Show Dorothy Dix COUNTED WIPE WIFE WHO MOST HUSBANDS WOULD PREFER THE THAN HER CAL CAL- CALORIES CALORIES THE EFFECT OF HER WORDS RATHER ORIES WHOSE SPIRITS WERE LIFTED INSTEAD WERE WHOSE WRINKLES OF HER FACE IRONED OUT OF HER DISPOSITION WHOSE MORALE NEVER SAGGED themselves as IT T IS JS A natural desire desiro that all women have havo to make IT vast sums tuma L attractive as possible To this end cud they not only spend themselves of money In the tho beauty shops shop but they heroically submit to the tortures of ot the inquisition less Jess suffered stake has baa Many a martyr at the tho skinned and who parboiled than the women do are sCho schoolgirl lg com corn complexion acquire a 4 alive In the attempt to who undergo all the tho agony o of slow L and who grow tion trying to attain a boyish figure the never old before their time tolling toiling at labor Jabor of ot trying trying- to keep young oung of It all It is that It I Is And the th pitiful part sacrifices loves love's labor lost lot These frightful are aro made In vain for In spite of all effort no one can cheat chest time The Tho years yearl year put their how matter brand upon U us and no we dye our locks locka or how skillfully we hand hand- paint hind paint our complexions complexion or how bow near we understudy under under- understudy study tudy a living skeleton we cannot really t DIX 1 DL 13 camouflage our age After 40 every Inch In h we wo take off our waistlines waistline we w put In the lines linea of our faces facea Our hairdresser hair but he ho cannot give us UI the can give us UI youn young looking fresh young faces to go below It We can buy ourselves flap flapper per cloth but no earthly power can an make us look like liko a flap flapper per In them CO 0 Io INASMUCH as we cannot be oun young and beautiful at middle age S SO J no matter how bow hard we strive to do so It often occurs to tn me that we might far ar better botter spend our thoughts and energies developing spirItual attractions Instead of ot physical ones For after atter all a 11 womans woman's looks are a very small part of ot her They are merely her shop window where she hangs out a few charms to catch the eye ee but it U she sho holds bolds our Interest and our affection and ad admiration ad- ad se so has to carry a bigger ger stock than that She has to have qualities of o brain and heart that are all wool and a yard ard wide and that are warranted to wear well and hot not shrink In the wash Suppose then that Instead of doing her dally daily dozen to keep her body supple a woman did her daily dozen to keep her mind and her sympathies supple Dont Don't you think she would really get better re- re results 1 to keep her really youns young suits You you thInk It would do more For age I Is not so 0 much the hardening of th the arteries Jl u It ItIs itis ItIs Is the hardening of the perception You are arc never old as aI longas long longa longas a as your you can change hange your opinions and shift your point of view view and alter your way of living The sin sign of age Is becoming set et In your ways having to do the things you have hav always done and eat the things y you u have always eaten It Is a lot worse to get muscle bound in mind than It Is II In Inbody Inbody inbody body and to have your sympathies creak than it is to have your knees And women will get better results from bending her own views a dozen times a day to meet neet those of her hu- hu huband hus band and children and friends than she will from bending over and touching the floor with the palms of her hands handl IF F WO WOMEN HN would do their daily spiritual dozen as religiously asI as IF I they do their daily physical dozen it U they would constantly exer- exer exer exercise cise their minds and their hearts and keep from getting rigid and stiff in their opinions it U they would keep themselves standing on tiptoes with new ideas and Interests and enthusiasms they would keep perpetually oung Or It If they didn't nobody would know it or care because they would have haye the charm that makes them ageless The thing that takes the Joy out of life for women now now- nowadays nowadays adaya Is Ii counting their calories because somehow they are ways about twice as mu much h as they should be no matter how little you seem stem to have eaten or how often you have denied yourself dishes for which your mouth watered KNOW INOW the theory prevails that for a woman oman to be a lady Jady love Jove she I must have a lean and hungry look and that for a 11 a wife wite to put on fat is first aid to divorce but myself I I doub doubt it if men are so BO en en- enamored enamored of ot bones as aa women think they are Therefore I am strongly of the opinion that a wife can cando cando cando do more to hold her husbands husband's affection by doing a little mental arithmetic about a husbands husband's prejudices and likes and dislikes before she speaks than she can by figuring out how many calories there are in every bit of food before line ane eats it For It Is not what goes goOl Into a womans woman's mouth but what comes out of It that prom promotes tes the peace and harmony of a ahome ahome ahome home No N MAN Is i going going- to bother about the weIght of a wire wife who Is I always pleasant and agreeable who never nags nor whines or complains and who says to him the words of o appreciation and affection and ad- ad admIration admiration ad admiration that are the music of ot the spheres to his ears When it Il comes to holding holding- a husbands husband's love I would back the wife ICe who counted the effect of what she the said rather than the one who counted the calories In what she ate And this new fad tad of o lifting face and tend wrinkle eradicating which is guaranteed to make a middle aged wife over Into a girl again I wonder If the tho average husband huband wouldn't rather have hil hi wife's spirits lifted than her face and If he wouldn't a lot rather have the wrinkle Ironed out of her than out of her Ier cheeks After all not many women are beauty mad but the thing that every man man likes In a woman i is for her to tobe tobe tobe be cheerful and bright and natured and amiable and easy eny to get along with when women omen get g-et alon along toward tow rd middle life JUe they are very SOMEHOW S 1 apt to slump to let Jet themselves get depressed and peevish and fretful and dull and to make no effort to be gay cay and entertaInIng companIons to their husbands And It is because they are poor com companions companions that drives so many men away from home to seek jollier com corn comradeship It I Is the sag in most women's ns n's morale not the sag In their face muscles that needs to be taken up and they Can be their own surgeons and not only save savo money but be bo sure lure of turning out a successful Job THEREFORE I commend this new school of beauty culture to all allI I aged women Its methods always work And III it its results are alwa always a charm to conjure with DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger |