Show J DOROTHY SIX DIX TALKS Bl H Ii I 11 II Slit irr tho World Worlds l 1111 Woman Woma i THOUGH THIS IS A MAN MADE WORLD WOMANS WOMAN'S LIFE IFE HERE IS FAR FROM DULL SHE HAS THE EXCITEMENT OF BAG BAG- BAGGING BAGGING GING A HUSBAND SHE CAN TASTE THE THRILL OF BIG BUSINESS SHE CAN KNOW THE WONDER OF CREATION theirA A MAN MANId said Id to me the other dy that ho pitied women because their theirA A AMAN lies wets ele so o dull and monotonous lie He H considered that their path path- path vay trays ays were here ere marked out for them from the cradle to the grave crave and that f there were sere no adventures by the th wayside wy no thrills to put pep Into their days day And he wondered that io sex ex was wa no not so to bored that It did not r yawn Itself to death tb I I smiled the same smile mil that Eve Ev smiled t when Adam came back and told t ld her what a hilarious time he had had Chasing chafing a around the garden or taking a Joyride on the thed r d back of pterodactyl while she sh quietly reflect reflect- reflected reflected a ed that the th little conversation that she the had Just been holding with the serpent was not en- en entirely en entirely r devoid of pleasurable Interest r nH YH i I DONT DON'T know I said to the man nan I I I grant ant TOU you ou that men ha hate ie e the th preferred lot in life r I BV sJ The send arId orld Is theirs and the fullness s thereof and they get In at halt half the price that Women have hav to pas pai atall at all the picnics but th the feminine pathway Is not loa so completelY strewn tr wn with wilh cinders ashes and dust dut as ai you seem to think A few flowers lowers bloom by the tho Wayside wa We have our own mild adventures and Bud oui out own 0 o n particular brands or of o thrills tied up with blue ribbons To begin began with life fife isn't Just one darn dishwashing after another to every woman Virtually every avenue of ambition and effort that is open to a man Is open to a woman now She can aspire to climb to the top of the ladder and to Sit tit in on the big game of business and that is where men find fand the great adventure and get the thrills AND A ND there is a a a lot more excitement to 10 a woman I In winning lame fame fannA AND or making a fortune than there Is ii for lor a man because she has ha mOl mote e odds to lo tight light 1 t lap t the man mal has ha She Sh has not only to do doas doas das as good Bork ark as ns a man doe does to win sin any sort of recognition but she has La to do a lot more work and a lot work cork ork than he b does But the real Interest in life the thing that makes make worth wort living comes out of little things and that at is where we women have hav the advantage of you men We have ten times as many little le Interests as you have Just Ju t take clothes as an anex ex example mple What What real real Interest can a man take in his hit clothes What thrill can he h get by going down and buying a lot of Ugly tubular garments that are Just ju t like th the one ones h he has worn for years and that are twin brother to the sort that every other man has hat BUT a romans womans clothes are a never ending never d ing perpetually new source of ot Interest to her She can e even een en thrill over tryIng to decide upon the chic shroud she will wear scar ear in her coffin corrin When every everything every thine tiling thing else t-ls t has failed her she the still has the th consolation of la Ia tOilette as th the ench say MY and po no woman will e eur eter e be bored as long lone as there js a new nes millinery opening or a bargain sale tale left In the th world And there ther there it la the th excitement of the th love lov chase Men get that only in the most moat modified form and She he thrill of Ft It gets feebler and feebler as the matrimonial market gets gett duller yearby year yearby yearby by year with more takers taker and fewer f sellers PROBABLY the young loune oung man of ot the tb Stone Ston Stone age aeo got pep out of getting a wife we wit when hen ho he went out with a stone iton hammer and stalled stalked down a lovely red haired maiden slugged her in the head of bore bor her heroff ort off to his cave But courting no noad nowadays ad a s I Id Is just ju t about as a tame tamo a sport as fishing In the tb parlor n There Isn't v ea 0 en a sporting chance that the tb gill clil will sill say no when a a man pops the question it if he Is Ii In any way say ay eligible But getting a husband IS i big game hunting that requires fInesse and adroitness and cunning and and nd courage and and- andner and i vei nerve nerva ve vea a good god eye y and a steady hand and luck besides beside Believe me methe the girl who v bags her game and nd gets get a husband has had ad the worth of her money in sport Furthermore there is II I the excitement excitement of keeping love after you have once one won It Men virtually miss that source of diver diver- diversion diversion sion slon altogether IA A A MANS MAN'S interest Intel est In love and romance and the emotional life lite end ends 19 at the altar A womans woman's woman takes tak's on fresh troth vigor It occurs tu lu tor average husband that he be can lose Jose his wife or nr that she could grow fired ot of him and tall fall In lose lo 10 e with some younger and hand handsomer omer man But a woman Is always ays sister Anne on the th housetop on nn the look 1001 look jt Jt it for tor or the little flapper Clapper no bigger than your hand who will sill take tk her nd away from flam her So she Ines lives In a state slate of ot perpetual fears and tOpes hopes and anxiety about her weight eight and her crows crow's crow feet and her gay air that adds add ad ls ze zest l to 10 her lait lia s e en e en If K It does do s not bring brini peace to them th m And there Is I th the excitement of motherhood The woman who bears bear a chil child shI share rea with God the great thrill of creation Every mother who looks down upon the little lottie red lumpy face on hor h r breast bread knows know the surging jo Joy of the artist who has tuned out a masterpiece A father may have some doubts about lt his hie off offspring's being a paragon of beauty and a trans trans- transcendent transcendent genius but every mother knows know her child Is I a world world beater beater FINALLY F riAt 1 said every eHry roman oman ha has to get hat shat she wants out of mEn b by hook or crook And working S a man Is l Just as exciting as a afe a-afe are or porch climbing Seine Being a woman has bas Us Ls drawbacks lit tt dullness 19 la not one of them DOROTHY DIX DIS Copyright 1924 by Public Ledger Company |