Show Dorothy Drothy D r-othy r Dix Talks THAT MAKES MAN INDEPENDENT OF Or- WOMAN REDUCES HER HER I-ER CHANCES OF MARRIAGE WARNS DORO- DORO DOROTHY DORO DOROTHY THY DIX WHILE DEPLORING TH THE TEACHING OF SEW SEW- SEWING ING TO BOYS IN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS else women are their worst enemy cannot accuse them of ot being sighted long They never Dever look look any further ahead than their noses and tb then n when they are fir hoisted with with their own they arc aro surprised ed A sad but pertinent example o this is s afforded by the th fact that women have hay been th the f main Instruments Instrument la In establishing Industrial schools In boys are taught to sew and only a few few- few days days ago ao an exhibition was held 1 In ln which the th star feature was a lot of ot needlework don done by youths S There Ther There were plies piles and piles plies of dainty little garments garments which were were Cut and basted and by masculine fingers fInger rs and women 4 not olly iy beheld with with equanimity this mel mel- mel melancholy spectacle of or their waning sovereigns but had had actually Instigated the crime OF f E F COURSE COURSE any one on who ho has ha ever listened ll to toi a man milu trying to sev sew on a button and wit- wit neared his sufferings as he attempted to to draw cne end of of-a of a needle through a a bit of ot cloth with his teeth while he be pre sM the th other end of the needle against the tte wall has realized his hl need of p expert teaching on the th subjects but hIs hi very helplessness Is woman opportunity It Is ts mans man's Inability to 10 cope with servants and land landslides and holes hoes in his hi cocks tha that f finally nally drives him Into Int matri- matri matri- matri matrimony matrimony mony With every man his hit own cook and s 's i ss the thern th rn g registrar could shut up shop and go ga out of West IT NT I T IS JS tho young young yount man inan out ut West or or r In some frontier place who has haG to in ineat to eat his his own sInkers tinkers and doughnuts and pin his clothes together with Il a a horseshoe nail wh who is so enamored ot or that he heIs h hIs Is willing to marry marTY anything In petticoats that c m s down dawn the pike Tie The gilded youth whose club chef Is Isan an artist and whose valet known his business has hs no need Deed to marry for tor or a homo hectic and he is 13 likely to remain sInE c until lato late In lire lIfe Everything that makes man independent of woman roo rood r r dues d c woman womans woman's chances of marriage and how these thes women ho who ar are are teaching boys to sew tew will answer answer- to 10 the the th huband husband girls girl oV of of the next generation is ii a cue question tion we ve v must I leave with their consciences to settle To NO T o OFFSET the boy who docs tatting and who spen spends ls L us I e e enin studying but In tho the Ladles Ladies Own how to drop two purl pert ono one and skip three we have the th strenuous young oung woman who ho Is 13 being taught taught hoW how to do carpentry and who n Is warranted to be able to a a ui l in the tir wall without mashIng her thumb and spoiling a 1 square squar yard t r wallpaper Jer Th Theoretically this cross criss-cross system of cC o education may have ha much to recommend It No one on can deny that men would be better employed spending pending their time knitting little Johnny socks or working a aset aset aset set of Battenburg doilis for a birthday present for their wives than in n sitting fitting about s smoking oking and swapping racy stories It would also be money In a mans man's pocket If his wife w when len she che I Is smitten with a mania for making an empire out of or a cheese box could do the work herself Instead of calling cailing In a 10 a d day dy y carpenter to do It but there her Is an- an another another an another other and a practical side sid to the th question that thaI bodes no good ford for domestic domestic happiness one ODe on knows that the tho most thing on earth Is la th lh EVERY E 1 perpetual critic on the hearth The rhe moment when a a wife offers up tho the most fervent ervent prayers for tor grace grace crace to endure her ber afflictions j is when her husband begins beins to relate ho how he made maCo mid coffee and broiled l acon when Then ho was camping In the woods wood and to Institute a a com com- comparison com comparison parison between that nectar and ambrosia and the stuff tut he sets gets at home Now NoVi tie the tle man who Is a graduate of the cooking class clau and sewing sawing Is 13 not net going to cew sew and cook at home Ho He will never never- say Now my dear Just sit down and read a novel while e I 1 get act dinner and make mak you a love of a frock with so many tuck tucks In It that it will make Mrs Smiths Smith's look like Joke a pawed over paw over d-over remnant on the bargain coun counter er MO HE lIE will merely stand on the sl side line and call attention to NO 1 every everything that that hat goes coes wrong and tell you how bow much better he could jo o it It he wanted to 10 The Th The woman who is an amateur amateur carpenter will be b Just as obnoxious loos She has cut down tile the th whole hole oak and theory with her little hatchet C CI CWILL OT IT I WILL ILI i I te even absurd to 10 ask a II young oung person who Is bandy handy v JIb II a chisel and ad plane and and saw to lean upon you OU and and what Is far worse it shatters thO tha last illusion of or masculine superiority A wo wo- wo- wo woman man mall might Ight know know as much about books as It a man roan but as long Ions as ashe ashe ho he could drive a a nail straight and and she couldn't she was bound to tol l ok up td to him When the she too can set up a stove and get get the top off offa ff a box without pecking p it il into toothpicks she sh Is I a as go good d aman a manas man n as ho to Is She has climbed up the knowledge tree and eaten eaten the last apple appie appl La Is Is something wrong anyway anway with the the th modern modem fad ot or eq c cn THERE T women In l doing doine ing things thines they were never Dever Intended 1 to todo todo do When Theu we tear bear of one running a buzz saw V and breaking rocks on the thc street we make mahe a great ado over It as it If It were some notable but bill the th wonder of ot Ills It is the wonder of the th dancing dog dog- dos not ti that t she he does It so well but that she sh does it at all 11 Men have a 1 ve been doing doing- these thes thIngs Jar or ages aces without attracting the slightest a tel on and it is a humiliating fact act that It takes tako a a woman genius when hen hen she breaks oyer the ropes that shut In her sex to I compete w with lIt a scrubby office olce boy In clout doluS masculine masculin work But In a world that Is I long on and nd short men on there here is some reason in providing girls with that wilt will render r a husband abou about the houGe less Ins of a nece necessity sity No such argument can be of ofIe offered Ie red for fer the other other side of the th question and that woman should deliberately tely c ek to render man independent nd nt of her minister ministering er ing hand Is a l piece pies of shortsighted sighted policy polley that Is simply lying flying in the face fae of Providence r the man of ot the tir future takes unto himself a sewing I WH W vy basket and s darning gourd Instead of o n a wife women will willI I have bave only themselves to blame for tor It It DOROTHY DIX i Copyright by Public Ledger Ledier j t |