Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-05
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
EACH TO HIS TRADE
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler syndi-
cate, Inc.


buttons, and cookery, both plain and fancy.
Whether this addition to what has been
heretofore considered liberal education for
a man, is rendered necessary by the FEMININE
movement, is not stated. Perhaps 1t is be-
cause so many women have gone out OF the
kitchen, that it is thought advisable to fit
men to go into it, and the time may yet come
when a girl will boast, not that she is going
to marry millionaire, but a first-class COOK.
"My dear" Maud will say, "Sam is the
handsomest thing, he has a perfect Greek
profile, and the longest and slickest hair you
ever saw and you should just taste his t1let
mignon! l thought papa some cook but
believe me, he simply isn't in it with Sam. He
shakes wicked saucepan, III tell the world.
And as for the way he can darn stockings!
Perfect dreams Oh, tell you, I'm lucky
girl to get him, and I'm sure we are going
to be perfectly happy, though l know you
have to keep your eye on a husband who is
a treasure like that, to prevent some other
woman from snatching him away from you.
Women are such cats, and, OF course, most
men are just self-made cooks, but Sam took
the full domestic course at the university"
And we can picture Mauds audience OIL
debs and sub-debs perishing on the spot
! through sheer envy, for what, after all, are
| limousines and strings of pearls, and coun-
try places to husband who is good free
hand cook, and who cannot give notice and
leave but has to stay on the job?
OF course, to teach men how to cook
| is, in a way, work of supererogation and its
cruelty unnecessary. Heaven knows, that as
they are, husbands are desirable enough and
hard enough to get, and we can only shudder
| when think of how fierce the man hunt
will be when every woman will look forward
| to matrimony to assuage not only her heart
throbs, but to solve the servant problem for
at the altar she will acquire both soul mate
and lady's maid.
To the unthinking, this new educational
move will seem highly desirable. They will
see in it new unity and sympathy that will
| be brought about by husbands and wives
having a common object, for the great trou-
BILE with married couples is that they have
no mutual interest, no topic Of conversation
over which they jabber for hours at
| time, men do with other men, and women
with other women.
| But in a household in which the husband
| is an expert cook and dressmaker, there will
be no dull evenings, with long dreary silences.
| Husbands and wives with two souls with but
a single thought about the amount of paprika
/ that should go into a goulash, or who can
plan out together perfectly ravishing frocks
and hats, will never get on each others
nerves, have to go away from their own
fireside for companionship. n
There will be no more wandering wives
when husbands learn how to cook, and can
make the same kind of bread, as we'll as
| the same kind of dough, that father made
Nor will any temperamental lady need to
go afar to seek her affinity, when she finds
| in her own husband one who has the true
feeling about French millinery. 4.
| The broadening effect of the higher edu-
, cation of man will also do much to make the
common or garden variety Of husbands have
some sympathy with woman s work. Up to
now the opinion has universally prevailed
with men, that the domestic woman, who
merely cooked, and washed, and sewed, and
cleaned, and nursed, and baby-tended for
family, had a sinecure, and that she lived
a life of glorious ease.
1t is officially so declared, for the census
rates the housewife as having no occupation,
although it takes her about fourteen hours
day to get away with the job of doing moth
ing. Men concur with this opinion, and speak
of supporting their wives who do nothing
but work, and are not even supposed to earn
their board and keep thereby.
The reason that husbands say to their
wives "Bosh, I wish had nothing to do but
just stay at home and look after the house
and the children" is because they have never
tried it. When they have found out from
actual experience that you take many steps
in cleaning a house as you would in doing
the first lap of champion pedestrian tour.
around the world, and that it takes three
million different ticks to get dinner, and
four million more to clean up after it, they
will give the little house mother the credit
that is due ner as the WORLDS narQoSC Ia
borer And also, they will pick up after
themselves, and save her lot of unneces-
sary toll.
However, there is always fly in the ONT
ment, black back to your silver lining,
and the domestic science expert husband is
not going to be the unadulterated boon to
womankind that she may think he is First
of all he is going to be almost unattainable
luxury. 1t is mans ignorance of cooking and
sewing that drives him into matrimony. Far
more men, than women, marry for home.
The gay young blade with the stomach of
ostrich who does not care what he eats or
whether he is held together with safety-pins
or not, and the foxy old bachelor who has
found club chef to his liking and subsidies
the little tailor round the corner, not apt
10 marry.
It is the man in between them, the man
who has grown sick and tired of boarding
houses and cheap restaurants, the man who
has punched holes through the ends of his
fingers trying to sew buttons, who flies
to matrimony as to a haven of refuge. But
he will be sufficient unto himself if you
teach him to be an adept with pots and
pans and needles and thimbles, and will also
eschew matrimony.
There is also this to be considered. Even
the smallest amount of domestic knowledge
goes to ia mans head and makes him I'M
endurably conceited. No husbands are so
unbearable those who always tell about
what wonderful coffee they make when they
go camping, and who think they have a
divine gift for mixing salad dressing. How,
then, would woman be able to stand man
around the house who was graduate cook,