Show DOROTHY DIX TALKS L D E DOROTHY DIX the tho Worlds World's highest st Paid PakI Woman W riter TI 4 THE LONE MALE WHO INVITES TWENTY WIDOWS TO DINE WITH HIM WILL NEVER ESCAPE SINGLE A not to say a foolhardy man who ho is old enough to know the Ihl th thA A A risks ho bo runs ruis Is going to celebrate his birthday by Inviting enty I to a dinner at which be he will III be the only lone lene lorn lern male I wonder which widow will get him ILL IT TILL It be the Ibe jolly widow She will swIll be fair and fat and fOI ty- ty V W f V not too fat Cst and not net too forty forty but but just plump pump and round and good natured and old enough h to be bo like Lady Kess's s 's daughter who ho was forty bears years ears old I and had heard hoard all there was to tell J Dim Dim- pies play hide and seek In her cheeks and i lt a her br laugh Is rich and merry and Is hung on ona 1 a hall hair trigger warranted to go off at any old story pi A woman who smiles is either an an- an angel an angel i gel or a devil but the woman oman who ij laughs Is a good chum thum who will never have hysterics hysteric over domestic misadventures l tures or be too hard on a man when he stays stay out late Young girls never laugh They giggle Old maids have havea a sardonic It is only the widow Ic who is us wise enough to know that a Jolly laugh is a bait to which a man will trout does to fly rise as a a DOROTHY DIX ui-rt ui WILL FILL WILL the weeping widow get him Yb She g possesses the invaluable accomplishment accomplishment ot or shedding tears poetically and when n a woman coman eman can cry ery her ber nose getting red her Is not to be In mere words cords Moreover Meree cr the tho widow is one of ot those clinging vines sines IDes that always get men She Is so bel helpless pless and dependent and forlorn In Inthis this cold celd and cruel world orld and she doesn't know anything about horrid business BO so that a II man feels that he would euld be a II brute If It he lie refused to take care Of o ber her Dear John used to attend to everything for her herand and before a man knows ft It t he is wearing dear Johns John's shoes s Drying a 2 widows widow's tears Is one of the most hazardous deeds ever performed by man which Is I doubtless the reason that It ItIs itIs itIs Is mentioned In the BIble BIble-as one of the meritorious acts whose reward Is Heaven LL It be he the comfortable widow I W She owns her bel own home and has a tidy Udy little sum of insurance money and sets before a man the food rood that softens his heart and Inclines and 1 Inclines him to matrimony To drop drep In of ot an e evening and sit beside well swept hearth and to perceive the thousand deft touches with which she gho knows how to make one comfortable makes a feel as If he lie were an orphan in a cold cold world orld t Heros a woman he to himself who bo would appreciate the thea thea a S ot or getting a good husband and would know how to take care and 11 fl No more wrestling with Ith no more boarding house ahen hen abominations of dinners Instead a wife who bo has learned tIle the co keep house boose on your Tour predecessor God predecessor God rest his soul and soul and who Rogers r danger ot or giving you OU dyspepsia while sho experiments with stith gen school schoel recIpes e Inre The comfortable widow look Ilk taking out a paid up on bliss bills and she ehe he can generally get any aged middle aged man she he desIres t It be te the diplomatic widow t VI To her mm men Is an n open book that the she can read at sight and she ehe plays upon his hta weaknesses as upon a 0 harp with with a thousand strings With her remarriage rema Is merely a matter of ot selection She decIdes upon her man and he ha has no moro mora chance of o escape than the mouse in the claws of ot a cat She Is past mistress In the gentle art of spreading the hangs upon the words of cv man roan who talks to her She agrees with Ith his sentiments She laughs at his jokes joks If It be he Is strong for domesticity she ehe tells him how she dotes on a kitchen range It If he heIs heis heis Is pious she goes In for or church work werk It If he Is sporting she he memo memo- memo the sporting page But always alway and at all times she he keeps busy with the In cena pot until she ehe he dope a man up so BO with flattery that all he want to do Ie I to curl up and lie Ill on her hearth rug and lot lot her wipe her feet 0 on him WILL It be the gidd widow V tf y she 1 Is generally tall and slender with Ith golden gelden hair hall and she wears black not cot so much In memory ot or her dear departed as because It throws out the sheen of ot her hair and the tho whiteness of bei hel ders ders Her weeds are distinctly frivolous with frills trills and wicked a span span- spangles spangles glee and she's naught naughty but she's nice BeIng a It widow give s sa a woman many privileges that no other woman possesses It eliminates the chaperone who must b be dragged around for the youn young girl and the husband who must be bo accounted to for the married woman Also a widow may do many things that would be a little risque for or the young person Nobody expect expects her to blush or be shocked Thus she ehe combines combine the charm of the debutante with the freedom of the married woman So It I Is small wonder that few men es- es escape escape es escape cape when widow widows mark them for own OF BF O F COURSE besides these there will be at st the dinner all the dif dif- different dif different ferent varieties of o the the species species the musical widow who ho charms a amans aman's heart out of o his bosom besom v v-Ith her sInging flingIng the cooey widow sho ho curls up up Uke a kitten on the sofa sera and just waIte walls to be petted the widow who rouses a mans man's sporting blood bj b bv VO vowing InK that she neer ne'er never marry again the rich widow who can make life lICe so CdS easy for her husband and the wistful poor one who alto needs a II man to take cre re of ot her Each will have her own particular brand of fascination and the problem Is which one will wilt get him For It I Is unthinkable th-t th he should escape alive DOROTHY mx DIX Copyright 1923 by Public Ledger Leder Company |