The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-15
Dorothy Dix Talks
Marrying for Money!.
BY DOROTHY DIX
WseiA's HIGHEST Paid Woman Wrasas.

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If a girl marries a man who issugly,
or stupid, or old and fat. or who is
repulsive to her, he will be what he is
to the end of the chapter. But if she
marries a poor man who is energetic.
and Industrious, he can go out and get
the money.
Also. money is a thing of which one
easily gets enough. 1t does not take
millions to make one comfortable. and
after that money loses it's purchasing
power so far as buying happiness is
concerned. The woman whose hus-
band makes enough to give her a
pretty little home, and a reasonable
amount of luXuries, has all that money
Will do for her in pr, noting her fe-
licity.
No sensible person will contend that
the people who are multimillionaires.
and who live in palaces, waited on by
hordeS of servants and who rush from
place to place trying vainly to find
some new sensation to tickle their
faded palates. are the happiest people
Witness the number of divorces among
| them. Observe the disgrace their
children bring upon them. Look at
their tired, weary, blase faces as YOU
see them in public, and none are so
poor as to envy them.
The girl who sells her youth and
ner chance of love for money finds
that the old myth of Midas and his
gold is true. Very soon Just the pos
| session OF mere money pals upon
| her. She who has nothing except
what money buys. wants nothing that
| once longed for becomes rags. her
Jewels are just little hard pebbles.
Her check book is a mockery. for
there Is no Bank OF Happiness in
winch just dollars and cents are legal
tender.
| A girl commits a great folly when
she marries for money, because there
| is TINS queer thing about money-it is
more fun to make money than it is to
spend it. Ask any middle-aged couple
VINO started poor, perhaps in just a
couple OF rooms over a store, and who
nave worked up together until they
are now living in a mansion on Easy
street with everything that money can
{. buy, and they will invariably tell you
that their happiest days were their
young days when they were fighting
to get their feet on the first rung of
the ladder of success.
/ They were the days OF adventure.
of hopes and plannings, of comrade-
ship in a battle thye were fighting
shoulder to shoulder, and life had a
zest and a flavor that not all the gold
in the world would buy from them
now. The great American Romance
is the struggle of a young man and a
young woman, who love each other
and who dare poverty together. and
| fight together out of it, and the wo-
man who misses this, has missed some
thing that no elderly Croesus can buy
| her.
Finally, marrying for money is bad
business, because it is too risky. Money
is too easily lost. and then the woman
who has risked her all on it is indeed
a pauper in happiness. If you will
think over the girls in your acquaint-
ance who have married "well''-that
is, men who had money, you will be
| amazed to find how few have kept it.
even for the short space of twenty
years. Indeed, in this country where
fortunes fluctuate SO rapidly. it may
almost be said that a woman may take
her choice between marrying rich
man and having plenty in her youth.
| or marrying a poor man and having
plenty at middle age.
So marrying for money is bad bar
gain, anyway you take it.