Show I Dorothy Dixs Dix's Letter Box I HOW CAN SHE ATTRACT THE MAN SHE LOVES THE ANXIOUS MOTHER WHO WANTS HER DAUGHTERS CHAPERONED CHAPERONED- SHALL HE PROPOSE TO HIS HOMETOWN GIRL BEFORE HE LEAVES FORTHE FORTHE FOR THE BIG CITY rEAR DOROTHY How DIX DIX How can I win ala the man m an n I want want He H doea DEAR not know of my caring for or We W live ten miles Biles apart and eIdom see each other He lie likes lakes the th women omen but doesn't love anyone any one on Ho has told me nr I am oi quite different from Irom j the other girls Iris Must Mu t I I continue beIng dif dlf dif l i terent frent or be the flapper r type typo Must I 1 I v v to him while awa away aw on fit my or act Independent and wake make I him think I do not mlee him him- How Can C'an I In him SADIE G Zi Ala Alas Anwer Sadie I know no magic recipe for turning an indifferent 4 friend Into Int an n ardent lover If I Idid Idid Idid 4 did I would be b lending money to t I Mr Rockefeller for there ther are mIl mIl- llona 1 lions hone of unloved women who would 1 give all that they thy po te cey for the th I secret t of how to light the fires of I passion In the hearts h art of the men they desire desir I DOROTHY DIX I No TTO 0 ONE can tell you ho bo how to win In the af factions at-factions L of o any particular man because I each has his own 0 n little bundle hundle of o Iea and weaknesses and tastes and prejudices and each must mu t be ba approached in a different 1 way say ay Some Somo men are ar won through their e es as Some through their atom 1 stomach i ache achs ach Some like lilt independent bold girls who flout them them Others meek little girls sirls who oho flatter them Some Som men m n like to do all the Others like to be b run after aCter it all depends on the man i Generally speaking peakIng however the th best but matchmaker Is I pro propinquity Mighty few men are ever ver aware of a girl unless she keeps herself planted In their path so to that they thy fall over her herIt herIt herIt It Is If therefore a good play for the woman who want wants a man manto manto manto to be b always alway the spot But she he must mut mu t do tills this with die dit- and nd not hang around ar und till the he gets get to be b a bore a As A for tor tryIng to change chane your lour our tip to somethIng you think a man admires that a fatal folly No woman oman In private lifo lIfe Is a good goodenough enough elough actress to gie gt cl gi cla e a lifelike Imitation of another sort ort of woman There is nothing sadder than serious minded women omen omen tryIng to be beIva b Iva ilva-clous ilva clous cious and kittenish or a big bit solid substantial girl cirl attempting to do stuff Never NeTer write writ to a man until he be writes to youIt's you Its It's an Idiotic custom cu t m that does doe not permit women to go gout out and ad pop the question to t the th men they want for a husband But since It does do exist and It would scar scare a man so to be pro pro- proposed proposed posed to that he h would probably say eay No N all 11 that a girl can cando cando cando do to win the man she loves Is to keep herself on the map so far as he Is concerned and keep kelp her fingers crossed for luck 0 S C tEAH DOROTHY When DIX DIX When I was a girl cirl m my sister and I noer neer DEAR went anywhere without a chaperon end when men called upon us our mother molher received them and helped entertain then them My girls Iris tell me inc this Is old stuff stutt now and the chaperon Is as dead dea as a dodo They insist upon going out alone with young yung men mn and frankly Inform me that their not come corn to see ses me ma m and that they do not desire my company All of this seems very shockIng to me m What do you think about It It ANXIOUS MOTHER Answer FEAR dear lady that the chaperon really did perish as did a great I many other gracious and beautiful things thines In the world war ar ar and that we w shall never her again acain Anyway not in Amelica Perhaps though she always was wa more of ot a figurehead of respectability than a real pro pro- protection protection for tor the wild girl cirl always managed to outwit the most lynx e Id I'd duenna and the discreet girl Ctrl didn't need watching Or Of 0 course It seems a a dangerous thing for tor oung glue gills to go to about with men without without- some torn older woman to guard cuard them but maybe It 11 Isn't as hazardous a thing as It looks The modern girls eirls Is a young thIng thine who cuts he her wisdom teeth In her cradle and who Is more worldly wise and harder boiled at sixteen than her grandmother was at sixty She Sir boasts that she knows how to take care of ot and apparently she sho makes good on It It certainly there are no more scandals than thau thel ther e used to be Anyway we w have hive to accept the customs of the times whether we are like lake lik them or not and any mother her who Insists on chaperoning her daughter In the old fashioned way can count counton counton counton on chaperoning her h r for life for no young yung man In these days Is going to take a girl out If he h ha his has to cart ma along tooMy tooMy too tooMy My idea Is that If a girl has been properly chaperoned In her childhood It childhood If the me eh has haa had the right principles of modesty and virtue and honor Instilled Into her while she she's young that young she wont won't need anybody to watch her when she Is grown gr wn DOROTHY DIXI DIX I S S S S a- a EAR MISS DIX I DIX I am a a young man leaving a small town in which DEAR Lf I have 11 lived ed all my life to accept a tine fine position In a big hip city city- city B a position which opens up big prospects for me roe for tor the future I am amIn amIn amin In love lovo with aith Ith a girl sirl in my home horn town and believe that she cares for me meShall meShall meShall Shall I propose to her before I go 10 or not nOl In any case It would would x be some years before we could marry FRED IRED K Answer No Go away free and leave the girl free This Is Justice to yourself and kindness to ts the th girl because there are no more pitiful tragedies than are the marriages that are the result of men going back to redeem their promises pr to the girl girls they left behind them th m You are ar going to a big bit city elly and It if there Is anything ani thine In ou you will take lake on city cit polish get set city Bays ays acquire city standards You will meet smart alert fashionable city women omen and you will outgrow lour our country sweetheart art and the day will come when ou on will t either have to jilt her or marry a woman oman oman ou no longer loner care car for forWalt Walt until you are sr ready to marry Wait Walt until you have found out what you are ars going to do and an be bs yourself then If you still want your country lassie laule ask her to marry you Then you will know whether you yu want her for f r keeps or r not n t DOROTHY DIX 1923 by hy Public Ledger Ledier r Company |