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Show I I Dorothy Dix Talks BOY, PAGE THE NEW MAN. I Hy DOKoTllV iL, the- World's IIuim-m !',-,,,, Woman Write: j BBJ ' ne of the troubles with the world &3GcS now Is that vve have got a new woman 1 t we hv 'Jt the same old man. Da t.'onseo, uentl v Oils modern K e and prc-hlstoric Adam .in natural! unable 4 to hit off together Sri-T Hence the falling off in the salo -1 of wedding rings, and the prevalence of divorce, and the sounds of mutln: i 'Tj1,: Aw- and insurrection w hen tWo bold "U tit' ; J W cr itures with different theories ol i Km 9 anc' opposite view points, are 5 enough to adventure f r t h together on I ifiB the stormy sea of matrimony. BBB In the last twenty-five years women ' '-ifHsJ have as completely changed in ever sJB way. as if the leopard had shed hlsi fdjmiM spots. The girl of today la no more WBj like what her mother was at her age , than If she belonged to a different . !e epecles of beings Sho no more thinks , ' ' as mother thought or holds mother's ' iit opinions, or has the aspirations mother 'Cw had. or dreams the dreams that BJ mother dreamed. than sho wears ;'?gj6 clothes cut after tl.i- fashion that .jtqu.sj mother wore when she was B girl. The modern girl has developed a nat '. fldr bral waist mentally us well as physi- v.W tally, and she couldn't compress h r . Ideas into mother's tightly -laced eight- . - 1 een inch belt measure even if she so e? desired W hich she doesn't, kkgvy:;- But men, so far as women are con- cerned, litvr. not altered. Grandpa shoes still fit them, for they stand V I pat on the woman question Just where 'MM thev have alva8 stood. Of cotirse rB1 there may be an exception here and yjw there, to this rule, but the great ma- :''-' itst Jorlty of men have not changed an BYflH 2a2 Their ideals of the perfect woman BL-w st their opinion of what a woman should BB" think and fee their view of woman's proper attitude towards the lords of BBB creation, are precisely those that have BBB been handed down from father to son BBB ever since the dear old cave days. BBj This brings about a situation that is BBB Iragic for both sexes. It Is tragic BflR for women because men utterly fall BBS to understand their motives, and I heir reasons for wanting to do the Amt ihlnK- are trying to do and lT jQr' Is doublv tragic for men because it drives them Into making such fatal BBB BBfl For Instance, men. still true to the BBB ancient masculine theory that feminine ' Br brains ate onl palatable when they Kat "ft? scrambled fight shy of the clever - -' i r i who is well informed, capable, and jfelBl independent, rB The modern man like grandpa. Is ,BjJ ft li true to the theor that the ideal ajjf wife Is the clinging vine. So he goes hunting pathetlcallj around for some IJI soft, dlshraggy maiden, without an . ft idea In her head and with no deslro IV to do anything but Bit at his feet and IcX I FgB ask him what he thinks she thinks rrK In these days of intelligent, aleit .BJ veil -educated women this species Is becoming so rare that the poor, dear l man la driven Into marrying an idiot, Ba j nd then he wonders that domesticity B1Bmb dull. whv he find no 5B I 'nlonshlp at home. SjjjBJ If men could only got over thrlr hereditary fear of Intelligence In wo-.B wo-.B men, and if they would pick out the smartest women they can find for lM wives, it would do more than any one f;i I thing to take the curse out of matrl- W il mony. The fool among women Is becoming ' rare. So is the woman who enjoys 1 being a parasite The crying need of the day Is for a new man w ho Will re-J re-J allze this, and who Will be willing to accept his wife on his own plane ami , il deal frankly nnd honestly with her as j hi uould with another man What the modern woman desires is a hus-band hus-band whom she will not have to whee- 3 die, or cajole, or work but who will ' regard her as his partner, having cer- tain rights of her own and equally en- titled to share with him in all the perquisites of life as she shares in its Kg pains. Another need is for a new man who Is big enough and brave enough to j. break the bonds of custom and con- k'l ntlon that tie a woman's hands afU t Bhe is married, and force her Into menial men-ial labor, no matter how qualified she ; i to do the brain work that Is paid -J so much bettor. I I A man feels himself disgraced, and that It advertises him as a failure, If his wife Roes on with her business I 0 profession After he is msrrled The i woman may love her work and be miserable mis-erable without, it. Sh may need the J .money It will bring in li may si k n ,her very soul to leave congenial, nightly nigh-tly -paid professional employment to , become a kitchen drudge-No drudge-No matter Because there la a moss I grown thoorv that the proper thing la for a man to keep his wife In supposed sup-posed Idleness the woman has to do all her labor In the privacy pf home to save, her husband's false pride. Other time?. 'ither conditions, financial fi-nancial social. Womi-n have accepted thi s,- theories W omen have adjusted themselves to the new condition. Women Wo-men recognize thai it people are to ! marr Whllehcy are young enough to really love, the wives must add to he family exchequer. Thev are willing to do theli part. They want to keep on with the occupa-l tions for which thev have fitted themselves. them-selves. Thev recognize the economic waste of a fifty-dollar a week office woman becoming a ten dollar cook but the men still ling to the fo.slliz-fi fo.slliz-fi theorv that the married woman must not work out of her home even if the thoorv deprives her of ever having hav-ing s husband and a home at ail It Is because v.-omn are forward-looking, forward-looking, and men are backward look-ins look-ins in their relations to each other that there are so many clashes between the sexes, and so much friction between husbands and wives; ami the question, is. will men change to meet the new situation ? Will a man develop who will see In women a human being like himself, loving freedom and independence, claiming the .vame rights n marriage that he has That is the only hope of matrlmonv For 'he world goes on Women will never turn back, and men must catch step with them for the forward march If the, are to go together. |
