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Show ! Dorothy Dix Talks I I MARRYING FOR A LIVING j luJ?-S-T!ir )' w"rl,,'s Highcsi Paid Woman Writer J .V voung girl who has a good Job says hat a widower who is more than twice her acc. and who has a family of children and grandchildren! wants to marry her. and she asks if she, shall do II or 1 onlinu, lo make her own living. 1 a!-i natontahed that any modern 0 ing woman should ask such a .,.11. lion, or consider selling the blrth-righl blrth-righl of freedom that la the heritage, oi the girl of today tov such a rhesa of pottage. What, glvi up her free- iluni for the ake of a shelter when She 'an earn one tor herself.' What. Civc up her youth 10 be the companion 'of crabBed age, for the sake of food nfhen sbi ins tb. roeahs of making lier own bread ami butter vvith her own haiios ami brain- .' hal. put all love and romance out mi' her life fair the sak ot 1 f-vv clothes when siie Can IT"! I loin for lo 1 elf l.v her own ei rt ion ? What a poor bargain she would make ev eji If the man could give her a palace to live in ami niglitlnK.ies' tOngUCS to feast on. aid clotl.e get in sills oridjsallns and hang her with diamonds. For, win n -.11 is said, one cull be 11s Safe frorti flla storm UU.de? a lowly roof as a lordly one. one Can gel but so much, and one can be as comfortably clothed in a haod-me-down frock as a Tar's creation. But .an has one's youth, ami love time, and the glory of living hut once, and il you .barter that away foolishly your chances fo; happlinss art gone for- ever. 1 Vhv. tin one thing that every girl who is self-auppot'tlng should thank Hod I'or on jhei knees when she says her pray 1 is at night, the one thoOght thai should flavor her sandwich -t lunch ami make It taste like ambrosia; is that sh does 1 01 have tt niake the sacrifice of treading off her. youth for 'a meal ticket. She does .not have to marry for .1 home. She does nol have to be martyrised the balance of hef Ilic by being married to some man , who Is repulsive to h"r because sue had lo get a bill pay t r No. she is fre tp follow the dlc-lat-es 1 1 1 her heart s;h dorsjiot have io sell herself to aftj mdn for a sup-p'ort, sup-p'ort, foi she is perfectly well abb- to take i are ot herself, and she can wait Until the right man comes along. ; And tins ).- the first generation of women thai have ever enjoyed that privilege. Up to now. when a girl reai bed a certain age. it she had no fortune she had to take anything in the matrimonial line tbal.was ofiVr-cd ofiVr-cd because tee only sort of work that waa deemed respectable for women was woiKiui; men. 11 hui a.isiunj v mis-matement there were. what blooming youth tied to senile age. wlial spiritual grace condemned tn live forever with lods. what tenderness tender-ness crushed and broken by brutality what revolt and blind futile hatred filled I be loiirts of the women doomed doom-ed 10 endure this earthly purgatory, we can only imagine. Thos,- days of maiiyidom sr.S over forewomen now and it seems aluu st Incredible thai any girl should think of opening the door ba k mto the toi lui" chamber, and voluntarily taking her ploci on the i"acl. For that is what a lovele-s uiani.iie means lo in, womali, and especially marriage bi twebn n young girl ami an obi man I'or let no girl deceive herself by believing thai there Is any truth in the old adagrc about its being better in be an old man's darling than a young tnun's skive. There are, 111 ! truth, no other such grinding tyrants on earth ;.m the old, for :mP brings Willi It a i minus COnbeil that mtik' S levQn a fool, if hi has 1 iutinbei ,, years believa Unit he Is a very Solomon Sol-omon for wisdom The Vhl almost universally believe that their Jmlc-men! Jmlc-men! infallible, their outlook tio ohlj point of view, their Way the oul' orre. , method of doiiit things, and so the old husband forces his wife to obey him with a rigid discipline that no yoking in. in would think uf Impost ing on a woman. And the- old arc selfish, grasping wi I-. (! hands at thi life that It 1 sllppiug them. 4.ml the yuuni: finds 'bat she nothing but n who spend her days ami julghta ministering an old man whlins and croteheta; and coddling hi.- 'rheumatism. Kverj yObug girl who marries an )H old niun thinks she is going to be aUlf io wrap him around he, finger and thai v. ill be so pleased am) flatter-ed flatter-ed ;.t having a prettj wife 10 show off 'hat I,.. wiii trot n round with her places of amusemcnr, ami deck- hel ;TH liki avenue show window; and that he'll 1.. satisfied to stay put ; jjH In the background whll she flirts H round, and dames with ( 'naps of her Alas tor th.. foolish dream. What (jLal she wakes up to is tha grandpa, afier fiaH ha trod a Lotting a ypungt wire, retires to ju, radiator, IfH nui :-e:, ids gouty fe.-t 01 an evening, fH vfhei.v he ex peels young wife to bear H impany. ahd listen to the thrtn- of (vhaf he did fortV eais afOi -Also L'alulpa. KOOWlpg 111 I BSBBBJ hi- soul 1 bat he was marrJetl for his money hangs on to rven cent with a I LaH death l ip. an! realizing that youth distil calls to youth, he does a watcii-riog tll thai keeps eVcrj young man be- ilisis! yong telephoning distance. r Perhajjta th'ere come tim-..s when the working girl gets tlrel! of earning her own living, when she wearies of her job and lor pay envelope looks pretty !H thin, but, belicvi skirls!, there la no work nn earth SO bard, no Job nf iH which 1 an gel so weary, no pay so small as (hat of the woman who has marrleil for living. ',yf marriage is ih,. noblest career on earth, or the worst profession. And r member this that the glrj who marries without love who marries for money, has no 1 m-hl to pull her skirls away from her sister of the streets, |
