Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-07-07
DOROTHY DIX TALKS


house in apple-pie order.
In word, let these millions OF women
espouse careers instead OF husbands anu
have business successes instead of panies'
Perhaps the one may seem poor SUD
stitute for the other but it is condition,
and not a theory, that confronts MS, ana
under the circumstances the husbands
and babies are an impossibility, where
the business success is not. Even bread is
not to be despised when there is no cake.
Nor is this Hobson's choice Tor the
superhuous woman as bad as 1T appears.
Theoretically, love is the only incentive
to marriage. In reality girls marry Tor
many things besides the grand passion.
They marry to get emancipation from
the petty tyranny of their parents. lhey
marry because they want home oil their
own that they can furnish as they please
They marry because they want an IN
diSidual pocketbook Most OF all they
marry because they are bored with having
nothing definite to do, and want TO be
about the business of life.
All of these things the successful busl-
ness woman secures to herself far more
than the married woman ever realizes
them, and as plain matter of fact, her
life is fuller of happiness than that oi any
women except those who have drawn the
headliner prizes in the great matrlmonial
lottery.
The truth is that we have Thought
of women so long, In terms old omestlclty
that we are lost when we try to conceive
of them in any other aspect. Our minds
are in chaos when we attempt to come out
of the kitchen and nursery, and visualize
| a multitude of women who are not cook
! ing husbands dinner, and darnlng little
| stockings, and wiping little noses.
| OF course the difficulty In the way OF the
super fuous woman's accepting her
| husban d-less fate phiIosophicaily and
making the best of it, is that she will have
| to first get over the false teaching she
learned at her mothers knee. The curse
| of women is that their emotions have been
| developed at the expense OF their reason,
and that they have thought it n credit to
| them to have more heart than head.
! The result is that women put an undue
value on sentiment. They must revise
| their estimate of love and marriage as
| factors in happiness, and take the same
rational view os them that men dos
| thing to enter into jovfully if it comes then
way, and do without cheerfully If CUPID
| fails to knock at their door.
But one thing the superRuous woman
| problem should impress on the minds o.
| parents and that is the necessity OF pro
viding their daughters with some definite
way Of making a living, not only for the
sake of money, but TO give the girls some
interesting occupation in life, something
to think about and do, for Satan tnd'
even more work for idle women hands (
do than it does for idle mems.
Not for generations can father count
securely in handing over his daughter Z
some other man 10 support. No glrl L
sure of getting married in these DAYS Il
long shot with the odds against them II
the misunderstanding game, for ther,
simply aren't enough men to 60 around
But the girl needn' mind if She IS sct--
sustaining. She can do for herself as We!
as the average husband can do for he
and she has the consoling thought tha
a good Job is better than bad husband
and that, anyway. the working woman
is never the superhuous woman. III
world needs her.