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Show j Dorothy Dix Talks j I A WOMAN'S IDEAL MAN In personal appearance he is a large, tall, husky youth w ho looks as I j if he could give a good account of I himself in a fight, for women i;c cretly like a bit of the bnitu in man. Ilr has nice white tech and ihe I usual ensemble of features. She isn't! particular about their size or shape or arrangement, but lie must be im-! im-! maculately clean, and wear his i clothes w ith the right air I The average woman admires .he : soulful-orbed matinee hero or the Adonis of ihe ."icr'-cn only professionally. profession-ally. She wouldn't lake his as a rift for a husband She wants the centre of the stage as the familv beauty for herself, Instead of having I to iee it wasted on a mere man. Also, she would far rather hear people say: "How- in the world do you suppose that honielv man ever I married a peach like that?" than to listen to som one exclaim. Gee, look at that, handsome man and the lemon he drew." Intellectually a woman's Ideal man has Solomon backed up In the Know Nothing Class There's nothing a woman really enjoys like getting waj backed looking up to her bus band and when you find one who be-' be-' iir nory eptc nee with "John says," aa if that settled everything from a I oaril,-' of V:itlrin-i in Ibo l.-.nirlVi .11 ladies' skirt-, you have a perfect pic ture of connubial bliss, and of a woman wom-an who has got her heart's desire. No woman really wants to know as 1 much ns her husband. She wants a i man who will save her tne trouble of! thinking and the responsibility of deciding things and using her own1 judgment so that she can throw the1 blame on him when things turn out; badly. But while she desires a man who ' is cloverer than she is. she wants : blm to regard her as a paragon of j wisdom, and to make of her a companion; com-panion; she wants him to listen to! her advice, and be glided by it; and he must hao enormous respect for her Intuition and always play her hunches in business deals. A woman's Ideal man is a happy combination of the roaring lion : nd the suckling dove in her heart every ev-ery woman Is still a cave-woman, and she would like to be wooed with a club, and dragged bv the hair of b r head to the two by-four flat her lover has rented for their new home. No woman ever really falls in love with the man who woos her humbly Ion bended knee, nor does any wife I pare a tuppence about the husband j w ho lets her henpeck him and make a doormat out of him. The man of her dream la strong and masterful and able to hold his own at home land abroad. She IIke3 a man of whom she Is a little afraid, a man who i3 iron yet H who br conies putty, upon occasion. in her hands, for ihrj Is nothing sj thrilllr.gly fascinating to a woman a,; to feel that sle can influence the man who is Inflexible to all the balance bal-ance the world. A woman's ideal man is what old fashioned novels call a ' man of sentiment," senti-ment," He is sensitive to nil that is leautlful In nature and art. He H thrills to moonlight nights and the music of steel guitars drifting over silvered Water. He can read poetry In a v. ay that brings your heart into j your noulh and makes you want to i cry on some aula's shoulder. He can t ' lie love in the most adorable fashion. Ho knows Just the little things that women like to have done I .for ihcia and s.id to them j But he never never is templed io flirt with a pretty woman, no matter j how sofi ihe moonlight, nor how n trancingly Ihe Hawaiian band plays, i nor does ho ever read poetry to another an-other pair of cars through the book of venes underneath the bough is at hand, and a ready listener in a soft while k frock and a most bewitching summer bat. No; a woman's ideal man is an artist in sentiment who lavishes the entire output of his -g r. lus on one customer and never Ionics a round to see !' a n v other wnm- an would be Interested in t'uc one of sweet goods he carries in stock. I A woman's ideal man makes money with one hand and one brain cell, while he devotes the other hand and most of his intellect to amusing her. She requires much money, for it is only men who are stroa; for the Imple life Women despite a scheme ol existence that is garnished with beautiful clothes, and luxurious homes, and motor cars, and such nke, ; but 'he woman s ideal man must not i have to drudge for these in the way they come to ordinary men. Dear me, no- A woman wants her husband to give her all that money l buys, but she wants blm to have a i soul above money grubbing. He must be Idealistic and discourse of music ;and literature and art, and not talk -hop. His thoughts must not be I centered on his horrid old factory or He must have leisure to 'travel and must never be too tired to gad around with her to parties and balls. And she's perfectly certain he could do all these things, and accu-mulate accu-mulate a fortune on the side if he ! was all that he should be. A portrait of a woman's ideal man i would show a composite picture of I Douglas Fairbanks, President Wilson, In in t obb, John Drew, Mr. Rocko- I fellep, and job Needless to say there I is no such person in real life. Hence , no woman is perfectly satisfied with 'he husband. |