Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24
DOROTHY DIX'S TALKS
Men and Women and Money
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Highest Paid Woman Writer in the World

| men who are trying to steal it from
| her. She is bounded by men with
| propositions that are so transparent
| ly fraudulent that no man would
have the face to present them to
any other man who was not in
carcerated in the Home for the In
durable Feeble Minded.
There is no sort of a gold brick
| that isn't offered her for SALE Min
ing promoters with mythical gold
and silver mines in the heart Of
| darkest Africa that were discovered
by a dying missionary, whisper in
her ear that because she has made
such an impression on him they will
let her have a few thousand dollars
worth of stock as a great favor, al
though ether people are fighting for
it. Real estate spectators talk
themselves hoarse trying to induce
her to buy corner lots in a swamp
at Broadway prices. Get-rich-quick
| concerns camp on her trail, and play
upon her cup!dity by trying to con-
vince her of the folly of taking :
Ter cent on a good bond while you
can make 25 per cent by taking a
chance in the sure thing they han
Ole.
to her by ties of blood and old friend
ship, trade upon her affection and
her trust to borrow her money when
they know that they have no secur-
ity to give her that any bank would
take as collateral, and that they are
taking advantage of her being q
woman to rob her.
This may seem a hard indictment
Of man, but it is no harder than the
bitter truth. Look about you at the
husbands who have cheated even
their own wives out Of their inheri-
tances. Look at the brothers who
have gotten the lions share in the
winding UP Of estates. Look at the
widows who have been beggared by
the trustees of their husbands wills.
Look at the poor, helpless, starry
ing old maids who are left fortunes,
but who lost every penny through
being cajoled into signing papers
they did not understand, or through
lending to Cousin Thomas, whom
they trusted so much because he
was a deacon in the church, and
prayed SO beautifully, that they
never thought of asking for a first
mortgage on anything by way of pro-
tecting themselves.
Wnen one thinks or now little the
average woman knows about bust
ness; when one considers how help
less the ordinary woman is to earn
a dollar if she is thrown on her own
resources; when cone remembers how
hard the woman who works, earns
her little money. and by what crimp-
ing and self-denfal she saves up her
pitiful little hoard of dollars, it
would seem that she must make an
irresistible appeal to any chivalry,
and pity and kindness in a mans
heart, and that few men could be
brutal and callous enough to be will
ing to cheat her out of the money
that means far more to her I'm
money can ever mean to a man.
But so far from this being the
case the sight of woman's pocket
boo apnA"r' to rouse all the sneak
thief instincts in many mems breasts,
and unless she has deathgrip on
it they snatch it and run away.
OF course, there are many eXcep-
tons to this rule. There are many
men who are fair and honest with
women and who protect them even
against themselves, but the great
majority OF men are far less honest
with women than they are with 9TH
err men.
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