Show Dix Talks ir IF I WERE A MAN SAYS AYS DOROTHY OIX ID GET A ALINE ALINE LINE ON A GIRLS GIRL'S STAND STAND-IN WITH HER FAMILY BEFORE PROPOSING BUT THERES THERE'S NO SURE lURE TEST TO TELL VEti PEACH FROM LEMOI LEMO BEFOREHAND A A LOOKiNG FORWARD G ARD young man wants to know how be can tell tellA A beforehand what sort of a wife a girl will make You cant can't son It Is one of the problems before which human In- In Intelligence simply limply throws tI op Its nd Quits cold the on job un predict with what Itan I their or will do yurl but no Is Ie wIse wi enough to eve gus gue what a I- I girl it is geln to do art ift she get gil mar mar- marIs 17 rid Man hu has r so 0 that thy they un cut the k J tremors of the earth thousands of ef efI I muss mil away and foretell an earth I quake but no mart hu has yet devIsed any way of whit what sort lort of a I. I a gIrl I Is gln to develop after fter i- i BEFORE marrIage all girls generally log ine look like rood risks They are easy ealY DOROTHY DIX on the eyes elS neat and clean well dressed and well groomed Th They y are ara bright and cheerful companions They flatter and cAjole and make a man feel that he Is I. about seven n feet teet high with a chest chelt expAnsion like Gene Tunney and that he be s kno more than the late hate Mt Mr Solomon They are adAptable and complacent And willing to fall In with the wishes of the man And they are so 80 amiable and spoken soft that butter wouldn't melt mell in their mouths They look as alluring III as a a. basket or of peaches with a pink moS mOl moSquito Quito net over o ft it and it would seem that a m ml might ht just shut his eyes ees and grab one folded blind and that he couldn't make a mistake But matrimony lifts the rosey roaey veIl vall from the the basket and then alas only too often oUen the man finds that hIs hll peach Isn't the tho ripe sweet luscious fruit he thought he wu was getting but butone butone one that Is sour and rotten at the hurt heart and that sets hIs hll teeth on ed e for the remainder of his hi life AND A ND the tragedy of the thing Is that he never can tell what he be Is getting until he he gets It home and then its it's too late for his ledge knot to do him an any good No There Is no absolutely infallible test that a man can apply appl to a girl on the safe side aide of the altAr that will show him whether she will make a desirable life lICe partner or not In the end he has to trust to lady luck However if I were a young man mony before I popped the questIon to Arabella I hould ive give prayerful consideration to her status aUtu In the family cIrcle I should study the way way she treated her father and mother and little brothers brother and sister for I should reflect that that would give me a pretty good line on her attitude toward roe me after I once ice became her legal property IF I F ARABELLA was the head of the house hose and determined where the family should live and what kind of n a new car they should buy and the style they should live Jive irs In If father grumbled about giving up his comfortable old home among his old neighbors and going to live In a crowded apartment in a more fashIonable part of oC the town hut but did it because Arabella said he must do so 10 if mother begins every sentence with Arabelia says we must do this or Arabella says we mustn't lIo do that then I should leave eave Arabella for some humbler hIatt than I was for I 1 should know that whoever got ot Ma- Ma Arabella Mabella bella would woul 1 gH get a boss who would not DOt let Jet hInt him call his soul his hla own It If Arabella had her family terrorized It If mother was so 0 afraid ot of her that she looked fearfully around to see Ite If Ara bella beila wu was In the tho room before an opinion If Is fa the ther dared not corns com Into the Jiving room with his hll slippers parl on en when Arabella was around then I should hould also pass pa up ull Ara bells bella unless I felt that I should enjoy being a henpecked hus hUI band It If mothers mother hand were rough and Ind work hardened and Ara Ara- Arabella's bellas bella's were soft loft and white arid and manicured If f Arshella Arabella laid on Os the sofa arid and read about the over soul while mother cook cook- cooked ed dinner and pressed out her pink chiffon for her It If Ara Ara- bella monopolized the ear car while the remainder of ef the fam fam- famIly Ily walked none of Arabella for me for I could riot not ue see my- my myself self enjoying a life lif partnership with a selfish woman who grabbed all of the perquisItes of matrImony and left me to pay the penaltIes IF F ARABELLA dressed beyond means If she ran art up bills up-bills bills that kept her poor father humping to pay I wO make no date as a permanent shopping ticket for Arabella For ray my guardian would whisper In my ear that the girl ho cho Is willing to work her father Cather to death to buy her line fine clothes will have no compunction about selling ln her husband Into to milliners and and the importers of French fin ry But It If Arabella was the light and Ind joy and stay ef 1 her home If she wu was mothers mother's helper and fathers father's comfort and the adoration of her little brothers and sisters then the I would camp on Arabella's doorstep and stay Itay until she mar ned ried me to get rid of me m. for I should hould have hava a hunch that she he would make the sort of a whole price Is II above rubles UT even this acid test of brew horne character cannot be B BUT B teed never ne to tall fall Marriage does sometimes do strAnge things to a guI gill I have ha seen it turn a a. butterfly into a grub and the gIrl who had been utterly frivolous become the most serious and dutiful of wives I 1 have seen flappers Clappers whose sole a ambitIon was to invent a new step In the Charleston Charleston- H the ballroom with never a backward glance and walk walle colicky y babies with a patience that th neVer failed I have seen leen wild girt girls taMed Into the mot most domestic of wives and girls who used to break all the speed laws the time of their lives pushing perambulators I have ve seen gIns who never neve eV even pIcked up theIr Own clothes at home or raised raid a hand to help mother become bacome the most orderly and industrIous of housewives when they had homes of their own I have haye seen Iten girls who were wert wasteful with papas papa's money become becom when It wit was their husbands husband's they were spending SO THERE you are arc And you OU never can tell beforehand what sort sd of a wife a girl will You simply have to pay your money and take your our chance on what you ou get DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger |