Evening star., 1935-05-18
Helpful Suggestions in the Busy Lives of Modern Was

~ EAR MISS DIX: ] will prove
to you beyond doubt that
women are spiritually, men,
- tally, morally and physically
inferior TO men. No one will
deny that woman has less physical
strength than man, so I will pass
on to the question Of her mental in
feriority. This Is easily proved by
listening to group of women talking.
They are gossiping about their neigh
bors, backbiting their friends, talking
scandal, clothes, Dragging about their
children. If women wish to be con-
sidered intelligent, why don't they
show intelligence when they are
together?
Women are certainly inferior spirit
ually to men. They have been the
cause of all the evil and trouble since
the world began. The Bible tells how
the first woman forced the apple
onto a poor trusting man, just as the
modern bride forces her cast-iron
biscuit, leather pancakes and other
gast-onomic atrocities onto her goofy
victim.
Men are superior to women in being
fair and honest. When a woman
gets married she expects her husband
to be good looking, good worker and
intelligent. No man can possibly be
three men in one, and that shows how
unreasonable woman is.
But a man is fair. He well knows
that no woman can be perfect and
he doesn't expect perfection in his
wife. He takes her as she Is and
makes the best of it.
Don't you think I have proved my
point? A MAN.
A NSWER-Well, no, Mr.. Man, not
conclusively. I agree with you
that in the higher brackets, so to
speak, men are superior to women.
No woman, for instance, is as strong
as Jack Dempsey. There has been
no woman Shakespeare, no woman
Edison, no woman Raphael, no female
Chopin. About the only really notable
creative work woman has done has
been to produce man and, taking men
by and large, that's nothing for her
to be chesty about.
But when you get down to the COM
mon or garden variety of human
beings. it seems to me that women
average up physically, mentally and
morally pretty well with their hus-
bands. True, we have no women
prize fighters, but we have millions of
women who have the strength to get
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their husbands and brothers consider
themselves overworked If they labor
for hours day.
TRUE, when women gather together
= over their tea the conversation
is pretty pifling and mostly runs tc
personalities and diets and reducing
and what little Johnny did and little
Mary said. But over their highball,
| don't men discuss their golf scores
| and the stock market and tell the
stories they heard in the sleeper
rather than discourse about weighty
| policies Of state or the last trend II
literature.
And as for men playing the matri'
monial game fairer than women anc
being just enough to stand by thei
bargains, oh, brother, brother. hoy
can you? Isn't it the men who expec
their wives to be both parlor orna
ments and kitchen utensils; who ex
pect their wives to keep perpetual.
young and beautiful; who expect thei
wives to cook and baby-tend and pincl
pennies and still be able to dance thl
rhumba and look like million dol
lars and be gay and glamorous, Will
a wife is satisfied If her husband i
just good provider and reasonabl,
domestic? Isn't it middle-aged mel
who get divorces from their wives be
cause they have got fat and grizzle
headed, but did you ever hear of ,