Show Dorothy Dix Talks IF IE YOU ARE A MAN PICK OUT A GIRL WITH COMMON SENSE WHO KNOWS THE VALUE OFA OF A DOLLAR COLLAR AND WHO IS NOT AFRAID OF THE KITCHEN KITCHEN-IF KITCHEN IF YOU ARE HUS HUS- HUNTING BAND WATCH HIS POSITION HIS SPENDING HABITS AND BE SURE HE HAS A SETTLED INCOME OF O r F COURSE counSE there Is no absolutely infallible rule for tor telling before marriage what whit ort of or a husband or wife wit a a man or woman will make but here are some tome straws that tint are aro worth observing which 1 show which way the th winds are blowing and blowing and likely 1 to blow If It I t were a man man and myself I failing In love before I I let terra firma slip 11 from under my feet for good and all I would make an heroic heroic- effort to find out whether the young woman had any good hard com corn cornmon common mon sense ense or not A PEACHY complexion In a woman Is highly de- de deA A A a willowy figure gure Is not to be b despised and golden eolden tresses have hav their undeniable charm I r It t Is s also delightful to bill and coo and ask Oos duck Is s oo And It Is ravishing to meet up up with a a young woman who Is a real soul mate with lovely thoughts thought about Drowning Browning and the o ot DIX what But Dut these thee things hints are not enough to marry on onson son fades ades Love Lov talk dries up at the altar and aud culture Is liable to get upon a mans man's nerves In time it If It Isn't backed up by the th sanity and philosophy that spring from rom old horse sense ense That Is the thing that give gives a woman the ability to meet whatever comes come omes in Ir life with cheerfulness and courage and make nak the best of f It Its It's the quality that makes a woman lov lov- liable ble and unless she has hu got that you are going to wish with your your- self self In your our bachelor den many a time and oft I Theres There's hope for every sort lort of woman on earth but a fool fool but if the th Almighty didn't put any more brains In a wo a-wo wo ft mans man's head than He did in a sparrows sparrow's she Is beyond the reach of human hunan reason TOU YOU OU cant can argue arcue with her you cant can't convince her you ou cant can't convert con con- I vert vert vert her She Is just bound to get t along alone her little narrow birds way way or ot life lICe and her husband has haa to toll follow ow Hes He's simply helpless be- be before be before fore foie her bel Imbecility If I 1 were a girl and ascertained that I was putting a few more extra crimps in my hair hall when It seemed liable to me that a certain youth might call before I heated the curling tongs another time I would make a strenuous effort to get some sort sort-of a line on his breadth of character When I I went out with Id I'd do some Sherlock Holmes Holmes Ing Ing to find out If he was a gauged broad fellow or one of tile the pesky peaky and kind that are alwa always s In a stew over trifles F liE HE was the sort of ot a man that lets gets In rows with the street car IF NF I conductors 0 oer er the fare and squabbles with wilh the usher at the thea thea- theatre tre thea-tre tre and bullies the waiters walters in the tho restaurant and sends back the th steak to have hav It cooked 0 oer er three different th ties tines whY es-whY why I should say sayto sayto sayto to myself Nay na nay Pauline The retreat for or yours rather than life with a a man who will always be poking about the pantry measuring the potato peelings and rowing with the cook and who would demand at breakfast to know why bacon In his house never could be cooked as they did It at the On the other hand when I found a man that everybody called Bill or Charlie and slapped on the back If I observed that stray dogs followed him on the street and little children clustered about him If It I saw laW negro waiters begin to grin when he entered the restaurant and when any little contre contre- tempts contre-tempts tempts arose I I watched him hi n smooth It Il all out with a few humored humored good words that made even grumpy faces relax relax- relax why If It he didn't propose to me first tint Id I'd pop the question to him because because Id I'd know that he was the kind of a man that makes makes every every 1 every d day y a holiday for his hil wife and who is like a ray of ct 4 sunshine In a home u a KI IF F IF I WERE a roan man an seekIng a wife wit Id I'd take tak particular notice of a womans woman's attitude toward a dollar If It she sir seemed to think that It 11 was only good to throw at the night good birds for tor me I would I want ant a a wife wit who had a good rood wholesome reverence reverence for money noney oneT and the Ur hard work and self denial that It takes on a mans man's to make It It f 1 So little litti Fluffy who br brags that at she sh can an never tell what 4 anything costs and that she never knows where her allowance allow- allow allowA i 4 A ance anc goes and that money Is only good to spend anyway wouldn't get me y I should simply beat it from her presence for I should Ic know that the man ian who marries her will be poor to his dy- dy dy T dy rr Ing day y JF IF F I WERE a girl cirl I would likewise take lake note ot of o a mans man's attitude Y toward money mone- mone It If b he were a spendthrift who Iho blew In his money on OD things that he hi could not afford If he sent me m American Beauties and nd took when he be h had bad cent bunch and me nr a street street a 7 street car Income I should firmly but sadly decline to be his bis for tor I would know him for one on of or the Improvident sort whose wife wIre goes without shoes while he subscribes for a loving cup for a ward poll poli politician i jy And I would never rry nev-rry never marry the man who carries his a small mall change hange In a pocketbook for that mean means means- that it is so soA Jt hard to get at that his wife never gets her hand Into It A jj V I WERE a a man looking for a wife I would find out It If the sM girl irI knew if I anything about housekeeping because I should not desire desir to be b poisoned on amateur cooking or bankrupted by a bride who didn't know whether she to order two breasts of o veal or one from the butcher a No N girl who loathes the th kitchen and whose whole ambition it Isi is i it ito t to live in a hotel could ever be bt crafty enough to work met me t Into standing for her board bill H The Th trim and tidy little maid who can un make her own T r clothe clothes and ad go out cut and get dinner r and do the marketing forA for her family and then be b as sweet and as fresh as a rose rOle and A ready for all sorts of fun would be my choice And when I at made It I wouldn't need any Insurance company to guarantee the happiness of that wedding t fA ND D If I were a girl irl I wouldn't marry any man who didn't have r some som settled way of o making a a living Urine I wouldn't demand riches ut Id I'd be a a Missouri lady and the th aspirant to my band hand would have barto to show sue me m that he h could support me Say what you will theres there's no happiness In th the house where th the husband husban l Is a shiftless well do who can never hold down a good Job and the tb wife spends the day In standing off the bill collector The Tho people who marry on nothing but love lor are generally soon bankrupt In lh ht t also After all though the tile rules that apply to selectIng fleeting a sat sat sat-A t l ry life lit partner are not greatly different from those thole that prevail In picking out a horse Just Jutt get one ne that's well bred bredy 1 f that that's sound In wind and limb and that's gentle kind and and 4 willing to t pull squarely In double harness harnus DOROTHY DIX I 1 Public Ledger a |