The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-05
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer

Writer.
w THAT Is the cash value OF love :
w How much would you take for
w the love Of your husband At
what price would you sell the love ~
your wiiel How many dollars would
you take for the alteration Of your
children How much for the friend
ship Of the men and women Of your
little oirclsp
So far the only attempts that have
ever been made TO give love a market
rating have been In breach Of promise
suits where iorsaken damsels have
valued the loss OF the affection Of their
faithless suitors, and the consequent
damage to their hearts. at sums that
have ranged all the way from a hun.
bred thousand dollars down to- five
thousand.
Not a Real vlhe.
That these estimates have generally
been considered excessive, and have
been literally cut down by the %juries,
10 not TO be considered as constituting
q standard Of value for love. Most OF
us are inclined to be cynical regarding
the wounds to affection that car only be
healed by an application Of a yellow
back poultiee.
Yet for all that love Is not listed
among the negotiable securities and
there IL no Cupid Consolidated. Mutual
Affection or Union Devotion quoted
over the tape, still love has an actual
cash value, and Is one Of the most
valuable assets that any man or woman
can possess.
= Nor does this refer TO any sentimental
consideration, or any emotional happi.
ness that one may get out ole being
/. loved II is simply q cold, hard, bust
ness proposition that the ability to win
affection is just as much a factor In
anyone's practical success in the world
as Is any other talent or gift
People Liked Are Boosted.
CuHSider this. Who are the people
whom we help and push op TO fortune.
Are they the worthy The most de.
servng2 The most needy Not at all,
II Is the people whom we like. Who
are the ones we boost up the LADDER The
especially gifted The unusually fiji
Not a bit Of il. II is those WHO have
charm, and have a way with them that
Z wins IL affection.
GENIUS allied to an unpleasing
~ personality still starves in garrcts.
, while agreeable mediccyity has golden
opportunities thrown in its way. All
OF us do things for people because We
/. like them that we wouldn't do for them
because it is their due, to save their
lives.
There are plenty Of men who might
have capitalized their friendship at a
million dollars without being guilty OF
initiating rs value a penny.
How II Hslps~
The most forcible illustrations, how
ever, that the world affords Of the real
cash value OF love Is to be found in tho
domestic relationship A rough estimate
Of the worth of a genuine case OF afiec
ton for his wife, would run the capital
on which any man Is doing business up
fifty thousand dollars.
II he is madiy in love with her this
figure may be safely doubled, while il
he thinks that she is the only woman
in the world, and that nothing Is good
enough for her, he has practically un-
limited backing and Is headed to be
come a trust magnate.
This Is not an exaggerated statement.
Love for some woman has made more
men m~illionaires, and raised more men
from obseurity 10 fame than all other
causes combined. It il a power so great
that Il constitutes a talent in itself.
Love Makes for Shot.
II Is love that makes a mar want to
deck his wife out in silks and dia-