The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-15
DOROTHY DIX"
Who Is Worlds Highest Paid
Woman Newspaper Writer
Becomes a Member of the To-
peka State Journals Staff.

Thru n happy arrangement with pig
eastern dailies the State Journal is
able to interest its readers, beginning
today. with the famous Dorothy DIX
articles.
Just a little more than twenty
years ago, a fearful. nervous young
woman timidly rendered the literary
editor of the old New Orleans Plea
yune a contribution" Her heart in
her mouth so to speak. she waited at
the desk while the critical editorial
eye glanced down the closely written
pages. and gulped in establishment and
delight when the editor handed her
over three dollars. 1t meant accept
ance; the pathway to literary fame
was open to her.
That fearful, nervous little woman
was Elizabeth Meriweather Gilmer,
since known wherever newspapers
are read as Dorothy Dix" Today
she is the highest salaried woman
newspaper writer in the world; she is
under contract to write her nationally
famous Dorothy Dix articles exclu-
sively for the State Journal in Topeka.
These articles will be printed three
times week.
To say that the Dorothy Dix ar
ticles-succinctly characterized as
sane sweet, sensible. sympathetic
have endeared their writer to the
hearts of millions is simply to state
a truth long recognized in newspapers
publishing circles the country over.
Indeed. in the years that Dorothy Dix
has been writing, her articles have
caused an uncounted multitude of
newspaper readers, young and old
(and men as well women. and in
nearly as large numbers) to write to
her for advice, help. comfort. until
TODAY it NAV be said of her that she
the world thru the medium of her
pen. 1t is truly unique position
among present day writer's that Dor
orhy Dix occupies. and il is hers be-
cause she is a woman, writer, with
a head as we'll as a heart-because she
understands the problems. the tempta-
lions. in brief, every phase of the
every day life of the great mass of the
people, and is ever ready with prac-
teal and sympathetic suggestions of
aid and encouragement looking to-
wards the rebirth of hope and happi-
ness.
1t was with this purpose in mind
that Dorothy Dix began her literary
career twenty years ago. Circum-
stances made it necessary for her to
take up some line of daily money
earning work. In her girlhood she
had received a liberal education in
her fathers library in Tennessee.
There she had pored over the classics
of English literature until she almost
knew them by heart. Quite naturally
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with a desire to write some day, and
many were sthe dreams she had in
the old library of time when she,
too, would be world famous as the
author of a classic.
And do you know" she said the
other day, the three dollars the
Picayune paid me for that sketch
it was fiction story-have always
seemed to me the most money L have
ever earned / am told that TODAY
can boast of being the highest paid
woman newspaper writer in the world,
but somehow my present weekly in
come doesn't appear SO overwhelrn-
ingly big to me as did those three
dollars the old Picayune's literary
editor paid me on the spot for my
first serious effort at writing"
In her few months in New Or
leans, where she and Mr.. Gilmer had
located for the latter's health, she
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