married was
because you couldn't get herr Funny.
isn't it?''
Vanity" I replied, SIS Gods con-
soluation prize to women"