| Show DOROTHY DIX TALKS TALES i fly DOROTHY DL nix the Ih worms worm's Highest PAIL rma woman oman WIlIer WHIM STOP WHINING G BECAUSE YOU ARENT AREN'T RICH ENOUGH TO GIVE YOUR CHILDREN THE AD ADVANTAGES ADVANTAGES ADVANTAGES VANTAGES OF WEALTH FOR THEY'RE OFTEN HANDICAPS HELP HANDICAPS HELP THEM TO STAND ALONE ALONEA AMONG A MONO my acquaintances is a woman who l Is always bemoaning tho f- f fact that she cannot cann t give gi her children advantages She Sho ho sheds shed Barrels of or tears lears over o their not having the advantages that tho the chil- chil ren of ot tho the rich have She beats upon her breast and laments that she cannot send her boys to college and give them motorcars and powered high Powered 3 when she thinks of not being able ablo to dress her daughters like fashion plates and send them off to summer and winter resorts she he hem melts m down Into a perfect pulp of pity Gelf n AFTER A FTER listening to this wall wail for tor a a. number of ot years I grew exasperated and said Bald to her What are these the o advantages which you cannot give your children that you bemoan so 80 loudly lou ly Let Letus Letus Letus us sit down and consider them dispassionately and andee lee Bee ee It if your children really are aro so 80 unfortunate and so sod d Handicapped In lira life us ns you rou think they are Let us begin beSin with your our not being able ablo to send your boys off or DOROTHY iK DIX to college I grant you that we would all like Ilke to give our children every possible opportunity to acquire a good education edu atlon taut not all knowledge comes put up In schoolbook school packages Fur Furthermore the degree a man takes who graduates from the tho Un Un- UnIversity UnIversity I of Hard Knocks has hasa a lot of practical available In Information In- In Information Information formation and a working knowledge of life that Is worth a bushel of M. M As A.'s and Ph Ds D.'s Ds and that It will take tako the col col- college college lege graduate ten or fifteen years to acquire MANY jy of ot the Informed best-Informed read best-read men that I know never saw IVA the inside of a college e. In these days of or cheap books and maga maga- magazines magazines I zincs and newspapers if H a n man wants an education he will get set it Nor is the tho lack of a college education any bar to success 1 The men who are running things In America today spent their formative years from 18 to 24 24 In learning about mines mine and railroads and stores and banking Instead of being grounded In Greek and Latin And they are hiring college graduates to work for them while you ou can lead a n boy bay to the Spring you Zvi cannot make him drink from it and you ou know well enough that he the great groat majority of boys bo s 's who are arc sent off oft to college ge idle away their time lime and come como back with nothing but a n college yell tho the latest thing in Klassy Kut and a n maddening air of ot superiority I So comfort yourself nth ith the knowledge that If your son I Ihas has it in him to take an education he will get It If he yearns for culture he will acquire ire It and that If he Is just a boy who has good hard horse sense and js not intellectual the sooner his the better for him he gets to work after school high days l F F COURSE mother-like mother you want your our children to have e every every- everything ery- ery OF vJ thing that multimillionaires ha halo haH o but in your heart you must mus know that money moner Is a curse to a boy instead of a blessing To begin with wealth paralyzes paral zes ambition We are all poor weak creatures who take the the- th line lino of least resistance and when we dont don't have havo to do things wo we become be ome slackers Wo have to have havo necessity to spur IS us on to achieve achieve- ment sy t Call over the roll of the rich men of today of the men who sit In high places from the President down of the tho men who are famous inventors and writers and artists They were almost all poor boys There T ere Is scarcely the name of a million million- millionaires millionaire's millionaires millionaire's aires aire's son in the whole list fist And riches lead a boy Into temptation from which the poor boy Is safe The boy who has to work for his daily dally bread has his mind and his hands occupied He has hns something In Interesting In In- Interesting and exciting always to do The Idle rich boy must make his own diversions and find some way of killing time and he does it only too often by the booze and gambling route and In the company of wild women For adventuresses and grafters fasten themselves like leeches on the man with a fat pocketbook There Is nothing like lacking tho price as a first aid lid to virtue f S FOR FOn not being able to give your our girls advantages do you really AS f think it Is 19 any advantage to a girl Irl to be brought up to ing Ins but a fashion plats plato to hue have no duties and responsibilities to have havo no object in life liCe except amusing herself and to be taught merely merel to be bea a cater r and ad a spender Do you YOli think that the woman who has a dozen homes In Inthis Inthis inthis this country and Europe between which she the vibrates vibrates with no nomore nomore nomore more local loca attachments than a transient guest has In Ina In a hotel mete gets the int pleasure petz Jre out ou of them that the woman does des out of her little bungalow whose every plank has been paid for some by-some sacrifice and nd where every chair and plate is the result of weeks of caving and planning r O YOU think the girl who buys herself berscH a European title Is as hap- hap hapU happy U py with tho the roue husband she sho has lias purchased as ns the tho girl who wh marries some come clean cIen honest young chap she loves and works up with him to ro erity Do ou think that the tho woman who bears children ren renand and then thea turns tu them th m over ever to nurses and governesses gets the benedic benedic- benediction bene benediction lc- lc tion out ci of c motherhood that the woman does cloes who cradles her children ch idren on her h r breast b ast and ami rears them up at her knee You lament that you cannot give Ive your daughters the tho chance to make mako fine riM marriages Why tho the working girl has hasten hasten hasten ten times nee ss as good chance to make a 1 good marriage as the so- so society cl ti girl has because sh Is thrown with more men She Works side forde by side elde with the go-getters go and the tho coming men men and she he his has the pick of them all ff CO 0 I said sal to my lachrymose friend stop because you OU SO iJ arent aren't rich ric end and nd cant tyint give jour our children advantages You are I giving then them the tb-s necessity of ot standing on their own feet and fighting their own battles of ot developing all nIl that Is best In them them and an that Is tho 00 greatest ava tuo that th you ou could possibly r them th m. m DOROTHY DIX Copyright ht by Public Ledger Company |
