Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-19
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

club of a few other couples who are
wondering what to do with their
evenings, to play cards or nah jong,
or some other games.
But has your husband no ambi-
| ton? Doesn't he want to make
more money? Is he content to sit
up and gaze into space wishing for
| things instead Of trying to get them?
If he would put in that time which
| hangs so heavily on his hands in a
night course, studying whatever line
of work he follows and trying to
learn more about it. he would soon
make enough money to be able to
afford the pleasures he desires.
Your are quite right not to urge
him to go out and enjoy himself
alone. The man who does that soon
| finds that a wife is a drawback to
his pleasure.
| But my advice is not to shake a
rattle before your husband to amuse
him. Prod him, with a stick into
doing something. People who are
busy and absorbed in their work
need no other amusement.
Dear Miss Dix-Only 1 think you
are a Mr." instead of Miss"
Now, honestly, aren't you a man?
Anyway, 1 agree with you that
widows have a particular fascina-
ton for men, and as I am moving
to a. different part of the country [
am going to pose as one when, in
reality, I am merely a" good-looking,
educated, much-traveled spinster of
about forty. Please tell me what is
the lure of the widow? What is her
formula for fascinating men?
VERA W.
Answer:
Certainly I am not a man. I am
the womanest woman you ever saw.
I always have belonged to the fe-
male sex, and expect to remain in
that condition until 1 die. So that's
that.
AS for the lure of the widow, that
is her trade secret that she never
divulges to any one, but that she
knows the high sign and the pass
word to the masculine heart is not
TO be denied. She can culinary any
spinster of her age and class and
looks and bank account, and even a
flapper has to be on the job if she
wants to hold her own when her
widowed mamma is around.
Heaven forbid that I should dis
courage any sister who is starting
out on q husband hunt, but I am
optimistic about any unmarried
woman being able to pose success
fully as a widow. I am strongly of
the opinion that it cannot be done,
and that she will give herself away
as an imposter to every man she
meets.
She will lack the technic, for of
whatever other charms the widows
lure Is composed it's chief ingredi
ent is expert knowledge of men, and
this valuable information only the
woman who has been through the
mill of matrimony possesses. 1t is
precious knowledge that she has
bought with a price that may have
bankrupted her of years of happi
ness, but it is worth all it cost her
when it comes to dealing with other
men.
The widow knows thousand lit
tie methods OF ingra tiating herself
with, men, a thousand tricks of
working men, a thousand ways of
them, of which the spinster never
dreamed, and which the spinster
cannot initiate nor camouflage.
Therefore, my dear Vera, 1 should
counsel you to stick to your own
role, and back your own game. Not
every man wants to, inherit another
mans relict or prefers rehashed af-
lection, and warmed-over love to the
fresh article.
Copyright, 1920
CONTINUED TOMORROW