El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-30
Pity the Poor Rich Girl
Her lot Is a Hard One and Much
More Deserving of Our Tears than
Many of the Woes of the Poor.
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BY Dorothy Di1

n ITY the poor rich girl. who has
~ nothing to do but to amuse her
= self doing things that bore her
stiff Her lot is. indeed, a hard one,
and much more deserving Of our tears
that many Of the woes OF the poor over
which we are accustomed to weep.
There has recently been a great
Juror over a young heiress, moving
in the most exalted circle OF Engllsh
society, who ran away from home be
cause she wanted to make her own hY-
Society was shocked. and shrugged
its shoulders, and tapped its empty
forehead with a Significant intimatiOn
that there was something wrong with
the poor girls mind, for her mania was
to do something terrible and incompre-
She wanted to go to work! She
wanted to be a dOer. not a WaSter.
She wanted to be Of service TO her
fellow creatures, not parasite OF
And she was rich: And she didn't
have to work And she could have
every mortal thing that money can buy!
And she wasn't satisfied
No Wonder They Worry.
No wonder her family Wrung their
hands when they thought OF her, and
called her peculiar, and wondered what
on earth they would do with her, for
likely as not she wouldn't want to
marry a sapheaded youth with a Few
more millions, or even be willing to
purchase a degenerate old rOue with a
title for a husband
But however her family and friends
may feel over this poor girls futile
break for freedom, she has my hearty
sympathy. for / can think Of nothing
else that human ingenuity has ever in
vented that would be such a martyr
dom Of boredom as to have to live the
life of what we call "a society woman,
a nd fG
after another.
There are, Of course. women who find
their highest happiness in buying
clothes and who ask OF rate no more
blissful occupation than to be cOntinu-
ally taking off one dress and hat, and
putting on another dress and hat
The Auction Bridge Career.
There are other women who cans
make a career out Of auction bridge.
and who satisfy every need of their
natures by rushing from card table to
card table.
AndFthere are others whose highest
ambition is to know the people that
don't want to know them. and who
consider a 1abOriOuS life Of striving
well spent if it lands them at last
within the sacred precincts of the four
hundred, where all of your family af-
fairs get into print
To care for all Of these things
enough to make them worth while
you must be born that way, and that
is what makes the tragedy Of the rich
girl whose Drains We're not cut on the
bias and frilIed in the middle and
hObbled with blue ribbon tied about
them. She wearies of the artificial
interests Of those who are forever at
their wits end to devise some new way
Of KILN gthe time. She wants the real
thrill of a real interest where you pit
your own intelligence and skill against
that Of others, and struggle for real
prize.
And the thing she wants most she
can't have. Nobody Will let her try.
even to find out what is in her, what
strength she has. what are the meas
ures of her talents. There is nothing
left for her but tog o in for phiian-
thrOpy. and she hates philanthropy
She wants to save herself. not others
And that's why I say, pity the poor
rich girl Her only salvation is to be
born without any human qualities.
That is If she is to be happy.
The rich woman with brains and
ambition and a desire to be Of use in
the world is as forlOrn a figure as
exists in the world. She is the victim
Of her wealth as much as the poorest
person is Of his poverty. and her life
is far. far duller tina nthat Of any
worker e0gaged in labor in which he
is interested