El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-12
Winding Your Own
Business Greatest Art
Only Few Heroic Women Capable of Keeping Their
Hands Off Others Affairs Dorothy Dix Declares;
Interference Apparently Part of Feminine Nature.
ny DOROTHY DIN.

The average woman attends to her
( business in the intervals when she ism 1
/ worrying about why the Browns don
! send their children to the public school
: instead Of to a private one, when
3 Brown is only on a salary, and how ths
I Smiths can afford a new automobile
! this season.
3 And the QueeresU part of it all is that
! by some quirk OF feminine logic this
: unwarranted butting into other peo-
pies affairs is accounted a virtue by
I her insted of a vice.
A woman's definition Of selfishness
/ lis an Individual who attends strictly "a
his own business, and who doesn't in
J terfere with advice when other people
are in trouble. nor prescribe on his own
I hook for a sick person.
This inability to attend to her own
: business and leave other people to run
+ theirs, without any assistance from her.
goes a long way toward explaining why
women so often fail in their undertake
ings. For instance. il is the principal
reason why so many women break
down physically. They try to carry
the universe on their shoulders
They could manage well enough with
| their own work and bear with suffic-
lent fortutude their own troubles. but
when they add to that the accumulated
Affections Of everybody with whom
they are acquainted. they collapse un-
der the burden of woe.
Il is doubtless a pity that Mrs Jones
should be such a poor manager and so
wasteful and extravagant 1t is much
to be regretted that young Blank does
not go 20 work and support his wild
owed mother. 1t is n crying shame that
the Gray baby should be fed on sauer
kraut and beer instead of sterilized
milk, but after all. the other women
in the neighbOrhOOd are not responsible
for these affairs. and there isn't 4
blessed thing they can do about them
50 why should they worry? Yet they
Worry Wasted.
There isn't a wife and mother for
blocks around who isn't weafing her
self into a FRAGILE over the way the
Joneses and the Blanks and the Grays
OF their communities conduct their
households. and all to no purpose, for
the Joneses and the Blanks and the
Grays don't want their advice and
won't have it at any price.
There was probably never a marriage
when everybody i'm the community
Didn't feel that they could have made
q much more judicious selection for
both parties than they made for their
selves, yet divorce is comparatively
rare. Everyone Of US is dead sure that
we could bring up everybody else's chill
dren much better than they are doing
IT, yet other peoples children seem TO
turn out about as we'll as our own.
1
about these matters We are reduced
TO tears because Sallie Peters is goin--
70 marry the man she wants instead Of
the man whom we think would suit her.
We aggravate our souls because Mrs.
Perkins let's her baby play in the back
yard with the cat instead OF having. il
folding paDer mats at the kindergarten.
II the sympathy we lavish on people
who don't need it or desire It, and the
amount Of energy we expend on other
peoples affairs could be applied to our
own business, we should ali be shining
examples Of success
People are always wondering what
the lure of city life is. It's main at
traction is that in a big city YOU ar,
delivered from interfering neighbors
We never get to know people well
enough for them to advise us. and 4he~e
is such great peace and happiness m
DelnE permitted to manage our awn
affairs in our own way that it COM
pensates for every i'll city people suf-
fer. The millennium will have arrived
when we learn to mind our own nusf-
ness. But It will be an Eveless Eden
without single woman i'm it.