If a girl wishes to be popular in
society, to have many dates and to
make a good marriage, it pays her a
great deal better to cultivate the out
side of her head than it does the in
side, and to spend more time mani
curing her finger nails than she does
to polishing her mind. This is why
a really clever woman never lets any
man find out how clever she is. and
why so many apparently foolish and
frivolous girls give us surprises by
showing unexpected sense and sanity.
For mighty few girls are as big fools
as they seem to be.
But while men like silliness in women
in their hours of ease, when they come
to do business with women they demand
good, hard, horse sense. They do not
want stenographers and saleswomen
with lovely domes of solid ivory through
which no idea' of efficiency can ever
percolate.
Nor do men wish their wives to be
quite the morons after marriage that
they seemed to he before marriage.
The "child wife" who was so ro
mantic and appealing a figure in the
days of courtship is mighty apt to
get on a man's nerves when he has
to deal with a woman who hasn't
sense enough to learn how to keep
house nor intelligent enough to settle
any question herself, and who can
only weep and wring her hands when
the bills nre beyond reason, and the
children are sick and she doesn't
know how to take care of them.
