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Show II I Dorothy Dix Talks A THE TOUCH OF NATURE j Bv DOROTHY DIX, the World's Highest Paul Woman Writer jSfl The reason that I like the bust- m9 ness girl better than the stay-at-home glrT Is because the business girl is VzSt seldom a grafter, and the stay-at-home- jH girl nearly always is," said a young R man in discussing the el er-lnterc-stlng i j4M girl proposition. HB' ' The girl who hn- never done aYiv 3Hv work except to work Papa, feels that jjA Bhc hat a perfect rlghl to dip hi t hand ' JM as 'l oply Into eyer: masculine pocket - jsB book as she can. To her, man simply i f'tm exists to be exploited by woman. and JH a bean Is a ooor simp mercifully or- dallied by an All Wise Province to supply her with taxis, and flowers, and theutre tickets, and little dinners HH and suppers. MH "When you take that type of girl jflH out, you are bankrupt for the next HH month, anel press your fcw'n trousers and dine at a lunch counter She can wHj think or more ways to spe-nd money 9H in a minute, than Coal Oil Johnnie fH could in a month. She always wants 'JS! I'' '- - Sm poA, and Invariably orders the things ,XM that are out of season and whose Elfl prices make yon wonder If she Is under 31 the misapprehension that you are a millionaire In disguise. v a si; hor to go to the theatre with you and she say nh" " anxious to t M , some play whose tickets arc In the hands of speculators, and that cost ix9 you a fortune to buy. And she naively 3 suggests that if you are going to send jj1 her some flowers that orchids are her 'Vy jrou have to haul her S back and forth in a taxi for she gets W paralysis In her lower limbs and can't I walk .i ste,i whenever there's a chance to hold u man up for a ride. K. Hi. tay-at-home girl lx no kilH rhr-:m skate whenever somebody else 11s paying tho bill. She goes on the principle that this may bo her last, opportunity at a good thing and she had bctler get the most out of it while' the getting Is good And I'll say 6he's, wise, for not many of us are foolish enough to give even the prettiest holdup hold-up artist a second shot at us. "On the other hand, the girl who earns her own bread and butter doe not regard men as her foredestlned prey. She looks upon them as brothers and comrades, and Instead of wasting their money, she tries to help them to save it Invite a business girl to lunch and nine times out of ten she will suggest sug-gest some cheap little place she knows of, and she will look twice at the price of a dish before she orders It. "Ask her to go Jo the theatre and she will pretend r.he prefers thi-movies, thi-movies, or say "Let s go up In the gallery,!' and she won't hear of taxis The street cars are good enough for her. You never spend more than you should when you go out with a business busi-ness girl, and If you develop symptoms symp-toms of extra .'agance, she will lecture you on thrift, as If she was old Ben Franklin himself "Now I am no tightwad, neither are any of my friends. We like to spend money In giving girls pleasure, but we don't like to feel that we are being held up Neither do we like to spend more than we can afford, for we all want to get on In the world, and we are perfectly aware that to rise an inch above where vve are, we must 1 save money, as a mater of slmpl'.-fact slmpl'.-fact we can not even hope to marry and set up a home for any woman if WS waste all that we make as we go along on feeding grafting young wo- men on chocolate Creams and Joyriding Joyrid-ing them around In .gasoline chariots, i "Hence our gratitude to the business busi-ness gins who are willing to go about with us ami enjoy simple pleasures, , and not make the cost of feminine society so-ciety prohibitive as the stay-at-home girls so often do. "I suppose the reason that tho busi-nasi busi-nasi girl Is so much more merciful on our pockctbooks than the stay-at-home girl is, is because sh works for her , money just as we do, and knows how hard It comes, and how much sweat and thought and anxiety goes Into the making of every dollar, while the do-1 I mt'stlc girl is under the impression that green backs grow on trees, and all that a man nas to do Is to pull them off. i "It's the touch of nature that makes .the sexes kin. You remember Dickens says In one of his novels that no man I who reads over looks at the back of a book with tho same expression as does the man who cannot read it 8 the same way about money. Xo- body who has ever worked for a dollar dol-lar ever feels the same way about it I as do those w ho have never earned ne but have always h id what money they needed given them You have to ! work for money to know that it means iravnll of body and mind and opportunity, oppor-tunity, and freedom, and self control, land the ability to take punishment, land a m hi Ion other things that the 1 poor brainless idiot who throws it i away never soes in it. And that makes me vondcr if the new generation of women who nearly ' all are learning some way of making 1 motiey, won't make a hundred times ' better wives than the old-fashioned : women who never had a cent except what they cajoled out of their husbands, hus-bands, and who carried their grafting i to the petty larceny point where they went through their lords' pockets as they slumbered. "The woman who has made money won't be extravagant Sho has a wholesome whole-some respect for a bank acocunt. And she will be reasonable and see why a man must pave. In the present In order or-der to be able to spend In the future, j "Perhaps Just understanding abo it ' money, speaking the same financial I language. Is going to do more than we even dream of. to mak husbands and 'wives understand each other and that I Is the main thing In making a happy I home.' |