Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-11-15
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

chamber that he may never reach.
This sort, of mans eternal ideal is
the woman who is snow and ice to
all the world, but fire, now and then,
to him.
Therefore, il your man is what the
movies call the ''he-man" type, cam
ourf1age your affections. Play pos
sum. Never let him find out you
care for him. Never answer more
than half of his letters, though you
have to put on gloves and sit on
your hands to keep from writing to
him. Pray heaven to give you
strength to resist calling him up
over the telephone and making a
date with him, and. yell for mamma
if he tries to kiss you.
That type of man is essentially a
cave man, and he wants to think
that he discovered his wife, and drag
ged her, kicking and screaming, by
the hair of her head, to his dugout.
He couldn't stand the modification
OF knowing that he fell into the pit
that an artful and designing female
had dug for him, and that she hob
bled him and dragged him to the
altar.
So, for the real male OF the spe.
cies, the foxy play is for a girl to
hide her love, and "let concealment,
like worm in the bud, prey upon
her damask cheek" as Mr.. Shake
speare remarked concerning this
matter. In other words, the best she
can do is to sit on the side lines, and
look Indifferent, and keep her fingers
crossed for luck. But with two 9TH
err types Of men she is well advised
to be up and doing.
With the shy man the woman has
to make the running, or else there
is nothing doing. He hasn't the
nerve to take the plunge of his own
volition, and the girl who wants him
has to let him know in no uncertain
way that she Is there, realty and
willing to do the life-saving act.
The woman who wants a shy man
may go to any lengths, ever to pop
ping the question herself She can
call him up every day by telephone,
and ask him why he didn't come to
see her the night before; she can
register bliss in his presence; she
can shower him with invitations, and
attentions, and be just as mushy as
she pleases. 1t will all be a come
on to him, and he will be so humbly
grateful to her that he will eat out
of her hand.
| The same tactics work equally we'll
with the vain man. Many an egotis-
teal man would never even have
noticed a particular woman, or
thought of such a thing as falling
in love with her, if she had not
shown him that she was in love with
him. That knowledge made bond
between them, for they both loved
the same person supremely, and had
a perfect congeniality in their ad-
miration for him.
Also the fact that she was enamor.
ed of him proved to the self-conceit-
ed man that she was a woman of
most unusual discernment, of good
| judgment and perfect taste, all quail
ties highly desirable in wife.
| Hence, If a man is vain there is
no surer way of getting him than by
burning the incense of your love be-
| fore him. The woman who Weeps
for man generally gets him. He
can't resist the fattery of knowing
that she considers him such good
thing that she is crying for him.
But, having got her man. the wise
woman administers love in broken
doses, and at odd intervals. She nei-
| Their starves her husband for senti-
ment, nor gorges him on it, but she
gives him just enough affection and
tenderness to whet his appetite, and
keep him always asking for more.
Copyright, 1929