| Show DOROTHY TALKS AlLKS I h t J niX niL th the World 4 t omao Writer I IF A GIRL GIRt IS TOO BRILLIANT SHE WILL FRIGHTEN AWAY BEAUX IF IF SHE IS TOO SILLY SHE WILL BORE HER HUSBAND AFTER THERE MARRIAGE THERE IS GREAT SAFETY IN MEDIOCRITY FOR A WOMAN I I Do r 0 0 MEN prefer the th sIlly illy girl to the tho th Intelligent girl ThIs Thie Thi IS the th momentous question que tl n that was w debated not n t long ago ag by byI bythe byth I the young women at the UniversIty of f Chicago ThEY TIlLY men by theIr 0 o n atlon and I IF experience th the Ills 0 as a es must hl bt e carried the 1 almost b bv b acclamation toi COI girls find out at a avet avery avery vet very age most men and all boys bova have harp a aI ap I greater horror oC ot a feminine highbrow than thin they hav have al of eloe el e In the world orld orId and that it if aoun a oun oung oman withes wIshes to beaux l she ahe must munt make no public ot of o an matter malter that she has concealed under her cut CUI k 8 So universal It is thus thIS masculine aversion tI to tor toL L feminine brains unies unless they are ar scrambled Tiff r it- it I- I w that no one would dream of f trying to f arouse I In telling him how a mans man's Interest a girl girl-by by I brilliant and witty she he is for well we know w I 4 know that wild horses horse couldn't drag him to toc c see her DIX DEC So when we press agent a girl to a man we put the th loud p pedal dal on her looks lo ks and ex- ex cx plot her pep and the th way she the dances and how well she dresses and we conceal the fact tact if she Is intellectual as S care carefully fully as we would hush up a scandal HAT jellybean boys should prefer silly gimi urn chew inc Ing flappers flippers Is nat natural natural THAT T ural enough Like Lilt to like Uke and ind empty head to empty head bead They can gIggle and two-step two or no ao stop step and talk jazz and dance jazz together In a It perfect sympathy of ot Idiocy But what no n woman can understand Is why Intelligent brainy mon men also air prefer feminine geese to feminine owls Yet Y t they do and It Is idle to deny It The Th blue stocking has been anathema to men from all times You never see sec men flockIng about girls wh ho are serious The Th pretty dunces marry all around college c graduates and it I Is almost an axiom that the less sense enso a girl has the more beaus she has educated men will wUl marr girls with no education at atall atall HIGHLY H all Students 1 will 1111 marry women v ho ho ha hae have e never read an than Bertha the Beautiful Cloak Model ModI Wits marry women who have hav not Intelligence enough tp see the th point of a story and 1 aho ho neer understand what hat hat their aie ale talking about Yet these theae marriages are ar not failures because the men did not care for tor Intelligence Intelli gence cence ence In women 3 v y Of course curs vanity 1 Is the real explanatIon of why men pre prefer fer silliness to sense in a woman Their egotism demands that they should know more than she does that they should pose pos as oracles to her and that she should be filled with awe and ad at their wisdom HENCE H ENCE the fight shy thy ot of o the lads ladr lad 1 who aho ho Is better read and better In Informed InA formed than they are and de demote ote themselves es to the little nit nit BIt nit It 1 iho ho rolls calf calt like eyes at it them and nd asks them Imbecile questions If a girl wishes to be popular in n society to have many dates and to t make a good god marriage it pays her a great deal better betterto betterto to cultivate the outside of her head than it does the Inside and andt to spend more mr time manicuring her finger nails than she doe does to polIshing her h r mind This Is why a really clever woman never lets Jets any man find out how clever is and why sO many apparently foolish and frivolous girls give us surprises by showing unexpected sense and sanity For mighty few girls are as big fools as they seem to beB beUT be DUT UT while men like silliness in Sn omen omen In their hours of or ease when BUT B the come to do business with omen nomen they demand good hard bard baj horse sense They do not want stenographers and sales saleswomen omen with losely domes of ot solid Ivory through which no idea of or efficiency can canever canever ever er percolate Nor N r do d m men mn n wish with their wives to be qUIte quit the morons after marriage thAt thai they they ther to fo be before re marriage marTlage The child wife who was so romantiC romantic and appealing a figure figur in the days of f courtshIp Is mighty apt to get on a mans man's nerves when he has baa to deal with a woman who h hasn't sense enough to keep house nor Intelligence to settle settie any question queston herself and who can only weep and wring her hands when the bIlls are beyond reason and the children are sick and she he doesn't know how to t take care of them SO S CO 0 WHILE men prefer preter the silly till gut to the th Intellectual girl Irl and the they hod her Ignorance enchanting berOl e marriage after marriage they would like her to develop a good l serviceable bump of good hard horse sense But as for reil rell the th i can do a nith Ith ery lit lit- littIe littie lit tl tIe of or that So S the girl baby in n her cradle might well pray to her fairy godmother and say Give me neither brilliance nor IdIOCY but Just a medium supply of brains so that I I will not frIghten some man away from marrying me nor boro bore him after we arc are married for there is great safet safety in mediocrity for fora fora a woman woman Selah DOROTHY DIX Copy light 1924 bv by Public Ledger Compan |
