The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-12
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writ,
The wickedest Women in the World.

The Wickedest Women i'm the World.
the world. the women who do the most
harm, and who are the most abso-
lutely callous to the misery and suffer-
ing aey bring on others?
That easy to answer, Oh say. The
wickedest women in the world are
the vampires, the degraded women of
the slums, the women who are thieves.
the women whose hands are red with
blood.
Not at all. These poor creatures that
you have mentioned, at their worst,
hurt only a few people. Life dealt
hardly with most of them and they
had little chaace to be other than
what they are. and neither God nor
society can hold them to much ac-
countability.
The wicke lest women in the world
are the sweet, gentle, pious, respect
able, church going mothers who are
deliberately raising up children to
wreck the lives of the innocent unof-
Tending people they marry, to pr1ng
grief and sorrow into the homes they
enter and to add another sorrow to
the hearts of their husbands or par
entS.
In all the ca ,ndar of crime there is
no other act so brutally cruel. 1t Is
far worse than theft because to be
rOODeQ OF one money Is uolHihS III
comparison with being robbed of
ones peace and happiness. 1t is far
worse than murder because it takes
only a second to STAY one physlcaliy'
while one who is n1iSerably married Is
slowly tortured to death thru long
years It is a crueler and a subtler
form of parasitism than any vampire
ever devised because 1t sucks courage
and enthusiasm and the ability TO sue
coed out of a man or woman, and
there is no way to free oneseH from IL
save thru scandal.
Every woman in the world knows
| that not only does marriage make or
mar the life of the individual but that
it affects all those who are nearest and
! dearest to him or her. When be-
loved daughter marries man who Is
cruel and brutal to her and who makes
| her life a purgatory, not only does the
| girl suffer but her parents hearts
are wrung with hers. When dear ana
| splendid son gets as wife a Vlrago
who makes his days a burden to him,
| he does not grieve alone. His mother
| and father, his sisters and brotners'
softly and silently tread his Getn-
semane with him.
| An unhappy marriage is like a peb-
BILE thrown into sea of trouble. It's
waves spread on and on until they
touch every edge of the family circle.
Once upon time a-woman SAID 10
| me of her sister and her sisters chill
dren: God sent Louise angels but
| she is doing the best she can to turn
| them into devils"
| And Louise was eminently success
full. The two children were unusually
handsome and intelligent and of a
most winning charm They should
have made E, splendid man ana
woman, but their mother spoiled and
pampered them. She INDUCED them
in their every wish and desire; she
never taught them any self control
or any consideration for the rights OF
any other human being on earth.
The boy grew up to be a good look
ing, Fascinating. gay young chap with
| plenty of ability to do anything hao
direction. He married a splendid
! young girl who tried to make him
| good wife, but he broke her heart by
| cruelty, neglect and abuse. II sne
| dared to cross his will he would curse
| her in shameful language. He was too
law and selfish to work and he drifted
down and down until he became the
| town loafer and drunkard.
In trying to save their daughter
| from want the girls parents impov-
erished themselves so that their ola
age was hard aQd anxious, instead OF
| being comfortable and easy, and they
| too were the victims of this wicked
woman who raised up her son to be
a curse to those who were nearest to
him.
u, unto beautiful and attractive girl
and she married as fine young fell
low as was in the community. The
girl had been raised to the belief that
she was the one who must always
have her hearts desire, no matter how
she attained it, and as she was gay
and liked to go about. and as she was
pretty and liked to adorn herself she
embarked upon career OF eXtraVa-
gance that soon swept away all OF
her husbands fortune and brought
him to bankruptcy.
Faced by bills that he could not pay,
bounded and harassed by debt of his
wife's making, he ended it all by put
ting a bullet thru his brains-a muir
der for which his wife's mother was
| lust as much responsible as if she had
first tortured him ano then slain him.
1t did not take the pretty young
widow long to marry again rms
time she married gifted young man
who was full of ambition, and VINO
had already begun to climb the ladder
of success. He will never get any
higher than he is because she has
rade a pa-k horse out of his Pegas-
sus He's got TO do the drudgery that
G mes nearest to his hand because
she's got to have money. He has got
to wear himself out trotting around
with her to places of amusement If
he doesn't sh RACES at him like a fish
wife. She shrieks and has mysteries
like lunatc Wnen she Is cToSseu
and che makes bills and bills and bills
that must be paid. and she never in
any way ever considers him or, his
ambition, or even his physical conn
fort.
The young mans heart and spirits
are broken and his parents. who mad
conferred their hopes on him. who had
sacrificed to give him the education
and training to fit him for his career
are broken hearted. too. for their life
work and their ambitions are also
blasted by the work of the wicked wo-
man who raised up a daughter to
blight the happiness of all those who
| come within her sphere of influence
And vet this wicked woman who has
done so much harm in the worlc is
| oh