Show Dorothy Dix Talks REALLY liVE BOHEMIA n IT ISN'T TRUE THAT ONLY THOSE IN WHEN tEN AGED STREET VEGETATE-SO VEGETATE WHILE THOSE ON MAIN MiDDLE AGED PEOPLE KICK OVER TRACES THEY WONT WON'T FIND LIFE IN CABARETS FOR THEY'VE ALREADY LIVED IT T ISvet IS vet very vety l common now for tor m middle aged people women as lIS well as aA IT I the fireside and amI men to arise suddenly from their decorous seats by gIving A a loud wail all that they never have bave lived plunge into an orgy orey ot of homes for Husbands 1 forsake their r night club dub desert their wives for tor vamps limps hunt UI up affinities and pickle ickle themselves in bootleg ir liquor Wife Wit cuts cuta cut oft off her hel h hair lr paints paint her herI I face rolls her stockings and turning her herI herback I back upon home homo and husband and children I w tare fares forth In search of ot a soul mate mato anti antiI I thrills Both arc are in search ot of life which they s i-s think they have bave missed 4 I often wonder what these thue who complain so o loudly that they have I never lived think life is i Do they think that life i It Is play and not work 4 t That That it Is I divorce and not t That it Is it cocktail I and caviar anti and not bread and meat and coffee cottee DOROTHY DIXIT DIX IT JT IT IS a strange theory that the drunken Iha IhaL L Immoral the tho untrustworthy the Irresponsible ble know more of life than do the sober the th virtuous and the or that those who live In Bohemia liv live while those who dwell cit Main street merely vegetate The great dramas of life lire are played out In cabarets They are enacted In quiet rooms behind shut doors Nor are the great moments moment in irs life lit those thole pasted passed in dancing the black hot bot- bottom t bot-t torn tom m Thy They come when we stand alone with our souls louis facing the crisis of our fates fatu knowing that we are staking our all upon our own Judgment Neither does one taste the supreme joy of In some maudlin hour of intoxication The great great- greatest est eat kick we ever ver get gt out of life lite Is Ic when we see se the job to which we w have set our hand well done and receive the mer men merited commendation of our fellow workers VEER the idea too that so many have bave that there is some QUEER V Q liar thrill to illicit love which honeSt hOlIest lover never has and that whilo marriage becomes commonplace and ond dull and monotonous all an aura ot of romance hans hangs perpetually perpetual about the secret little establish ment meAt ment on a side street That while wives are arc often orten boring compan compan- companions companion Ions ion and full of o nerves and temper and hard to lin lire liya with mIstresses are always fascinating and alluring and possessed ot of a charm of which a man never tire tirell All of which Is utter nonsense Love I Is a flower that flourishes better In the th open than It doe does in the shade The love that brings bring a it man real happiness Is that which Is a it crown of honor to him not that which is a dis- dis disgrace grac dis-grac grace and of which he is it ashamed Nor does romance long survive when it lives In fear of discovery Even a royal mantle becomes bedraggled and frazzled out around the edges If you have to drag it around to holes hoies and corners and sordid places where you are not likely to meet any of your friends when you have it on AND ND lady loves l es and lovers are just as 3 difficult to live with as areA are AND A wives and husbands husband The tightwad balks balk at paying the price ot of othe the love nest just as much as he does the rent for the family home The nagger nags Lothario just as aJ a much as sho she does John Henry And in addition both have hare a 1 thousand causes tor for jealousy and sus- sus suspicion sus suspicion that are eliminated from rom matrimony Liaisons rarely last long Those who bell believe ere that love lo Is made mado up UIl entirely of or thrills must In In- Inevitably be b always ahl changing the object of ot their desire And so it is a sardonically humorous thin thine that the Ule men and women who have been married for twenty five or thirty years ears to wives and husbands husband who ho have hae given them a devotion de that never fal fal- faltered fal- fal faltered faltered whose love lore has stood lias-stood stood the acid add test of ot dally daily and hourly sacrifice sacrifice fice and ot of o work and struggle and suffering should rate all this true end nd tried affection affection as as as nothing and feel that the they have bave not lived be- be because be X because cause they have not bad had illicit love loe adventures Why the man who has a wife who has scrimped an shaved d and tolled toiled to help him get a start in the world who has nursed him with her hr own hands when he lie was wu sick and who has haa h never nver even even seen that he ho has got fat and headed bald bald and windowed bay has haa ha been really more beloved than have all the th sheiks heika from Don Juan down to Valentino And the middle aged woman whose hump shouldered hus husband band hand has slaved through winter snows and summer suns auns uns that she he might have diamonds and furs fure fur and limousines and go off to Europe Europ in the summer and Palm Beach in the winter has had the th finest finist tribute any man can lay at a womans woman's woman feet The pity of f It Is II I that she ahe Is II too stupid to see se Jt It and arid palpitate over It And so 10 she ahe sh beats heats upon her breast breatt and cries crie out that she Is miserable sho she has lias never lived and been heen loved liE man who started to work ork as a youn young youns boy hoy and who has spent T TIlE his days in office or store complains that he has never lived Yet be has known struggle and achievement H He has known anxiety and despair and aud triumph He I-fe has matched his wits and his strength t other men He has planned campaigns and seen them go godo do n to defeat or oJ on to success He has hal seen human nature In the th raw human beings together helping each other rising to unbelievable heights and sinking to Immeasurable depths depth He h has seen acen avarice greed Jealousy treachery generosity kind kindliness linen loyalty What more have the seen What more mere have thy they ed Which life is the more mor that real real that of the worker or that of the loafer loaf r THE TilE woman who ho ned mat young and whose life fe has been passed lUo mostly Ur In her own home bemoans h herself rs lt that the she he has not lived But she has bu hi known knon love She has know motherhood She has seen birth and death and suffering suffering- and sorrow and aud joy She his has ha worked and wept and laughed I She SI-ic h has buried her hr heart In a baby's grave and pinned it a wedding well on her hr daughter and seen aun e n hr tan son brinn honor upon her What more can life bring a woman than that that AN A ANti AND no so 0 T 3 wonder what these middle aged people really mean who whoA complain that they have ha never lived DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger |