Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-03-25
DOROTHY DIX TALKS.
wor'ds Highest Paid woman writer
lCopyriEht. ls:o by the wneeier syn
1iuAtsl Inch
DREAMS.

4 young woman asks me if Ifelievc IN
dreams.
She SAYS that she has had n hard life
I hat the comes from home OF strife ana
diseurd, from which the children were
thrust to make their own way, like birds
from a nest. That she is poor and has To
earn her own living, and that she doesn I
mako much money, for she isn't clever
nt her work, hut she IS content. Tor hall the
time she hardly knows what she ~ doing
because sho j. dreaming that some rich
old couple will happen along and adopt
her and carry her of 90 home of splendor
where they viii pct and indulge her Or
clse that handsome and dashing young
millionaire will fall N love with her at first
aght and marry her. and she will fiaunt
nround in hmousincs forever after.
Certainly | believe in dreams But not
In plpe dreams of the kind in which this
vnung woman is indulging herself. There
arc drcams that are prophetic dreams,
and there are dreams that are creepil q
paralvsiS There are dreams that end IN
achievement, and dreams that end In
death
Almost every great thing that has been
done m the world Is the realization ot
dream Columbus dreamed that the world
was round Fulton dreamed of boat
moved hV the power OF steam. Morse
dreamed of srndlng message across the
continent hv wirr Edison dreamed OF re-
nrndueinr the human voice So that the
world maN still listen 10 a great singer
hundred Years after his body is dust and
ashes Thu great railroad builders who have
linked tho world together with iron bands,
The great hnancicrs who have built up
huge industries. all have been drcamers.
Rut these people did not sit down and
fold thcr hands and spend their time
.n = trance. imagining that the thing they
wanted would como to them on wings.
! hey rolled up their sleeves and went 10
work a. make theIr dreams come true.
he realization of their vision was the
result 81 no miracle Il came through IN
turing labor, and sweat, and sclf-,enial
and grt
Those arr tho kinds Of dreams believe
ln. not the sleeping sickness kind of dreams
that never gct YOU beyond living on your
hack IN the sun and thinking how nice
u would hc # a luscious peach would drop
n your mouth
And the chief trouble with women is
that they have never learned how 10
dream dreams They arc afflicted with the
dnpe-drram hadn't. and they spend 50
much oi thcirclcrgy IN building Castles III
spain that they have none 70 use IN erect
iug Il real houSa of lIic
enc ot the reasons that men succeed
>, much oftcncr 40 life than women do, is
ht,au.n they realize that they have got
rs hc thclr own httlc soothsayers and in
tcrprci tacIr own dreams 10 terms Of
effort where's women still look for the
suucrratural to happen 10 them, and the
hung thcv want ~ fall INTO their laps Just
,rrausc They want it Il Is women who
1rr the chlct followers of those cults that
teach that We can get the things VIC desire
most hN simply willing them 10 come 10
l~ lustr3d 81 working for them
n Is hc,a1Sc women are foolish and
tll, drcamcr> that thcv 50 seldom think
b worth while to prepare themselves for
wen the work They undertake to do They
orc not Wiling % So through the apprea-
.r~hn a. anN calling. or 10 thoroughly
u.astcr the dctaIi, of any business or pro
Z ssion ,ccausc they arc moolIng over
slmr hai>con dream Of life in which
there NIll lr no labor nor care nor re-