Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-04
DOROTHY DIX TALkS-What Can Poor Girl Do?


worst is over. And after she has quit SILVER
ing from the cold douche to her vanity, she
is happier than she has ever been, Ior sue
has recovered her self-respect. She knows
that she is no longer the unwanted hanger
on; she is no longer the grovelllng slaVe'
waiting for some two by four masculine thing
to throw her the handkerchief which she
hicks I'D with tears of gratitude at being
noticed at all.
When a girls good sense tells her that she
is no siren, she does we'll to make up her
mind to espouse a career instead OF Wasting
her time trying to marry man NOT neeo
she regard this as Hobson's choice Tor only
gilt-edge husband is better than gooo 1oo.
No one disputes that the ideal lot of woman
in life is to have kind tender and generous
husband, who makes enough money to sup
port a comfortable home, and enable his
wife to dress well, and take life easy, but
the ideal marriage is so seldom reallzod IN
actual life that no girl need feel that she
has missed her chance of happiness IN MISS
ing matrlmOny.
Her easy hours in office or store, her COM
Portable salary, her freedom, her good
clothes and amusement make mighty gooo
consolation prize for the single woman. Many
a shabby, overworked drudge of wife would
gladly trade her WeQdlnS ring lol d OdCuo1oA
girls pay envelope and latch key.
In olden times it was stigma upon Wom-
an not to attract men and not to marry, re-
cause marriage was the only profession by
which woman could support herself, and only
married women had any social position so
for woman not to be able to charm men,
or be desirable to men, marked her as fall
ure
We have changed all that. Matrimony is
a luxury, not necessity, to women nowadays
and whether a woman charms men or re-
pells them is a matter of small moment Inc
world is as free to a girl as her brother. She
can make money. She can travel She can
have her own home. She can have all the
interests and pleasures and perqu1sltes OF
life, with or without a husband
If girls could only realize this, and instead
of mourning their lack of charm for men,
and lying awake nights trying to think up
some scheme to hypnotic men into noticing
them, if they would devote their efforts
towards making an individual life for them
selves, they would save themselves so much
misery and so many tears.
And they would do the one thing that
would come nearest to arousing mems inter-
est in them, for nothing piques mans Gu
riosity about a woman so much as to find
that she isn't curious about him. He wonders
why she isn't after him, and if he could make
her care if he tried.
Also, the girl who isn't attractive to men
often develops into the woman who is, but
she attains charm through filling her heart
and mind with other things than man hunt
ing.
So, I say to the girls who ask me how
they may charm men, to put from them all
idea of being vamps. Let them fill up their
lives with interesting work. Let them get
some goal before them to arrive at, and they
will find so much to enjoy that they will not
care whether they have any men around or
not. And perhaps husband also shall be
added unto them. "For those that has, gifts"
Dorothy Dix Talks Appear in This Paper
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Inc.)