The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-29


 The Japanese have truer vision of fallen women than we have. They call them "the sorrowful sisterhood." Well may we pity those who have bartered their birthright for mess of pottage, and who for the sake of passing in fatuation, or for the qualification of their love of luxury and pleasure, have made of themselves outcasts among women and the playthings of brutal men.
 There are many different paths that lead down to the hell of fallen women. One of these is misplaced love. Sometimes a woman loves not wisely, but too we'll, and be- comes the victim of some con- scienceless villain who betrays her. This does not happen very often. Nor does the woman who sins through love alone often reach the level of the streets. Nearly always she repents of her error in sack cloth and ashes and fights her way back to righteousness.
 The chief of police of New York once told me, that in big city more girls go astray through loneliness than through any other cause. He said that the women of the streets were recruited from the country. Country girls came to town, allured by the bright lights. They got work in stores and factories and offices, but they lived in dingy and dreary hall bedrooms. They were lonely of evenings. They had no com .panionships. They had no family re- straint and they longed for fun and amusement.
 So they went out and found it on the streets. They picked up acquaintance with the men who lay in wait for just such unsophisticated little girls as they. They were the ones who accepted a strangers invitation to have a drink and go to a dance, or show, or who happened in the automobile of the man who sang out, Want a ride, girlie?' and took the joyride that ended for them in perdition.
 My own observations is that the love of dress,t the desire for fine clothes is responsible for the down fall of more girls than anything else. They literally sell their souls for a yard of chiffon and an even ing in cabaret. The poor girl who spends her days handling rich fabrics and selling costly garments to other women not half as beauti- full as she is gets obsessed by a ma mia for luxury. She can never hope to make the money herself to buy imported hats and gowns, and so she gets them in the one way that is open to her without count ing its final cost.
 
 AAd girls, rich and poor, are pleasure mad. They want the attentions of men and the good times that men give them, and when they find that men will only take them on wild parties if they are wild women, they have not the courage or the self-control or the high sense of honor that would make them refuse to pay the price.
 So we may pity the women, of the streets and scorn them-scorn them for tn eweakness that yields to temptation, and for the lack of intelligence that makes them throw away all that is. worth having in life for nothing.
 DOROTHY DoX.
 Dear Miss Dix: I am closely; con. AS$~SN At fOu5AuCeS WllH d ndH WQOSe wife has recently become unjustly sus- picious of us. The man and I are very much interested in our work and have worked together for eight years, but no question of sentiment has ever en- tered into our relationship, and neither of us would do anything to worry or injure the wife in any way.
 If give up my work it will mean the loss of years of hard labor and study. would have to change en- plOyment, which would. be very difficult for me to do, as I. am past forty years old. Also, it would take me away from my parents, who need me, and should be very unhappy to leave them.
 If were younger I would attempt a new field, but I don't believe should sacrifice myself by giving. up so much when there is nothing but a groundless jealousy in the matter. Yet I hate to think of another woman suffering through me- What should ] do?
 WORRIED. Answer:
 should think the best thing to do would be to go and have a real heart-to-heart talk with the wife. Make her see that you have no designs upon her husband and that he is no gay office Lothario. Make