Show Dorothy Dix Tells How She Became Worlds World's Highest Priced of Women Newspaper Writers Elizabeth Elizabeth Meriwether GUm GUm- I To 00 DorothY Dix Dit millions of ot O men o-men o men and hundreds ot or thousands of men the world round io look for tor ad- ad advIce ad vIce ice on to p problems that vex ez the tho th human sou OU Sho sir Is the tho mother confessor conte Of Ot those who wo have strayed the narrow path path the hll bl bt sister Ister of the ith the troubled and No other oman loman- soman-la soman hat such uch a II back back ground sucha ucha training for Intimate writing of this class I 1 wa was born abe h says ay at at Wood Wood- Woodstock Woodstock Wood stock a farm farmon on the th border bord r between and Kentucky In In n o household was wasa wa a demented halt old man a pensioner of or my rand and the th prototype of o Mr Jr Dick lii 11 InI David CopperfIeld He taught me m to toI read and that mad made n me tree free to en- en enjoy en enjoy joya joy joy- a fine tine old old classical library De- De Defore Before Be Before fore I X was wa wr 12 I 1 knew my Shak Shakes Shakes- s- s speare peare and Scott and Dickens Diken by heart and had read and anti had bad e een even en toyed with the works work of ot Josephus and Motleys Motley's Dutch Republic The Tir Decline and Fall of the tb Roman Empire and other allY airy literary trifles like that I I 1 had no mushy childrens children's bools to te read rend and so 80 I 1 cut my teeth on the solid meat of o good mt for mercy m rcy I thank thane God Later I ns as sent to a n female academy where whereat nt at 16 K I 1 was graduated In all the th olo- olo olo-Cies olo and Isms and In a lo 10 Ioe loof e of I white dresa drean but r real education I 1 got rot I 1 found In th 3 yelloW old books In the tb library at ac Woodstock finished school I tucked 1 up UI my hair and got married as was the tribal custom among am one m my people e to settle don nn do n on Mali 1 street and spend my life as a Main Streeter but fate had other plans plan Tot fOI me A series of financial and do domestic do- do domestic mestie catastrophes chucked me out Into the world not only to earn my myown myOwn myown own living but to support others I 1 Idid Idid did did not know a thing on earth to du do doto duto doto to male make a dollar and t I agonized 0 oer o er erthe the horror of dependence until I 1 gr grow W ill III and was sent to the Gulf coast to and Destiny and I believe e in Kismet as Implicitly as any Mohammedan put me mc Into the house next door to Mrs E fl J S Nicholson Nicholson I holson the reat K-reat reat woman ho hO 0 owned ned and edited the Ne Net New Or- Or Orleans Orleans Or Orleans leans Picayune I 1 showed her Iler a little story I had written ritten and she bought It for 3 00 which I 1 still believe bellev to be bethe bethe the largest sum P Per er paid for any ht- ht lit lit composition Anyway my fate as tas sealed for tor I 1 promptly myself on the Picayune and my be newspaper career roer began PA PASSION SIO FOK NEWSPAPERS I had a n passion for newspaper work and I 1 set about learning learnine my mv trade with the zeal of a fanatic T I studied fuelled the tir backs off oft of books of synonyms and word boo books Its and die die- dictionaries dic dictionaries I 1 memorIzed sed ed editorials uI th-uI I 1 liked I 1 followed Dig big stories In Ine ery e ery part of the country to see which I paper played them up tip best bett I 1 dl- dl dissected the work of the leading pi- pi pi pl l I i to find what made them snappy I 1 Ih cd newspapers I ate I newspapers I 1 dreamed newspapers ne J Jand and I 1 dare say ay I 1 shall go eo on doing It until I die for when you ou are born with that thirst for printers printer's in ink T TI I DOROTHY mx there Is no cure for It until death writes 30 at the bottom of our lite copy Part of my work on the con consisted In writing every ery week an ar- ar ar article tide article for tor women I 1 pondered for a along along long along time on what line I 1 should take and then It came cam to me that every every- thing everything very In the tir world had bad been 1 about women and o or women the truth They had been as as angels They had llad been pitied a They had been advised ad to bl human doormats I 1 that women I knew that they were not angels and that they were tired of being and doormats They were fed up on fulsome flattery and weary of sut- sut suffering su-ferine su fering and being strong So So I 1 began becan writing for tor my sethe se sec the truth as I 1 have seen It about the re rp rP- rP relationships of men and women I these articles the thc Dorothy Dh Talks and women liked them So for the thc last quarter century I 1 have ve laughed and cried and sympathized sith Ith and jollied and lambasted and ad sed millions ons upon millions of ot my mv sisters with whom whon I ha have hae chad had heart heart- heart to heal to-heal t talks through the papers the world over oer 0 er I 1 take my work v ey cy oy seriously It Ita Ita n a preacher has a n congregation of a couple of hundred of people on Sun Sun- Sundy dy he ho think that he ho has a good food au- au audience au audience It If he lie preaches to a n thou thou- thousand thousand sand people on Sundays Sunda's we w consIder him a 0 popular preacher and speak of his great reat influence Without ian ian- van vanity ity I 1 may say that three times a week weel I 1 to millions of men ano women a who ho read the daily dally papers all the a way ay from New York to South AC- AC |