The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-05
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.


A Wisconsin schoolma'am fell in
of those who want what they want
when they want it. she went to the
mans wife and sand:
You must have known for long
time that your husbands affections
have passed from you and that he
cared for someone else supremely.
That is sufficient annulment+ Of any
marriage vow. l love him and he
loves me. Give him to me-"
The wife did not subscribe to these
sentiments, and fatty refused to turn
over her husband TO the girl, who
thereupon drew a revolver and shot
the wife dead.
The woman says that she acted
upon her "own moral code" but the
law, which does not encourage indi-
vidual moral codes, is trying her for
murder, and the lawyers have hired
a lot of high priced a1ienists to prove
that she is insane.
A nice, safe, penitentiary cell fog
the next twenty years is about the
kind of a mental cure that should be
administered to this young woman,
but, aside from the possession Of the
homicida1 mania, there is no disput.
ing the fact that any girl who In
du1ges In love affairs with married
up for her own good and that of the
public
She is mentally unbalanced, or else
she'd never do anything SO silly, and
that is SO certain to bring her moth
ing but sorrow and regret.
Just look at this matter yourselves,
girls, and see IL you don't agree with
me when you give it the once-ever
with dispassionate eye.
When a woman thinks Of love-
and we all dream of it from the time
we wear our hair in pigtails down our
backs--she thinks of something
beautiful. and sacred. and holy She
thinks OF love as being the greatest
g1ft that can be bestowed upon her.
something that she will wear like a.
diadem upon her brow, and proudly
Haunt before the efvious eyes of her
friends. She thinks of love as some
thing that will raise her up and make
her a queen. of something that will
hed~e her in, and guard and protect
her, and make her safe. = (
She, thinks of the man to whom
she has given her heart as. being
proud of her, of his feeling honored
by her selection of him, Of the little.
joyfuf air of possession with which
he will introduce her to his friends.
That is the way a girl dopes out her
love dream, but 1t isn't the way it
happens II she falls in love with a
married man.
There is nothing pure and beautiful
about an unlawful love that exists
always in the shadow of shame
There is nothing holy about love that
Is breaking an innocent woma n s
heart and -robbing helpless little
children of a father. There is no
romance in love that is always
on the look out for detectives and
policemen And that's what the
love of a married man means
And the love of a married man
isn't a blessing to a girl. 1t is a
curse upon her. 1t doesn't lift her
up. 1t pushes her down into the gut
ter. It doesn't protect her. 1t robs
her pitiless1y and. casts her out power
ty stricken upon the world. The
married man doesn't introduce the
girl who loves him into his own set
and to his friends. Oh no. He cuts
her dead in the street when they
meet. She is good enough to take
out to dinner or supper to some OBJ
scure restaurant or to go joy riding
with at night but she isn't the kind
of person whom he would present to
his mother and sisters. and the women
he takes down to dinner at fashion
able dinner parties