The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-17
They Make One Glad TO Get
81 Back to Work, Dorothy Dix
Says, and Are Good Things
for Married Couples, Too,
BY DOROTHY DIX
worId's Highest Paid Woman Writer

VTHE real good of a vacation" said
the business woman, us not so
much that II rests your mind
and body, as that 1t makes you satisfied
with your lot. It's good to 20 away,
but its great to come back. suppose
the psychology Of the thing is that
most OF the time we are too close 10
our blessings TO realize how beautiful
they are. We have to get far enough
away TO get the right perspective Of
them.
81 always spend my vacation with
my married sister who lives In pretty
little mid-western town, and has the
traditional vine wreathed cottage, a
husband and kiddies, and Ill the ap-
purtenances that go TO make. the con-
ventional picture OF the ideal life for a
woman.
Sorry Not to Have Married.
"Now | work very hard, as woman
has 70 do who holds down a mans job
and gets a mans salary, and by the
time the good old Summer time rolls
around ] have gotten to the place whnre
things have begun TO get on my nerves,
and | have commenced pittying myself
and wondering II | didn't make a mis-
take when / didn't marry the>rice cor
ner grocer who proposed to me when
was l8
have sort Of begun TO feel weepy,
you know when | reflect that ! have no
strong arm to lean upen and nobody Ia
stand between me and the cruel world
| And il seems a bit lAnely to have no.
body Waiting for me when come home
at night. s2psiness isn't any longer a
thrilling 49, where one pits ones
wits and clevNn.M against the wits
and clevernesS OF crafty opponents.
Seems Like Drudgery.
ITS nothing but sordid, never ending
drudgery, and begin to hate 1t and to
wish that instead OF putting on my
straight fronts and my. tailor-made in
the morning, and going forth TO dc
battle with foxy statesmen ! could dor
the frowsy kimono of domesticity, flor
down into rocking chair and spend
hours following the fortunes and mis-.
rrurcS of Nellie the Beautiful Cloat
Model, or some othor heroine of siS
) Best seller.
THAT'S the mood in which ! star
l. to spend my vacation with sister
When | get there perceive that siste'
who is two years younger than | am
'7oks ten years older which leads mi
TO reflect that possibly an office is no
rs wearing on woman's appearance
rs a vine -wreathed cottage Is. hav
thought that ! was some hustler. BIZ
observe that | am Ralrcd to low spec
compared to the move that sister get
, on TO get through her days stunt A
, least ! don't have to do but one thin
at time, but sister does twenty stimuli
: taneously,
II Isn't the life.
, T marvel as ] behold her gettinl
D breakfast with one hand, while witt
/, the other SAA. quiet: the baby, finds he
, husband a clean handkerchief, tie
/ Johnnie's shoes buttons Mary's dress
? teaches the twins their Sunday schoo
, lesson, fixes up lunch for Jim who l
: going fishing, picks up the clothes tha
|; everybody has scattered all over tn
i floor, answers the telephone and eS
ecutes a dozen other little side stunts.
, And this incessant labor she keep
up all day, until the children are tucke'
n in bed at night, and there is never on
single minute when she has particl
Of quiet, or leisure to sit down an
. really think She lives in domesti
. bedlam that would make working in
= boiler factory seem quiet and peaceful
. and that would send ME to an insan
J asylum in six weeks,
Strong Arm Has Close Fist.
"And | also observe that the strong
q manly arm on which she leans has
pretty close shut fist al the end of I
and that before she gets a penny sh
> has TO explain what she did with III
last ono and what she proposes to d
with this All of which causes me I
have beautiful time reflecting on n,
lucky lot in life and | come home wit
my whole point of view about my wor
n changed.
0TT'S HURRAHl for the work tina
- makes llc illldHNldlly lnutpCllutl
= It's Hot for the hotel room and bat
a that are my exclusive property. It
u Ha for the aloneness that gives pe a
II opportunity to loaf and invite my sou
x Same Effect On Her.
"My sister takes her vacation b
l. coming 10 see me every winter and sh
l. has confessed that her vacation ha
" exactly the same effect on her tina
- mine has on me. She comes envying m
and she goes back pitying me. Sh
. comes thinking how delightful it mus
h be not to have TO bother about meal
or to have - ask her husband fc
4, money, or to be harassed by children
rs ,s continual calf for mo-o-other, md sh
n goes away thinking that woman VIII
hasn't anybody 10 go back to, or an
!. house or any babies, is the forlorne'
is creature on earth
le so Our vacations do their perfet
he work and keep US both satisfied, whic
Imakes me wonder why We all haven
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