Show I DOROTHY DIX TALKS I 11 1 DI DIX Dit tho Worlds World's Highest Paid Woman Writer I SEVERAL EVERAL WOMEN MAY APPEAL TO DIFFERENT SIDES OF MANS MAN'S NATURE BUT ONLY HE CAN DECIDE WHICH QUALITY HE PREFERS FOR KEEPS J JA i A MAN writes rHes to me that he is Js In lo- lo loe e with th two grIo Of oC 4 A b types pes and he cannot for Cor the life lICe of him decide cares for or the most and desires as a life companion Annie is a pretty delicate clinging vine little creature with witha witha a wistful way and eyes that fill up with tears tear if any one ono looks L slantwise at her She has a rather rather rather- melano lol disposition she doesn't 4 9 Sl I make friends fri dr easily and she doesn't S A A al know how to get along in this hard fi 1 cruel world 4 1 M- M Mt MiT t iT s v v t iK I TUE bI lIE chances are arc that she v wouldn't be beI y I much a assistance to her husband She A doesn't know how to cook or sew She Slone is isone S t i one ot or the generally inefficient sort but Lt J there is something about hoi hel ht helplessness A that makes a man Just naturally want to toI i M lake care of he her r as ho he would of oC ci a lost child I or a sick kitten Katherine Katherinc the other girl is ks big and husky and strong and V competent and jolly and cheerful She I i the kind of a girl that every every- everybody everybody everybody body likes to have around and the DOROTHY DIX man who gets her for a wife will have a helpmate who will make him a model home and make friends for him and boost him up the ladder of success r IKE the hero ot of the old poem my correspondent could be happy haN happ is ith LIKE L either were sere other dear chamer away asay Both of o the charmers howe el ei being present he Is la unable to decide between een their rl attractions and he lie asks me It if I can help belp him clant his sentiment In Inthe the tho matter nt- nt It would be easy casy enough to say that a man who ho cannot tell which J of I two to 0 women ho bo cal eli the most for Is in 10 love lose e with neither and had best wait alt until the Great and Oil One comes along that when she toes does there thero will be no question of ot the other woman soman oman She sImply v S m Ill not e This is true but It is true only once in a blue moon It is true only in those tho e rare ca cases es where a man and woman meet their pre predestined predestined des destIned tIned mate Now and then a man and woman oman find each ot other er who each other body and mind and soul and when that happens there Is no question of ot any other man or v woman oman In the wide ide world orld But Dut if It there were sere ere no marriages except between those who al ate aie e real real- really really ly mated and who find In each other esery e ery quality they desire in a alife alife alife life partner there w be vcr very ven few tew w nature has provIded a real mate for each ot of us but he or she abe is in China or India or up at the north pole or somehow has gotten lost In the shuffle and we never meet So the best we can do is if to accept a makeshift and marry I the man or woman who comes comet nearest to our Ideal Idea But this substitute for our real mates never wholly satisfies us They never wholly us They never have our affections affections affections They only have our affections in part This Is why it Is possible for a man to love two or more women at the same time It Is what keeps the bachelor guess guess- guessIng Ing and makes husbands hl philanderers Different women appeal to different sides side of a mans man's na- na nature na nature ture They appeal to different needs They appeal even to different moods so that If every man miln got Just Juet exactly what he desires he would either have havo the one woman who Is his hl I mate mato and thus all in all to him or else ele he would possess a harem 1 1 k t 4 I THE rE clinging vine woman to go back to the illustration offered by 1 my respondent cot appeals to what Is finest and most chivalrous in a aman aman aman man Her Ina Inability to fight light her own battles makes him want ant to con con- con constitute el her Her helplessness touches ouches his sympathy Ler er v flatters his vanity and makes him feel as aa If It he wee about seven feet high and bad had a chest cheat like a prizefighter But a n man doesn't always want to be doing the grand heroic He gets mighty tired eternally wiping the tears away ay even from the eyes that look like violets drenched in dew The sad and morbid soman loman always in lo need of ot comfort gets on his nerv nerves at times Then the woman that he wants Is the bright jolly cheerful wo- wo woman woman wo woman man the woman loman who Is always alays laughing the woman who sees the funny side of thing and who bucks a man and puts fresh heart Into him when things have hare gone cone wrong with him at the office Every man would like to have a romantic woman who lIved In the clouds to make love to after he had eaten a good dinner dIMner prepared by a practical woman who spent most moot of her time In the kitchen r A A MAN MAN may fall all In love with a woman because she Is an object ct de deH deluxe deA H because she Is js ab absolutely a toy and of no use In the world except as a pl plaything Her beauty her extravagant clothes her soft white manicured hands handa her perfumed wavy avy avy hair appeal to his sen sense e of beauty He Ho would like 1110 to have her as one like to have a tine costly cosily ornament to keep In a satin lined box boxi i And at the same time he lie may be also In 10 lose loic e with a woman oman who Is not beautiful ho doesn decent t kno know linos a thing about how to dress 1 but who ho can take three rooms and and make of oC o it a home and turn a abit abit bit of o meat moat and a a handful ot of vegetables Into a ragout an epi epicure epicure cure Or he may be In love with a woman whose middle name is And who Is holding down a man sized job Or he ho may be enamored cit a woman oman oman who ho ho Is all tenderness and whose arms anus make a haven a here a man comes cornea to port vort from Crom the storms ot of the outside world s orld A man may love a hundred different women for a hun tiun-dred tiun I IA dred different qualities and his only salvation lies lie In deter deter- determIning determining determining mining quality it is that he really prefers for keeps And which ever one he takes he is II apt to wish he had chosen the other DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1923 by Public Ledger r Company DIXI I I |