The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12
DOLLY HEARS ABOUT
"THE ROOT OF EVIL
Person Can't Be Happy With the Right Kind of Happiness
Without Splitting Their Sunshine Over and Radiatng it to
Every One Who Comes Anywhere Near.-The Root of
Evil is the Absence of Joy
by DOLLY DALRYMPLE

I enough joy to go round in the world--I
mean, il it were apportioned justly
every condition would be changed. Great
bodies of men ground DOWN by economic
conditions, starvation wages, or no JOBS
at all, would not be filling their hearts
with hate against the so-called upper
classes What is now hate. If there were
enough joy In the world. would be tide
of good will and energy that in itself
would work a positive revolution An ab
sence of joy, of conditions that produce
! joy, makes the socialist, the anarchist
what he is; and his argument Is pretty
direct Why should some be given hap
piness, freedom, while others have dealt
| to them exactly the opposite from life's
deck of cards?"
ITO quote Pierre de Couevain in her
| tremendously interesting book, on the
Branch / remarked, 1.-The elements for
an epilogue are there certainly in your
suggestion, and / shouldn't mind writing
it, but | should hate to have to live it."
| A woman's arguments along these lines
| may as well say right here. are not
convincing, generally.
I could see what Nietsche's new admirer
had meant, but not by the way she ex-
| pressed 1t.
Leave all that she continued, 'and
bring the aphorism to bear upon a wom-
| an S lire. II you tnlnK ABOUT IL, you IL
reach the conclusion that ] have-that
every mistake that woman makes is
based upon this Nietzscne truth. Woman
wants to be happy. She doesn't always
| know. / grant you, what will make her
happy, but she'll sacrifice everything in
a material way if she thinks her reward
will be gerat enough joy. Because the
average woman isn't calculating is the
/ first reason she often makes a grand
muss out of her life. As she sees it her
great need is joy. Lack of it, is the evil
| canker that is molding Her life. She'll
risk 1t all. however; let Joy in with its
sunshine and all will be changed II she
doesn't take .he risk to reach out after
what she thinks is her happiness. the
other state is quite as sad. She is discon.
tented-miscast and-oh, WELL she's the
type of woman who is at the bottom OF
| the whole feminist movement. She's gone
a bit further than her simpler sister. She
thinks reform can be effected in a nat
ural way. and works. for 1t rather than
for any Individual good. She's past the
place where she seeks personal joy, she
| has a dream of revolutionizing the race
and bringing every woman her birth
right"
Don't you think that a woman often
talks to clarity thoughts in her own mind
for herself?
My companion was doing this now.
| ''All the backbiting and petty envy In
the world she was saying, lis based OF
la lack of joy. You think any woman
would waste her rainbow thoughts by
thinking mean and unl<ind things about
any other woman? Well. ] happen K
krow that no happy woman would IL
this. She'd understand only too well thai
by doing this, she smirches her own crys-
tai bubble of joy. It's the joyless woman
who in her ignorance spends her strength
in hating and in gossping. Some womer
are breaking their necks trying to out
shine other women for the same reas.~~
When one hasn't any riches of spirit til.
worldly possessions have to be given {
value, they do not and never could pos
sess.''
"If a woman had enough joy in he
life, she rambled on She'd be as happ,
In a calico frock as the handsomest sat
in gown, for both are only silly. meaning
less dress materials. when we think o
them as they are. An automobile mean
nothing to woman whose happines
trsnscends all worldly possessions
''Of course. you are bored with all this
she suddenly checked up. forgot il
my enthusiasm that my little discover,
} may be something that everybody els