Show I Dorothy Dixs Dix's Dix s 's LetterBox Letter Box Box f SCATHING COMMENT ON THE YOUNG MEN OF TODAY woI w-o WHO I PASS UP THE NICE GIRLS FOR PETTERS THE DISILLUSIONED STONED WIFE WHO FAILED TO fIND IND ROMANCE IN MARRIAGE WHY A MAN JUDGES A GIRL BY HER HOME I DEAR EAR T DOROTHY DIX We DIX We are five nice girls We are good looking Intelligent and dress welL welt We know how to dance to swim to play all outdoor sports Our parents parent are able and willingto willing ing to entertain for tor its Us is and give our friends a good time But Dut we have few beaux and f few w I c dates because we wo do not pet or neck or kiss every Tom Dick and Harry or park In auto auto- automobiles r mobiles s along dark roads We see ourselves posed passed over for girls not as attractive as we the weare weare lv are but who do the things that we wo have bee been b taught It Is not nIce aico for tor young oung girls to do doI We Wo arc are not willing to lower our standards of I conduct for the tho sake of ot having attentions I tvr from men Inca So what's what tho the answer Spins Spinster Spinster- Spinsterhood leI x r hood t FIVE GIRLS GIRLS- GIRLS Answer The situation you describe Is s uni universal r versa versal so far as this countr country Is I con con- concerned conA concerned A ft it is 1 a 3 bald stark terrible Indisputable fact that everywhere young men have put a premium upon DOROTHY DIX loose condu conduct t In girls and that the girls who are modest and refined are passed over for their brazen half half-aisters Of Ot course there are some exceptions to the rule There are still men left lert who prefer violet violets to to sunflowers and who still admire the girl who keeps herself herselt pure and unsullied and refuses to let men paw her over and to make ot of her lips a fr lunch free c counter for fort t every elery rounder who ho comes along But Dut there are not enough nough of these men who ho prefer preter what we have come to call the old fashioned girl to go around And so the nice girls are left beauless and dateless while the sheiks JoyrIde oft off with the Its It's It folly to deny that this state of affairs exists because on every side of us we see sec pretty bright vivacious girls full of life and fun fun and of a type that a few years ago would have been belles belief who are simply wallflowers wallflowers simply and solely be because cause they are not fast And the average young man de Ce mandt e mands a speedy companion He will not take a girl out out who will not drink and smoke and submit to his familiarities Therefore the nice girls stay at home or go out together on parties or have an occasional date with the tho r mar lr avis youth who has enough decency to appreciate decency In a girl t This Is terribly hard on the good girls beca because se they are young and long tor for the pleasures of ot youth They desire reaux and admira admira- admiration tion They love to dance And It seems a n bitter mockery to ta them their virtues are their undoing and that the more that they are what a maiden should be the less desirable they are In mens men's eyes Its It's It cold comfort to tell these theae girls that a girl buys the attention of men at too high a price has to give the bloom of maidenhood to get It for youth does not count the costs of its pleasures and it Is ii I only when we get get old land disillusioned that we haggle over our bargains Nor will It console them to tell them that the boy Is a a cheap sport who must get tet his moneys money's worth of ot kisses and careses caresses every elery time he takes a girl to a place ot of o amusement Nor will It reconcile them to never having a sweetheart to tell them that men seldom I marr marry girls with whom they pave have e a caroused or that when these petters do marry they do not often otten stay slay married and It Is their unions which have no foundations In respect or belief bellet In the wife wife's morals that swell the divorce court records What these girls want I Is to have a good time now They want Innocent gayety and the of men that will not cost their self respect And because they are arc nice men pass pa them by And that Is true and Its It's It a sad ad and scathing indictment bf the young men of today DOROTHY DIX a l DEAR EAR MISS HISS Two DIX DIX Two years ears at ago ago at the age ot of 17 I 17 1 married aman aman a man twelve years ars my senior Benlor My mother tells me that I have hale a avery avery avery very good husband but 1 I 1 am disillusioned He lie does not measure up to the dream husband or to the romantic lover that I thought ho would be He lie treats me as part of oC the tho house fixtures and Is Indifferent ferent terent to my presence presence so long as his m meals als are on time timo and the Louse house spotless I 1 am very miserable What shall I do MRS E W S 6 Answer u n Yours Your Is another tragedy of a too too early early marriage for It 1 is only when one is In the teens that one is la silly enough to ex expect peel to get flet a husband who will be a perpetual lover and the hero of ones one's dream dreams If you you had waited to marry until after you had grown grownup grownup grownup up you would have seen een enough of life to know that no wo wo- woman wo- wo woman woman man gets a fairy prince for a husband and you would not have looked for the Impossible You would have been cads satis satisfied fied with just a plain ordinary human being such as you are an yourself and you would have thought yourself lucky to have havea a man who was good and kind and gave you a comfortable home Dont Don't resent regent your husband regarding you as part ot of the house house- household household hold equipment nt That Thal Is what every cHry wife Is bound to become She is the motor that k keeps eps the whole works going and it Is no mean com com- compliment compliment that a man pays to the woman to whom he ho Is married when she he is just part of ot the peace and cheer and comfort of oC his bis home borne Without knowing i It you ou have probably come to look upon your husband In much the same as way way as a sort of oC cash the register register the thing that hat provides s tho the money that keeps you OU soft sort and warm and safe saCe and that hat bat gives you pretty frocks and a car and the luxuries that mean so much to a a woman After a man and woman are married they cease to bo be romantic figures to each other They cant can't keep up the eternal billing and cooing but If their marriage is a success they Just come to take each other for granted and to be so sure cure of a love that will never fail them they dont don't have to tob tobe tobe b be always protesting t or taking its temperature You will 1111 be wise If you put all your vain lain Imaginings and foolish little disappointments out of your mind and realize that you ou are a lucky girl till to have a husband whose only fault faull Is that he be isn't an understudy ot of some Impossible creation ot of your our Imagination DOROTHY DIX a DEAR EAR F MISS DIX poes Does DIX DIX Does a young yount man judge a girl by the appearance y ot of her hom home I mean whether It li Is neat and clean or 01 dirty and CORA Answer He certainly does Cora and If he has ha only Intelligence whatever he doesn't ask the girl to marry him who live In Ina Ina Ina a slovenly home For he naturally thinks think that the girl who has been reared roared In a slovenly home will keep the sort tort of a ahouse ahouse house houle that her mother r does doe And he also thinks think If she wasn't bone lazy she sho would get a broom and a mop and clean It up herself DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public L Ledger |