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Show 1 1 Dorothy Dix Talks j j A WOMAN'S WOMAN AND A MAN'S WOMAN j . I' j : IXlKOTin DIX, the Wo.M tiighesi paid Women Writer A younjt woman who is prettv, irdel-1 liieni, and livacloua waucs to know i W ehj ; Is lhat she Is unusually, popu-M popu-M lr vlth her own sex, btn inaki I hit wiih the opposite s v. why she hs' I hosts of ;:irl friends, hm never a bemi I litem e there ;ir women who are' M Town'? '.vonien. and there an women la ho are men's woman, nnd this two I iro rarely the smc Nobody knows I b) h - .should be so. It merely The pnl whom ;r man's nioih-r and j ibters pick out for him for r. wife I Mdom fires his fancy, while the girl ;-. chooses for . nr.. keeps Mini won-I won-I terinc the balance of theii II - Sfhal ' WW in her to make him ' ant 10 I tarr. hT In every communit. t 'i t ire nice, modest domestic ::!.. with Pod looks and rite property, that all the ronicn swear by and he men Pus by, and who drift into spinster-Md spinster-Md llthough they would hav.' made aodel wives. Men abstractly reo. j Mi their worth just aa much as ihel otnin Co. and advise other men to to thetu. but they declm. to vol ! ntetr for the m.-,roh to the alter anselres. Wha this peculiar magic is ihar a (ain possesses that works on wc.ro-' nd fails on men. it i impossible It is not beauty. Men are not j Uif u sensitive 10 beauty in a wom-' a R oiher women are. They re not I W critical of it for many a wontrn "ho pasjes for a living picture amor.','1 Jt ou!d never ge' a blue libbon in j iOMUty show from he- own sx. Mn are also more easily deceived I a camouflage beautv bn:'. wom n A M'-n will admire a hand made 1 y,exion- a,ul ,rJ"'f!fr,rmar;c.-i ha"". toniistake a pretty frock to, a pie--! rv fa-e, but women know (ho Renu-j article xhen ihey se- r. and tlieyl J"Pl' worship at the foel of resllv nutlful wnmr.n They hvc lo look j wr. for in her tbey see ih- Ideal! ! on and glorification of ;h.Mr v.onien also admire a wuvn who' 'n,;,rt looking and well dressed. 5 o tarries herself with an air.! " lalb like this m a x-omao ' isn't very liberally .-p,.! a , , v. ,ih ' looks, for it a triumph of art I rrna'--H and a proof of her clever Jr: r' s '"rcetulness J, i it l'""ng seen in pubiii Rith a I Jy-in wbose clothes mui.e other M'Sln rubb,r' 1,111 th rni,rr h law n nr'a,nes in a woman than vomon do. , 'k.ar as appearances go. masculine JJ fniiniur. id.al of vir.t ,-onHi I lti k m m H woms,n 'he same I U'-n we enme to a woman's men ' W u mr,r'Hl r'up their her! Rin ,0 ,llff"r Women like I at f m"n 'nt,tliKnt. olar tair.k I 2, 7 'f'fink- -men The average I ttiL ,? nn' rr,"Rh feminine brains I Wr '"i. an' sombled. Women ! I ko n. n hrn m'nfl"1 woman I kro? ,around circles ami never , I lhu h wa' shr isl,-aded or mce a woman w ho has ust ?ot intelligence enough to rol, hor eye's al them and ask ihem wh.il they think yhe thinks; and who bes Lhem io ox-plain ox-plain to her thai those lore editorials In ihe papers mean, and who g asp over the wonder of the mighty masculine mascu-line iniciiect that can fathom iheac mysteries. Of course men will dny "hi as'siir, tion that they pre-'feminlne fools hul you will never find a bnllhnt girl who I is a beiic. a few discerning men maj admire her. but the hoid pass her by as if she had the lepros It is the baby doll and the Iiativ' talk lady who makes a hit wh mn. and whom their own se cannol abide! Women like helpful, eitloienl won, en Women who can .stand om their I own feet, and justify their having lived by their work. You can se tills in the way that othrr woQn g!oi ' those of their sex who have . , hieved success in nny line Women's hero-ines hero-ines are ihe Mary Shawsl end arrle Chapman ratts. rn.i Clara Bartons, I and the great women Writers', and art ! Isfs, and financiers But however much a man may nb-; stractly admire the achievements Of these women they persona!! y do net appenl to him Th- woman who does thing" doesn't touch the soft -pot in his heart. It's ihe good, adhesii clinger who does that. r..r i wet dl-i I rag is. and always has bcOh 'lie nia"- culine ideal of what Is most 'cdmirablo In woman Thce ig Borne thing in a sloppy, floppy spineles? woman, who can tio nothing but weep and hang on to a man. that make? an Irresistible .ippe;.i to him that nothing else en ear'h does, and that makes him want io take her. home, and take care of hr. and Cherish her as the apple of Ms eye j This is why the little si.- kitren girl always has plenty of beaux, and the trifling, no account wife ets ten times the love and consideration that the capr.ble, industrious, independent woman ever gets It's woman' weakness ;h.ii .-iipeals to the strength of man, and brings out' all that is most chivalrous in him.! while it infuriates and llSgUStS Other! women Women despi ;i t ;i r j WOtnan as much as men lov, nor But no one can really explain why some women are women's women a Oft I others are men's women. Whet we call the attraction of the sexes is a. I subtle and mysterious call of Me.Ah to flesh, and spirit to spirit, that is be-j yond our fathoming. |