The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-14
By DOROTHY DIX

Why is it that the great majority of women feel themselves so injured and put upon by fate when they have to do any useful work?
 The woman who has to do her own homework considers that the early Christian martyrs had nothing on her in hardships. The woman who has to be her own nursemaid weeps tears of self-pity. !, She who makes her own frocks believes that the hand of affliction is laid heavily on her, while the multitude of women who earn their own bread and but ter bewail the hardships of their lot, and speak of themselves as poor working women"
 Somehow, every woman regards it as her constitutional right to be born in a limousine, with gold spoon in her mouth, and when she finds out that she didn't even Inherit a tin Lizzie, and that she has to hustle out and work for her living, 1t gives her grouch that she never gets over.
 Not only do women hold that it is terrible misfortune for them to have to work, but they have succeed ed in impressing this point of view on the world. Every mans ambi- ton is to support the woman he loves In absolute idleness, and his ideal of the perfect husband and father is the man who turns his womenkind into lazy parasites.
 The dearest desire of all parents is to bring their girls up in indolence, and utter ignorance of how to do any sort of labor, and to this and father will work fyac calf f0 Mamie from having to get a job. and mother will toll in the kitchen so that Mamie may lay on a couch and read a novel in the parIor.
 Parents consider no sacrifice of themselves too great to make to protect their daughters from having to work, and they never cease to NSlosh over with sympathy for their Ypoor, persecuted darlings whom a malign destiny forces to earn money instead of devoting all of their time to spending 1t.
 In reality, instead of work being curse to a woman it is her great est blessing, for the slightest ob- eservation will show that the busi- est women are the happiest, young est and healthiest women, and that ait Is the idle women who are sIclSly sneurotic women who fill sana,ariums hnd enrich doctors, and ksep the uivorce mill busy.
 No system of gymnastics on earth Will do much to preserve a willowy figure as making beds and sweeping floors. Nothing keeps the body well. and strong, and fit like having a mind too much absorbed in the race to some goal to take heed of every little, indisposition. Nothing keeps one young like some vital interest. some absorbing occupation.
 Business and professional women working women-nearly always look l0 years younger than their idle sis ters, and they have that alert. alive look that no beauty parlor can give. 1t Is the lazy, indolent, stall fed women with nothing to do and noth- Ing to think about but teas. and bridges, and dinner who get fat and dull, and loggy before their time.
 Women need work to keen them healthy, and young, and they need work to keep them out of mischief. Tor, because swomen are restless nd nervous and highly strung, Satan 1inds more jobs for their idle hands 10 do than he even does for men.
 You never hear of the woman vhc has to cook and wash and sew fer a household of kids and get up and get her husbands breakfast at