The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02
Dorothy Dix Tails
By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

What's the Matter With WOmen?-1.
A man says: Darn 'em. WHAT'S the
matter with women, anyway
Well, to be exact and frank. there
is about million things the matter
with tn m. The principal thing that
ails women is that they are human.
and therefore full of faults and frail-
ties. Hence, tempers and tempera-
ment. and extravaganza and vanity,
and nagging and unreason. and mat
tiers of that sort.
A poor thing at best, but when men
are tempted to criticise the weaknesses
of the feminine sex, let them never
lose sight of the fact that Eve was
created tosAdams order. and that such
as women are, men have made them.
Every woman represents the desires,
the tastes, the ideals, the teachings
of thousands of generations of mem
and If men don't admire the result OF
their handiwork, they have nobody but
themselves to blame.
A great deal is said about women's
influence over man. Piffle! 1t is
negligible compared to mans influ-
ence over woman. Woman's influence
over man is the slow attrition of the
gldcier that in the course of few CEN
turtles polishes, smooth small spot on
granite cliff; but mails influence
over woman is that of the potter over
the clay in his hands that he can form
into the shape he wills.
Man gives in to woman in small
things to please her, but woman or
ders her whole life to please man. And
this is inevitable because. in spite OF
all that they have attained and their
alleged freedom, man still hands out
the prize packages in life, and woman
is still dependent on him. Her good
times and her success still are conun-
gent on her finding favor in his eyes
A girl may be pretty and bright
and beautifully dressed and have all
the backing that money and family
can give her, but, unless she makes
the right grade with boys. she will be
a wall flower and wish she were dead.
A woman may have every quality I'M
der the sun that would fit her to make
an ideal wife, but, unless she also hits
the masculine fancy, she will die in
| the Spinsters Retreat. A business wo-
man may possess the financial ability
| of Hetty Green, but if she happens tc
| have likewise a personality that is re-
pellent to men, she will never get be
yond the outer confines of the ste
nographer's room.
So in order to get what they want
ed themselves, women have had Il
make themselves into what mel
wanted, and then, after having Gu
| themselves over according to men;
| perforated paper pattern of feNi
ninity. man comes along and says it!
all wrong. someway, and, darn it
what's the matter with women, any
way?
It's funny-and pathetic-that th'
very feminine foibles that men lam
! haste most severely in women are tE'
very ones that they have most assidu
ously cultivated. Take the love o.
dress, for example.
When a man-gets really eDquen
about the weaknesses of women, hi
begins upon her passion for clothes
He descants upon the kind of gun
| drop brain a human being must havi
/ who can find the chief interest in lif'
| in dress, and to whom the change o
the cut of a sleeve is of more impor
lance than the rise and fall of
| dynasty. Then he discourses abou
the folly of wearing high heeled shoes
and flirting with pneumonia will
| gossamer stockings. and low necket
! gowns, and so on, in winter, and wind
! up with a diatribe on a creature witt
an immortal soul wasting her time Il
spending hours having a permanent
wave put in locks nature mad
straight and painting artificial >beaut.
/ on a countenance the good fair
skipped when he was handing GU
beauty.