Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-10
DOROTHY DIX'S TALK ON
COmmOm.SenSe Cures
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer

wrought housekeeper to cut out
the frilIs and get down to the SIM
pie life. She would rather die than
omit one dolly or fail to sweep, and
bake, and scrub on their appointed
days Nor is there any use in re-
minding the club woman that charity
begins at home and takes in oneself,
and that the one person on earth
whose ways and habits need the most
reforming are her own.
There's the young woman who is
eaten up with envy of the things
that other people have. She sits
with folded hands and let's herself
get bitter and morbid dwelling upon
what a cruel blow fate dealt her.
when she was not born with enough
money to get her the pretty clothes
that rich girls have.
The remedy for her trouble is as
plain as the nose on her face. All
that she has to do is to go to work
and put in as much concentrated
energy and thought in making money
as she has in wishing for it to come
to her on wings. Poverty is the
most easily cured disease in the
world and the one for which there
is the most unfailing specific. 1t
a.
would rather be sick with yearning
for luxuries than to take the rem
edy that cures it.
Sometimes a woman wakes up in
the morning with the blues, and gets
out of bed on the wrong foot. For
no reason at all she starts a quar-
rel with her husband at breakfast,
and spanks the baby, and shakes the
children, and makes things generally
unpleasant for everybody in the
household.
Generally she is in for two or
three-day orgy of melancholy, yet
there is a perfectly reliable remedy
for it that would relieve her In
couple of hours. All she needs to do
is to put on her hat, and go out ana
do something that amuses her, and
that will give her spirits jolt back
to normal Sometimes buying
pretty hat, or going to the matinee,
or lust to a restaurant and having
luncheon will do it. But she scorns
+he nlain common-sense remedy and
goes on being morbid, and wretched,
and making everybody else so.
Every now and then a woman gets
to the place where she loathes the
domestic life, and considers matrl-
mony failure, and WONDERS Wnal
made, her pick out the miserable
specimen of humanity she did Tor
her husband, and when even her
children figure in her thoughts as
tiresome brats instead of blessed
angels. and she dallies with the
thought of becoming home deserter'
or a suicide.
The remedy for this is little
visit. or a trip somewhere. Family
life has gotten on her nerves ana
all she needs is a change. Ihree
days, absence would turn her home
into a palace, her husband into ro-
mantle hero, her children into cherub-
ms. and hang the sun in her sky once
more. But has she sense enough TO
huv a railroad ticket as sure cure
Never. She stays at home ana
prouches and grumbles and complains
and takes out her own misery IN
making her family more miserable
still. ;, 4yo4
The queer part of 1t all is, that
women are perfectly aware that these
common-sense remedies would cure
them but they won't take them. the
only thing they will swallow whole
is some remedy that is expensive
or weird and mysterious.
downright, 1920, by the wheeler
Syndicate, 1nc.)