Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-05
O DIX'S LETTER BOX
The Acid Test of Vanity Is the Amount
of Flattery Any One Will Swallow, and
by This Token Men Win the Palm
WHICH is the vain sex?

WHICH Is he vain sex?
say that hat R %9ifSli has a hsR vi" 5ae as ~on tns; 5 Tasy Sn .f6ys ana a Wild tbs1 hs sGti an
upon you to witness that n woman cn eyer pass ami mirror rna with Without nH ooh 90
there a@s. present po%def mat their heir "os S%'s and d n "z ee a0 ah snf h sf tn and s1a u.
sss S;s$'; q e En- iva 4, !: :1 e s, sss ihi 's 81 5bs Of . fai S1'"'' Violet ss
and nd money o. Rs per personal ad@r mn sG Paa ' a ma more doe sm but aa this s's IS S,
she is n Venus whose puIchntude is so great at that af it it, calls for g "a adye ana'
nature 1n b tne Ssn sfgd Thf pr she h. gives ns. herself t, the :. enos,oysr We when
t the 'b brn sstc out S h n b sne p nt%dts' her fFa style fs and Id dresses .sso herself II in the cloths.
se martyrs GT af herssrf q by Pe sndaTint wa %f , p%t II her n smMsnt ios5s Hssss
figure. Hence her slavery to the powder puff and the np-stck.
NJ scR It to true that men endure n . such suffering and take
Just a they ire. Wv What %y ELSE EEK except cept the they r@ s5s andns so natmss
bald mai rom hiding his shiny S pate under nH " a to asse' a aa
mndS en attention ad to their vOrdupois by encasing their bay
receive No nom s{a Woman t is sufneiently vain to believe that she is going /.
heaven, s I IS 'S HHSg to e9 make s9 a good Sr fh %sr shSEs o w E aFs a p %n' s1l f g%,
kiss the feet Of any altrusio phianth@Opht who will sRi her t tof tread 70 q
But it never occurs o any Ia n 10 matter If hist face is enough T..
his attentions '% and tn that W it Wouldn't ID II 6e T a TREAT %G to any i Ss af tx sas enc death E hat + {
amy woman S nfH he wants uHS &C t hha' sa bYms m qsfb 0s n Es that that he can marry
WAYS .% ars he N * two Woman a" viii %pa aBo~ ne" %oF RE s fssfe. fa and ha aSsP eet1 TIE Is iss e.
own % "t5raotf1sn as of anG Gaa aSil sRG sH h isilt t in 5a. d ii r to of her
She is forever asking the "a she loves if ne still H% Iov se1S her.
beauty her n haunting fear is is that h her HUSBAND ne r TGnss ss as
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Certain certain that that no woman could ever fall ut o love with him. aa or grow ROW
than he IA when h a slim and twenty. No middIe- as d mat na a ioae5 IG +
ceasing to care for him. He is confident he couidnTt Lose b orT t. nea
tried. ioe hr II ne
A mans vanity makes him talk about himself " the hour - -
mar IN me belief that he is speI-binding herr y relating IN dotst1
"n NAT a ne t sMd TO M boss and the boss said to him, II nov HI pulled orr
a good thlng In steel or the price of hemings, or everv nartirrIar 80 -
last game OF gof or how many miles he made in his ca. N@
himself y rs ss' @T a's s@ { %sp ;a ss he h: %s1Sl ssssss SlG 3. s sssst
any woman, nut there is no woman aHve h is vain anougb e.
10 eneVe tha any mn is interested in hearing he small 4e
per vhrohiichs or her daily life. She wouldn't dream of TRYING s.
TO tax u him abou herself and what she thougbt ans id Isl
unless IL IN som way concerned himself. & Ss
And a woman listens with pparent hated +ruarh Iii.
remnlsces of hsc childhood, and tells of the time when he was - reorMina
ne niue tie 1oy with pal green warts n his hands, and Of his conere
snes MN the glad when he boasts to her of his successes H1 -
"o man II 5 eIsous1m,H rs great enough TO make her retanate by TRYING Il I'll
II u se asked ASKED for his sympathy n Dragged about some good thing he had
pue9o , ne would simply beat it away from her presence.
- mere IS something pathetic even in the woman who talks abont nor
ber "h am. L wc a IM, nrs is a Vlcariousv anityi in nearly every case.h II is of
Ter nome he husband, Ter children, that she discourses MOI bsrself
bt ne set-conceited mar talks of himself alone. There are man self
made men, but few sef-made women. s sn-
Perhaps the acid test of vanity is the amount Of 0atto,v 81
that any will swallow, and by this token men taSe 10 81
axe A woman looks at a compliment with n ffhy VI
IA gups 1t down hook, bait and snkers, and asks for
acre. ~ -
In fattering a woman you have to keep probability in view ya,
an p please a good5looking woman by telling her that she is a ravfne
IMas sne TO tel any woman that she looks ten years younger than she
ooes' ad that she is a perfect thiry-sfx in figure. But YOU cannot ha-
p Iu d honey woman by pretending that you consider her a beauty n n
you are ridiculng them. .HN
But with a man you cn plaster the salve on with a trowel Ht s,
miss. 1t sticks. Any flapper a persuade a aged muIionaire tbat ~,
pVes MN ir himself alone, the stupider a la is the more ert,f IN
II e Is Ina h possesses in himself every talent and charm, and hat on
omy sno a JUS appreciation of true merit when you mention the mas
H. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, for which let us truly be t,antnd
or vanity Is God consolation prize TO poor weak mortals.
Copyright 1929. by Public Ledger Company = -.