Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-10-29
coRNELIA's JEWELS.
BY DOROTHY Dix
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer.

and plain, the kind OF garment that
denotes that its wearer must get much
wear and service out of her clothes,
while the other woman was gowned
in CONNECTION" that simply shrieked
Paris at the beholder.
You may send this sable sgarf to
me-" said she of the glad raiment TO
the shop keeper.
"Oh, you lucky woman murmured
the woman OF the blue serge, envious-
~, you can buy anything you want,
while have to pinch and scrape and
economic TO get the few things am
actually bound to have TO present a
decent appearance"
Il have fine clothes, you have fine
children" the richly dressed woman
replied, looking her sister steadily in
the eye.
Eyes," responded the other lightly,
81 am like Cornelfa, my children are
: my jewelry-and, believe me, they are
all the jewels I've got and most OF
the clothes"
"Cornelia's jewels echoed the wo-
man in the> CONNECTION, you've got
Cornelia's jewels and you are not Will
ling to pay the price for theml You
mothers are welchers. You make me
tired, enEying women who spend their
money dressing themselves up in silly
finery because they have no daughters
TO buy pretties for, or no boys to spend
their money on.
"Oh, you are not the only one. Every
friend I've got who has children is al
ways coYeting my new hats and
gowns and furbelows, and saying what
3 wonderful husband I've got, and how
devoted he Is to me because he gives
me a diamond ring or new pearl
on my birthday. They think that they
Bre poor, neglected, martyred creat
ures because they can't have all the
things that have. and they feel that
they have been unlucky enough 10
marry men who haven't gotten on
very well because their husbands cane
make them as handsome gifts as !
have.
"And they don't take into account
the fact that John and have no chill
dren, and that John has nobody on
earth :. to spend money on but me.
And they also forget that raising q
family Is just about the most expens.
i've luxury that anybody can indulge
IN.
Take your own case, FOR instance.
Your husband is Just as good a BUSH
ness man as mine Is, and don't doubt
that he has made just as much money,
but you have always had to skimp
and deny yourself, while have had
plenty and have been able TO indulge
myself. The reason Tor this differ.
ence is because YOU had children ana
i had none. Why, you spent none
money on sterilized ailk and trained
nurse and baby specialists In the
years when your children were little
thansI spent on trips to Europe.
And when your children got bigger
and we're sent off TO school and col
Iege you could have bought q string
OF pearls any year with what their
school expenses cost you, and an I'M
ported motor car with their allow
ances and clothes money.
eAnd-now that your girls are grown
ND and have to have street Clothes,
and dancing clothes. and sport clothes
and the mliiions Of little things that
girls. require to set off their youth
and beauty and enable them 20 go
with the kind of people they want to
20 with, why, the wonder TO me Is
that any family pocket book. Ashort
OF q millionaire can stand 1t. NO
fonder your husband. after paying
the family bills. cant present you
with diamond tiaras.
Excepting a yacht or running a rae
ing stable isn't q bit more expensive
than raising house full of chilSren,
and the man who successfully nego-
tiafes that financial undertaking puts
the man who merely bikes out his
wife like q milliner's and jewelers.
show windows In the piker class"
Il guess that is true, said the wo-
man irf-the blue serge, thoughtfully.
"of course it's true" replied the
other woman, look about you and
when you see a middle aged woman
dolled up like the queen Of Sheba,
Eine times on. of ten you will find
crt that she is a childless woman, and
that she's driven to dressing herself
up because She hasn't got any daugh-
fers to dress up, and instead of envy
ing her you ought to pity her.
DO you suppose that any woman
gets as much fun out of sitting and
embroidering cobwebby lingerie Tor
herself as she would out. Of working
little frocks for baby? Do you sup
nose that any normal. middle aged
women gets the thrills out OF bnying
pink satin evening gown for her
self that she would get out of buying
one for a rosebud young daughterg
Do you suppose that there's any wo.
man with real heart and soul in
her who wouldn't rather spend her
money on giving a fine. intelligent son
4 college education than putting il
in a new limousine or diamond stom
acher2
(which would you rather have. n,
memory of pleasant trips in foreigi
lands or your own men.cry OF you.
children's babyhood? Would you trade
eff any one of your children for ms
Jewel box? Would you rather be able
IL order set Of furs sent home from
: fashinmable shop or when you get