DIX TALKS TALIS I DOROTHY DIX DEC the th Worlds World's raid Woman rI YOU CAN CAJOLE A WOMAN INTO DOING ANYTHING BUT YOU CANT CAN'T DRIVE HER AN INCH THIS KNOWLEDGE APPLIED MAKES CONTENTED WIVES S women were discussing a long and expensive pleasure trip tr upon which bleh two ot of o them were about to start I I 1 believe I Z Viii will go too It my roy husband Bill III let me said a third on one 1 Let Let you Jeered a fourth woman Why there Is nothing on earth you want to do that sour our husband Isn't jent anxious for tor ou to do and nothIng that you want that ho he doesn't try to gt eh gh 0 o i 3 on ou Just It It said the woman oman s omen My huband band Is la so BO good and generous to me he Is Iq so BO eager T to give me every pleasure that I have to watch my step all the time to keep from Imposing on him It puts me on my roy honor you know not to take ad P it of ot l his s unselfishness If he were wera tyrannical I would for my rights to end If he were close Ind nd stingy and begrudged my any little pleasure or Indulgence I would feel v that I had a perfect right to outwit him f and take everything I could get But you cant can't do that with a husband who would Ul DIX give you the world on a sliver silver salver If he could and who leaves leave every door wide open for you to come and go a as you please That binds and hobbles hobbies you and hands hand you over to your husband to do what ho he will with you I we are such simple primith e TRUE TRITE TRU said the tint first woman women 1 1 A creatures and It Is so EO easy to work ork 13 ta and enslave us that I never cease to marvel manel that every man hasn't got his wife TIght right under hIs thumb He could have haV her like a II monkey on a stick that dances g at his pleasure It if ho would only devote one hundredth part as much serious thought to how to m manage nage a wife as he ho does to his golf olt stroke But he be doesn't When the average avenge man bets geta get married he no more thinks of making a preliminary survey of his wife's psychology than he does den doe of starting out to discover the North Pole Yet it would be peace In his home and money In his pocket to find out the simple formula by which every mother mothers mother's daughter of us uc can cantie tie be worked T NEVER for Instance meet meet up with a disgruntled dissatisfied wom woin woman I 1 an who rails raU at matrimony as domestic slavery and who hates hate housework and ad neglects neg her husband and children and openly em en lea les woman who has her own latchkey and Is making her hor own living JIvIng without what sort art ot of a dunderhead husband she has bas maz sled ned I m know he be Is 18 the type me ot of man who sho ho Is 15 always talkIng about a worn ans an's place being In the home and who aho ho never takes his wife any hero or thinks that she needs any diversion He Ho Is la the kind who makes her feel Zeel that when she got sot married sho she got a sentence at hard harel labor and that her home Is a prison and ho he Is her jailer jalleT The result Is that she he hates bates her jailer janer and ad her jail and nd she abe Is al always alays ays trying to break out But If she knew that she were free to go whenever she hc sheI I liked and that her husband was anxious for her to tp go tripping as aa the English say whenever she he felt like It why she would be ba nailed to her own fireside I AND ND It Is 18 the same way with with the women who ar are al a s complain AND I lag Ing because they cant can't have the things that rich it omen ha have hae e It ItIs Itis Is thinking that their husbands dont don't care whether they ha base hae e them or not that their husbands think that a v ool coat Is 11 good enough for tor them i instead d of ot the furs that Mrs Croesus has that snakes makes them Why any husband can pacify any Ifo and make her pf saUs fled with her lot by taking her window shopping and picking out the bIggest limousine and the most costly sables and the most gorgeous tiara and saying to her My dear these are what you desen deserve desere 1 and It breaks my heart that I cant can't give them to vou ou and show the world what hat a queen ou would look if It you had the right setting selling foi oui beauty Ninety nine women out of ot a hundred altel having hating that speech made to them go home perfectly contented and pit pity the poor who ho ho had ha nothing but matched pearls and palaces hadI I And I never hear a man berating his hi wife's extravagance extravagance gance and end poor housekeeping and telling what a bad manager she Is and what a waster without feeling g like ilke s saying lyng to hum hIm You poor simp haven't you got enough sense to know that you can cajole a woman Into doing anything but you cant can't drive her an Inch 1 Keep on knocking her for her extravagance and she he will run up more bills on you out of pure revenge be- be because because be because cause It Is la her only way of getting even with you But If you want her hereto herto to be economical tell her what a good manager she Is la I Praise her thrift Make her feel that she Is I helping you by saving caving that you couldn't get along without her assistance and she will squeeze every nickel until she eho make makes the buffalo howl In agony NOR a KJOR OR did any man ever get Irot anything except dyspepsia a by finding fault with his wife's cooking and throwing mothers mother's pies In her teeth nut Cut ut you can jolly any woman Into memorizing the cookbook and making a burnt offering ottering ot of herself on the gas Jas range b by the merits or of o her food and boasting publicly of ot the kind of dinners she gives you Managing a wife Huh I It Is the easiest thing In the Strange Isn't Isn't It that so BO few tew men ever take the trouble to 10 learn how bow to do It DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1923 1623 by Public Ledger