The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-03-13

they VIII take their rlghtful place
! In the progress Of human affairs.
DOROTHY DIX.
Dorothy Dix, famous throughout the
United States as a newspaper writer
on domestic affairs, is known in private
life as Mrs. Elizabeth Gilmer. Ac.
eompanied by her husband she is visit
ing Honolulu for the first time.
For the past twenty years her name
has been a household word in thousands
Of American homes. While in New
York Dorothy Dix receives hundreds
Of letters Of gratitude every week from
people in oil walks Of life thanking her
for advice they read in her articles.
OF the new school Of women writers
this generation has produced Dorothy
Dix is perhaps the foremost.
Births a. Deaths
Dorothy Dix started her newspaper
career in New Orleans on the old
Picayune of that city, where she
worked for four years, commencing as
the vital statistics reporter. To show
how interested she was in the work
from the very start she says she used
to cry IL another reporter on one Of
the other papers got one more death
or birth than she did. She worked up
to assistant literary editor and later
instituted woman's department in
the paper. n
SIT was then that adopted the nom
de plume of Dorothy Dix, :" said Mrs
Gilmore. 81 had always liked the name
Of Dorothy and got the name of Dix
from my eolored nanny, who used to
call her husband Dicks, his real name
being Dick. decided on the pen name
Of Dorothy Dix in two minutes time,
and have written under il for twenty
years. H..
Wanted New STUFF ..s.s.. .
elm opening the woman's depart
ment on the Pieayune desired to write
something about women that had never
been written before. discovered that
everything had been written about
them but common sense, We have been
told women are angels and all such non
sense as that. started in by writing
the truth about the domestic relations
Of women, and have been writing il
eyer since ,ts.. ..
10 show how well she succeeded, in a
few years her articles attracted the at.
tention Of William Randolph Hearst,
who made her an attractive offer 10
join the stat Of editors, which she ae-
,eepted. For sixteen years she wrote
for the Hearst papers, her contract ex-
piring last December, when she immedi.
ately signed contract for five years
with the Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate.
While with the Hearst publications
Dorothy Dix covered many famous muir
der trials, vice investigations and other
big features in New York. Among
SONG of the famous trials she reported
are Harry X. Thaw, Nan Patterson.
Charles Becker, the Orpet trial in Chi,
cago and the murder trial Of the assas'
sin of President Mckinley, When
asked the biggest case she ever re-
ported, she said: ..s..N- T.
t'The famous Prisoner of Love- case
in Monticello, New York, was my big
gest beat. You will remember this was
where a woman lived life of a self.
confined prisoner in the Monticello jail
because she loved an attorney who had
an Office there. The attorney was q
married man with family, but he Sc.
eretly loved this woman for seven years
In the prison before being found out.
He died of heart failure in the won
ans arms, and IL leaked out about their
secret love- ,.
Scores Big Beat d..
Dorothy Dix told about how hundreds
Of reporters hocked to Monticello &c
get an interview with the woman. One
newspaper man from Boston offered this
woman check for $4,000 for a story
but was turned down. Dorothy Dix, be
ing woman and knowing how u
sympathiZe with one of her own sex
gained the woman's confidence and got
from her the only interview. This was
her biggest story and won her fame al
over the country. ~ '..
Besides writing for the Wheeler
Syndicate, Dorothy Dix writes Q
humorous article each month for Coco
Housekeeping Magazine. These articles
have won for her from the English
critics, the name of the feminine Mr.
Dooley. When asked IL she ever in
tended TO write novel she stated thai
every year she writes enough copy Il
nj ten book-length novels, Perhaps, sh'
said, she would write a book of fietior
later on. t,'.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilmer were con
templating making voyage TO the
Orient, bat as Mrs. ailmer is pool
sailor they viii probably call the trit
on They win stay In Honolulu instead
and expect 20 be home In New Yorh
the first Of June Dr." 3. :. .".
"You have fascinating way with
YOU down here, - went on Mrs. Gilmer
~ came intending to 60 right on Il
Japan and now ] am in two minds ano
am likely 10 stay here indefinitely