Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-03
DOROTHY DIX'S TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
THE HUMAN TRIANGLE

| HE HUMAN F\1AlNoLL
r sNT life the contrary thing? Always
| stuftng us on the bread and meat we
have no appetite for and holding back
| the sugar plum for which our mouths are
watering!
Here's a pathetic example for it. young
man writes me that he is in love with a
girl who doesn't love him, and that girl
he doesn't love is in love with him, and he
wants to know how to make the girl who
doesn't love him, fail in love with him, and
the girl WOO does love him, fall out OF love
with him.
Alas, pool youth, I am afraid that there
is no reliable recipe of the follow-these-d irec-
ons-and-you-cannot-fail kind for winning a
woman's heart, as there is for MAKING
sponge cake. A girl falls in love with man
| for million different reasons, or for no rea-
son at all, and why she prefers one man to
another she generally doesn't know herself.
| Sometimes a girl falls in love with man
because he is a carpet knight whose step
matches hers in the dance, and who is tull
of gallantres, and delicate attentions. Again,
brute who hands her out cave-man stuff
sweeps her off of her feet. She may fall IN
| love with a man because of his saintliness
and spiritual outlook, as witness the havoc
preachers make among the fair sex, but she
| is equally liable to become enamoured OF a
proflgate with a lurid past, and consider
| that she has a sacred mission to reform
| him, and lead him up to the higher life.
| And there you are, and nobody can tell
you what is the winning way with a WON
an. For it depends, not alone on the WON
an, but on the particular mood she happens
| to be in.
| Once upon a time interviewed bigamist
on this vital subject. He had Wooed ano
won twenty-seven different women, so was
entitled to qualify as an expert guide to the
| feminine heart, and he said, law, any
woman will fall for you If you will just talk
to her about herself"
| I am inclined to think that the whole OF
the law and the prophets on how to make a
woman fall in love with you is contained
in these words of wisdom, and that practl
cally any woman will fall in love with any
man if he will keep the spotlight turned on
her without wearying, or growing tired.
There are many reasons why this shoulo
be true. One is that we just naturally adj
mire those who admire us. For a man tt
show a woman that he has singled her ou1
of the whole herd OF women as the mos1
beautiful, the most charming, and fasclnat
ing, and desirable of her sex, proves to her
beyond all questioning, that he is maj
Of great discernment, of rare taste, ant
sound Judgment, all of which are qualities
that must appeal to any woman.
Secondly, the man who talks to woman
continually about herself, Immediately be
comes to her the most fascinating CONVEX
sationalist in the world She could listen tt
words on the same subject. The things tina
concern ourselves are the most importan
and interesting things on earth to us, anC
we never weary of hearing them discussed
The most learned scholar who ever lived
the wittiest man, the adventurer who hal
had the most hair-raising experiences ant
tells of them in the most dramatic manner
cannot enchain WomanS attention as cal
the man who talks to her for hours upol
hours about how beautifully the hair grow
lis hnr hnE
ravishing she looked in her new evening
gown at the ball last night.
/ Boredom Is the great enemy to love, Dotl
before and after marriage. When a woman
begins to yawn, and look at the clock.
man had as well grab his candy box ant
go home, but no won ans interest eve
flags while she is the thrilling topic OF con
versaton, and chat is why the man Wh'
talks to a woman about herself is prett!
sure to win out. She marries him in orde
to get a spell-binder for life companion.
OF course, there are other aid. that mar
may bring to his assault upon woman
heart. Discreet gifts that show that he ha
remem bered some within wish of hers, deli
cate attentions that prove his desire to max
her happy, an indulgent, and yet an 1nde
pendent attitude .owards her, for ever.
woman tries to 1en-peck man, and de
spises or respects him according as n
, yields, or resists. Above all, making CIR
feel that he is going to marry her. whethe
she wants him or not all these break dow
the wall of girls resistance, and make he
run up the white flag of surrender.
But most potent of all is just making he
| feel that she is 1T, the one and only woman
in the world. To be all and all to some mai
is mania. an obsession with the entire fe
male sex, and any woman will fall in low
, with any man who can convince her tina
she is the whole shooting match to him.
AS for making girl fall out of love will
, a man, that is still easier proposition.
little criticism will do the trick AS WON
ans love Is born Of admiration, so 1t /
slain by fault-fndng.
Women will endure neglect, they will for
= give unfaithfulness, they will bear with ev
, cry fault and weakness Of man, and low
him STILL but let him criticise the way the
dress, and do their hair, or tell them tina
they are getting too fat, or too thin, or cor
| rect their grammar and pronunciation. an
, Cupid turns up his toes, and it's all owe
but the obsequies. The man who knocks
| woman, kills her love with a bludgeon.
} is brutal way to do it, but effective.
| After all, there is only one thing easie
than winning a woman's love. and that
losing it.
Copyright, 1922, by the Wheeler Syndicate