The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-21
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
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Take a VacatiOn-2.
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And I also observe that the strong
manly arm on which she leans has a
pretty close shut fist at the end of it,
and that before she gets a penny she
| has to explain what she did with the
| last enc and what she purposes to do
! with this. All of which causes me to
| have a beautiful time rejecting on my
| lucky lot in life, and 1 come home
with my whole point of view about my
work changed.
| Its hurrah! for the work that
| makes me financially independent.
| It's no! for the hotel room and bath
! that are my exclusive property. It's
| ha! for the aloneness that gives me an
! opportunity to loaf and invite my soul.
My sister takes her vacation by
| coming to see me every winter, and
| she has confessed that her vacation
| has exactly The same effect on her
that mine has on me. She comes en-
vyins me anG she goes back plying
| me. She comes thinking how delight
full 1t must b not to have to bother
| about meals, or to have to ask her
| husband for money, or to be harassed
| by children's continual call for
mo-o-other, and she goes away think
| ing that a woman who hasn't anybody
to go back to, or any house or any
| babies. is the forlornest creature on
, earth.
80 our vacations do their perfect
work and keep us ootn satisfied,
| which makes me wonder why we all
| haven't got enough sense to get away
| for while from the thing that irri-
tates US when we find ourselves get
ting disgruntled."
True" said the married woman,
/ the real soluti n of the divorce ques-
ton is for husbands and wives to take
vacations away from each other. Most
| married people are really attached to
| nd
| others good qualities. but they quar-
rel because they have been together
| too Long, because they have gotten to
the place where they bore each other
and see nothing but each others
| faults.
you've noticed that a couple NAV
fight like Kilkenny cats, but that if
| either one of them dies the other in
variably speaks of the departed one as
if he or she had been an angel. OF
| course most of us don't care to die to
| get this post mortem appreciation
but we can get it if we only, have
enough intelligence to go away from
| the partners of our bosoms for while
and let them realize our virtues, and
how necessary we are to them
That's the reason my husband and
always take our vacations separate
ly. When my John Henry sees me
off on mine, he looks like lust an
ordinary, bald-headed, rather sIop-
PLY dressed, commonplace business
man to me, and I'm perfectly aware
that I'm just fat grizzle headed,
ordinary sort of a woman to him. and
when he comes down to meet me at
the train on my return he looks about
seven feet high, and as handsome as
a Greek god to me.
| And John Henry's kiss to me when
went away was like the flap of a
cold pancake on my cheek, but his
welcoming kiss is the kiss of a lover
and he tells me that I certainly do
| look good to him and we have a regu-
lar love feast, and I'm SO glad to be
| back home again that I don't see that
the paper is faded and there are spots
on the carpet, and I have a real pic
mic in an orgy of housekeeping"
Yes" agreed the business woman,
there are two things about a vaca-
ton that never fail. no matter what
happens in between times-the delight
of going, and the super-delight of
getting home"