The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-05
t Usually Happens During
Summer of Life, Woman
Writer Declares, and When
People Begin FIattey,

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BY DOROTHY DIX.
The Worlds 'Tghest Paid Woman
Writer.
II HE other day a divorce was
granted 10 the middle aged wife
Of a man who has made a large
fortune IN the last few years.
In her tc,limonv the vile said
Judge ! love my husband and he
is a good man 800 spite Of the way he
has treated me It's money that has
ruined him Ours was just a poor boy
and girl marriage. | used 10 get up
a. four O'Clock in the morning TO get
him a good hot breakfast before he
started of 10 work and | Naid up at
night washing his shirt and pressing
his clothes so he would look neat and
clean lie loved me then and We were
as happy together as we could be.
Took Him From Her.
But he made money and the peo-
pie who never noicci him when he
was poor began 10 ilat'cr him, and hang
about him, and then he got rich, and
pretty young girls with painted faces
made eyes at him, and they took him
away from re
Its money that's broken up our
home and ruined my husband and |
pray TO God every night tha, he will
lose il, for then he'll come back 10 me,
Not Uncommon Story.
Perhaps this story is not as unoom-
mon as we think Perhaps the fortune
that all are striving for is oitcner a
boomerang than we know. and brings
misery as frequently as It does happi-
ness Perhaps more people are ruined
by prosperity than by misfortune. for
the real test Of character is not IN
meeting poverty brayely but in bear
ing riches with cquanmity.
MANY a man is saved from being
Nl drunkard by lacking the price OF
drink and there is no such con
scryator OF the domestic virtues as for
man having to work so hard all day
he is too tired to leave his own fire
side at night. Poverty is a great NOR
alst, and our purse, as often as our
principles, decides our course Of action
The question thus suggested, how
ever, OF whether poverty or riches
makes for connubill happines; is an
interesting one According to the old
adage when poverty comes in at the
door, love flies out the widow, but
there are many cases where whet riches
came down the chimney love sneaked
out the back stairs and so the prob
lem is left unanswered.
Uoverty Is Hard Test.
Undoubtedly, bitter, biting poverty is
a hard test for love to stand. In its
essence even love must be material.
When you are hungry you are more
stomach than heart. When you are
cold Won think more OF TIE temperature
OF your body than you do OF the tenn
perature OF your affections When you
are harrasscd by bills and bounded by
collectors, money and not sentiment,
fills your waking thoughts and night
ly dreams. Love has to be comfortable,
so to speak. before it can work.
But on the oth hand il can be
smothered to death by too much luxury.
and our common observations, as well
as the records OF the divorce courts,
90 10 show that love and married hap
nlness are among the luxuries that no
millionaire has money enough TO buy
Occasionally they are his by chance
bat nobody in search Of the ideal
Darby and Joan would hunt for them
in the palaces he wealthy.
Man Live7 Apart.
There are many reasons why the
possession OF great wealth should tend
TO separate people who are married
instead OF drawing them together. The
greatest, in this county is because OF
the fact that the American man who
achieves a fortune spends the first part
OF his life in making it and the bal
ance in taking care >ef it. He lives in
a world apart from his wife, whose in
tcrests she does not share, and whose
language she does not speak He gets
up early and stavs out late, and when
he is at home he is generally too
nervous and tired to talk The richer
the man becomes. the higher this bar
rier grows, until the wife Of the multi
millionaire finds that she has no hus-
band-nothing but money-making
machine
THAT money brings temptations to
L the rich man that the poor man
never knows. goes without saving In
the first place. il he inherits his money.
it is harder for the camel 10 90 through
the eye Of the needle than for him to
escape being married for his posses
sions. Then. married or single. women
smile upon him who can reward their
Establishments with rich gifts and 50
II is that the man who, had he been
poor, would have been permitted to
walk the straight and narrow path Of
peace, finds himself the victim Of ad-
venturesses, simply on account of his
wealth.
Rich Quicker to Divorce.