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Show I Dorothy Dix Talks j f I SAFETY FIRST ::. IJOROTHV hlX. ihe World's Ijighprj Paid WonwnWritgr j , Another scoundrel, with a g. t-rieh- quick scheme, h.o: succeeded in coujur- ,i 1UjK millions out of the pockets of the . credulous with a pVopos.uon that was . palpably a-fake that It would seem thnt eve.i a blind baby could have i Heen hrough it. And, as usual, in such cases, a large proportion of his victims were women; for If a sucker Is born every minute, las the homely old adage alleges there. ' is. the most, of these suckers ure of the feminine persuasion. And the are always the mst to nibble at a gilded hOOk, mil swallow it. lm bait and1 sm kcr. one would think, considering how 'important money Is to a woman, and' how hcipit:i and forlorn she is with-iout with-iout It. and how hardly the average omen earns what few oollars she possesses, pos-sesses, that she WOUM hold on to her 'pocket book with 1 1 d:ith urlp, and hat you would have to chloroform her to Ket it away from her. So far from .this being ihe COBS, however, women arc the champion tssy marks of the (world, and a living illustration of the (truth that "a fool and lis money are soon parted." Kor worn' n are the wildest speculators. speculat-ors. ,nd the' most reckless plungers on blind chance In a game whose ilrst rudiments they do not understand. Noi proposition can be loo wild, too preposterous, pre-posterous, too visionary' to attract them If it only promises some miraculous profit. It a said that women never look before be-fore they leap, and this Is particularly the ease When they go into business ventures. They do not even stop to In-j ligate the ihlng they ure askcel to buy. if only some glib talker presents the matter to them in a picturesque and optimistic light, or some alluring prospectus lays before them Sqihs Utopian Uto-pian dream. Hoarding house keepers whpSB every penny Is red with their life blood; school teachers, who have sweated out i -u .loll, us tiuourjh long years df nerve-racking slavery in forcing unwilling un-willing children down the paths of learning; women clerks and Stenographers Stenog-raphers w hose tiny sayings bank accounts ac-counts have been built-up throug'.i D Sacrifice of proper food, clothes and he t; 'II these women will take the money thai stands between them and the poorhouse and buy a orner lot In some Garden of Eden that exSsti only In the seller's Imagination, or sink It In a hole in the ground where the only prospect e.t gold Ol Hlver thl ever ex-Htl ex-Htl d ' ine frm the cn f the dt laoletao Isted cai.n from the coin of the ld!o'. Investors. When a woman thinks about investing invest-ing money, she never asks whether tho thing sl;e is going to put her money In is safe or not Her only Interest is the size ot the dividends she is going go-ing to get for it. and anybody who will promise her fifty per cent can lake Iv-i oil .way Irom her as easily as he c n j i Lii'.c. uf lapdy trom a s4ck child. A tew years ago a woman I Know Inherited fi.t thousand dollar ir aan. She Is n frail delicate creature, ! ibsolut Ij .i.f n .. d either physically or temperamentally, to make a living and tnose o: us who knew her were aware that this was the last money she would ever have, s.. v Imploreo her to In- in gilt edged s ... unties that WW copper riveted and had millions behind i hem. "If r buy the bonds you advise," sat ttSked, "how much Income will I gel?" About IttOO a year," w.- tc'.d her. "O, 1 can't live on that.'" she said. "I must hays at least ten per cent on my money. I have so llttl that I can't afford to take a small per cent on my money n.s you do." x "Hut yOU COO! gel i lilk'h rate of ln-tereel ln-tereel or. any thing that Is safe." wo j wailed. All of thc things that promise prom-ise these enormous returns are fairy j tales, and they end In smoke like fairy tales." S H But 3he wouldn't listen to us. She round a man who had a perfectly mar- Ivelous mlnbln Mexico that was going to ..iv it b ast a hundred md fifty per cent w en kl k-oi to running, and ea H oiner man wno wan ooruiK 101 uu Texas, and everybody knows whal for- H tunes have been made In oil, and some- body else who was booming land In H Florida and who was going to sell of H Bwdmp Lands that you bought for tea H do'.lais ,i i acre or t, o doll u a fcl"t H for city lots; und the poor, trusting H creatois believed them ail and handed H over her money to them, and In l.-s.i than two years she was swept clean, 1 H and h.d to go live with relatives who H Justly resented being burdened with H the support of one vvho hnd literally thrown her purse oxer the windmill. H Why women should be so dazzled by the ptospect of getting big dividend.! j thai they lose sight of the danger of losing their stake altogether. Is one of j H thc mysteries nobody can explain. Or- : talnly any ;ine person would reflept that It ll better to have live per cent H i .1 get your money back, than t H tw Ive per cent toi a year or two ami H then lose It. but the average woman i i . . n't reason this way She feeli thai or expei lenc sht JH going to be able to turn u trick that U lYi ...-. reel financiers arc not sbla H . do. And thai Is, to make a dollar h , work overtime for Iter. H It can i bi .lone, and the woman who tries It loses ontH There Is just ono j motto for women with money. Safety I H llrsl ni when women learn to live j H Up lO mat mono, u win oe.u ;iiti uu for the promoter: of get-rtch-quluk schemes Ulid fly -by -night mining com- panics. But there will bs fewer women weep- ling over the loss of money thai has j toft them to a poor and dependent old H r I |