Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-27
DOROTHY DIX'S TALK ON
Be Your OzOn Good Fairy
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY

in these days when the husband sup
ply is so far below par.
Not 50. The girl who wants to
marry is still her - Ssst match
maker. s1sa sazao must depend upon
heFsslr, and get out and look I'm the
kind OF a man she wants, instead of
sitting in the corner sucking her
thumbs waiting for the fairy prince
, to happen along.
Ihere is no use in angling in a
stream in which there are no fish,
nor is there any use in fishing for
a whale with a fly, nor attempting
TO harpoon brook Iout. So the
woman who is her own matrimonial
good fairy goes out into business
where men are plentiful, and she
t1nds the bait that is most alluring
to the. poor fish that she desires,
and before he knows is she has land.
ed him.
The third gift that a maiden asked
OF her fairy godmother was money.
SO that she might adorn herself in
glad raIment and ride in coach and
-FOUR. The woman who is her own
good larry doesn't waste any time
In wishing for money nowadays. She
goes out and earns it, for she has
Iound out that if women put in half
the time, and the labor, and the en-
ergy IN working that they do in want
ing Things they could buy them for
The fourth gift that the maiden
asked of her fairy godmother was
happiness. The woman who is her
own good fairy bestows this upon
herself. She fills her life full of so
many interests that there is never a
short to do all the things that she
has planned to do. and there is al
ways something exciting to look for
ward to in tomorrow
She has found out that there is no
happiness save in unselfishness, and
so she does not try to drug herself
into state of sensuous bliss with
riches, ease and softness. She finds
happiness in being of service to 9TH
ers, and doing a worthy work in the
world.
She loves ana gives herself. She
broadens her mind and her heart
She possesses her soul in calm and
peace, for she knows that If we find
happiness at all we must find it in
ourselves. No one can can give it to
us from the outside. No circum-
stances of life can assure it.
!. And that is all there is to the fairy
business. 1t is pluck and not luck
that wins out in life. If we win
what we want we must be go-getters,
not stay-wanters. Nothing is so fu-
tile as to sit with idle hands wish
ing for the good things of the world.
and believing that somehow, some
way they are going to be dropped
from the clouds into ones lap. Moth
ing comes that way but envy. jeal-
ousy and bitter disappointment.
Yet that is the way many women
spend their lives wanting things they
might have if only they had the ell
ergy to go after them. Eating their
hearts out in dreary waiting for some
miracle to come and change their lots
when they have the magic wand in
their own hands that would work the
miracle if they only had spunk
enough to wave it.
Believe me, sisters, the only per-
fectly reliable fairy godmother that
any woman ever has is herself. SO
don't wait for your good fairy any
longer. Get on the job yourself.
Dorothy Dix's articles will appear
in this paper every Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday.
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)