The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-20
BY DOROTHY DIX.
As Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer.

De poor woman finds it harder TO
adure than everything else combined,
b the thought that she cannot give
Der children the advantages that rich
ecple can give theirs
\ The sacrifices, the privations. the
axieties, the labor that are the 10,
h the poor, she can bear for herself
kith philosophy and resignation, but
when she sees her boy forced into the
tanks OF the tolers at an age when
pther boys are starting off to college,
tnd when she thinks OF her daughters
hSving TO stand behind counters in
ktead OF pouring tea at fashionable
Functions, the iron OF poverty enters
her soul
i Wealth Often a Curse.
Il is pity that these mothers can
not comfort themselves by realizing
That wealth Is far oitcner a curse than
= blessing to the young-that, indeed,
Z is only the most exceptionally we'll
ta'anced boy or girl, with an extra
ordinarily strong character, who is
1ot ruined by the possession Of much
honey
l The temptations Of life are great
enough for any boy, but when you
tll his pockets with money and keep
lis hands idle, you have simply
creased the skids to perdition for him
He is the foreordained prey of evil
ten and women who show him tho
3hort cuts to all the pits into which
Youth may stumble. You cannot pick
newspaper without reading an
tcount of some young millionaire
2ho is suing for a divorce from some
Sdvcnturess whom he married during
= drunken orgy or who has been sus-
Ended from college for gambling, or
tho ha, been injured in an automo-
Ie accident while Joy riding at sixty
tilcs an hour with lot OF disreput.
Ole companions.
sThcre is no such safeguard agains,
dissipation as lacking the price, Those
tho can only afford cold water run
risk Of becoming drunkards. The
Ibu;h with a thin pocket book is
Ievcr a welcome guest in the haun,s,
q vice The women whose kisses
y I've a price tag on them save their
lbs for the man who can pay.
Idle Hands.
.These are few cold. hard facts
that the mother who grieves that her
sSn can't have the advantages OF rich
men's sons. may well lay to heart
Also. the further fact, that shtqn still
finds work for idle hands TO do, and
that II youth is not eNpending its ell
ergy, and its enthusiasm, and its rest
lessncss on some worthy object, it will
bk wasting them on an unworthy one
Wherefore, the boy who has some
deiini,c job to do, who has something
wp.,h while, something real and vital
tN occupy his thoughts and that it re
q6ires all the skill OF his hands, and
NJ strength OF his mind to do, is ten
thousand times safer than the youth
who has TO manufacture his own di
VERSION and devise his own way, OF
killing time. ,~l
End, after all, the great adventure
iS,he crcst that ambition leads man
Cd and tie mos, absorbing. and ias
cih?t'rg, and thrilling game in 'hc
wbrd are the moves by which one
Achieves success. This great Joy OF
liz the poor boy knows and the rich
boy is cut of from knowing, and IT
~ ,L~ or b.. ~,;) is the loser
in real happiness. Let mother also
consider this.
Rich Boy Often Lacks Ambition.
Oi course there T. no reason why
thr rich boy should no, be as am
bilious, and achieve as much as the
p4or boy Logically he should 50
f&thcr. Only in real life he hardly
ekr does. You could count up on
III fingers of your two hands almost
AZ Of the men who are the sons OF
Y&h fathers who have made grca,
nimes for themselves in Art, or lltera-
ture. or music, or finance, but II takes
M whole history OF the world to re-
c6d the names OF the great men IN
every line who sprung from the depths
ok poverty TO a place in the sun.
There is something deadening in
vithcs. Luxury wraps US in sloth-
re csc ;,lat VIC have not the couragt
1t struggle out Of Why toll and
s6uTc,c and suffer when we don't
need to- What's the use'
But poverty is spur III our sides
tle, makes us speed up, The desire
IL the uxuries and comforts that we
cSu only get by our efforts drives us
d. II is necessity that is the mother
ok achievement
Hard knocks Count
Besides this, poverty teaches some
tkng that is not in the books. II IS
~ university OF hard knocks in which
asman learns to read The heart Of his
f0low man, 20 know i,s nobl.ness and
Is meanne., its craft and guile and
ID simplicity, and from it he learns
t1hderness, sympathy and understand
What is why genius has nearly al
Ays been eradled in poverty instead
q palaces, and why those who can
1hy upon our emotions, as upon a
Rrp with . thous and strings. are al.
apst invariably the men and women
DO have known and suffered every
I il(rdship themselves.
$50 let no woman who has talented
! aiA bemnan herself that its genius /:
tias blighted by poverty Pover,,
he forcing house OF geniu. and i
q son OF daughter really has The
4 Nine flame she 10 giving II the ad
Il jatase that no rich mother could give
y : child. for wealth may smother
q M. Poverty never can.
II kIhs mistake that poor mothers MAKE
4 Z n Nityiux their children for beins