The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-29
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman winter.
Our Superior Children

Our superior NnlsOhV-ih.
In the average life there are TWO
tragedies of disappointment.
The first is the disappointment OF
matrimony when man and woman
find out that marriage has not brought
them the happiness they expected. out
they survive this blight to their hopes
because they have the consolation OF
their children. and they besr- build
ing dreams of bliss about them
Il shall find" say the lonely mart
ed man and woman to themselves,
the comprehension. the sympathy.
the companionship in my children
that l missed in my marriage" and
that gives them the courage to live
thru the dull npnotonyof uncongenial
wedlock
Then comes the second tragedy of
disappointment when the children
they have nothing in common with
their sons and daughters. and that in
place OF the companionship they
looked forward to they are confronted
by patronizing young people who lis
ten TO them with forced politeness,
and plainly regard therQ as old fossils,
with scarcely iumah Intelligence
Ana this second tragedy of disap-
pointment Is bitterer. than the first be-
cause 1t Is the end to the hope of love.
are no more tender ties of sentiment
| forward.
| When you hear a hard headed, hard
| fisted OLD man call his college bred son
q young 1901, or see woman look fur
livery and constrainedly around to see
II her accomplished Daughter is in ear
shot 0efore she ventures to express
an opinion, you are glimpsing this
| POIGNANT human drama.
10 the outside world il seems to
matter nothing that the bow whose
4 a
oyeo-ln-the-wool Democrat has turn
[ ed socialist. or that the lad whose
Iather Is a money making machine
should come home from the uniyer-
say filled with dreams of art for art
sake, or that the son on whom a
mans whole heart was set develops
| opinions which are as antagonistic TO
his fathers as a red rag is to a mad
bull, but to the father himself it is
the overthrowing of the plans and
hopes OF lifetime. and it turns the
labor of forty or fifty years into Gin
ders. ashes and dust
This is not what he has toiled for.
not what he has striven for, snd there
10 no crueller moment in a mans life
than when he realizes that he is more
IN; sympathy with the freckle faced
bill clerk in the outer office than he
Is with his owns son.
NOR can anyone measure the depths
OF what a mother suffers when tliu
daughter In whose society she had ex-
pected to find consolation for all tn.
sorrows OF life, returns to her with
ideas and ways that are monstrous
and shocking to her
Mother is religious devotee
Daughter Is rampantly agnostic
Mother adores Marie Corell Daugh-
ter SCOTS at anything under Ibsen
Mother - rigidly conservative. Daugh-
ter Ia Bohemian. Mother dotes or
society and has looked forward &c
revealing in the reflected glory of q
beautiful young daughter who is 4
belle. Daughter refuses to go to par
ties and insists on following a career
Worse still, 1t may be that the cir
scorn her opinions. and advice. criti-
else her pronunciation and institute
a domestic reign of terror under
which mother trembles before the
critics on the hearth.