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Show I Dorothy Dix Talks I A MAN'S IDEAL WOMAN t ft v DOftOTHY DIX, t lie World's liiehcsl Haiti Woman Write: She must be beautiful, preferably tall and slendor. though an occasional man leans lo what v. us once called tht pocket Venus. " and Is now spolten of in the vernacular as the "cuddle pup ' size. No matter what her height or weigh! howis.r. she must have a peaches-and-creuni complexion, Cinderella Cin-derella feet, iart;e ox-UKc eyes, and hair that curls. Furthermore, 'he beauty of a man's ideal woman must be Of the adamantine adaman-tine kind that can stand the Kicks uni cuffs of fate without getting Its paint scratched off, or being dented For the ideal woman never grows serawncy nor fat. Her hair never gets grizzled or thin She never grows old. for sh" has not only tasted the waters of the Fountain of Perpetual Youth, she has pickled herself in them. A man's Weal woman is always exquisitely ex-quisitely dressed in soft fllmv things of delicate, pastel shades and her hair Is waved and curled in th;.t artlessly artful way that onlv reoulres a couple a hours to do. If you arc a quick work! r. A man may he a tightwad who howls with agony nr. If she had .otten h'.s life blood, everv time his .. i strikes him for a hand-me-down frpdk, but nonc-the less his dream vomun is always clothsd in F'aris creations. cre-ations. Ke may expect his wife to cook and scrub, and wash, and lend baby, but he f cr looks at her bungalow apron ml work roughened hands without .hlnklng how different she is from his ideal and Ihnl. somehow, a woman ought to be able to be a good cook and look like a lady love at the same tune I A man's ideal woman Is the clinging vine. She is as spineless as a shoe string, and all that she asks of her id is to be permitted to cling lo him. echo all of his opinions, and have no mind of her own whatever. But she must be able to reverse roles and become the sturdy oak If necessity demands a heloful. eitergeitc papable woman in the family. Also, the clinging vine, even In her impM moments, must have decision of character char-acter enough to deal with a family of belf-Wllled children and fhrht profiteering profit-eering tradesmen to a stand-still. In a word a man's Ideal woman is a flowering vlni which festoons itself it-self gracefull about him in public. and x" calls attention to his strength, while In private he expects it not only to .stand alone nnd avoid becoming a burden upon him. but to Drop him up. In intelligence a man's Ideal woman knows Just a little less than he docs. Sin- follows at his heels like hlo dog and devours hungrily and gratefully whatever bones of his thought he throws to her. And she cazes rev r-enlh r-enlh up into bis eves and takes her i ues from his looks cominccd that he Is the re.il fountiiln of all wisdom No man can ever imairine himself inurrvlnga woman who Is cleverer than he is. or has better ludgmont, or who Is more widely Informed and a clearer thinker. Vr. often he does, but this la only when the woman Is so supernaturally clever that she kppwa enough to conceal from him how clei cr she is. A man's ideal woman Is always a domestic; n ;ture whose d?arest ambition ambi-tion is to make the prize angel food n her community. She may have been a society butterfly, or a fashion plate or a prize private secretary, or a successful professional or business woman, but a man neer visions her, In his mind's eye as continuing to take an) Interest after marriage in the I thing that was lur whole interest be- ' fore marrlafi i His Ideal woman JbyCullv gives tip everything for the un liege i-f cooking things the wax he likes them, and would rather turn out a batch tf bread such as his mother used to make than to write a sixth best seller or pull off a hlg financial deal Hut while she spends her life In the kitchen, she never smells of the cook stove, nor does her conversation run tu recipes and the price of butcher's meat. And. somehow. In the establishment establish-ment presided over bv the Ideal woman wo-man there arc- no bills to mar the :.weot serenity of domestic life. I'erh.. pa clothes grow on the luck of the Ideal woman as feathera do on hens Perhaps tho Ideal woman ls a conjurer who can wave a magic wand over the gas range and nroduce a luxurious lux-urious meal out of thin air. At any rate, the woman a man sees In the Mil. il e Hi Ills pipe ne . r. never a.VS 'John, the gioeei savs that if you iion't pay." etc., etc. The local Woman is never sick, nor nervous nr frazzled, worn out. and cross She can be up all night walking a sick baby and appeal SWSOl .ml smiling and ladluntlv cood-natured at breakfast waiting for a man In his office of-fice Hut the Ideal woman Knows by intuition when a man's .--tomach Is out of order and he Is dvsPeptiC and grouchy; and she cani distinguish between be-tween temper and nerves, and Instead Of getting angrv when he behaves Ilk--a polled baby she rjf fq and COddH him and hurries up the dinner. The Ideal wife la an adoring worshipper wor-shipper who never gets Jealous. She Is a slave who hugs her chains. She trlve.- her husband free.ior.i to wander but stays put herself. And she Is the champion fhrglver of tho universe. A composite portrait rf her would show a picture 0f Lillian Kussell. 1 heda Itarn Ilettv Creen. and Patient Qtiselda And there len'l anv such person. |