Evening star., 1927-04-17
sts Thrers Found in Everyday Life Says Dorothy Dix

when you have bred them up tina;
way you have little or nothing OF the
raw material of the murderer left.
That's why 1 never believed the
Stevens family had anything to dc
with the murder OF DR.. Hall and Mrs
Mills. Shooting and throat-cuttine
had been bred out OF them. That's
why I believed that Mrs. Hall was
telling the truth when she said she
hadn't the faintest idea that her hus.
band was unfaithful to her. Mrs
Hall was a lady with generations Of
good breeding back of her. She
couldn't have suspected her husband
Of an intrigue.
And her brothers were OF the same
type as she. II they had known Of
the Iector's infds,ity to t3e!r sister
their reactions would have been not
to get gun or q knife. but 10 hire
lawyer Poor Fanny. wefI have 10
get her a divorce would have been
what they would have said,
NO. that sort don't murder, or If
they do. so rarely that it is the ezcep
tion that proves the rule. Your gres'
crimes in which great passions move
cyclonCally come from the common
people I have found
''Ive seen lot of them. I've re
ported them after observing them
microscopically for % years. But
now I'm through. I've taken vaca
ton from murder-triai reporting-and
it's going to last all my life
But if Dorothy Dix Is taking va
cation, it is a vacation full Of WORK.
An average of 200 letters a day pours
in to her pleasant New Orleans home
from all over America, from England
even.
Such questions as they ask
"One man wrote in to me deman,;-
/ ing that ] tell him authOritativeiy
what was the one unforgsvdble sin,
chuckles Dorothy DIX. Il told him
! anew what It was from my point OF
view. Jazz music"
| And another" resumes Dorothy
/ Dix, wrote 20 me and said: I want
/ you TO tell me the truth about life
after death Fairly large order. that
/ Such perpleXities and such trials
as they have! And they write to me
with a candor and frankness and
/ openness that is simply startling A.
! times. / suppose it would raise the
| hair on the heads Of some fathers
| and mothers il they knew the problem
| that their sons and daughters lay be
fore me for solution. And it is ia ther
q pitiful commentary on parenthood
that those boys and girls can't go TO
! their fathers and mothers to solve
those problems, but have TO write 10
somebody they have never seen, but
whose name they have seen IN a news
paper"
1t is a beautiful home in which Dor
| othy Dix does the worl; that has made
her name household word TO mil
lions OF Americans Span.@h in type.
with cool plaster walls. hish-arched
ceilings. marvellous griiie.y Of heavy
black iron. a sun paTlOr th2t for hours
each day is bright with the golden
Louisiana sun flteying through the
green trees OF Audubon Park. 1t is
furnished with he fruits o; Il shop
ping expedition lat went all the way
around the world
But set ape, Gg:ln MI this eauty
is the severely siIap.e 0s',r1om Where
Dorothy Dix does .in''r task.
Yes. they've cg ~ eob-sister
so long that I'm :" >, oud OF the
title" she smiles. r4cipa FOR be-
ing good sob-sistC? lUu'Te got 10
be interested in people You've got To
know news when YOU 80 {. in the
raw. You've got 10 wan. 50 badly 20
write that It win break youY heart if
you can't write. And You've got 10
keep your feelings sandp4pSred just
the way Alias Jimmy Valentine sand
papered the tip of his fingers so he
could work out safe coalbina lion by
touch. You've got to he sensitive tc
the slightest shades OF human feeling
Then get yourself JOB on a news
paper and go to 1t. Always there has
been need of good sob.sisters on
American newspapers. The demand
is always greater than the supply.
I'd like to see a whole flock Of them
making good. What they write is the
best reading in the world, because IT
is raw life seen through sympathetic
and understanding eyes and told out
Of a sympathetic and understanding
heart"
tC0pvrigut 1871