The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-19
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
The Two Points of Vicw.-1.
Perhaps there never has been a tim

Perhaps there never has been a time
when youth and age looked at the
problems of life from the same stand
point. Certainly they do not now,
when each generation makes for it
self new world with a new lookout,
and this is particularly true as re-
CARDS the feminine sex, and all that
pertains thereto.
The girl of today is no more like
the girl that her mother was than If
she were an inhabitant of the planet
Mars, who had accidentally been
dropped down on New York. or Bos-
ton, or Squeedunk. The things that
mother found thrillingly interesting
simply bore daughter stiff. The hopes
and ambitions that fired mothers
breast, do not interest daughter The
things that daughter finds interestiI. e,
and wants to do, and is determined to
do, wild horses couldn't have dragged
mother into doing, when she was
sweet-and-twenty. In consequence of
all of which mother and daughter
cannot understand each other, and are
mutual disappointment
In talking of her daughter the other
day, a woman said:
II don't know what the young girls
are coming to. It used to be ones
boys that one worried over. You felt
so, safe with your girls for you knew
just exactly how to bring them up,
and how they would turn out, and all
the rest of it.
You would tie blue ribbons on their
curls when they were little tots. and
when they got bigger you would send
them to a nice school where they
would meet the right sort of girls. and
when they graduated you would give
them a big coming out tea. and you
would have lots of fun for two or
! three years in dressing them up in
party frocks and trotting around to
parties with them. and then you would
ft1l1 wit 1zr
and have big church wedding, and
hand them over to a husband. and
pretty soon you would begin the same
round over again with little grand
daughter.
81 know that is the way I planned
life out with my daughter, and 1 had
/ expected to renew my youth in hers in
gadding about in society with her.
fully counted on being just as much
interested in her beaux and love at
| fairs ash used to be in my own. 1
never- doubted that when she left
! school we would enjoy the most per-
feet companionship together, and I
never had any more idea that would
find an insoluable problem in Ellen
than I did that she would develop
| into two-headed lady. or sprout a
| beard.
But that is what she is. A prob
lem. A conhndrum. And can't
guess the answer. She doesn't care
rap TOT clothes. Sne mates parties
| She doesn't yearn for beaux, and
hasn't the rudiment of an idea of how
| to make herself attractive to men.
And she frankly says that the idea
| of marriage does not appeal to her.
| She wants to go to work. She
says that she considers it as Disgrace
full for a woman to be a loafer, an
idler. and a spender, as it is for a
| man to one, and that she simply
| cannot look herself in the face unless
she is engaged in some productive
| labor that is of use in the world, and
she is begging her father to let her
take course at a commercial college
| and go into his office on the same
| plane that he would take on any
other gid-and especially, on the same
plane that he would take his son
, into his business
What do you think of that? And
! all these years 1 have been so thank
| full to think that we would be able to
| give our little girl ease and luxury,
and protect her from the hardships of
life! Why, I have never seen a
| girl standing behind a counter, or
J bending over a typewriter that I didn't
| have a little throb of gladness that
my Ellen would be safe from that, and
now that is the very thing that she
| iS mining IN do