Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-28
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

you will be poor il your old age
Also that if you have nothing laid
up you can take no advantage Of
opportunity when it knocks at your
door, for opportunity is like a gypsy
sibyl. You must cross her palm with
gold before she will tell you which
way your fortune lies. Also it is true
that it does not make any difference
how much you make-it is how
much you save that counts. A mil
lion made AID spent is as utterly
gone as a lost dollar.
All Of these platitudes your fiance
knows. Perhaps he will listen to
you; perhaps not. If you cannot
convince him of the virtue of saw
ing, be one of the gold-diggers your
self and get everything out Of him
that YOU can and salt it away pri-
vately. Then you will have some
thing to take care Of him with when
the inevitable crash comes.
Dear Dorothy Dix-Will you
please tell me what you think of
the three following questions:
(a) Why do so many married wom-
en- say to q spinster: "You should
be glad that. you have never mar
ried, and if L had known what I do
aoW l should have stayed single"
tb) When a woman stays single,
why do people think it is because
she never had chance to marry,
while it is presumed that a man is
bachelor because he wishes to be
one?
(c) Why do people never consid-
er the pleasure or happiness of an
unmarried woman? Why do they
ignore al old maid until they want
to ask a favor of her or get some
work done that no one else wants to
do? N. M. F.
Answer: L think, N. M. f., that
you are taking a very jaundiced
view of the position of the bachelor
woman.
In olden times, when marriage
was the sole business of a woman
and a husband was not only meal
ticket, but the only open door to So
ciety and freedom, the old maid
may have been looked upon askance.
She may have been sort of family
convenience and people may have
thought that the only. reason she
didn't marry was because she
couldn't marry.
But all of that is changed now.
Women are free of every occupation.
They go and do what they please,
and many women are pleasing not
to marry because they prefer their
own latchkey and pocketbook to any
man. And, as far as the old maid
being an object Of ridicule is con.
cerned, she is more likely to be the
subject of envy.
In this view Of the case you will
find the answer to your first two
questions. The answer to the third
question is: Just human nature. Be.
cause old maids and old bachelors
have no families Of their own, they
are called upon to be foster fathers
and mothers to the world and do all
the odd jobs that other people
haven't time to do. And, thank
God, they have big enough hearts
to assume the burdens laid upon
them.
Somebody said, beautifully, that
because God couldn't be everywhere
He made mothers. And I would add
to this that because there were not
mothers enough to go around, He
made old bachelors and old maids
to do the work that mothers left I'M
done.
DOROTHY DIX.
Copyright, 1920
not proud of her, she had not come
up to his expectations. Would he
always be that way? Were things
hopeless between them, Or was there
still a chance that she might edu
cate herself up to his level?
Tomorrow: Matthew Seeks Out
Margaret