Show Dorothy Dix Talks L By DOROTHY DIX DIS th the t Worlds World's Highest Pla Pali Woman Women Writer r DON DONT DON'T r FORGET THE GRA GRAIN N OF SALT WITH THE THETO BETTER SETTER AND BETTER IDEA Mt No 1 TO 0 F Will m dispute the th effect ot or mind over OTer matter nor the th tact fact tha that Ere n peOple can thInk themselves W well U or thInk them them- themI BIC When cn there thero Is nothIng the matter them except ment of ot the th Therefore Th the th l ss who can Cal arise anse in Iii the Ur and repeat the th Coue Cou slogan 4 Every day In every way I Iam am better and better tor to I twenty times without Its Us once one jarring their tunny bone bonet t doubtless do get ft some Bome som good rood out of ot Jt it Dope Dop however whether mentally or physically ad ministered ill is a x dangerous thing thine with which to deal Dope takIng in any way la Js a bad bait habit to tonn tori and thIs Is precisely what people do who try to anesthetize an theIr Intelligence as a they wIsh with them to be lie and nd not no as they are ar c The Th alluring thIng about dope dop I J that It I Its ha victims to a paradise In which there Is no ni pain or poverty or worries worris or struggle or Sr strIvIng Every heart has Its Ita It desire The Tb sick lick are ar healed the poor have hav uncounted wealth i and are ar luxury NObodY works nobody la ie troubled about anythIng 11 DIX Everything In n every very say ay Is li better and better as long loni longas lonias Ionas as the th effects of ot the th drug last BUT B DUT UT the th pIpe pip dream Ie I a only a pipe pip dream Believing B you yu are ar a mil ml mil mil- J or a II genius when you yu haven't a penny In your yur pocket pk t C Cand and have only mediocre Intelligence doesn't give you yu a checking at the th bank or a laurel laur wreath wrath Believing you yu are ar young yung and beau beau- beautiful beautiful beautiful when you are old and haggard doesn't turn a shriveled ld lemon Into a peach pach In the end you ire rr bound to t wake wak up with the th bitter taste of cc the th opium add ct In your mouth the th great trouble with the cowards who flee tl from the th world of ot reali reali- realities realities NOW N ties Into a a world of imaginings Is la that It paralyzes paralyze their energy and aa ambition You never heard of ot dope dop takers taker trying to Improve the th conditions In which they thy live or surmounting the th difficulties that confront them It la Is 1 easier euler asler to take tako a jab of ot the th needle or smoke a 1 pill and be b wafted rafted into the th elysium you crave So It Is with the tb mental They Thy dont don't try to make mak thIngs better and better every very day They Thy sit lit down and stultify themselves b by trying to believe they got tot what they thy want without making any effort or sacrIfice to get t it It A A N OLD proverb tells tell us ui that there are ar two people i to whom we AN Tk h should never nver lie II One On Is I our ur lawyer the th other our doctor I think that the th person whom It Is i most Important not to t lie II to Is Ie Ion oneself elf Yet Vet this Is It the th Individual whom we w receive r be- be because be because cause our vanity will seldom let us admit the th real truth about our our- ourselves selves ur-selves selves and those thoe nearest and dearest dear to UG uc nill tell teU ou that thousands ot t people dIe dl annually with cancer DOCTORS D nho ho might have been saved K it they would have hav admitted the truth to about bout some som malignant sore core but they had not the th courage count to do doit dit It it They kept deceiving and telling themselves that the th In- In fumed d place pine was waa getting better and better until it was too late to do any any- anything an thing thine for tor It ft Alienists tell you that an n enormous percentage ot of minded feeble chil- chil children children dren could be b saved from utter r Idiocy It they could base ha ha hath the th proper treat treat- treatment meat while very young oung but hut their parents parent will not face tace the tb tact that their child Is subnormal They lie ll to themselves about Johnny or Sallie Sail being a little backward in walkIng or talking until the th time tim when the th child could hav havo been helped Is IR past The Th most pathetic people on earth Are re the th near genIuses the lbs men and women who have jollied themselves Into believing that they have hav talents that they do not possess They toil toll like slaves slave stories that no editor wilt will publish They spend their lives half hall starved painting daubs daub that nobodY will buy They keep their whole families taking lessons from high priced music teachers when they have no more mor voice vole than a cat j Their Thir only reward is tho bitter bread of ot balked ambition yet they mIght have been happy and prosperous It If only they had bad courage enough to give their abilities a fair tair appraisal and to admit to themselves that their head head- headgear headgear gear was not a laurel but about a five and one half bait sized hat HOW OW many men waste aste Bast their lives in callings for tor which they have hav no apU H tude how bow many sink deeper and deeper into debt In a bankrupt busI busI- busIness ness because they dope dop themselves up on false tats hopes thAt some miracle Is 1 goIng Boing to happen that will turn their failures Into success How luany wany women bleak bieak bl eak their hearts and wreck their lives by telling themselves that it if they will Ill III just be patient enough enouch they can blow the th ashes of a dead love Into flame again hen ben they might build a new life lit full run of peace and anti It If they could only realize that that Is ended is 15 ended and make male a n fresh Cresh start How many mothers aro so anxious for or their daughters to be b beauties and belles belle and their fons- fons sons eons figures of ot Importance that they fall Call to make the most of ot the th limited ability that theIr children have hav WE GAIN nothing by telling lies to The Th wise wll thing lv and the th brave thing is to look lii life In the eye ye without flinching to recognize that conditions condition are arc often hard but to make mak the tho th best of ofa ofa ofa a bad bargain to see that we w are ar poor weak creatures and to struggle to make mak better men and women of f ourselves It Itis 13 3 folly to stultify ourselves by believing that we ca cari think corned beef and Into being ngel's food or an ordinary common commonplace place dub into being a world beater Deceive others other If you must and must and can but dont don't kid yourself DOROTHY DIX |