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Show Eroihy Dix Talks j THE FOUR S'S ;iy the World. & Higly'St Paid Woman Write? I IB SocV"''-' w o me the other day s for is a Flrl wh i ,:nd when I flp on her dooratei or has me arreatet ! in her vicinity. s..: The) eretlu In woman. The. Is noiig m mind agh; i-sn"t It, to re-it re-it s time ii whs an i'i character to call nd mtn fought t-): d prove an alibi t-and t-and tliat In our was thought eoars-1 I to he strong and or.d appetite, and ft read) to pull of! t provocation, an) swooning. ehosc nervea I will n-ldermg and who l nst of her -ymp-1C tired at night 8 to the woman I hall be enough of a i to show my wife courtesy and con-it con-it soms io dellbei neurotic creature, a lifetime of d0 woman la one who work shoulder to and play with him nt must be "trong ir baby dolls, with sawdust head, to: kho will be a real re:.ds and atudle. ?ir.!ons of her own. om I can talk ovei i will bring to my intuition thHt often v. ant a wife with ': who will be able If In a pinch, and Jicight of death a she would be so an must be square ind honorable, and 1 ion who think It r. for th ir wives to night and . .get exl n m y by hn ing it camouflaged i canned gooda -:i the grocery bill, nnd .(Who t:.k. evet , thing Ih-Ml WiVCS tell jtheni with a grain of salt. 1 1 "I should hate a wife who was a thief lnd a liar, i could never look hi her without Mih a cdnterapt tor her that i . I couldn't endure her aoclet) single da. : Oh. I know that many a woman who la guilty of petty larceny in driven to ii 1 i: net husband'a atlngineaa. Uut they j "need the money" is t'.te excuse that everybody ev-erybody who steals inakea. and In these 1 daya w hen any woman can make her own l!lr.g. II teems lo me that a li-alh quar woman would get out and earn mono) before she would ineafc it in un jderhanded waya from her husband. ' And I must know that mv wife Is so square that there can be no place for If-aious' in my scheme of life. None of the harem atuff tot me. I want my wife lie KJO :,liout t0 be a'mliel, to enjii- the soi et) of Intaraatlng men and i must I know her to be so straight', so loyal, ao true, thai LI would . aa Imnoaalble . thing for her to betray mo. or to do anything any-thing to bring a amlreh on the name i have given her, as it would be for fire to turn to ice ' And ni ideal girl musl be sincere I hat, poae nnd pretense as the devil hater hoi) water, I don't want to be Jollied ! anil cajoled, and worked ' I 1 like girl w ho fbie; n'l pretend lo iVt 1 1 ad books that she has ncor hear. I i of, or to have a passion for classical i music When hei real ta.ite is for Jazr, and who makes out thai she Is domes-tic. domes-tic. when she couldn't boll water without I burning it. "And I doubly bate the kind of woonen who have long Scratchy claws concealed j In their nice little soft paws, and who Ian- i.;wa;.s giving tun scratch when Oil least expect it You know w hat I mean, the kijtd ol women who purr, and i gush and gurgle. !nrl toll yon how won derful you are. and then say pimething in i ner about you than your worst eneniv could have invented. That Wind of a girl , makes i he j.ort of a wife who sticks to a j man Jumi as long as Ins money making I luck holds out, and then suddenly finds aomc sort of an excuse that entitles her! to a divon e l rom him. "1 wont a girl who Is mncere. whose i is all wool and a yard wide, and just what it appears to be and whose kisses aie not for .valc. not even to her husband. And m Ideal woman mud have sweetness. Without lhat. all the other harms of woman are as the cackling of thorns under a pot Sound ami fury, -icmif. ing nothing. The wife I want must be gentle, with a low soft voice and quiet movements. She must have ii sympath) that never fails. She must have tenderness and understanding, un-derstanding, and a compassion like ihe in, re;. 0( ' !od She mUSt be all that we mean when wo say of a woman that she is dear and a sweet. 'Of course. 1 don t know- what any 1 glil who possesses the four S'e will want with n poor blundering thing like me. but( women do lots of foolish things, and may-be may-be one of them w ill be sills enough to ; throw h.-rrclf away on me. Anyw,a. I'll have a try at It." 00 |