The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-11-24
Dorothy Dix S Talks
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
DRIVE CAREFULLY-DANCE CURVE

North Carolina youth has taken
all the cooking prizes in country
fair.
Read EN- and weep. sisters, for. be-
Heve me. the danger to be appre-
hendcd from women taking up the
occupations of men is as nothing
compared to the menace of men in
vading cur sacred sphere.
The lady longshoreman. and the
lady steeplejack. are but freaks who.
only longshore or steepljack long
enough to get their names in the
papers. They take the bread out of
no honest dock laborers, or high
climbers mouth Nor is their ex-
ample enc that any timid lady will
follow. but when men learn to cook.
they snatch not only our means of
livelihood, but our tools of conjura-
ton from us. and leave us poor in
deed.
For what man marries except in
the fond, if often fatuous. belief that
he is thereby acquiring a cook who
cDnnot give notice and leave, no
matter how tired she gets Of wrest-
ling with the pots and pans, or how
much the gas stove gets on her
nerves? And how shall a wife man
age a husband whose physical com
fort does not lie in her hand? Why,
indeed, will men marry at all when
every man becomes his own home
maker?
1t will be an evil day for women
when men begin reading the Fireside
Department in the newspaper instead
of the Sporting page. When they
find out that making bread Is not
an occult rite, and that even an
ordinary banker or broker can learn
how to make a lemon pie as well Is
to float new bond issue, or bull the
market.
Certainly, there will be fewer we'd
ding bells then than now, because
the thing that drives the great ma
jority of men into matrimony is the
desire for a home. There comes
time VIXEN the man who lives in
hotels and restaurants. reads the
menu over from top to bottom and
crosswise without seeing one single
thing on it that he doesn't loathe.
There comes a day when the handi-
work of even the finest chef pals
upon the appetite of the man who
dwells in clubs, and when he thinks
longingly of the corned beef and
cabbage that mother used to cook.
There comes a psychological mo-
ment when he who boards feels that
if he ever saw another plate of hash.
he would flavor 1t up with rough on
rats. and partake of it, and end his
sufferings at once. and II is in these
crisis that man marries to get
home.
Almost any woman with a chatting
dish, and a pink shaded lamp, and
a comfortable chair can marry any
man who doesn't live at home. but
far otherwise would il be with her
if the man were himself a domestic
expert who could concoct his own
favorite dishes, and not have to buy
them at the price of a wedding rir g,
Just as the woman who can make
her own comfortable living. thank
you. casts a cold eye on matrimony
30 with the man who is his own
cook.
There are those who think that It
ght promote domestic felicity and
nestle arts. and that for a husband
and wife to be two souls with but
single palate, two appetites that
craved as one, would be an ideal
union.
Certainly, a similarity in taste IS
a strong bond of attraction between
no marriage more uncongenial than
to an equicure, nor would any break