| Show Dorothy th Dix Talks WHO IS RICH ASKS DOROTHY DIX THE WOMAN WHO WHO HAS A GOOD HUSBAND LITTLE CHILDREN AND LOVE I THE AND WHO POSSESSES HUMOR PHILOSOPHY ANDI AND THE JOY OF LIVING OR LIVING OR THE WOMAN WHO HAS MERELY MONEY I WHO WIIO Is 18 rich r When hen Is Js a a wO woman rich r V I know a w woman woman man who has not much money and few of the things that money buys but I consider her wealthier by far than many a 8 of my acquaintance To begin with wIlh she the possesses a husband Not Nota Nota k ke e 4 a c cash sh register or a checkbook or a a moneymaking money money- J fJ making machine but a real live human hus i wM band j i 01 fi c- c cAnd j And she doesn't own just part Interest In 7 1 4 him either He He- 11 belongs to her body and soul 1 c- c She doesn't have ha to lIe llo awake at night trying 1 tY J I k j to figure out some way of rousing a a little In In- In gj j I terest In his br breast ast Nor does docs she the have hav to spend pend her day In beauty parlors trying to to l manufacture a synthetic youth that will enable I i her to compete with the vamps vamp arc I J t r ySA I t It Is true tru that her husband cann cannot t tz z s f II t j give her much money but he bestows bestow 1 o I upon her a boundless devotion and f 9 1 appreciation appreciation- and he gives her a per per per- per per- feet companionship companionship- I DOROTHY DIX F OHE CHE doesn't have to remind him that her birthday Is coming or I SHE 3 about anniversaries because the slightest thing thine about her Is of L Importance to him She doesn't have ha to nag nac him to take taie tal her out occasionally to shows he thinks that to go so go any any- anywhere where with her Is the greatest of o all treats There Is never a dull moment with them because after twenty years of marriage theY have ave not talked out and ate ale al e perpetually Interested In each others other's point of view This woman has a home and that's what many a woman who has ha an apartment on P Park avenue and a cottage at New New- Newport port ort and a country place on Long Island and a villa Ilia at Palm Palm Beach and a chateau in France hasn't got IT IT T IS true that my friends friend's friend house Is a a cheap little bungalow and 1 they are paying for it on the Installment plan and their front i 3 yard rd Isn't much bigger than a pocket handkerchief and you wouldn't I pave Five a couple of hundred dollars for tor every stick of furniture in It I But it is a haven havn of ot peace and rest and cheer There is never any i norI t quarrelIng In It Never Ne any Never any grouching nor J j I surliness nor finding fault Instead there Is sympathy and under under- understanding f standing and love lovo and mutual helpfulness and wholesome laughter aughter I There Ther Is a magic In those thin walls that keeps out all of the coldness and harshness of the th world and that makes of It a place of Ineffable restfulness restfulness so so that those those who eveni even i i cit sit by Its fireside for a little while go forth strengthened strengthened and comforted It may be that the th children who are being reared in in this house will some day lay live in palaces themselves but go where I they will achieve what they may th they y will never find any any- anything anything I thing that will live In their memories so beautiful as the home of their childhood HIS woman cannot afford servants She does her o own cooking a and and andE d dt THIS HIST T housework but because the labor of her hands keeps keels her family E I t happy appy and comfor comfortable ble and well cared for tor she glories In it It t hasI has I never occurred to her that she Is a slave ve and that domestic work ork Is drudgery r On the contrary when she the stands before seines her kitchen l range rang she feels herself a priestess serving before the Domestic Do- Do i Doi Altar and the savor that goes up from her her pots and pans Is the incense that she is her Lares and CHE HE cannot afford to buy season out fruits and vegetables or rj J price high game but she can make a pot roast that th Is a poem and pies that should be eaten on your knees In sheer gratitude and the she ohe can compound a salad whose whoso flavor will linger Inger on your lips long lone after you have forgotten the masterpiece of a French chef p This woman has never had an Imported frock or nor nor a hat with a Paris label in It nor a costly ornament In her life but she walks clothed In the th adoration of her family and the admiration and affection of all who know her and she might like the mother of the th Gracchi point to her splendid sons and daughters a and d say These are my jewels CO MUCH of charm has she so much of ot sweetness and goodness SO 3 and womanliness radiates from her so so gay cay and unaffected is she so so p Interested and ard so full of sympathy for every enry one else and so for for- forgetful forgetful tor of herself that nobody ever notices whether she has has has- hason on a confection from the Rue Hue de Ie la Ia Paix Pair or something that she has h s run run up vp herself on the sewing machine in the Intervals when she wasn't wasn't doing something else for tor some one else I This woman has no money to svend spend on traveling She has never been to Europe or around the thc world she hasn't even seen America first but she has traveled with books and gone con farther and seen more In her rocking chair than nine out ot or ten globetrotters trotters I She has read and stud studied and d thought until she sh Is of the few who can truly say My mind to me a Kingdom la II and such people are the only real cosmopolitans I I Above all this woman has Gods God's greatest gift ift the Joy of living Jiving She gets sets a kick out of her daily work Every min min min- vie ute with her husband and children gives her a deep and 1 abiding abiding delight She Sh cannot walk around the block without finding something amusing and entertaining Life has for her no dull moments because she sh has that within herself herself herself- 4 W which transfigures their drabness and turns them Into gold I 1 ISO I SO CO I ASI ASK again Who Is rich The woman who has a good hus hus- hus husband hus band and little children and love Jove and philosophy and humor or ort orthe t the woman who has merely money rooney DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger |
