Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-25
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Which Has the Most Fun?
Copyright, 1920. by the Wheeler Syndi-
cate, Inc.
wy HIGH sex has the better time in life?
w Men when they are young. Wom-

HIGH sex has the better time in life?
w Men when they are young. Wom-
w en- when they are old In youth,
we might always wish to be man, but when
one is old, it is better to be an old lady.
All life gives, woman a hard deal. Nature
begins by making her of frazier physique
than man. and bestowing upon her an extra
supply of nerves and temperament, and max
ing her subject to all the disease masculine
flesh is heir to with an extra supply or her
own, and then laying upon her the biggest
Job on earth-child-bearing.
Even the woman who enjoys what is called
good health for woman, goes through more
sickness and suffering than male inval1d
endures, and every woman who brings child
TITO the world has dared danger as great,
and suffers an agony as terrible, as any bat
tie SCARED hero who wears medal Ior con-
spicuous bravery on his breast.
So men begin byAbringing to life the first
and most essential element to have GOOD
time, which is good health To this they
also add the next requisite, which is money.
Whether a man inherits it, or makes it, he
always has more money than his sister. In
Well-off and rich families the boys are given
a liberal allowance as a matter of course.
while the girls are given never penny OF
their own Mother provides them with such
clothes as she thinks they should have, but
they are given no money that they can spend
independently on the kind OF pleasures tnar
they enjoy themselves.
II they go to work, the boys earning power
is greater than the girls, for woman's work
is cheap work the whole world over. And,
generally, justly so, because in spite or all
the wonderful things women have done, they
always work under a handicap, and the av-
erage man Is worth more to his employer
than the average female employe Is.
And the man has more money to spend
on pleasure than the woman has, not only
because he makes more, but because his FAM
lily does not make the same claims upon his
pocketbook that it does upon his sisters. The
mother who takes all of her daughters earn
ings to use for the support of the household,
would not dream of treating her son that
way. She would think that he was doing his
full duty if he paid board and kept the rest
of his money for his own particular pleas
ures but she takes all of the girls pay en-
ve1ope without any thought of how the one
who earned it would like to spend it.
Men have also joy Of freedom that no
VIC nan ever knows 1t begins with their
emancipation from clothes and looks. man
does not have to be always agontz1ng over
new costumes He can get along respect
ably on couple of suits, and on five or six
can achieve the reputation of being Bean
Brummel Nor do these have to be changed
every season. He isn't cutting off his trous-
ers legs up to the knee one year to make
them short, and adding chiffon ruffles to
them the next to 1engthen them out, the way
the time if she keeps in telephoning distance
of the mode.
No woman can really have good time In
the world unless she has either an unlimited
shopping ticket, or else is one of the sloppy
creatures who doesn't know the difference
between a grass mat and Paris CONNECTION.
All the balance of womankind are so har-
ried and worn out getting the proper clothes
for an occasion that they can't enjoy the oc-
casion itself.
Furthermore man has a better time than
a woman, because his looks do not matter.
A woman's pleasures are in direct ratio to
her pulchritude. If she is, peach, she has
peach of time. If she is homely. she
has a demonstrating time. No matter what
charms of intellect or grace of conversation
or beauty of soul girl may nave, it avails
her nothing if she is not also easy on the
eyes and nimb1e of toes
No girl who was fat and red-headed and
freckled-faced could by any possibility
be the belle of her set, rushed by all the
men who knew her, the favorite partner at
dances and always in demand for every frolic.
Yet that type of is frequently the
leader in social circles, popular with all the
girls and with half dozen of them willing
to say Eyes" if he pops the question.
And convention gives man right to have
his good time at bargain rates, while woman
has always to pay the full score, and more,
for it is eternally true that we invite the
man whom we know to have sinned to din
ner, while we shut the door in the face or
the woman whom we only suspect of having
been indiscreet.
So while he is young, man has the world
in sling. 1t is his to enjoy to the uttermost@
1t is only when age comes that woman has
her innings.
For the time does come when the pleas
ures of youth lose their allure, when old and
rheumatic bones cry out for red flannel ana
liniment instead Of the dance, when one has
neither teeth nor appetite for the banquet or
life, and all that one can do is to sit In
the chimney corner and wait for the end.
It Is then that the old man is the forlorn-
est figure on earth. His hands are empty,
his days never ending, because all the inter-
ests he once had are taken away from him,
and the bitterest curse Of boredom Is upon
him, because there is nothing left that he
can do.
But the old woman always has some little
niche which she can fit into. She has her
knitting, and the small gossip Of the house.
and the children, and the grandchildren, and
the knowledge that she is still useful keeps
her happy and contented. And that's life's
consolation prize to woman.
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