Show Do Dorothy Dix Dixs Dix's s 's Letter Lette r Box I HOW ABOUT WOMEN WHO PAINT IN PUBLIC CAN YOU LOVE A AMAN AMAN iMAN MAN YET SEE HIS FAULTS AT THE SAME TIME HOW TO SECURE PEACE IN THE TilE HOMED HOME EAR r EAR MISS DIX Do DIX Do ou think think It is any worn or ore e for a man to shave D TL DEAR D or make mako his toilet In tn church or th the theatre than It Is for Cor a n v oman to make mahe hers Dy fly this I mean mEnn the applying of cosmetics and other ap- ap appliances l peculiar to v women omen It has become such uch a habit hibit with the tho fair sex that I presume It would take a decade to abolish It How Hov- Howver ever ver I think that If It men would shae sha sha e In public It would soon make the tb women sit up and take tahe Ink notice It women knew w how men despIse the sIght ot or an artl i face tace ie they might change chance their system DOC DOCI a Answer j I certainly agree Kith sith Ith iou ou Doc that It U Is a dis woman oman calmly haul out h her he r thing to see s e a make 1 rouge and po poder der and lipstick and proceed to ta up her face In a public place And certainly nothing I rz f Is more mor amusing than the tho e expression of ot perfect corn com with sith which sho finally surveys surreys her artistic l labors when v hen the tle job Is done dono But what I object to is the publicity and not the cosmetics Nature made a pretty pretty- pretty L Us U's u i females and andI poor bungling job of most of us helping out we can get net since sine it Is the th part need I whatever we the beholders beholder's eyes as we can of humanity to be as easy upon Is virtue and not a vice to put a pernia- pernia Therefore I hold It a nent r wave In In lanky slinky hair to t paint a rose ros on ona ona na wandering eyebrow into a thin a sallow Ml ow cheek and to pluck a straight line Doc you haven't ha any Idea what hat debt OU ow owe to tho the handmade hand hand- handmade Reali Beau Deau Beauty virtually eliminated th the homely girt girl completiOn for It has made ou know and every skin nowadays s Is 15 1 so 80 nicely ty is only skin deep J lou and tinted that It Is the skin you love to touch It if should meet moot a girl au an naturel ou would be like the man sou OU down don do dolled When his wife who came n to rouge route he objected sho ho thought tor for a party he said ald to her sternly ladam adam go upstairs and wash up face The obedient site wit ICe did as the she was told When hen she returned as our ugly as God created her the husband said Madam go upstairs and put on twice as ns much rouge rouse as 08 ou had on berol e What I 1 object to Is no n cosmetIcs c but their application In public for fr I 1 hold that a womans woman's complexion should sh uld be b a secret ry 1 between her and her hr mIrror r and that no man should sh uld be put I wIse to it It destroys the Illusion it dissipates the charm to how the trick Is performed A very wISe man once said to tome tome see me that hIs Idea i-i- i of a subtle woman was one to whom a man without his ever floding out be married for seven years whether her hair was her own wn or T not Same way with her c corn com m say I As for tor men hating bating the th sight ight ot or an artificial face tact go to to Doc The that the simple nat nat- natural paInted woman always nl has baa had an allure lot rOI man DOROTHY DIX DIXS ural urai woman oman never has possessed S S S n IY DEAR MISS DIX I DIX I am getting dIsgusted and discouraged with My life lite and l et I have ani lived eighteen years Of Ot course courte my problem problem lem Is none other than one o Of the heart E E ery one sa sas ai s that love I blind Now when shen hen love came my way say v ay I decided not to let lot lo 10 lOse e blind me and throw me Into the same trap that It has thrown thron n thousands thou ands ot or ers era I opened my ray eyes wide wid and looked about At once one doubt entered my mind Again it is said that where here there Is any doubt in hi In the mind mindo of at lowers losers it is not the real 10 ioe lo e that possesses them Now No NoI I love a ayoung ayoung ayoung young man very much yet see seo man things In him which I tear rear ill detract from our future happiness Please tell me what hat to do DOUBTFUL awe r The Tho only love that Is bling bUng Is parental e lo lose e It is perfectly possible for mothers mother and fathers lathers to honestly belle bellee e a homely child beautiful i a Q dull child chUd clever and to see s e an angel In a little litti devil but that Is only because the th child Is a part ot of themselves and our personal vanity keeps us s Irom from realizing our own faults faulls and v weaknesses The love of a man for a woman or a woman for a man IS never blind but real love l ve is all forgiving You Y u do d not have to think a man handsome or brilliant or a perfect knight in on order to love him On the contrary you can be perfectly aware that he is n no sheik as t to lo looks kt and will never set the river on fire and that he Is awkward and gawky and will need a lot of pol polishing pol- pol up by a good wife Yet you know w that he is more m re to you than a perfect paragon of a man would be The real slogan gan of perfect love is With WIth all thy faults I 1 love thee the still I aI I As a matter ot of o tact fact a mans man's weaknesses esses generally appeal more mora to a woman oman than his strength It Is his little faults that have hav to be b for for- forgiven for for-Civen given hl his weaknesses es that have to be bo catered to his need of ot her the eternal lIthe boyishness o Of a man that calls out th the maternal In a oman soman and makes her want to mother him I If It ou au wait alt to find a man In whom shorn ou can see no fault ou III 1 never marry marr because there ther aint no sich animals for one on thing and It If there were sere ere v what shat hat In the world orld II would he ho do with a human woman L Ith thousands ot of aults thick upon her own head It Is the men and women who know themselves and each other othor for poor weak stumbling human begins wh who know w how to make allowances for each other DOROTHY DIX S S a lEAR EAR MISS DIX DIX M M husband and I ha ha hae e been ben married sl sh sl J ears DEAR DIAR D Wo Va Vo began sears i ears ars so go and as time timo pauses passes i I se e get along worse We cannot agree on an thing fore for w ie do not cale caie for the th same things lie Ho is one on of the th most unreasonable persons person to tobo tobe tobe bo be found round here anywhere let et ethen when hen he h was courting me he appeared to be one of the most congenial I cannot stand It much longer What ball I do MISERABLE WIFE Answer If you cannot agree spree why not nt agree to disagree Sit down and talk it out quietly Tell your yur husband that If Ir he wont won't In Interfere In- In Interfere with your opinions you wont won't interfere with his You Youcan Youcan Youcan can think what you please on the subject It takes two tw to t make I a quarrel and an argument drops flat If no one on controverts controvert It When your husband bog begins b gins ins to quarrel just walk out ut of earshot You can ean break my Iny one of f the habit that way Any woman can have peace n in n her home if she has the courage to fIght for it and silence Is always her best weapon DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1921 by Public Ledger Lodger Company |