Show DOROTHY DIX TALKS B t D the tho Worlds World's st Paid WOO Woman Writer THERES THERE'S NO KNOWN REASON WHY SOME WOMEN NEVER HAVE HAVEA HAVEA HAVA A CHANCE TO MARRY ENVIRONMENT TEMPERAMENT AND LUCK ARE MAIN FACTORS IN MATRIMONIAL MARKETA MARKETAN MARKETA MARKET A N OLD maid writes me that in all her life she he has never bad had a SID SID- sin AN A gle real beau nor a proposal ot of marriage and she wants to know kno tr Ir I 1 1 er c Is UnIque unique-It unique It she khe he Is the only woman that men have havi passed by without giving a single look LORD no sister If misery loves company you have plenty of it In spite of all al the white lies tie that middle aged women tell about how much they were ad admired 1 mired when they were young and C how the suitors knelt in rows at A their feet and what wonderful matches they could have made If I ka they hadn't been set against matri matri- matrimony matrimony I t mony there are thousands upon 4 t thousands of women with whom no noman noman S man has ever walked out except l i compulsion and who never z had the ghost of a show at a wed wedding dIng ringI ring I thi this thil is thus on earth can cantell cai WHY tell for lor the way ny ay o of a snake on a n rock t and a man min with wilh a maid have be been n m ms- ms s teries since Binco the beginning ot of o tho the world and an solution of oC It as e are arc still as far from a e e cre era when o daw told The e she was IT Nobody l knows why one woman can get DOROTHY DIX se cn husbands sand and and another woman cant can t get one It Isn't a matter or of o looks be be- be because cause in any beauty show the thc spinsters would Jet get quite as many blue matter of Intelligence because some ribbons as the wives It isn't a oth others like highbrows and the old loon like ilo mOlon lor l'or wives S and rs maIds could f In both clas classics classes es esIl because we e all nil kno know virago wives It Il Inn ISIl t a matter maUr of ot disposition and and and joUy jolly unmarried wom women n what particular thing It is In women that attracts men is the th JUST J gr great at psychological problem that the feminine sex sei spends most of o fc its walking time in trying to solve But nut they r neer find out However we can all put our fingers on contributory causes cau I Sometimes a girl does not have bave beaux because bile bhe 11 o In an Eden UI All over the countr tb 1 e are arc small towns lowns from hie anI b I old men and eal cal cal- callow callow 1 esery ery eligible male has bas emigrated Only doddering low school boys ai are arc left lert and the girls are foredoomed to old hood unless they ha ba haH o enough bustle to imitate the example of the boys boya and follow them out into places where the hunting Is la good Sometimes a girl does not have havo any beaux bec because use her ber family scare away all the young men No youths In these theae free tree and oas da das s sare are going to hang around a houe boue hou e where there here the ve very ver doormat Is frozen and an there are Icicles banging hanging on their welcome and wb where re friend parents arents sit around all eavesdropping all th the foolish stile boy and girl chatter Mothers and fathers can very easily keep the boys away by sticking around aund too mu much h themselves Many a girl Is I chap chap- chaperoned chaperoned out of or a husband as well as a good time Sometimes a girl never has baa any beaux because she is too stand stand- standoffish stand offish offish he he noni ont take tre Ire trouble to 10 make herself agreeable She I adopts a II grand and haughty air and eX expects men to bo bow before her hei h heras r as AS as If It the bhe he were a queen queenA rI I A Ain in novels that po pose e makes a hit In n real life its it's a flivver r Men like Joke to be jollied They like to know that a woman admires there then that she is pleased with their attention and they just naturally nata rally gravitate toward the woman who makes make her her- herself herself herself self pleasant to lo them and pass up the one whom they have to tot it break their a necks eck ks to please W 1 I a girl doesn't have beaux because she Is too anxious SOMETIMES J for them When Whon there Is any chasing to be done men want to be bethe betho bethe the tho hound bound and not t the hare the pursuer and not the pursued The girl who ho tries to drum up tip beaux for herself by calling men up over the telephone and demanding to know why they haven't be been n to se see her never succeeds In making herself a belle The woman who bo is crazy to marr marT marri never nver ver catches a husband The overanxious woman de- de do cats her own ends She rouses a mans man's sporting blood and puts him himo himon o his mettle to to outwit herThe her herThe The girls giris who have plenty of beaux are art those who make every man feel that he is welcome and appreciated when he comes omes but that hed he'd never be missed If he didn't come a girl doesn't have bave any beaux because she Is a misfit SOMETIMES S 3 Often she is too highly educated and too cultivated for the young mon men with aith Ith whom she is thrown She make them theta feel inferior and awkward and so BO the leave her ber severely alone That is why the college graduates graduate who are entitled to write M A after their names are less apt to be called ma than the girls who left high school the same year the boys did Like goes to like In youth The birds of a feather flock together and the girls who can jazz and ragtime and play a good game gme o of bridge and do what all the others are doing just naturally belong to the bunch while the ho girls who ho do not dance or play cards are left b their lonesome These are some of or the many reasons why some girls have beaux and nd others have none Environment the family temperament luck all play their part But in its last analysis the explanation of why some Bome women attract men and others dont don't I Is I just that some women have the come hither look In their eyes and others have it notA not AND ND that's bats bat's the gift girt o of the gods goda A AND A DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1923 by Public Ledger Company |