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Show If Dorothy Dix Talks I - T-L THE IMAGINARY RIVAL ; Tf B DQRQTH1 DIX, i b- VjMjd'a r 1 1 g h a t JP"J"" Wri jet: j 5H A man writf-6 nw tlirit he doubis Iuf : fiancees affections lor him becauae she iifjB Is always extolling the oharraa of a ccr hj tain movie hero, and he wants to know If ' V. 1 think that the girl can really love him whik- she raves about the soulful eyes and Greek profile of the gentleman on the i 1 screen, and sighs to be made love to as I men do it in novels and on the stage. ; nnd never do In real life. ' Pooh. Nonsense lonK :. n m.ir. vj hasn't anything to be Jealous of except LJ a film, he s in lUCK There i no 'lun 'W ?er of that, breaking up his happy home ''J i If only he has aenae enough to resllzo -t S that the girl's admiration for this stage hero, whom she hsa never seen In the -, '-, 'M flesh and probably never will see. la Just i ' -i B little romantic meringue on the lemon !'",' i ! pio of life She enjoys just a bite of It M now and then, but doesn't want It for a j steady diet, and she no more desires real- - ty to mnrry the man than she would want' vf. i to live on pastry. It's roast beef and po- r . : 'S tatoes. and a good stetidy feller with a ' ' aB nuh nose, and no roll to his eves that a r1-' i jl woman wants for regular consumption. . J As a matter of fact, every husband and MH 3 wife in the world lias one of these Imog ; .9 inatr rivals Sometimes It Is a hero In j I & a book SomcUmes It Is an actor or an! i, m ..ties t;tn r.iiK it li do oni particu. ,1 f lar person. It is Just the man or woman, Vfi' m wc didn't marry, and who Is so different ' Y from the one w did marry. With i ho man, the woman he did not rn'9aj marry Is always voung and beautiful When he looks across the table at the woman he dM marry nnl . , I XJI'JM ft. and grizzle haired. with sagging 3r j , hetk.-e and triple chins, he thinks how tjS different she is from the Other One who; Ft would have the glory of eternal youth UP unci bi ' ul hei ''ijH&A And tl"-' w"om:in he did not marry would irlK2fl have been some sort of miracle worker : B w,l would never have bothered hlrn about rtfl money. She would have presided over a i house that was always spick and span, 1 jfl in which there were perfect meals and M plenty of heat, and light and well train I LJfa ''d servants, but there would have ben , no bills to bother him ond no deadly , -'"'jS "Will you leave me some money for the h -3 children's shoes, and the laundress, and I tH to pa' nay milliner?" shot across the 1 breakfast table to ruin his day for him. i :1 And the woman he didn't marry would "rH hnvo been a sweetly reasonable creature t 91 would always gTccl him with a glad, '- ; VjM nwcet smile when he crno borne at tnroe I t m and told him how glad she was tha. J IJ.I , ..... - ,1 I ..111, Ik. kwi I I lie iook a nine uivcisium nn un trtjc-And trtjc-And she would know that because a man Is married doesn't afflict him with any kind of astigmatism that prevents him from ta'tlng note of a pretty face, or a i run ankle, that happened to drift across hi3 vision She would not be a woman with a mania about having a mon show up on time of an evening, nor would she ).. filled with deep, derk suspicions of every 11 who Is half her age and weight 1.1 trhom har huaband looks, as is the uji of his bosom. A beautiful and lissome young creature who is never sick, who has no nerves or temper, who wos born with a permanent perma-nent wave in her hair, with Pons clothes growing on her back like fea titers on a peacock, and who can live on air that is a man's mentul picture of the woman he didn't mom, and that is the deadlv j rival with whom he Is always comparing his wife In hla thoughts Of course, he knows that no such pei son exists, but alt the same, she la a kind Of consolation to turn to when the real ' wife calls him to book, and grows hard to live with. The m;in a vomnn didn t many is the perfect lover. Ho would have wooed and mm her In romantic altuationa, and talked talk-ed scntlmwnt to her In poetic language, and popped the question to h. r In a fren J outtiurst of paslon which thrilled her t to remember to the taut day of hcr He would never hove said' Gee Mm but 1 am strong for ? ou. What do in say io our gelling tied up in double lurncss?" as did the man she married. And the mon she didn't marry would never have wearied of talking sentiment to her. He would have continued to kiss her for forty years with on nrdor that never abotcci. He would have told her that she grew more beautiful year by year, and ne would have sung paeons of (raise In honor of hei housekeeping. Me would never have had to be remind ad to come back and give her a bacon . and-sggs peek on the cheek when he , started to work in the morningy. Ho would never, never have demnnded to know why she couldn I learn to make pie ike mother's as does the unappreclatirc . i man to whom she Is married. ! The man she didn't marry would have , known that she was All Soul thai ele I was. somehow, different from other women, and that the reason she nevei 1 ould keep the butcher's bill within rea son, or have meals on time was because j she was a genius who had thrown awn. h great career bv making the mistake of getting married instead of elcvatlnc the stage, or writing a masterpiece. And 1 he would have understood that when she I got angry and waa ashamed of It after i wards thai It wasn't reall temper, but j Just because she was temperamental and J finely strung, and he would have aym pathlzed with her Instead of telling hei not to act like a fool, as does the man to whom she Is married. V And the man she didn't marry would I have been able to make money with one I hand and romantic love with the other, f so to speak. In real life a woman gen- tl orally has to chooao between the man D who can give her a limousine and the 1 one who can entertain her. but the man I a woman dldn t marry Isn't tied down to m an office. He can take his wife to after Hi noon teas, and play golf with her of j1 mornings, and ho Is equally strong on I II poetry, and the stock market A woman knows that. In reality there j isn't any mon like the one she dldn t I marry but she gets a lot of fun In think ng about him. and dreomlng about what EP oitgtit lmv been, and then he. cornea I flown to eorth and is qi.lte satisfied with) I her own matrimonial bargain, who Is cut off of the sapie piece of Imperfect hu-, hu-, mo nlty thul : ho Is. It Is this vision of the tomance they I have, never had that makes men and j woman fall in love with the stars of the j screen And it is a perfectly hannleaa j and safe way of blowing off sentimental I steam. |