Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29
EAR DOROTHY DIX: My
friends call me a gold digger
and say that I demand too
v,o,,ch If the fovs who take me

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and say that demand too
- much Of the boys who take me
out. think I demand only what ! de-
serve. The boy I 60 out with must have
q Job and he must have a car. can't
enjoy myself entertaining one at home
or walking to q movie or to some local
entertainment. want to go places
and do things, and think that the
boy with whom I 60 out should come
for me in q car, take me any place I
care to 60, spend money on me, show
me q good time and be satisfied with
my company. One Of my girl friends
says that II she likes a fellow she
would even 60 dutch treat in order to
20 with him. but I say II fellow can
not pay for everything he shouldn't
make q date. would not 90 out with
him, no matter how nice he was.
always have q good time when go
out and get more out of date than
my friends do. just because I expect
more. I am Is and I can't see any
thing wrong with my point Of view.
UNCONvINCED.
Answer-There isn't anything wrong
with your point Of view, as the only
thing that seems to matter to you Is
keeping your eye on the main chance
As long as you do that and are not
swayed away from it by any such
foolish side issues as sentiment, or
compassion, or understanding, or de-
sire for some other thing that money
doesn't buy, you'll continue to get
what you want out Of men.
YOUR technique Is perfect, and 1t is
= as old as femininity itself. Wom-
en- have always got from men Just
what they demanded Of them. In
every age Gimme Sisters have always
ridden In chaises and been clothed in
satins and bedecked with jewels. II
men have worked themselves to death
or robbed and murdered to get them
what they wanted-well, that's an
other story and one in which the ladies
were not greatly concerned. There
were always other men whom they
could hold up just as effectually with
| pair Of blue eyes as they could with
pair Of blue-nosed reyolvers.
so I am quite sure that as long as
you won't 60 out with boy who
hasn't a good job and a car and
who isn't spender, YOU will always
get more out of your dates in the way
Of high-priced amusement than your
poor, simple friends who are not or
the make and who consider the boy
himself more than they do his pocket
book; who can have a better time
with lad who is intelligent and
| amusing, sympathetic and congenial
over a sandwich and a bottle of beer
than they could with dull, stupid
lout of q millionaire no matter how
much champagne and caviar he
treated them to in ritZy restaurant
lOF COURSE. when a girl of 10 L
~ already an accomplished gold.
digger and boys attraction for hel
consists not in the way his hair grow!
around his temples, or his keen line Of
conversation, or his having q way
with him, but in how much he car
spend on her, it's a gift.
She was born that way and Their.
Is nothing much that anybody car
say to her. She will always gel
orchids and sables and limousines out
Of men. But I would Like to beg her
Is she Is wrong. to be nnerciful ant
to show . little pity to her victims.
No other women in the world d.
more harm than do these demanding
women. No other women wreck NOR,
men and especially are they danger
Gus to boys who lack the howledg
of the world to recognize them TO
the common grafters they are ant
the courage to refuse their demands
When see one of these girls Wit
makes boy spend more on her thar
he can afford I always think Of /,
story that a proprietor of big jew
elry store told me. He said he knew
boy who was fine and manly, VIII,
had risen to place Of trust and VIII
had every prospect of a successful
life ahead Of him.
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LONE day this boy came into tn
jewelry shop with a pretty littl
soft looking girl with whom he wa
obviously in love. While they waite'
for the boys watch to be set the CIR
asked the boy in q jocular way If h
would give her anything in the cas-
that she liked. Thinking it all
joke he replied: "Oh, of course, al
of them" WELL" she said, "I1l TAX
that bracelet" pointing to a 5000
glittering bauble.
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