Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-05
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
Journal Readers
. TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

When you look around among
the married women of your &C
quaintance you will observe that
very few of them would have got
ten even honorable mention in d
good looks show. Doubtless you
have often wondered at that. The
explanation is that their husbands
labored under the delusion that on
ly pretty girls were dangerous, and
that homely girls were always safe.
A word to the wise is a mouthful,
son.
Another dangerous flirt is the do
mestic flirt. Wise, oh, a daughter
of Solomon, is the maiden who
knows enough to use pots and pans
as her implements of conjure, and
to work her spells with a gas range.
For it is eternally true that the
way to a mans heart is through
his stomach, and no son of Adam
can resist the woman who makes
him comfortable.
An imported evening gown may
delight a mans eye, but it gives
him cold feet when he thinks of
the price. But. there is that in a
ruffled apron that makes him think
of matrimony and home cooking
and q love nest.
Walk YEARLY, son, around the
good-fellow girl Like the homely
girl, she is dangerous because she
seems safe. ,'- l." -.
She uses none of. the wellknown
feminine tactics to secure the at
tention of men. Her eyes are not
rolling all over the place. Her
shoes are not forever coming I'M
tied so that man is bound to. OBJ
serve. that she wears a No. 8 IA.
She doesn't chase a man down and
hound him with, telephone calls.
She announces distinctly that she
never means to marry. and is go
ing in seriously for. law, or med
icine, or some other profession.
Such q girl seems to you, son,
like the shadow of rock in a
weary land. You don't have to
be on your guard against a young
woman who is just like an localized
man chum, only more so, if you
get what I Inean--a little more
sympathetic, and understanding,
and adn1iring, and to whom you
can tell things you couldn't tell
any man on earth. You don't have
W NC dlN avs TIC COuNcESd-
ton away from sentimental pitfalls
for fear you will fall into a pro-
posal before you know it. You
don't have to be always. watching
your step with one who has no de
sire to march to the altar. 49,
You feel so safe with the good
fellow girl. And then some day,
at the touch of a hand, at a. look
in the eyes, some way, somehow,
the whole pose goes. blooey, and lit
tie brother, knickerbockers and all.
is weeping on the second button Of
your waistcoat, and you are telling
her that she is the only woman you
ever loved, or, oh we'll, the only
one you are going u love here
after, and another, good bachelor
has gone the way Of all flesh.
. OF the beautiful moron flirt whose
line is acting like a congenial idiot
when men are around; Of the. pious
flirt who affects to believe every
man a wicked Don Juan, and that
it is her mission to reform. him; of
the baby child flirt whose mother.
beats up her game for herr. OF the
bloodhound flirt who tracks every
eligible bachelor to his lair, and. Of
many others ] might speak. But.
why multiply words? Every mans
fate is. upon his own head and, the
predestined flirt will get him no
matter how he watches his matri-
monial step.