Show DOROTHY DIX TALKS us fh DOROTHY niX the Worlds World's t raid Patti P lil Woman Writer Write WOMEN AS A CLASS LIVE CLEANER LIVES AND ARE HONEST FAITHFUL AND LOYAL THAN MEN HOW THEN CAN THEY BE ACCUSED OF HAVING NO PRINCIPLES Will please e explain from th A MAN writes you TOU A AMAN viewpoint ot of a woman why hy hy women have base ba e no o principles I can cai answer this by a blanket denial of the charge that i i women lack tack principle Also Alao I 1 can make a good pot and kettle argument and prove that one sex la Ia Just about as black as a the other Statistics will cc bear me out In the assertion that just as al almany amany to togo togo togo many women as al a men have been willing go to the stake for the sake of their prin N and that far more men than women languish In our Jails because they were short of principles we speak ot of people ha having haIng Ing good print WHEN plea pies we WO mean that they are aro bon honest cst that they the are virtuous that they are arc trustworthy and loyal loya- loya t 4 and faithful that they are truthful and will wilt not do a mean nean or little thing Judged by this high l r standard of o human conduct pie he average Woman would make a pretty high score it 3 That women a as a class are honest Is the fact that they are chosen DIX shown by You by astute business men as cashiers hardy ever go Into a store or a restaurant or a moving picture not Is little headed fluffy girl theatre where some pretty none of It sticks to her fin fin- fingers fingers fin fingers handling the money And evidently gers for we very seldom hear of an absconding woman cashier moro than It ever can to man A soman oman n IONEY ONEY means moro more to a woman MONEY M with it she can has more need ot oX money than a man has hu because buy the prett pretty clothes that will VIII enhance her or her he to the places where she will aill m meet the homeliness aith Ith It she be can go sort ot of a man she would like to marr marry So the honestY of these the e girls Who handle thousands o ot of dollars every e ery da day without stealing a penny penn penni- penni r 4 t of ot It is about as acid a test of o principle as one can apply Women are honest about paying what they owe They have havea of them never rest un- un until until un until and the majority a horror of debt debt great til they have paid off every cent they owe who eho ho had such a high sense of o the sacred sacredness sacredness VERY one kno knows s women omen EVeRYone E EVERY ness of an obligation that they Impo impoverished themselves after their husbands deaths to pay oft off their debts forI for I v they were not legally liable That women have a higher code of personal conduct than men Is proven by the double standard of morality of the sexes THE HE woman who swears at the altar alt r to be he true to her husband nine THE T times out ot of ten lives up UD to her oath But It Is la probably best not to Inquire how many men keep their marriage vows Very Vel few men lUen even think of o giving to their wh wi es the same sort of ot loyalty that they de- de demand demand dein mand and ot of o them Women are faithful Once a woman gives her heart t to a aman aman aman man she loves him on to the bitter end OHE HE will go with him through poverty and sickness and disgrace SHE S 3 It Is fa women who haul men out ot or the gutter and go on loving losing them It Is women who art arC waiting at pi Is ison on doors with ith open arms to take back the men who have hae been outcasts from society Women have a higher sense lense of duty than men have There are arc hundreds of cases of wife desertion to one case of husband desertion l IT T IS a common thing for tor a man to sneak away and leave lease his bis wife and IT 1 the children he has baa brought into the world orld when hen he finds their sup sup- support support port becoming burdensome to him Cut But it is the thing in the orld for or a poor mother to abandon her helpless little children On the contrary she will work her ler lingers fingers to the bone to support t them rathel than put them Into hIto an asylum It Is women whose sense of duty makes them then sacrifice themselves to the old It Is the sisters not the brothers who sacrifice themselves for their parents who put aside thoughts of marriage or give up the career that opened up the life they longed to lead In order to stay tay at home and minister to the wants and bear patiently with the of an old fa father ther or mother HAY CORRESPONDENT sal sais sas s that women omen omen ha have ha e no principle He lie will My M no deny that they are honest bonest that they are faithful and loyal that they do their duty even when it calls for tor self abnegation that they 11 lie dean clean lives In v what hat respect then do they show lack of principles 1 Perhaps he be will s say that while they are arc honest in big matters they are 10 unscrupulous In little that a woman oman oman who ho would a not steal a thou thousand sand dollars from you will hold bold out her ier street car fare tare from the con con- conductor conductor conductor ductor or have base a dress sent up from a store on approval in order to base ha a home dressmaker copy it it Or perhaps he will Swill say that women are less lees truthful than men that the aro are less candid and forthright and more given gen en to equivocation Well at last lut accounts Diogenes was still sUIl out with his hunting the perfectly honest man And nobody has contradicted the s 's assertion when ehen hen he said In his heart that all men ave are liars Furthermore men cannot furnish as good an excuse as women can canS can'S for their th lr shortcomings In these thee respects For womas woma's womans woman's lapses In the small email mall matters of absolute hon hon- honesty esty uty and truth are a hangover from the state of slavery In which she has existed up to the last twenty years She had no eco eco- economic economic comic independence She had to get everything she had out of men so It Is I no wonder she sometimes took dubious ways to do It And that's her alibi if she needs one But I dont don't think that she does DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1924 by bv Public Ledger Company LA A THOUGHT A DAY who ho iio t ts Li tia that coon coon- 6 1 b words KOrds Job 38 2 I As It is the mark c t great lIin 1 to 8 sa ay many things In n a few so It Is la that of little minds to u ii uman uman man manor or words to sty say not lIng L I l or oo G C CUE PE A very sery ery attra attractive tl 0 evening capa coLpe Is I of ot white crepe embroidered Ith sliver r and has a 0 lolling or Cr ermine 00 00 MAII L JO JO CG G 11 Mill IiIi h Jones Jong follow the Cl lu OS mo model Ih and a II short hort jacket and ma or may Iny not be slId ll clid h i embroidered |