The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-11
Dorothy Dix Talks

BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worries Highest Paid Woman WFlsax.

Appreciation.
"Tll tell you why some girls never
have any attention from men," said
a young man. 1T is because they are
so beastly ungrateful. They take every
thing a man can do for them without
SO much as a Thank you
Il have taken girls to the theater
who would sit up and yawn thru the
performance and show that they were
bored to death. I've taken them out
automobiling and had them spend
the entire time telling me about the
car of some millionaire, and drawing
invidious comparisons between a
twenty thousand dollar speedster and
my cheap old bus. I have taken girls
candy, and seen them look over my
modest box with>a contemptuous eye,
while they casually remarked that
costly caramels was the only kind
they really cared for. I have sent
them roses, and had them even forget
to mention my humble offering to me.
NOV girls know well enough all
about the high cost of living and low
ing. They are also perfectly well
aware that there are mighty few of
US chaps who are the industrious sons
of the rich. We are poor lads, and we
don't require any help in carrying
home our salaries of a Saturday night.
cts and never know it is there.
'All of which means that every
| time we spend money on girl, we
| have to deny ourselves something in
| order to do it. A couple of tickets to
| the theater and a bit afterwards gem
| for a week for a fellow. A bunch of
vioiets will set him back the price of
some really good neckties, and so on.
This being the case, it makes u
= ~
! fifty-seven different varieties of asses
| If he has made his sacrifices for a
girl who doesn't appreciate them
| Imagine swiIling along on bread and
crackers for lunch to take a girl to
see a play in which she doesn't ever.
pretend 10 be interested? Fancy wear
ing your old shoes to buy flowers for
q young woman who tramples ther1
under foot so to speak! Makes you
| feel as if some kind friend should lead
you by the hand to the door of the
Home for the Incurably Feeble
minded, and chuck you in. Also
| makes you feel like saying, Never
again SO far as the girl is concerned.
Nov, decent chap doesn't feel as
| If he were putting a woman under
! everlasting obligations to him every
time he takes her anywhere, or lays
any little offering before her shrine
Not at all. The pleasure is his
Neither does he want her to gush and
gurgle. and throw fits of gratitude al
his feet. Far from it. But he would
like to have her give some sign and
token that he is not wasting his sweet
ness on the desert air, and that she ap.
preciates his efforts to please her. and
give her a good time.
"All the return a woman can mako
Ito a man for the money and effort he
expends on her is to appear to enjoy
things, and to make him feel that she
is having the time of her life with
him, and if I were a girl I would regis
ter joy, and rapture, and delight over
everything q man did for me. no mat
ter whether I had to camouflage it q;
not. And I wouldn't draw COMPARE
sons between the sandwiches and neal
beer that one man sat me down to
and the champagne and nightingale
tongues with which another man had
RECALLED me-