Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-17
DOROTHY DIX'S TALK ON
WE ONLY REAP WHAT WE SOW
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY =
7OTIu'S Highest Fad WOT
BY DOROTHY DIX

those who were glad, and so when
the time came when they hungered
for human companionship, and affec-
ton, they ached for it in vain. They
ship and so when they came to reap
their field it was barren. s.
We are called upon to listen to no
tale of woe so often as that Of the
wife who walls that her husband has
grown Indifferent to her, that he has
ceased to care for her, or to enjoy
her society and that he Is at nome
as little as possible.
Nine times out of ten the woman
who tells you that she has lost her
husbands love is so unattractive that
only a man who was q miracle of
sentiment for her. She has allowed
herself to become physically unallur-
Ing. She has ceased to comb her hair
and powder her nose and her clothes
look as If they had been pitchforked
at her.
we, Worse still she has grown dull and .ae!
reads. She has never anything bright
and interesting to talk about. She
wh1nes and complains and when her
husband comes home it is to a dreary,
ill-kept house, and to have to listen
wife grouching because she has to
worry over children and servants,
and can't have everything rich women
have.
Why should such T. woman ever
hope that her husband will find her
attractive. What is there about her
to intrigue any mans fancy? What
is there in home that Is the abode
of all the glooms to draw tired
man to it after his hard days work?
Such a woman Is too lasy and
shiftless and selfish to take the
FRI RI he, 10 ri
plowed and seeded, and worked. and
it is her fault when the heartsease
are choked out by the weeds. u
Because her husband loved her
once, she thinks he will love her al
ways, no matter how unkissabl she
becomes. Which is q fatal error.
Love is not a perennial that 'renews
itself year after year. Rather 1t Is
a one-day flower that has to be
planted anew every morning In "a
mans soul If woman wants to keep
herself perpetually adorned with it.
in her husband she must SOW the
seeds of charm, Of agreeability, OF
personal interest from which con-
stancy grows. =.
This truth. that we cannot reap
where we have not sown, fs one
peculiar earnestness Just now upon
their children, for the young have
grown impatient of the old, slow.
Flooding method of winning success,
and are hunting for some short cut
to 1t. And there is none. ,|
Boys and girls are not willing to
put in the labor, or take the time
to learn how to do their. work tisor-
oughly. They demand big salaries
that they cannot earn, and they
change from occupation to occupa-
ton, and position to position, seek
ing the mythical job with no work,
short hours and a fat pay envelope.
which they never find.
They should be made to UNDER
stand that before they can command
high pay they must be able to dol
good work. Before they can hold
responsible positions they must bel
fitted to fill the places Of authority.
Before they can command they rnustI
have submitted to authority them-|
selves. In a word before they CAM
reap the harvest of success they must
have titled the soil and sown theI
seed In sweat of soul and body.
For that Is the law of nature-we3
cannot reap where we have not sow4A
and the law never changes.