Show LDorothy Dorothy Dix s 's 8 s Letter Box J WHy CHARACTER CLOTHES MAKE THE WOMAN AND ANO INDICATE HER CHAR ACTER THE PROBLEM OF TWO YOUNG GIRLS WHOSE I PARENTS WONT WON'T LET THEM HAVE DATES WHY DO MARRIED MEN ATTRACT HER MORE THAN BACHELORS D DEA EAI MISS DIX Do DIX Do clothes cl thes make the woman in this modern time ETHELYN Answer 7 It t what makIng mak makIng ak aking depends upon you ou mean by ing a woman You cant can't put bras brains In an 7 empty head by covering co It W wIth with lh a French chapeau YOu Yu cant can't make a hard lIard heart ten k tier del and sweet by draping chiffon over o II ft You cant can't turn grandma Into a flapper by bobbing her hair and cutting cut ling oft off her dresses to ier knees and rolling her stockings e But undoubtedly you can Improve a womans woman's morale by dikin her upend up V and nd destroy it by mal making ino her shabby for good clothes do stiffen our spiral columns Some wit once said that the thep p V knowledGe that your coat fits in the back gave you more moral support than the firmest Christian principles and it is true DOROTHY DIX Also Alto clothes make a a woman In InI Inthe Inthe I the the sense senie of or about 90 pr cent of her good looks Never was there a r more idiotic state ment end and one with less lets truth to back it than that be beauty uty unadorned is the most adorned Pretty Pretty clothes are the aura that sets off oft a womans woman's good looks and that hat add to her beauty as a frame does to a picture In fact ten len we speak of a pretty prelly woman we do not differentiate between r 1 1 r 1 and her clothes We merely mean that she pr presents an liv lv and our impression is made up justas just as much of lovely ft fabrics and ravishing colors as It is or of o hair hall and eyes ees and till CIa teal leal features Many a woman who Is actually plain of face enjoys the reputation of being pretty Just because she is always beautifully beautifully fully dressed And many another homely woman only needs clothes that would flatter her and bring out her good flood points to become a b beauty auty But whether whether clothes make a woman or not they are undeniably t I U in be it t way by which to judge her lieI To begin with by their suit suit- suitability ab ability shall you measure her intelligence and her judgment The r i e girl who Is always overdressed who buys loud conspicuous clothes and who always has on a lot of cheap is the one who acts upon the Impulse of the mo moment ment without considering the She Is carried away by every every passing fancy and lacks stability of character The woman who wears chiffons to market and the girl gill who goes lo work dressed as ps it If going to an afternoon reception lack tact and sense or of o the appropriate and have poor judgment They will never ne c d d in any of or their undertakings and In a crisis will wUl always do dothe dothe Ih the fool thing The girl whose clothes are never pressed and who looks mussy and as if she needed needed to go to the cleaners will be sloppy and inaccurate In her work whereas the prim tailor tailor- m-de m m de girl will be pretty sure to be a detail det il worker whose books will always balance and whose typing will be accurate The girl who dresses beyond her means Is vain ain and selfish and will make an extravagant wife The girl gil who looks like a dally daily hint from Paris is generally nothing but a clothes rack and will be just about ai ah entertaining a companion G Q So after all clothes do make the woman or at least they tell what she has made of herself 1 DOROTHY DOROTHY DIX C S S r c r K In R Tt DOROTHY DIX PIX DIX I am 17 11 years of oC age and a senior in high DE choul and I have an older sister ot or us arc are allowed to h li re rc C any Pony association whatever with willi boys boyi Our OUI parents think It Isa Is Isa Isa a crime for use en to be seen walking with one on the street the i ih that we have to lie to 10 our OUI father and mother In order to togo tot tot-i go 0 oui We tell them that we going to lo our girl friends friends- houses end then meet the boys bos on the street No Now No Miss Dix we dont don't want Ao to associate with wild boys or do anything bad ourselves but we do want to to have beaux and dates ales What can we e do B C 3 Answer know r it s even more difficult for tor children to reform parents who are doing wrong than It is for tor parents to reform their children who are doing wrong and foolish things I 1 am not going to tell tell you to obey your parents and never look at a boy because I think that you have a perfect right to hive have boy friends and good times and I think that your your your- parents have no right whatever to blight your girlhood and foredoom you to old maidenhood Probably they dont don't intend this They want you OU to marry e eventually ally when you ou ale aie around SO 30 iO or 40 and have arrived at what they years of or maturity Doubtless they think ot or you OU now as mere babes but they are sadly mistaken Girls of ot 17 11 are grown up In Iese HeBe s la s and If it between that age and 21 or 22 they are not al allowed al- al al- al lowed to have hwe boy bo friends they never nevel will is r-or r it is during those years that a girl learns how to handle men that she is most attractive to men and that she makes the associations that lead to matrimony Keep a girl from men from 17 to 22 and you build a barrier beo be be- be between o tween her and them that can never never be broken down because you have made her shy and self conscious and killed every particle of sex lex attraction In her 1 I It II a terrible thing for tor parents to be so BO stupid as to force their u to deceive them In order older to havo have the ordinary liberty f and I af Mr tar to which every young youn person n Is entitled For every f father her and mother who remembers remember their own youth must know that when they will not let their daugh daughters tes te's have their company decently at home they meet boys Ina In a secret and keep street corner rend rendezvous And nothing in inthe inthe inthe the world Is more dangerous to a girl than that DOROTHY DIX S S S S S SD Sl t F l AR kE MISS MIS DIX DIX J Married men have a perfect fascination for meU me inc D men bore me It is only the married men who measure up upi 1 i TO m ideal This strange admiration for other women's husbands orrl mr mP and I would like to overcome It it How can 17 I M Id M ii F i iAnswer Answer fe S f Probably the reason why you prefer married men is be cause Probably you are a true daughter of Eve and hanl hanker haner er after for bidden fruit Tao mere knowledge that a man belongs to some other olber woman and is s taboo tor for you whets your our appetite for him Also it Is a case caseI I of Inflamed imagination You endow the married man with superior attractions whereas he lie In no way differs diers from his single brethren The cure for it is to use a little common sense and self control self self- control and a lot of sympathy and kindliness for your own sex It will do tio unto other women omen as you will like the flap flappers pers pel's to do unto you when you get married you will leave married men severely alone DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger r |