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Show j Dorothy Dix Talks fl EVERYBODY MUST HAVE A PLAY TIME I l.v pOKotfllY DIX. tha World y Highest Paid Woiain Writer I c st time tliat she wants lo pla arounil This mokes the man feci that the ghH i i f a frivolous character, and doubt 1 .whether she will make him a desirable si Ife I should take exactly tho opiwvsite lew. My utitnloe is that the gin i re marks having her Utile fling before she t married. mar-ried. Instead of waiting to do 11 after-there after-there is even with a Jealous sweetheart. ( Vrtihtlaa iids young woman haa 1 en shrewd enough lo nUaerv-e too I' lngs- The first U that the only play time the average woman ever has l In the few v .-ara that lie between her school days and her marriage da In that brief apace he ear 0 free, it is ihe. one picnic in her whole IffO, the one green ooela In the arid desert of the year that many .a .woman ever lUtOWB If a girl marries a poor mon. her marriage mar-riage brings her life sentence to bard j labor. iyid such pinching eeononiUse aa jwear Ihe very aoul' to tatters If al.e marries a man who Is tyrannical and grouchy and . old and hard, inen she klaaea happiness goodbye at the altar, and her I Uf.- Is one' long martyrdom. Kven when 1 . vk.-s a fortunate mrtr-rluge. mrtr-rluge. when she marries a man who isn make 11 comfortable living, and who lo 1 tender, and kind 10 her she still is done with the light-hearted enioyagent of girl I hood, because marriage brings responsl-I responsl-I llilles and burdene. and the wife whe I. a. . I.o.l.nn.l in rsre tr.r mil llllte . ,11 Iron to look after must think of her duties before her pleasures. Our observing v.mng frlen.l haa doubt -ies taken note of these things, ami tliai i ,s onlv i;.rls who laugh much. Mai rled women Ftnllo. The second thing that BhB haa noted is that If a woman wants a man to take her al ut to places of amusement, shod better got It done 1W fore they are married. mar-ried. iVr lha man who can danco all n'gh; with ins sweetheart won't two-ateg around Ihe loom -with his wife, end na vm... was n never-falling aupph of Un-atre Un-atre tickets as a beau, has to be chloro-'formed chloro-'formed before he will part with the price of the movies, as a husband Therefore, on all counts, the girl who likes to play Is wis.- tq have her play time before si . is marVleif. and when Ma baa a play folioW. S mebnw men have an Idea that their H s. i,ne a nnioHv on sood times,' Thav rraliTe ti at a man must have bin fllna. hut it never urs them that a woman H must bav. her And nnyway. tho ganrral H masculin. idea la that there la omethUia 1 . o. ullarb thrilling to a woman In Jut 1 l-elng marrtel. and having a home of her H wn do matter bw dull both are. that alt H the fun she wants i lust sitting up and H gt tlng over l.or stendlng ring. Which Is acme mistake. I'll wr. H Therafore. a man who has danced, and H ne all there wss was to aae. nnd H o is si. k uud ilred of it all. will marry H little iuna srlrl nnd expect her never H to want i,. go an vw here, er to have anv H amusement. Tie doesn't even realise how H . i In tnc her the pleasure H man. i armiM wanLtwsnsrry H a girl who had Ixeu great lj aQmlred men. and who Tad ha. I manv men iruaVe- 1 r ID her nd 1 ahauld wlh to marrv H la gin v. had lot ..f pretty clothes fH 1 ' r flh . f 'l stres. and H a wife whose bead would not lis turned H hv the firt glib-longuril iialaverer arho il ...SS. . if Khr d. In ' ilwilevo tn l .v. al flrai Bight and told Her ; that ihe mlcjta he saw her ha had a H , strange feeling, as it he bad just met hia H fate alas. -too late. w . tha I was getting a M ahut-ln sollrude . f two, In tholi ewn h im H log realgurani srltl a laxs ium.,1 brs H r ear inatlea eavortln-,- H It's the thlnga that we haven't had that bbH n .. nee ii o.n.i f,in..t !- ri. ...nu aaaaai haven t lasted that we risk heaven to M H gilt off the ginger1, re.ai of pUa:ure. Plenty i H 'Inevitably irlngi aatlety. H I And sax if 1 were a man. I should. Wlslt B wife lave iur wisdom ten i H at her father's cinenso. and for. her tn H 'bate bad her Icnlc Is fne I had to v" bH : tho piper, or even to go on the mccurato LH with lor Tlu-n I should know that when H she rami to wed no .he had worked all H the fllrlatiouanoHs out of her system, and gffl I to actth .ion n to the real business Vd bbbbI gaH l'or I'd have sense enough to know Inn' H ever) woman must have her play time, and If she doesn't get ! In her yonth B i. lakes lat. r ..n and generally witn jw |