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Show I Dorothy Dix Talks j m By DOROTHY DIX. the World's Highest Paid Woman Write I i TO HAVE AND TO HOLD Do you ever go fishing, girls0 If you do, you know that it isn't enough Just to have good bait. You have to have a strong, unbreakable lino, also Or else your fish will get away. You may hook It without any trouble, but if all you have got is a weak thread for a line, your catch will plav around a while, ;ind then break away, and swim gayly off to nibble at another! attractive fly. That is the way with men. You cun catch a man with a pretty faco. but you have to hold him with brains. It isn't enough for the outside of a girl's, head to bo handsomely adorned. The! Inside ho to bo equally well decorated i, aehi.s and cream complexion, and! naturally wavy hair are all to the goad as far as they go. but they don't go far enough. They have to bo back-j ed up with gray matter If they aro to bo a permanent attraction that can always play a return engagement with a man. Women sec that men put such an over-valuation on female pulchritude! that It is not surprising thai thej havol fallen Into tho error of thinking that hen- looks are the only thing that, counts. They see men clustered seven deep around a pretty little gooso who would be in a homo for the feeble minded if she were where he be-1 longed. They see men gazing soulfullv! Into big, liquid cowliko eyes that Instead In-stead of being windows of the soul aro nothing but panes of glass that look into an empty room. They see men pans up clever, Intelligent; homely col-lege col-lege graduates, In whose society one Would never have a dull moment, fo beautiful morons w ho are so dull that I they bore one to death. So It is no wonder that girls think that good looks are the onl thing that matters, and that thev unrnH ih,.ir time and their energy and their labor I In perfecting the technique of theli1 complexions, and contributing new! I coiffeurs and acquiring glad nilment.' Men, also, aro under the Illusion that a woman's best bet is a pretty fac for tho first question they ever ask about on unkonwn girl is: "Is she a good looker?" Not. "Is she lntelli-i gent?" "Is she interesting?" Furthermore, a man stresses his valuation of a woman's appearance by always complimenting her on hci beauty when ho wants to please her Ho tells her how wonderful her eyes are. or how fairy-like her feel. Ho never tells her how wonderfully un. derstandlng and sympathetic she js 0i how entertaining. Perhaps men do not know themselves them-selves that they require something more than a pretty face in a woman Perhaps thoy do not understand the I nro willing to let some other man marry' the beauty they admire so much Perhaps this explains why great beauties nearly always hang on and on. while their le-9 good looking sistrrs marry all around them, and In. ! the end they generally pick up a mor t s l.lii.en slick. Por It is notice- I able that the great beauty seldom H makes a great match. Tho reason for this, of course,, '? becau.se nature holds the scale pretty 4 after all. and when she gives a woman a maximum of good looks si-. is pretty apt to hand her out thn minimum of brain cells Inevitably, BH there are many exceptions to this rule ! but in the main the easier on the eye B i a woman is, tho harder she is on thn !g mentality of those with whom tl.. H comes in contact. ThereforOi men are content to let 51 other men hang the living picture on I H their wall, for they know that there la K nothing on earjfh of which one can H 10 di adl) tired of as gazing at a H ! painted face that is set in a smirk and i smile of beauty, that has behind It no H Intelligence, no enthusiasm, no un- R5 derstandlng, nothing to pique a man'; fls! Interest, and keep it alive. IH Then Is no denying that a prttt v !!$! face i Ltches a man's eye, but tho Jl ! woman who wants to keep his gaz HI Hi from wandering, must have something; more than mere good looks. 8he must have intelllgente. She must have odu I mH cation. She must have sublety. She HflH must be psychologist enough to be I ble to pick a man to pieces, and know Bll what he wants beiore n knows him self The pretty face will catch a man '' t It Is always good bait, but it take- ififll i strong line of brains to hold him. HB Thi woman who has nothing but her nits with which to attract a man liLi i Is bound to lose out because a wo- man's good looks aro a matter of a , very few, short, fleeting years. 2H But the woman who has beauty ot own. iiiuiu li a o umt io wnicn tin" adds .as age and experience ripen her " fy The women whom men lovo to Che fa end of tho chapter are those who sup- IS plomontod their cosmetics with study. IS and who have once attracted a man KM bound him to them by cleverness, by Iff humor, by smypsthy, by being able t i enter into the man's affairs. It is '.he women who can keep a man in- (JjJ terested ud entertained of whom ho ! never tires HfJ Therefore girls, look to your line as well as your bait when you become a S fisher of men. Devote as much time HI to Improving your mind as you do to vM beautifying your body. Put as mans Vu thought waves on the inside of yout Sfl head ns ou do permanent waves on mm the outside. Put in as much time In II reading and study as vou do on select- l ing your clothes. Try as hard to listen M good to a man as you do to look good U to him. and you will get better re- lu suits. Ifl Dorothy Dlx's Arllcie appear In tln-pap tln-pap i everj Monday. Wednesday and Friday. Sra |