Show Dorothy Dix Talks Talk FROM BUSINESS MEN AND MATRIMONIAL BUREAUS COMES THE NEWS THAT BEAUTIES ARE NO LONGER IN DEMAND GE DE AND MAND AND ADDS DOROTHY DIX THE PLAIN GIRL USUALLY MAKES A BETTER WIFE IT IT DOESN'T DO TO TAKE TAI E A WOMAN ON HER FACE VALUE CHEER C HEER up ye maidens who are not conspicuously endowed with the th fatal gift gilt of o beauty There are ar Indications that the living picture Is going to be turned to the wall and that th the plain-faced plain girl sirl Is about to come Into Inlo her own at last fr Th The manager of af a circuit of at picture motion motIon picture shows has haa posted pelted up a notIce node that no need apply for Jobs as u cashiers t In his theatres He says that the beauties waste too tee much time tim In flirting with young men who hang around their boxes bexes and ob ab obstruct trade and that they ar are mor more Inter ested In their looks laak than they ar are In mak mak- making makIng ing th the right change chang whereas the girl who Isn't sufficiently pulchrItudinous to J attention and who doesn't expect her face facto to make her fortune gets right down to business and I Is worth warth half a dozen dezen good lookers nIX O THAT THAT HAT Is it good goad news ne for far heretofore a peaches and n 1 cream complexion combined with a willowy dg ure and a boyish bob ha has been more potent In getting a girl tin a good goad situation than a knowledge of how to spell or add up a column o of urea figures correctly or an ability to sell goods However the best beat Is still to come The Th editor of af a mat mat- matrimonial matrimonial matrimonial paper in which men advertise for wives say that his hll patrons seldom mention beauty among the th qualities they de- de demand de demand mand In a wife and frequently stat state that they prefer homely girls to pretty ones anes do you think of at that Isn't that rainbow of ot hope hopt and TV the balm of Gilead and all the theother other other consoling things you you can think of otT on Also Aha Isn't It an Indication that men are beginning to show very nearly human when they commence realizing that It ItIs itis Is the plain girl cirl and not the beau beauty who 15 Is the preferred matri risk On One of the reasons why there are EO so many divorces divorce is II because In selecting their wives men have only anly looked at atthe atthe the outside of af girls heads and if they w were r sufficiently paint ed and end otherwise adorned they have not net taken the trouble to try to find out eu how the said head was furnished Inside with brains Nor Ner if a girls girl's figure was lissome and straight fronted and graceful have hav they stopped stepped to inVestigate whether there was a warm and loving and gen generous erous heart beneath those these entrancing curves curvet I ND often orten there was neither intelligence I ence nor affection for tor the beau- beau beauty beauty beauty AND A ty Is likely to have all of o her goods In th the show window and the man got tired of ot his pretty baby doll and wanted a a wife who was a real companion and a helpmate and upon whose unselfish devotion he could depend he found that he hadn't gotten cotton It It Where Wherefore Wherefore fore tore he shrieked loudly Stung Slung and rushed for tor the divorce court or else went about with the air o of an early Christian martyr the re- re remainder remainder re remainder of ot his life me Now Naw of ef all things on earth that a man can marry for far beauty Is the silliest because there is an absolute time limit on an It and he risks his happiness on en that he h knows himself he Is bound to lose loc out aut upon ten Five Five ten I years of ef matrimony and where Is a womans woman's beauty Gonel Gonci Gone Gone Gene the th whit milk skin Gone Gane Gon the roses rases in the cheek Gone Gene Gon the entrancing dimples dimple and slenderness of af youth Gone Gene th the lustrous sheen of ef the hair No JO WOMAN of ot 50 Is physically beautiful It If at that age ace she IsIl Is IsA A I good food looking It Is not nat a matter of skin and hair and figure She Is lovely because she has a lovely ely soul Yet In spite spit of af knowing this the first question a man asks about a woman weman is never Is she the good Is Is she intel intelligent Is she sympathetic and und understanding But his In Invariable variable query is I Is she sir pretty OF O V F COURSE men are not really such beauty worshipers as they f think they are ar or else elee there wouldn't be so many married women h nho ho would not nat take a blue ribbon in a lookers good contest contest but that thatIs thatIs thatIs Is the result of o mens men's men guardian angels workIng overtime Every man thinks he marries a a beauty but when he I Is able to see se charms that no one on else discovers in a plain faced sensible affectionate gIrl eirl it ft itis itis is a miraculous Intervention of Providence In his behalf No one will 1 contend that there are not women who ho have minds and souls as perfect as their bodies but they are as rare asben as ashen ashen's hen hens hen's teeth teth Nature Is la a stingy old dame dam and when she gives givs any anybody body an oversupply of one ane on good gOed quality she I la Is mighty apt to skimp them th m In something else Therefore as a general thin thing you will find that th the woman who Is ii I extraordinarIly looking good good good- looking Is la about as thrilling a companion campanian as as asa a clam and with about tha th sam same amount of feeling for far anybody els else except herself ALL A ALL LL the circumstances of o the beautys beauty's life liCe also contribute to make 4 her vain and selfish From her cradle up she has been flattered and worshiped and given the best of ot everything and the man who marries her may rest Assured that he will have to spend the remain remainder der of ot his days daS In burning Incense before her and hustling to 10 get the money maney to buy the clothes that make mako the proper frame ram for th the living Picture On the th other ather hand hane the th homely girl has hu ha not been bien spoiled She has always had to make herself useful and agreeable at as ata asa a sort ort of af an apology for far not net being better looking and when she marries she sh Is so 10 grateful to the man who has not nat treas treas- treasured treasured her lack of af beauty against her that she he breaks her neck trying to please her husband ES In fn ninety nine times out o of a hundred bundred th the plain girl cirl makesS makes YES SES Y S better wife He than the beauty It doesn't do to take a woman waman on her face value DOROTHY IY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger |