Show Dorothy Dix Talks Talk IF YOU THINK WRONGDOING PAYS WATCH THE GIRLS WHO HAVE CHOSEN THE PRIMROSE PATH THEY'VE PATH THEY'VE MORT MORT- MORTGAGED MORTGAGED THEIR FUTURE FOR A FEW SILKS AND THEY LAST LUXURY AND LOOKS ABOUT SEVEN YEARS REAL YEARS REAL HAPPINESS COMES ONLY TO THE GIRL WHOSE CONSCIENCE IS CLEANA CLEAN CLEANA A AYOUNG A YOUNG girl of ot 17 looking at life with tho the clear candid eyes of oC oCa ofa a child asks me this question DOES IT PAY A GIRL TO DE BE BI GOODr GOOD The girl is pretty and poor She has to tWit work for her living Her lIeI pours hours ours labor of-labor are arc 4 t long and hard and her earnings only enough l Sto y to pay for tor the bare necessities of o existence She has few pleasures and no luxuries and an f C she Bhe sees the future stretching before her hei and arid and highway along which she must toll footsore and weary cold old and hungry and dis- dis discouraged 3 r Yet she has the natural Impulses y of her sex cx within her She Sh-e Is no noy senseless passionless machine Sheil She is il s all quivering throbbing girlhood VS V'S 1 She longs long for pretty clothes to sets set setoff setoff s off her beauty for amusement for 4 gayety for feasting and dancing and ande making e I lovemaking DOROTHY DIX AT HER TIER side In the shop this gut gill se sees s AT women who are pat flat anemic w withered witherell models Of ot impeccable virtue but their lives have been as drab and featureless as the black dresses they wear They have never had a frivolous gown or a jewel jewet or eaten a meal at a smart re taur nt This girl sees seea other women hears the clang of their automobiles as they roll up to the door of the shop and she sells them embroidered silk or real lace lingerie or 50 hats Her eyes are dazzled by the gorgeousness of their gowns and the flash of their diamonds and she aho listens en- en enviously en enviously to their chatter about theatres theatre suppers on a roof gar gar- garden gar garden den and gay parties of a kind she the only reads about HE knows these are not sot good women that a few years ears or months month SHE age they were poor working girls even as she Is and that they the did not get their money h by honest labor tabor Nevertheless as liS she looks at them and at lit the worn and weary women who have trodden the hard and narrow road Instead ot of the primrose path she doubts and wonders Yes It does pay a girl to to b be good little sister in spite of the fact that appearances seem against it It pays In Inmany inmany Inmany many ways One of these Is s your own conscience Believe me there Is just one person whose whoso respect is necessary to your happiness and happiness and that is your own The day you lose the ability to look yourself In the face something has gone from you that takes all peace and comfort with it i rOV covet the pretty clothes these women wear wear but you who sell sellI YOU bargains In clothes consider this proposition from a cold busi- busi business busi busl business ness standpoint Are a few cw yards ards of o chiffon or a fancy hat or a jewel or two worth the price Of o a womans woman's soul Doe Docs it pay to walk walle In silk attire when your our silks cover a guilty heart filled with shame and when other women draw away their simple honest skirts from your soiled Boiled finery Does Does It It It pay to mortgage your future for a little present pleasure Make no mistake about this little sister when you take the wrong turn of the road it leads you away from all the natural happiness that every good woman has a right to look forward to The kind of a man you would like to marry will not be willing to marry the sort of woman you have become He wont won't want the mother of his children to have a past that wont won't bear Inspection pREN seldom marry the women om n with whom they have bave gone the ME Zvi pace an and l r hen en they do it t brings unhappiness to the women Ex Ex- Experience Experience has taught the men that these women are weak and foolish and too fond of ot pleasure Nor are aro men just or generous to kI women and the very ery man who ho has haB led a woman Into sin sin never cease to reproach her with It ft If you think that wrongdoing pays look at the faces of those who have bought ease and luxury at a price Watch how soon the roses fade on their cheeks and are replaced by rouge Note how soon the light of youth flickers out of their eyes and how they have to substitute belladonna for it Watch how thin and hard their lips grow Listen to how loud and noisy and mirthless their laughter becomes r ID you OU ever think why such women invariably take lake to drink or or J DID use drugs It Is to awaken their flagging spirits to force the laughter to their tired lips to which It no DO longer comes naturally to stimulate pleasure when their hearts are dead within them or to forget and deaden their their memory and remorse to shut out from their own vision the picture of ot what they were and the sorrow and shame they feel leel and that they know they have brought on their families Truly little sister there is nothing in the tho world so little gay as what we call tali the gay life It pays to be good Just In health and length of life The wages of sin Is death literally as well as figuratively for women It takes only s seven ven years to send a girl from the top of the ladder to the bottom of the toboggan slide of unlawful pleasures and pleasures and the bottom Is is In the grave gravo or worse IT TT PAYS to be good because only good geed women omen get any decent treatment treat treat- treatment ment from men There are arc no other human beings whose lives arc are so EO full of ot anxiety who are so abused Insulted and mistreated as the women who are ara the toys and playthings of men and whose whoso conduct gives men the right to treat trtat them without reverence or respect It pays to be good little sister first and last and all the tho time because only the good who have clean hands and pure hearts have any real happiness DOROTHY DIY DIX DIX- Copyright Copi right by Public Ledger I PETER U IS TRIPPED n B Thornton W Burgess Durgess Some folk are difficult to trap U you OU catch them In a nap Peter Peter Rabbit What Peter means means Is that if Ie people arc are wide awake they sel- sel seldom sel seldom dom dont get into difficulties But gooner or later nearly arly everybody Is caught napping That Is la near near- nearly nearly Iy ly everyone every one has times of being forgetful or failing fallinI to watch out Peter himself has had more than one narrow escape just because he was as careless and forgetful Winter Is a hard time for the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadow Meadows At least It is a hard time for most moat of them A few who have been fore tore forehanded forehanded handed to store away food get along But those who must depend on getting their food day by day sometimes suffer a great deal They suffer gutter great hunger hun hun- hunger hunger ger and th thy they suffer from the cold It takes food to make heat heal Ono One cannot be bo warm and hungry too It Is only when the stomach Is full that tho body is warm The Tho fur coat chat c at does not make warmth It simply keeps In the body the heat which I is l made mada by the tho food SO you OU will nearly always find that In winter a very ery hungry animal ani- ani animal ani animal mal usually la is ahl This Is the reason that the Bobcat an on Puma the Panther and Old Man Coyote and Reddy Fox sometimes become so bold when the weather wether Is very ver very verr Lad bad or when the weather has been very very vr-ry bad They are willing to take tails almost any chance In order to get food tood Of Ot course this makes It tt all the harder on the little people whom they hunt So even thou thos thosa who do not suffer hunger suffer from constant fear The season of snow and ico and bitter wind Is s not tot a happy season for any of ot the little people In n fur ful or feathers Peter Rabbit should have known that ho had hod 1 no un business to leave the dear Old patch Briar after the big big- Ice storm I suppose Peter leter did know it it but Lut he tIe was WIlB so anxious to see seo what was going on In the Green Forest so ro full of o curiosity that not all that little Mrs Peter could say could coull keep him at home A Away way he went lip Ill as fast as his Ills legs could take tako him at the very Vf-ry first opportunity lie He reached the Green Forest In safety and there thore for tor a long time he wandered about without find find- finding In log ing any ono he ho knew In fact he find any one ono at all You see the other folk who had been kept In by the storm had hadnot hadnot hadnot not started out as earl early as Peter Finally Peter grew tired Ue lie Came camo to a certain hollow log It i was quite a long log end and It wai wa hollow ow from end to end It was big enough for tor Peter to crawl through but not big enough for any one larg larger r than Peter Ieter to crawl I through Ill go In to here hero and rest resta resta resta a while sail salil Peter to himself So In lie he crawled and because he was very tired he began to nod lie He began hegan to rod and doze and prettY soon he c was asleep It wasn't ro long 1 ig after Peter fell asleep that Reddy Fox came along Reddy seldom misses anything He gates every possible hiding place So when ho came to this old hollow log he sniffed at tho end of It Right Ri ht away his Ills stomach stomach stomach ach almost almot flopped lopped over with cag He Tie smelled Peter Ieter Rabbit and tho the smell was as so stron strong that It was almost as t It if he ho had Peter right In his Ills mouth IIa ha asid Reddy Fox Peter r awoke awoki He lie saw heard and smelled Reddy Heddy b but t he ho wasn't frightened Ho lie simply crawled along a little farther Into luto the old hollow log leg Then ho grinned at Roddy HeddY and It was most provoking Yes sly siT sir that grin was a most provoking grin Reddy merely grinned back Ivo Ive got you I want you no now Peter Rabbit said he Sooner or later you'll have havo to tole le leave vo this till h hollow lIow lo log and wh when n didn't fin fin- finish fin finish you clo- clo do- do do Reddy Heddy ish Ho lie simply Dimply smacked his bis lips I I t Heuy H CAS I go In and rest a while hUt said 1111 Peter Petr to It wasn't a pleasant sound Any Any- Anyway way It wasn't pleasant to Peter Copyright 1927 by T f W Burgess Durgess The next ext story Peter Is In a aDad aBad Dad Bad Fix |