Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-08
DOROTHY DIX T AK S
WHAT WILL SHE DO? ys
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate Inc)

for the other, but it is condition.
and not a theory, that confronts US
and under the circumstances the nus
bands and babies are an 1mpoSSlplIii-
ty, where the business success Is not;
Even bread is not to be desplSeo
when there IS no cake.
Nor is this Hobson's choice Tot
| the SuperfluouS woman as bad as ~
appears. Theoretically, love is the
| only incentive to marriage. In real
| ity girls marry for many things Pc
sides the grand passion. They marry
| to get emancipation from the petty
| tyranny of their parents. They mar
! ry because they want home OIL
| their own that they can furnish as
| they please They marry because
they want an individual pocketbnok.
Most Of all they marry because tnsy
| are bored with having nothing deIf
| mite to de, and want to be about tns
| business of life.
| All of these things the successfu.
| business woman secures to herSell
| far more than the married woman
| ever realizes them, and, as plalE
matter of fact, her life is fuller OF
happiness than that of any women
| except those who have drawn the
| headliner prizes in the great matri-
| monial lottery.
The truth is that we have thought
| of women so long in terms of domes-
ITCHY 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
! multitude of women who are not
| cooking husbands dinner, and darn
ing little stockings, and wiping little
| noses.
Of course the difficulty in the way
| of the superfluous Woman's accept
ing her husband-less fate philosophy.
ical1y and making the best of 1T, 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 de-
| veloped at the expense of their rea-
son, and that they have thought 1t
a. credit to them to have more heart
| thang head.
The result is that women. put an
undue value on sentiment. They
| must revise their estimate of love
and marriage as factors in happi-
ness, and take the same rational
view Of them that men do--a thing
to enter into joyfully If 1t comes
their way, and do without cheerfully
if Cupid fails to knock at their door.
But one thing the superfluous
woman problem should impress on
necessity of providing their daugh7
tiers with some definite way of maxi
ing a living, not only for the sake
of money, but to give the girls some
| interesting occupation in. life, Some7
thing to think about and do, for
Satan finds even more work for idle
| women's hands to do than 1t does for
| idle mems. \
Not for generations can a father
count securely in handing over his
| daughter to some other man to sup1
| port. No girl is sure of getting mar i
| ried in these days It's long shot
with the odds against them in the
misunderstanding game, for there
simply aren't enough men to go
| around. ~
But the girl needn't mind If she
Is self-sustaining. She can do for|
herself as well as the average hus1
band can do for her, and she has the
consoling thought that a good job Isl
better than bad husband, and that
| anyway, the working woman i'd
never the superfluous woman. Tho
| world needs her.