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Show i Dorothy Dix Talksl Sex Has the Greater Influence Over the Other? j I FROTHY HlX. The World's Highest Pmd Woman Wr;tpr !; jSfr influence over the oth- : V influence Is general. Woman's 1 trite Men have far more influ- !' " Ser mn as a box than women ! er men in the lump, but the In- : rt , nman hna more influence i Individual man' than the in- f JJM ni? has over the Individual 15 "fWe moulded woman as a sex. BhiS uplifted her morally. Thoy ' ersSp?d their tastes and desires 'ft'? undergo the tortures of the I ,S on because men demand that , chill be beautirul. Men admire 1 f!w vromen. and women fast and i unfthebeautyofalit-i unfthebeautyofalit-i and woman squeezes a num-ii'S num-ii'S foot in a number three shoe. 'Seiches herself up on French Mat make even' sup an agony, Eflrnlre a P'Uk 1111(1 white, complex-, complex-, 1 ffworncn cheerfully submit to j ' 5 tortured and skinned, and par-j par-j jfjS by masseuses and complexion , : KS not marry drunken and ; .9'jtable women, or any women i i SJhave not blameless characters, that has kept women, as a sex, " ' rite straight and narrow path. Bel men take no trouble to beautify ! ; ' .drives for women. You see no i t fffllleman dieting to acquire a A front figure to please the r Sine cytr. Nor is there a men who , t hTthe ?ake of the abstract ideal of J,aty entertained by women endure , r" f stooljery of tight shoes. , 1 Korha" the influence of woman ever f iia west enough to induce men to '! U the higher llfo and forego their 'onthe other hand, while it is truej. ? iiit ffoman cn masse is so amenable i J; (nin's Influence that the whole fern- V. &ttx is as clay in the hands of the , i BfKfr.when it comes down to the in- , firtioal it is the women who does the - snldlng. ! It Is one of life's little Ironies that t ' h I e(S io not boast of the overwhelming a! aflwnce which tbey possess with 'f Tczen In general which is great. But t ti) are forever bragging about their x m rfeflcfnce over some one particularly H scaan-whlch is nil. Every, man be-, t 'J,' Ei$ that he can marry any woman t pleases and make her over accord-, accord-, ito his own cut paper pattern, when I, tit troth is that he can no more alter ijrtfcan he could move' the Hock of ; Gibraltar. Tlaf the individual woman has moro - isfr.fa:" on the Individual man than j k hs on her we see illustrated disas-ws:ly disas-ws:ly in every single match in which ; cm married a woman who is his in-' in-' toxr. There nevor was a more fatally or-ijcwjs or-ijcwjs Idea promulgated than that a eiacar l it a woman up to his mental :j Mim'ual level A tcoen often drags a man up to i tlr h'rh jrround on which she stands, ' t as inferior woman is a dead ei?bt that no man has the strength A ekier, ambitious, pushing woman a iLir!.- she c a husband into suc-ss suc-ss St- can prod him into making j ; mater tfiort. She can make friends 1 ; for fclm. She can teach him how to ' ; Sb1 ran polish his manners. J j i Bat none ot these things cau a man to for his wife. No man can teach a i ; Ttcac to dress. No man can teach 1; iwificbl tact. No man can make ; titscs for his wife, because she will j Jealous of the other woman and. Weber, and no man ever lived who nj i miracle worker enough to breathe A , tlon inbp a lazy, slouchy, indolent ;V roin She that is joined to a Moth- r Hubbard cannot be separated from ' : ? gods. v i0'?.011"6 'n countries that have a ; if r' arIatocracy a manconfer3 ' 7. wfe the Tank he enjoys. A r ts wife ia a duchess no matter If tJT" .abar maid. but in this.coun- . .,; yjclal precedence goes through the . '-ue line, and ninety -nine times out ; Lw n,dred a man takes his wife's WJon Instead of her taking his. bifnJse,SI)0cIalIy lrue he marrieB : l:Lv!?self- Hls w,fe f3 the . wt with her family and friends, and ; a cold shoulder upon his connects connec-ts u7aad1betore he knows it he finds au- de8cended to her set instead i "ijs .eleved her to his own. ? & sV0" cnler a home you need be i yli , Holmes to tell whether I i wSn.l 0r wlfe 18 th0 cultlvat-: cultlvat-: .th?ramil'- For the woman I SlnwSine S6tS her 8iga ' tatelUeent. and educated, I tiUc you vl see It In tho har-S har-S v pproprIateness of the fur-V fur-V W thlU .ln Percelve it .in the $ Xns! atmSDh0re 1: "afcSt telioctual and refined i J 'I??01 make this sort ot a Seated L 8 marled tok& sly. un- 'I bat OT? nIbsen and we-I we-I &e 18 secreUy proud of her attainments and cheerfully contributed the money to austajn them. The intellectual wife has no sympathy sympa-thy whatever with her uninlelfectual husband, and Bhe sweeps his books and collections to the garret, or else; frozen out at home, he take's himself and his treasures to his office. Morally, the same effect of a worn-, an's influence over her husband may be observed. "When a man marries a large hearted, noble, tolerant woman he almost invariably expands In character char-acter through association with her, and becomes big, and broad himself. But let a man of wide sympathies and great vision marry a silly, narrow, prejudiced woman, and little by little you can seo him narrowing to her inch wide gauge. A woman who is stingly and penurious penur-ious nbout money will in time teach her husband to take a death grip on his purse strings. A woman who is' fault finding and back biting will turn J her husband into a pessimist as bitter ' as herself, where.iB the woman who is generous in thought and deed will make a philanthropist and optimist of her husband. But a man neither liinders nor helps his wife as she does him. What she was when he married her she remains to the end of the chapter. All that matrimony mat-rimony seems to do for a woman Is to Intensify Jier faults and virtues. It is a sort oC mordant that sots the color her character was dyed in her family vat. ' In summing up the question, therefore, there-fore, which sex has the greater influence influ-ence over the other, the answer seems to be thai men have the greater gon-eral gon-eral influence, qnd women have the gTeater individual influence. Which is illogicul, as any conclusion is bound to be that has a woman in it. |