Show w I Dorothy Dixs Dix's Dix s 's Letter Box I I MUST THE GIRL WHO DOESN'T HAVE BEAUX START TO DRINK AND PET IN ORDER TO HAVE DATES THE HOMELY YOUNG MAN WHO DOUBTS HIS BEAUTIFUL FIANCEES FIANCEE'S LOVE STAY HOME AND RUNAROUND GIRL DEAR T EAn DOROTHY I DIX DIX I have just lust about everything a it normal girl needs to make mako her happy except beaux There Is that eternal man p problem blem and because I will not drink not nor pet boys will have nothing to do with roe mI Now my DIY Question Do you ou think I 1 am sin right In not being fast Do you think that some tome day I will find a man who can cau love lovo a domestic girl and who has a higher ambition In w life lICe than just lust to have a good time I 1 am nm willing to ar watt but will my fairy prince ever come como to old old- old fashioned fashIoned me in this day of flappers Clappers who oho smoke smokes s and carry flasks PRISCILLA Answer I am no prophet where men are conf con cona a ka cern d Priscilla and I dont don't know whether tho hero of your drums dreams Is It on his hi way or though snot not though I 1 think he but Is-but Is but I I can tell you one thing for certain and that li Is that even If your fairy prince never shows show up you are a lot better off than you would be if yo you lily had gotten a bootlegger The Th girls who pet and nd neck and smoke and drink and with whom a man must watch his step tcp have more dates date than the modest dignified self respecting ladies lades But they do not her Men like to play around with the fast girl Eirl but when they want to pick out out a wife and the mother of their children they look they look around I for far some some maiden who hasn't been ben kissed by every Tom DIck and Harry of their acquaintance and whose e breath doesn't smell of syn aye synthetic gin That Is It If f the man Is worth having It Is the men who are tinhorn tin sports who marry the girls who arc are good sports and later on clutter up the divorce court docket No girl makes a mistake In being a good girl Priscilla I If she has to buy the attentions attention of men with her modesty sho ahn pays pay too high a price pric for them because she the pays not only with her self respect but she p pays YI with the respect of the men themselves But Dut If It you have hao everything else In la the world to make you ou happy why do o you worry so much over the man problem anyway It seems to me that there Is nothing else so BO tragic as the tho fact tact that t girl girls put the attentions of men above everything else on earth and that If they are not around by some callow little little jelly jellybean bean without two Ideas s In his head bead or 2 2 In his pocket all the tha rest Is cinders a ashes hes and dust to them The world Is so full of a number of things besides patent patent leather boys leather haired boys There are books and art and travel and theatres all forms of sports and pretty clothes and good company and yet they are nothing to a girl if she hasn't got a date Why dont don't you O try to look at the thins thing thin straight Priscilla Why dont don't you u quit dr dreaming of ot fair fairy princes and find some real Interest in life lICe something worthwhile to do Instead of silting silling around aroun l l on tho seat anxious seat sucking your our thumb and praying God GOll to send something In trousers along that way Why dont don't you quit worrying over whether er store drug cowboys make dates with you OU or not not t v vAnd And And this Is the queer thing about It Priscilla As Al soon as you reach the point where you are Indifferent to men and you you dont don't care whether they notice you or not they will to get crazy about you i f r EAR MISS DIX I DIX I not at all looking and andI and andI DEAR DEAR am a young man good I am engaged to a avery a very ery pretty girl She Sho knows I love her and she says that she loves me but do you suppose she is telling me met methe methe t the e truth 7 Sh She Is so beautiful and attractive to other men that it makes me jealous me-jealous jealous Do Dot Dp you ou think It best for a man to wait walt u until he has enough money money to to keep a girl the way he wants to before he marries I L Y Answer You have no reason on to doubt that the girl loves you If she says say she sho does Because a mans man's man appearance provided he Is neat and clean cuts cut no Ice with a woman Women have more sense In this thi respect than men have and they do not pick out their mates because of their beauty They want something g more substantial some charm that Is going to last long longer r than a peaches-and peaches cream complexion or naturally wavy hair or r a willowy figure Men marry women solely because of their looks but not many women want a living picture for a husband They prefer a good honest chromo to hang in on n their walls wails r rAs r As a matter of o fact few women omen admire pretty men They feel that beauty Is a prerogative athe that belongs to the feminine sex and they want to be the living picture In their own particular house house- households households holds They dont don't want husbands who are so 80 taken up with admiring their own charms that they c cant can't nt notice notice their wives They dont don't want husbands who will attract every other womans woman's attention and especially they dont don't want husbands who will present an Invidious contrast to them and make everybody wonder why In goodness that handsome man mar married that homely woman The man who knows himself ugly has to cultivate other attractions of manners and conversation and so he often becomes a fas fas- fascinator elector that no feminine heart can resist I think that a man should wait walt to marry until he can support a family In reasonable comfort A young couple does not need riches to start out on but they should have some assured way of making a living and a little laid up In Inthe the bank against a rainy day DOROTHY DIX EAR MISS DIX l DIX I am a home stay boy who ho Is engaged to a DEAR D run around girl She Is crazy about parties and jazz Do you thInk we will Ill be happy If it we are married JOHN Answer No I think that you will be miserable and that your life will be a continual bickering over ever how you will spend your evenings evening You should want to sit by the fire with your slippers and pipe and book and she the should want to be stepping out and think you a mean and horrid old thing because you wouldn't take her I The most Important thing In n m matrimony Is congeniality and the only happy married couples are those who have the same me ideas ideal and ideals deals who enjoy doing the same tamo things and who like the same kind of ot food and religion and pie e ePick Pick out for a wife a girl who also likes to stay at home and you will be happy Marry a gadder and you will willbe be miserable The people whom we like are arc those thole who v opinions agree with ours Nobody wants ants to bo ba involved in a continual fam family ly argument and nd dispute DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger Leder |