| Show Dorothy Doroth Dix Talks Talk NO WOMAN HAS YET ARRIVED OR SHOWS SHOWS ANY SIGN 0 ARRIVING AT THE POINT OF GRACE WHERE SHE CAN BEHOLD ANOTHER PERSON MAKING A PIE WITHOUT PUTTING HER FINGER IN IT OBSERVES DOROTHY DIX OF HER SEX EVERY now and th then n I am forcibly reminded of or the tact fact that the millennium will have arrived when we learn to mind our own business But It will be an all Evele Eyeless Eden Ed n without sr a single woman In It a But no woman has haa yet et arrived or shows b an any signs of arriving at the tha point of ot grace where she the can behold another person making a pie without putting her finger In it i This has hu always alway been her bane She has hal broken her heart over other peoples people's sor- sor sorrows rows She has hat lost lott sleep over other people peoples people's worries She has brought on mol more mort nervous prostration trying to run other people peoples people's at af fairs and thereby stirred up more heart hurt burnings and and strife trite than all other causes combined NOT being able to mind ones one's own business is a DIX feminine manta mania The Thc average man feels that he ho has about all he can do to run his own affairs and trouble enough of his own without borrowing his neigh neigh- neighbor's neighbor's neighbor's bors bor's The average woman attends to her business in la the Intervals when she sho Isn't trying to manage other peoples people's les le's And the queer part of It Is that by some quirk ot of feminine logic this unwarranted meddling in other peoples people's affairs Is accounted a virtue A woman womans woman's definition of another woman who Is II a selfish creature Is one who attends strictly to her h r own business and of her own when the chit chil children doesn't bob In with some come ome remedy dren next door have the croup TIllS THIS Inability to tend to her own business and leave other people le leto to run theirs Is at the tho root ot or the servant problem We are al always ways way's ways as a's wondering why men can keep their when housewives cant can't keep theirs It Is because when a man hires a 1 clerk cleric he be gives him freedom to do flo his work 1 pretty retty much as he pleases so long as he gets satisfactory results but a womans woman's cant can't do that She stands over her servants while they are arc at work with a continual do this and do that until she drives them crazy It Is because there are too many cooks cook that so much good goodbroth goodbroth goodbroth broth Is spoiled and if the mistress would attend to her af at affairs fairs faire a little more In the tho house and let her maids run theirs their up up In the kitchen she wouldn't have to get up so Ingi mor- mor ings and get the breakfast t because the servant lady had taken herself and ad her exasperated feelings feeling to some som other med meddling doing housekeeper ONE kNE of ot the saddest effects of our not nol attending to tn our own busl busl- business ness Is the perennial family row We speak of ot It as lack of or sympathy ot of conduct We give this and that high flown rea rea- reason son SOD But the plain truth of the matter Is II that at the bottom o of nearly Mearly everyone every one of the family quarrels that are so 10 pathetic and so cruel in their e estrangements Is II some lome woman who wouldn't mind her own business A A MAN marries and the woman he brings Into his family has beenA been A AMAN A k reared differently and has different Ideas about cooking or pol pol- politics of 01 religion from the women of ot his own family It might be beI bethought bethought bethought thought that the world was big enough and wide enough for tor them I all to and occupation and amusement without attempting to Inter inter- interfere Interfere fere tere with each other But Dut not so First thing anybody knows known his mother or sisters begin to try to regulate his wife's table or wardrobe or manage her children for her Or p perhaps she starts out on a missionary campaign to try to educate her husbands husband's people le up to her blue ehna blue ohina standard Anyway trouble begins right there and peace packs Its grip and departs on OD ODthe the lightning express for tor parts unknown Every Ever living HYing woman has seen this thing happen over ver and over again but no woman has haR learned anything from It It lt r I Just think of giving up a brothers brother's love leve or being saps sepa rat sepa-rat-d rated from him by a barrier more cruel than death or having havinga a lon sons son's door opened to you only on sufferance and tot know that you OU care are re the most unwelcome guest that ever crosses the threshold Isn't It a pretty high price to pay for the doubt doubtful ful privilege of trying to run another womans woman's business And Isn't It strange that women omen wont won't be warned and remember remember ber that hands oft off Is II the motto on every womans woman's door and that one It at her peril OF f COURSE we shall shan have no more gossip when we learn to at v at-v tend to our own business We shall be occupied In paying paring our bills own own- bills Instead of wondering how other people le pay theirs It If Mr Clubman Is out of nights we shant shan't spend the time In pitying his 1 poor wife wire and 81 speculating If It her cooking or temper te drove him to drink We shall shill merely presume the clubman knew his bis own business an and at any rate It Isn't any ot of our affair We shall be able to come and go as aa we please plene without taking the neighborhood Into our confidence or offering ax- ax ex explanation or apology for so long as we Infringe on nobody elsos elso's right no one will trouble themselves about our move movements ment ments And what a peaceful easy restful time we shall have If It only we can learn to mind our own business and let other peoples people's alone DOROTHY DI Copyright by Public Ledger |
