The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-14
Dorothy Dix Talks
Can You Guess It?-2.
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Werlds highest Paid womaa Wrieav.

There is no surer way to win a wo-
mans heart than by patient siege. A
girl may flout a sutton at first. but
nine times out of ten she will end by
marrying him if he just sits fast on
her doorstep. But nothing SO effec-
lively queers a woman's chance of get
ting the man she wants as for him to
know that he can have her any time
he says the word. It's the peach that
hangs highest on the tree that whets
a mans appetite. Not the one that Is
ready to fall into his mouth.
1t is a pity that women have not
intelligence enough to understand that
the passion for the chase is the ruling
passion for mer, and that the harder
a woman runs after a man. the more
speed he makes in getting away from
her. If women realized this, we
should have fewer girls calling men
up on the telephone and demanding
to know why they don't come to see
them, and trying to make dates with
unwilling SWANS, and we should have
many, many more weddings.
Girls don't marry because they are
too anxious to marry. There is no
excitement in counting them because
they meet a man more than half way.
Winning them is like knocking over
chickens that eat out of your hand In
a barnyard, instead of shooting wild
ducks on the wing There is no pep
nor thrill to it. Nothing to rouse a
mans interest, and he doesn't get
reused.
And their stupid parents hinder in
stead of help. when they bride young
men to come to the house by means
of feeds, and auto rides, and theater
tickets, and so on. There were few old
maids in the days when foxy fathers
and mothers made their daughters so
inaccessible that young men had to
plot and plan to get q word with them,
and bride servants to slip them billet
I doux that were actionable in a breach
of promise suit. When Mariana was
locked up in her room, Edwin stole
her out thru window, but when the
front door is thrown wide open and
the whole family is trying to drag Ed
win in, he beats it away from the
premises.
One of the reasons that business
girls marry oftener than society girls
is because they are harder to win. A
girl with good job is loath to give II
up for mere husband. and it's be-
cause she isn't after them that the
J men are so keen about her.
Perhaps there is no bitterer moment
in a woman's life than that one which
marks the end of the HONEYMOON,
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to her. and to flatter her, and drops
her down from the pinnacle of ro-
nance to the dull. cold realities of life,
with a thud that loosens her back
teeth and brings her castle of dreams
down about her ears. She is misera BILE
| because she thinks he has ceased to
care for her, but this is a mistake. 1t
merely means that for him the love
chase is over. He has got his bag
and there is no use in pursuing the
quest farther.
It's up to her then. whether he sinks
into the Indifferent husband. secure
of his wife's devotion, no matter how
he neglects her, or if she keeps him
tstill interested. and a lover, by keeping
him guessing. It's the too certain
wives who make the uncertain hus-
| bands.
OF course, It's a cruel thing for q
man to win a woman's heart for fun
but the hunter and the hunted always
look at sport from q different angle.