Show I I DOROTHY Ml DiX TALKS Woman rt t I H DOROTHY DIX th the Worlds World's World t Inid THAT PERFORMS FAIRY RING A RING ISN'T WEDDING THE ARE JUST MIRACLES OUR TASTES AND CHARACTERS BEFORE AS CEREMONY THE SAME AFTER THE MAGIC TO TOMAKE TOMAKE TOMAKE SO DONT DON'T DEPEND ON WHITE MAKE YOUR MARRIAGE A SUCCESS world i la Is the tha belief that there Is 3 baleful superstition In tho THE E most that changes S the whole na-I na na- na some gome conjure In n the tho marriage ceremony jure of or the man and thO the woman oman participants I otherwise Intelligent go with r People fanatic t to the altar the trusting faith of a the is tome some magic in there confident th that t will mutter of preacher words that a priest will turn them Into differ differ- different different over them that 4 ent Individuals from the ones they are and habit and Ideal alter their every taste That Is S the real secret o of why there 4 The marriages r- r rare are so co many unhappy mir mr dc cle falls faIls to come off S MAN Is taken by the pretty face ace o of a girl gt AMAN be w A whom he knows to be utterly unsuited to mariles manles her In Inthe Inthe his wife lInt But he hc goes along and have base e got to do To to a all ml vou ou that fl fond ond belief the t In white i satin ti and orang oman Is to dress her up aisle to the church i r blossoms and parade her up the tho march and she sho will come tune tuno or ot the MeD Mendelssohn M Y TrY l I down again endowed with every e ery feminine and d do virtue A girl falls tails in love with a dissolute rogue She know kno knos s that to marry she abe hesitate her heT But flut does him is to bring almost certain misery upon because chance She does not desperate a so to risk her happiness on In getting believes belleve that there is some mysterious power poser PO er she honestly hone moral citizen into a staid and that metamorphoses a rounder ind nd turns a spender and a waster waste Into a thrifty n tales about the children fairy We smile when we tell the WIShing ring that on end had only to put on ones one's finger to get that the Implicitly believe what one desired Yet we grownups that will work white magic forus for forus forus wedding ring Is a wishing ring us We V are horrified at the ignorance of the heathen who think that the priests can drive out devils and cure those who above them and a little are sick by the tho making of a few passes the superstition that the mar mar- marria ma rias Yet we cling to brute of of her a ria ceremony will cure a virago shiftless shiftIest of their In Infirmities In- In Infirmities and the his and heal the lazy that people This alone explains the Inexplicable marriages make student will marry a silly little lIlUe girl wh who 0 A MAN who is a cultivated A AMAN the of court court- courtshIp courtship hasn't two Ideas In her head to rub together In days shIp It I was as aa Inevitable Ine that he should take the measure of ot her brainless brainless- brainlessness brainlessness ness and find out that when hen heu he talked to her herf of books that he spoke of an unexplored world orld to her and that when he lie discussed the things In he was Interested she yawned in his face ace Nor could he help Ing that her chatter was the chatter of ot a magpie and the things in which she delighted were things that bored him stiff tift His common sense shrieked to him that marriage between t 0 people eople who had bad not one single Idea nor an Ideal nOl fbi a thought nor a desire In common was bound to be a failure But the man wise ice and sophisticated in other things but clinging blindly to his superstitious belief ll f In the potency of the marriage ceremony refused to heed the tt warning rn I Somehow he was confident that just getting marl led would change I II who would be a fit it I a silly Ignorant girl Into an Intellectual woman companion to him miraculously make one who l bo had never even read reada II ft sixth best seller familiar with the v worlds world's orld's best literature and make I ber prefer to discuss world orld topics to 10 gossip about the people next door I Wo We wonder why poor men roen marry fashion plates why men who I love ove to eat marry girls who loathe the kitchen why hy quiet domestic men marry girls who live to dance and go to cabarets They are arc a alii poor blind heathen trusting In the marriage ceremony to make an e e girl economical a frivolous girl serious an girl domestic I Not only do we superstitiously believe n ii the power of the marriage ceremony to change other people We actually think It will change ourselves The philanderer believes that he will never cast a roaming eye at another woman as soon as he Is married The loafer be believes lieve that he will be bo filled full of pep and arid energy by the mere fact of having a wife to work for The stingy selfish man Is confident that he will enjoy spending money on his family The girl who has haa never thought of anything but dolling herself up and having a good time believes that as soon as she he is mar mar- married married ried tied she wont won't are Eare care any more for fine clothes or going about upI I and that she will be perfectly satisfied to stay at home and save her husbands husband's money and cook him good things to eat I But alas alasi I the miracle of the marriage ceremony no more works on us than It does on those we marry I T ONG before the hone moon has hM waned we make the discovery that LONG L somehow the roy mysterious something that was to change us didn't take and that we Voe are the same old individuals with the tho same tastes and desires that we se e always had Then to so BO man many comes come the tho cold bitter I I knowledge that the they are tied for tor life to one who ho is 13 utterly uncongenial to one Vo who ho bores them and gets upon their nel nerves es The moral of all o of which Is to pick out a husband or a wl i who is Ia what you desire In a 3 life partner as he or she is and to put no faith in the possibility of marriage changing him or her DOROTHY DIXs 1 IX DIX s Cop right 1924 1921 by Public L Ledger ger Company |