Show I I DOROTHY DIX TALKS n ro DOROTHY DIX the he World t PaId PId P ld Woman Writer THE GIFT ORTHE ORTHE OR THE HELPING HAND SHOULD BE GIVEN NOW WHEN IT IS NEEDED NEEDED BEFORE BEFORE THE YEARS ROB LIFE I OF THE POW POWER OF ENJOYMENT I EVERY man and woman should work and economize until they the have EVERY ET laid by a modest competence for their old age ac If they fill fall ail to do this thie they doom themselves lv to certain misery for there are none so eo forlorn and so o pitiful as a the old who must eat the th bitter bread brud of dependence To spend all cU that one on j makes as a one on goes goe along along along- alongo so o that it there Is nothing left for or the rainy A S day that come to us u all Is I the S v K the th greatest attest oily folly that one can corn com mit I S IT IS also a o dl dishonest hone t thing thine to lo do because beuse tS'S 4 I IT It forces other people to provide for those tho S j who could perfectly w y oil ell bavo bove provided for tor I X themselves It if they had hid not spent all they earned earnell on self Indulgence The Th who I A 2 BI I I steals your purse does not rob you fOU ou any i ny moro SS H than do the Impecunious relatives relative andI and Bl I friends friend whoso hands hand are r always In your I pocket because their own pockets are r empt 11 H They rhey well l knew new that affection an and family 8 S H I pride and common humanity would not al iii- iii r nl-r I ite I Ilow low them to starve so ao they spent Bont their own money on rIotous living and depended ed on DOROTHY DIX grafting their support from others other when hen they grew crew ol old Between the tightwad and the waster watter however Is the golden mean Wl Wise WIe e are they who having safely lately cached the lit little tie tle nest ne t egg eg that will nourish them after they get too old to work do not seek to roll up a fortune to leave their heirs but use their money to buy for themselves and for those thoss they love the things thing they crave while they still want them I see lee many people at middle Ue life who are more than well to-do to to YOU deny themselves all the tha little luxuries they would like to the have have the comfortable home the tho nice trip the tho good car They dream of ot having these things thine but they keep putting oft off of bu ing them until It Is 1 too late lato until they are too old and Infirm to enjoy them or until catches them still till longing for tho thIngs they desired and might h he hase e t f had but never did have havey i And bow often otten we w see Bee e money OUO come to people almost too late to K do them any uny good lood A stingy father will deny the th pretty girl tirl the clothes I 4 and the social opportunities that would hare haTo enabled her to make a aI ali aS I li good marriage Or he will to give a boy bo Ui the that would auld have haTe launched him In the profession for tor which nature designed him Or he be t will withhold the th little help that would have saved his daughter married to a poor man from the th labor that thab broke brok down her health Or he be would not buy for tor his bl ton son the th partnership In some somei som i business that would have hav saved him years year of grInding struggle and put him In the way of ot fortune f The father Justifies himself by saying that all that he has haa haIs g Is his childrens children's and they will eventually get It It So 80 they do dot dowhen dowhen t when he dies dues and small gratitude they feel to t him who only gave at last lut when he could no n longer hold held on en to a dollar The time when ii lie he could really have hav helped them had passed They had either succeeded of f themselves or r failed For Fer them thedie theA the f die was cast J I I A WOMAN I 1 knew Inherited a halt million dollars from her lather father A A A k when she was fifty years year old She said to me bitterly f It 71 It means nothing to me m I 1 can get fet no enjoyment out of it because be be- be beh h cause I do not know how to spend money I 1 want nothing g now that money can buy Our home horn was alwa always s hard and bare and ugly My t I mother and I did all of o the th housework and we w scrimped every penny I I j neer never ne er had any pretty clothes when I 1 was a girl firl I 1 ne neer never er had any t treats I 1 never had any pleasures of any kind I 1 nEWer never went with w the th crowd because I 1 never had the money to do the things that the theother theother other girls cirl did I never had bad a chance chine at any fun or at love or marriage and so soI soI soI I am a pinched old maid who has worked and saved until it become a second nature I 1 dont don't even want the th things now that I once one broke my heart for tor As the th old proverb said Ive got tot my nuts when I 1 no longer have tho the teeth to crack them and so far tar as bringing me m any real happiness is concerned my money mIght as well be scraps of paper If It my father bad had spent on me m when I 1 was young It would have hae done me tue more good rood than this big bir fortune when I 1 am old I IThe IThe The time to help people Is I when they need help The time timeto timeto timeto to give Is I when the gift can pass warm from living hand to living hand Under Onder no circumstances should parents impoverish ish themselves for their children or make themselves depend dependent ent tnt upon them but if they have the money to make life lIe easier for their children why not give It to them while they are young and while they need It Y YOU SOU can give elve a child more pleasure with a ten-cent ten toy than you can give a middle aged ed man with Ith a n Government bond A youngster will enjoy beIng taken to a n circus more than a careworn car wom grownup would a trip to Europe A pretty frock frook means more to a young youn gIrl than a limousine does to a grandmother Surely It Is worth while to bar ber br these things and to give elv happiness to the young while it Is still SUU In our power to do so After all we only have today None of us know what the them lI m future holds The help we plan to give tomorrow ma may come too late The happiness we mean to bestow may not be ours to give Sickness disappointment the exhaustion of long gling struggling the fhe disillusionment of life rob people of all power o of en enjoyment So the moral of It all Is we must mut enjoy now as a we wo we go along VH AT we give to others we w must gIve tive while they want and need it It YV There is no use in spreading a feast before betor those who havo no appetite We e must do it now no it If we want to give pleasure or receive pleasure DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1923 by Public Ledger COmpany |