Show Dorothy D Dix Dx x T Talks I You BACHELOR 0 MAIDS AIDS MAY HAVE MISSED Ur S HIGHEST HAPPINESS BUT YOU HAVE ALSO MISSED ITS WORST MISERY FOR PRINCE HUSBANDS IRE FEW AND NO ONE WORKS HARDER FOR LESS PAY THAN THE DOMESTIC WOMAN WHY WHY do people pity old malls maMs Why do old maids malda pity themselves why are mothers BO so anxious for or their daughters to marry that they would rather they were unhappily married than not Dot to be mar married vied ried at all Wh Why docs does a woman feel that getting R a husband Is drawing the capital prize In the lottery of life lICe and that It if she LEI doesn't get one she is bound i f to spend her days in la drabness and wr feels eels that wa way about an old eld 01 1 bachelor y ry Nobody bedews him with lIh tears of ot sympathy and least of ot all Is he sorry for tor himself Nobody considers that life lICe must be cinders ers ashes and aust oust to him be be- because because because cause he Isn't married On the tho contrary he Is cherished by other men mel with awe an 2 y cn because he has been foxy enough to dodge the burdens of matrImony i iy Yet In these days of feminine emancipation emancipation tion tion when every avenue of occupation Is err open to a woman and a womans woman's earning carping capacity and her achievements are only DIX by her ability wherein Is the lot of the girl bachelor different from the lot of of the theman theman theman man bachelor Why should we esteem single blessedness a curse to women and a graft for men No 0 ONE will deny that an Ideal marriage m Is the nearest approach to a heaven on earth that any mortal can ever eer know For a wo wo- woman weman man to get a husband who Is tender and true and loving and who gives Ives her a perfect companionship to have a beautiful home and tine children Is for her to be the darling of ot the gods If It marriage marriage ably brought this to a woman even woman even If she had a sporting chance of getting one it-one it one could not wonder at her desire for matrimony and aud at ather ather ather her feeling reeling that to be an old maid was the crowning blow thai that fate fale could deal her But this is not Dot the case It Is only in fairy tails tail's that Prince CharmIng comes riding every maidens maiden's way It If ther there are arc any hus bus husbands bands who are a happy combination of a sheik and Jacob and Jacob and Job and Mr Rockefeller wives would out them most ray pay a good money mony to tn see sea in fn a freak show Most homes are sweat shops Instead of ot palaces of dreams and oftener children are l cn causes es of ot tears and amt anxiety than sources of ot pride and congratulation When the average old maid compares her lot with that of her married sister does not want to bs with her She looks In the mirror mirror and sees that she would would- would pass for five years younger than sister She is better dressed She works only union hours Instead of t tolling eighteen hours a day with with no holidays or Sundays off On Saturday night she has hOlt her pay envelope Instead of getting nothing for her weeks week's labor SHE HH Is free ree to come and go as she pleases instead of ot having to ask permission to go even to the movies She does not Dot have brave to go in fn fear and trembling g of any mans man's temper or grouches She Is treated with respect and consideration and even Jollied along by her boss because If he knocked her work con con- continually continually and swore at her hep and was gruff and rude to her she would give notice and quit And highly competent women as- as assistants as assistants such as she Is are hard to get and are valuable when got whereas wives are bound fo ro stay on no matter what sort of treatment they receive CONTEMPLATING G married sister Bister r shabby and and old re her time trying to get t along long with a surly surly and neglectful husband and wrestling with a houseful of ol troublesome and noisy chil ehU children children dren the spinster might well thank God for her escape t when slie buys bus Johnny the new shoes and little Susie the tho frock they so sorely need Deed mother says sas to them You must roust be very good to tu Aunt Jane You know she Is an old maid and Aunt Jane gulps down a sob of ot self pity for for she knows not what and this Idea that have Funny isn't and it-and pathetic women that the only thing In the world worth having In life is a husband and children and that if i they miss that they have missed everything More curious still that they still believe with childlike credulity that all their troubles will will end at atthe the altar altar and that they will live in storybook ease and ever after And strangest of all that no no woman ever takes warning from what has as happened to most of the other women wOlen she knows ACIHL A GIRL will tell you OU that thai she sho Is la going to get set married because she Is tired of working and then sh she will deliberately espouse 1 t L poor poorman poorman man and walk out of o a mahogany furnished office Into a kitchen where she EDO will have to slave ten time times as hard as she ever worked before Thousands of o women marry because they are so BO afraid of o lone lone- loneliness liness Uness iness yet et they could count on the fingers of ot one hand band and have a thumb and little finger to spare all the wives they know who get any companionship from their husbands A stuffed dummy with a newspaper in its hand is about as chatty as the average hu husband Is nt at his own fireside unless company comes In I f Taking It by and lare large there are more wives than cid maids maids who spend lonely evenings because the old maid mald cary can put on her hat and go out and hunt up congenial society or lr go goto goto goto to places of amusement while the wife has to stay put and nd walt wait for husbands husband's return or listen to his snores TOW T I am not Dot trying to discourage any aey girl gill from getting married NOW 1 who has the cosmic urge to take a mate and who finds one ready to her h hand nd Without doubt she Is carrying on on the he good goad work for tr which nature put her into the world and If It she generally gets more kicks than out of bt matrimony she has at least the con con- consolation of writing Mrs before her name Dame and pitying those who are arc perpetual Misses But there are many thousands of women who will never marry for whom there there are no husbands and I would like to give these a word of cheer and to assure them that they have no reason to be sorry for themselves Possibly they m may y have missed the worst misery and they have no more cause t I to pine over not having married a paragon of a husband they have to their breast and wall wail because they are not the queen of England England or a ill movie novle star or a dont don't worry over that tbd Why should they moan over not Dot draw drawing THEY log jag the matrimonial prize DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public ledger Company |