The San Francisco call., 1913-10-21
Through the Dollar
S Mark S
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX

A man has few dollars, ana MS
horizon is deep and broad. He gets
a few more, and thereafter looks on
life through the bars of the dollar
sign. as a prisoner looks through the
bars Of his cell
He weighs every man by the dollar;
he measures every man by the dollar;
he approves or condemns every man
according to his ability to make
dollar. He looks at no mans heart,
but at every mans purse.
With the dollar mark forming the
- bars. of the cell window before his
eyes. it is stamped on all he sees,
its purchase price.
He thinks there is nothing the dol
lar will not purchase. and in this
wholesale category he places Love
and Woman. The latter he may buy,
but the quality of morals and brain
make his purchase penalty of riches
instead of a reward. The former.
thank just heaven, is never for sale.
DOLLAR LETTER
The writer OF the following letter
is squirting through the dollar sign:
Il am an old bachelor" he writes,
''and have the pleasure of knowing
a young lady 81 years of age of
-' whom 1 think very highly. I am in
business and can support her and
give her comfortable home and
every luxury life holds.
There is a young man about her
: age with whom she is IN love. but he
is not able to support her at present.
and probably will not be for a few
years
What course should I pursue to
gain her love from him?"
1t is a satire on the power of riches
that the most priceless possession life
holds is without price. A man may
- buy land. luxuries. power. influence
and other mems brains, but he can
not buy love.
The HEART of no woman was ever
: for sale.
What course, he asks. should he
= pursue to win this girl from the man
she loves?
The question OF selfish man! The
girl loves her boyish lover, and in the
transf1guring light of their devotion
she sees no hardship in poverty with
him. He is happy. she is happy. each
e content to wait till the good time
comes when they can afford to marry.
= Then along comes the rich old man,
like the villain in play, or the ghost
: at the banquet and asks what course
. he should pursue to bring lasting
misery to both.
The question of selfish man.
: dollar sign in the window of his soul
. and began to look at life through it,
when his heart was warmed by the
) sight of pair of lovers, and he
longed. as we all do. for the power
to make the course of love easy.
He read because Of the love story in
the book. He went to the theater
because of the love theme in the play,
and no song had an appealing inf1u-
ence on him unless IT was song Of
love.
HIS NARROW VISION
= He thought that some day, when
he could afford it," he would tell a
love story all his own. not knowing
: In his narrow minded vision that no
man is ever so poor he can't afford to
be the hero in his own love story.
1t is this first being a hero to a
woman that makes a man a hero to
the world
IT is this sublime indifference to the
cost of potatoes that makes Love the
universal theme. When the world
E, puts off Love till 1t can afford it,
the world will come TO an end
This is what this man can do. He
can recognize the happiness of others!
He can give to others the chance at
happiness he puts off for himself
Instead of trying to come between
these lovers. he can use his wealth
and influence to remove the obstacles
: In their path. He can show his love
for the girl by assisting her to
q happy marriage with the man she