The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-19
BY Dorothy Dix.
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer

The worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer.
# lIE reason that So many womcr
are failures is because so man,
business women are ashamed o
their Jobs
Lately | have been thrown with a
swoman who is well born and well edu.
!cated, and until two years ago moved
in fashionable social circles Then her
husband suddenly died, and as they had
spent everything he made IN keeping up
with their rich friends, size was lief,
destitute
She Was Illuminated.
She studied slenogaphy and was
given a place in business office by a
man who had often been her guest in
her palmy DAYS, but instead Of being
proud that she had enough intelligence,
courage and independence 10 strike out
for herself instead OF becoming a dc
pendent upon the grudglnR charity OF
others. this silly woman was Inundated
TO death because she had to go TO work
| think | have never seen any
thing more pathct, than her false
pride, a pride that made her boast
continually Of having known this or
that member Of the 4O0 and OF hav-
ing spent a week end at some mil
lionaircS palatlal country home or
taken a trip on some trust mag
mates Yacht Il madc,you want to
weep TO hear her recount her past
social triunphS in one breath and in
the next wall because most Of her
former friends and acquaintance
had dropped her as it she had been
suddenly smltten with tho lepruSy
as soon as she had become poor and
needy
This woman had no interest in her
work, no ambition to excel in it, Every
particle Of brain and energy she had
was concentrated on hanging on to what
little social position she had left and
keeping up the fiction that she had
taken up Stcnography as fad to
occupy her thoughts and keep her FROM
grlevlng too much over the loss OF her
husband. instead oi having taken it up
as a business by which to make bread
and butter
Must Work to Live.
This poor lady'S case stirred my deep
est compassion not because fate had
forced her to become a producer instead
Of Just waSter and Spendcr for | be
lleyc that none but those who work have
any excuse for living hut because her
false pride made the way so hard for
her and doomed her TO ultimate failure
She missed thc thrill And JOY Of
independence because she was
Ashamed TO be known AS a working
woman She missed that deep
satisfying exaltation that the
craftsman has in good work done
because she diSplsed the labor at
which she tolcd She missed the
sincere friendship and companion
ship that she might have had among
her fellow workers because she
Scorncd them as beings OF inferior
social caste She skunk into her
business office as il ,she had been
going to. some diSgraceiul rcndcz-
vouS and were trying to escape
recognition and she tortured her.
self wondering what some branlesS
cad she had once known would
be saying Of her
Is 1t any wonder that such a woman
holds her place only on suiicrancc that
will soon be worn thrcadbare. Or
that her work is bad Or that she will
never get dollar more salary or be
advanced to any highcI place
No human being ever did any work
well who was ashamed Al il 1t is
only pride that puts theipunch in any
labor that makes It great To make
success, you have to believe that the
thing YOU arc doing is the finest and
best thing in the world and that Won
are the mckleSt person alive to have
been elected to do it,
Womens Work Bad
People complain that women work
IS SO often bad work. This is true
and their work is bad because they
are ashamed OF it and have no inter.
est IN IT, but the fault does not lie
with the individual woman sn much
as with the false teaching Of which
women have been the unfortunate y,r-
Tins
Men have had the ideal Of indcpcn-