Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-27
DOROTHY DIX
DISCUSSES
LIFE
BY DOROTHY DIX
Play Up Your Own Personality In
stead of Borrowing Some
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StChu VI OOAIOhlHS SULlS"
body Else's
listen, daughter. Don't be a |
copy cat, Don't try to be
as like every other girl as |
peas in pod.
I Study your own individuality and
develop that. Try to find out in
what small respect you differ from
the general rank and file of youth
full femininity and accentuate that
difference. That will make You
stand out from the crowd, so that
people will notice you, and remem-
Der you. , \
Personality is a greater asset
than either beauty or brains, bat
instead of approaching this precious
gift, and making the most Of it, the
average girl throws it away, and
does her best to make herself as
much like every other girl as pos
sible. This puts her into the also
ran class where all the NAMES,
and Sadies, and Mauds, and Gwen
dolyns wearA the same clothes, and
do their hair thu same way, and
stink around with the same gait,
and say the same things. and are
ali so much cut off the same piece
| that you often wonder that even
their respective mothers can tell
them apart.
Worse still, instead of emphasiz-
| ing her own individuality, and
dressing the part, and sticking to
her own role, a girl is often silly
enough to understudy some popular
girl and try to make herself over
according to the perforated paper
pattern Of some belle who makes a
hit with the men. The inevitable
lresult is a grotesque misfit at
which every one laughs.
There are girls who are born full
of pep and ginger, with quicksilver
in their veins, and laughter bubbling
spontaneously over their lips. They
are the life of every party. They
keep every crowd keyed up to their
Town high spirits. They can do out
rageous things without seeming
vulgar, or bold, or fast, because
they are d part of their personality.
A demure, quiet, sedate girl
whose first lisped words were
"prunes" and "prisms," who was
born without a funny bone in her
anatomy, or particle of humor in
her system, and who can't see
joke after it is diagrammed for her.
observes that, the Vivacious maiden
has hosts of beaux and iY much
sought after.
So she decides that vivacity is
the thing. She buys her gay sport
| rigs that swear at her. She hops
around meaninglessly. She screams
at everything. In her effort to be
gay she giggles' necessarily. She
tells stale stories and off-colored
stories in an effort to be funny, and
then she wonders why she isn't
success.
There's the girl who is naturally
cute and kittenish. She is very
small with big, soulful eyes, and
she does the toddling child act for
all she is worth. She curls up in
the corner of a couch. She twists
the button on mans coat, while
she gazes up into his eyes and asks
him fool questions. She talks baby
talk and is always hanging on to
some ''drefful big man." and asking
him to take care of poor little me-"
A large, tall, Amazonian girl takes
note that the baby child generally
has steen husky, able bodied men
volunteering for the job of support.
ing her for life, so Big Bertha has
a bunch that the short cut to the
| ma fo &c hIr
ming.
UnhappIly, however, when a girl
who is five feet seven, and who
weighs hundred and sixty, tries to
be cute she doesn't look like a play
full kitten. She. looks like a per-
| forming elephant. Nor does she
allure men when she asks them sim
pie, childish questions. They are
disguised at woman of her size
not having enough intelligence to
read the daily papers and keep her
self informed of current events.
Now remember, daughter, that
there is no one type of woman that
is universally fascinating, for there
are many men of many minds, and
| each has different mind about
what he admires in the opposite sex.
Therefore, instead of being an imi-
tator, be original, and develop 20
| their highest power such charm as
nature has given you. Begin with
your looks. Find out what is most
becoming to you, and wear that in
stead of slavishly diking yourself
out in the livery Of your set.
Just now the living skeleton is
the vogue and every girl is starving
herself to death trying to look like
a rack of bones. If you happen to
be of the plump kind, don't do it. 1t
will make you look like a bag. and
nobody will notice you except to
think how homely and anaemic
you are.
But you can get the reputation of
being quite a beauty as a dimpled
darling, for, as a matter Of fact, it
is only women who admire the tu-
tberculous. Men like women who
look comfortable, and well fed, and
good natured instead of stringy, and
sickly, and nervous.
Of course, if you are naturally
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