Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27
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Dorothy Dix Says
Wrong Type of Sophistication Is a
Mistake in Young Girls.

~ EAR MISS DIX-In your
opinion Is sophistication an
asset or a liability as far as
girls popularity is con-
cerned in this modern age? GAIL.
Answer-It depends upon what you
mean by sophistication. If you mean
poise, experience, knowing your way
about in society and how to meet all
sorts of situations tactfully, being able
to adapt yourself to all whom you
meet, then sophistication is undoubt-
eddy great asset to girl.
II you were going to have a girl
visit you, for instance, you would want
her always to present good appear
ance and to be well and appropriately
dressed on all occasions. You would
want her to have good manners and
to know her way about among the
silver and how to eat unusual food
You would want her to be able to
order a dinner in a restaurant if the
occasion arose.
You would want her to know how
to dance well and play good game
of bridge. You would want her to
know how to meet people, what to say
to strangers and how to glide easily
into a pleasant conversation with any
one whom she met. And you would
want her to know how to handle men,
how to make herself charming yet not
to appear overwhelmed by their at
tentions and how to play up to them
without taking them seriously.
IN A WORD, you would want your
girl guest to be sophisticated be-
cause you would want her to be at
tractive enough to be popular. No
matter how pretty and sweet a girl
is she is under great handicap if she
is badly dressed, If she is shy and awk-
ward and is so embarrassed when she
meets strangers that she is tongue
tied.
But II you mean by sophistication,
as find great many girls do, that
girl must pose as blase and world
weary and as having seen it all and
heard everything; and If she must
boast Of how many cocktails she
drinks and how Lit she got at party
and how late she was getting home.
and If she scorns as old-fashioned all
Of the delicacies and reserve of her
sex, then I think that brand Of sophis-.
tication Is a great liability to the girl
who wishes to be popular.
For you see the most alluring thing
about youth is its lack of sophistica-
ton. It's the enthusiasms of youth,
its hopes. its faith. its belief in all
that Is fine and beautiful, its enjoy
ment of everything that is its most
precious possession, and when a girl
throws these away she has cast her
trump card into the discard. So it
Is mistake for young girl to pre-
tend to be like Lady Kew's daughter
who was 40 years old and had heard
all there was to tell. For We all who
are older, and especially men, are
showmen who like to exhibit the
world and It's wonders to eyes that
are seeing things for the first time
and that are bullying out with amaze
ment.
There Is something very repulsive
in hard-boiled girl. She Smacks too
much of the gutter, and we want our
girls as we do our rosebuds-fresh
and unfolded, with the dew on them,
not those that have been bruised and
trampled into the mud Of the street.
DOROTHY DIX.
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DEAR MISS DIX am born cook
and I am married to man whose
only weakness is fondness for we'll
prepared food. and. as he does every
thing in the world to make me happy
and gives me every luxury, I make
the gesture of appreciation by pre-
pairing his meals myself, although we
could well afford servants. This
pleases my husband and he boasts
that he has an Antoine in his kitchen
But my mother and sisters, not one
of whom could cook a decent meal
are raising q rumpus over 1t and tell
ing me that am belittling myself BY
being q servant. I am getting sick
and tired of their criticisms and see
no reason why shouldn't do the
thing that pleases myself and my
husband. Do you?
AN OLD-FASHIONED WIFE.
Answer certainly do not, and
advise you to stick to your gas range
There is no surer way Of retaining &
husbands affections than by giving
him the things he likes to eat anc
filling him so full OF good food tina
he won't want to roam away from hi!
armchair in the evenings.
Certainly it is a wife's first duty II
make her husband a comfortable
home and to cater to his little taste
and weaknesses, whether these rur
to eating or playing golf, and If more
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