The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-24
DIX'S TALK
STRIKING A BALANCE.
BY DOROTHY DIN,
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

bought Mrs, rs pearl necklace. Send
ing John to college would buy an AUTO
mobile every year, Would you give UP
your talented daughter and your pfli-
liant son for a few white beads ana .
PackardY
You w%ouldn'tY Then quit complain
ing, Balance your account Win me-
woman; balance your account
"And Mrs. Il, can set over against
her chlldlessness her luxuries, her lack
OF anxiety, her physical ease, hert y
els. perhaps. even that she and her y
band are closer together and have y
tenderer love for each other, since tney
must needs be all and all to each otheI'
than have tho couples who have. emil
dren, and whose chief interest IS IN tho
children, ., 49,.
she il nccursed Of fate because h has
! 10 earn her " bread and butter. she
was telling me the other day how sho
hated her Job, or any other JoDI' pc
cause she loathes work, anu she was
! plying herself because che had 70 gey
| up In the morning at an early hour any
away all day on u typewriter, n she
became quite green-eyed when she
smoke OF the fortunate women who had
their own home and nothing to do but
10 stay In them, and do their own
homework.
On, ! duh khoW thnV 1890. IL
you'd lust audit your account with lie
Won would find out that you are not so
badly off as YOU think. You nate 70
work, but In reality work Is tho most
thrilling amusement In the World. your
days 70 SO fast that they are never MAJ,
long enough for the things you Would
like 10 do. How would you like 70 be
ono OF those who yawn through inter.
mlnable hours with nothing worth
while to do, nothing TO think OF but
Just the dreary pastime OF killing time
"'You earn your own money and can
spend Il foolishly II you choose. tiow
man for every penny and have nm
asI, YOU what YOU did with that quar-
Ter he gave you week before lasty your
employer Is bound TO treat you, WIN
ciyiuty, or else you can up \ leave
How would YOU like to have q Ire DOSE
: hat YOU could not leave without scan
dal and divorce. no matter how he
treated your Take Il from me, that be-
r iup your own meal ticket has us al
vantages that squares II or with th'
> holy estate ~
NJ once knaw a woman who had had
i the misfortune to marry when she Was
very Young a man who turned out 10 be
I a brute and u bully, He dragged hei
I through years and years OF marriage
that was a literal hell on earth to her
He was cold and harsh and cruei aht
: vindictive. but she came out OF ne
ordeal sweet and serene, anu Win !
g word Of cheer and a smile for every
enc.
oh she said, I had my compensa
tons. Ny tears washed my eyes s.
ricar that 7 could see into the heart
Of others rs | never could i had no
went, My own anguish autciened Y,
sympathies with the agony Of the world
aud | found out that suffering Is IN
growing pains of the soul, ! have i've
10 deeply that | am sorry Tor IN
women who have always had everythih
happy and easy and soft with then
ii seems to me that they are sull 9
the outside OF life when have been
its heart. - o.
"And that's the secret of happines
Just balancing u accounts with rate
Copyright, 1919, by the Wheeler Syr
dicate, meO