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Show II Dorothy Dix Talks I TH MOVING PICTURE PROBLEM fiy jSffj . i X, u 1 X ' thc v, orld s Hghf8t Paid Woman Writer I A young woman wrltet na that works hui a all day doing hor cooking, washing and sewing, amt Uiat no i tai comes home art night to a neater house or a. better-cooked dinner than her hus band. The husband has to work i ' nlgl ' "ntil about 11 o'clock, cn-.i it ii her habit io spend her evening? at tl. moving pictures. pic-tures. Her husband and her family object to her going frequently, and .she want. to know how often- I think a movie fan has thc right to indulge in his or hoi favorite diversion. I am sure I don't know. K I could an-swer an-swer that question, and draw the line between the psychological place where thd i menu ceases to become stimuSuUng amusement, und turns into a deadly aop I should rolve one of the r.r.:A pro- leni of the day. for thore Is no den: ln; that no other Influence in the world is so po oiful. and readier: so many peorJc, aa the screen. To answer my correspond, nt'e Question! in detail, 1 should suy thai it is not j;ood to go to any one place every night, not even to church. The tendtfhey di too much Of any tiling Ik to upset pcopl, mental balance, and to obu -j them With ! a single Idea. It makes fanatics of them j Their minds run along a single- track that in time gets to be a uanow sang, load, with no pb:asunt bj track a, aim no way-stations or stopping p luces, t.ud they are lucky if they uon't uump into a pao ded cell at tin.- enu "e need variety In our amusements and occupations to keep ui montali; healthy. Just as much im we need vanctj in our food to keep us In bodily health. That is why all craze . bother they are i-razcs for dancing, or lOller-skating, or eraxes over new religion, or oraxai ovoi certain phaej oi literature, o.- niolny picture crazes, h ave recks behind them. i-cople who overdo always have to pa the price. ' ' l And, as Rtephcn:-on salu. "The world la so full of a nuiiio.i oi lllln's" that arc pleasant to do. it Is a pity hot to n.bole at them all. Certainly tt is molt than -i pity not to alternate evenings epem In reading, ard In converse wltn one frlenas," with attendance t the pi turd As to how much footage of film 1 HJL I the proper allowuncc pei lor , man. she mUBl bi ll r on Juuge. A good leal for h.r lo apply to hvrsCh .o to ( tab on her thoughts, and see h the w reen is becoming the moei ai.oiii.ig inte in her lite, and if ih..- goes through net days waiting Impatiently tor hoi mgl (I debauch ot pictures, it she is. then tt i '.im to cut down her dope I Also let her honesty an h her soul and . i ascertain wh. effect the pictures s.he sees b.iv.- upon her. If :hc le filled with 1 ,nvy ot thc snakelike vamp, with longj green eyes, and Jade earnnci. alia prat llcaJly nothing else on. n. - ' " -; her dlaht;. and chops the meat foi Irish stew, she loathes and actesl hei homely task and feels a 11 she were niartvr because she is not one oi the sli ens ui Whost feet men dur ip bushels 01 uiui-ionds in the pictures, and wlio u: . uu anthing n. ore laborious ihui recline in a ical lacu negligee: on Oriental and pulf cig.ire.:. tlien Shu's hi.d voo much oi the movies. 1 And if. as the loo lea at her good. kuia. hard-working husband, ahi flnos thai h is contrasting hmi unfavorably with ron,. 1 ox-eyed Illy-handed movie, hero, with a j thirty-dollar peiTnanent wave- in hie hair. -1 and 11 she catches herself wondering how 1 she happened to marry n plain DUSUV at man. even if be does bring home tlv bacon instead of a picturesque, lllm rob ber; and If she has ceased to register a thrill when her John gives a bread and BBB ggs peck on her cheek when he starts to work of a morning Instead of bulling 1 BVJ the caveman slutt as they do in the movies, then let her bewar J Sht's drugged upon lurid romance, and she is in Just as much danger of wreck ; fl ing net life as she would DC it Bhl -J acquired the- opium habit She'a got lo , ,S 1,QVC the nerve to give it all up until I A she gels back to normal. J The real secret of enjoyment oi an i thing Is to take It In moderation, but If i vfl Llitre- ore some women who have been 2 hurt by an overindulgence In th movie a J there arc millions upon millions of women jS who have got nothing but good out of fl them. They have been saved from ih'm aj elv.s, saved from becoming morbid nnfl jirpru'nticd. and cross, and unendurable to live with, by the genii of tlx films. W I can think of no other one thing ihat J9R has done an much to brighten the llie of the great mass of womankind as moving pictures have done. It Is only the fortu-A fortu-A nute few women who have money enough to go to the theaters, to have kutomo-i-iles. to spend their afternoons :it ten J ii it.es and luncheons, an. I in other foi-m if more or less expensive amusement. I'C cause a woman must have proper clothes for these diversions, as well as the price tliei e-of. Thus for the majority of women there was nothing but ilia dull, monotonous round oi work with no fan thrown In, no amusemei:: , noih nj. lo stir th'- Imaln.-' tlon, or rouee the- emotions, norhing new lor a woman to thlr.k about ; . i-hi made j her bods, or sewi-d long seams. Then cun-.e the movli..--. and opened up I a new world to her, full of romance and j adventure, sentlmenl and laughter, it vas a woi'ld to which the price of ad.nis BtOn was so cheap that she could go "nil! take the children along with her. and III gave the whole lamily something, of nut tual Interest io talk about i.ist.'.d of quarreling with each othr. So, taking it by and large, the moving pictures have he-en a benefaction to thorn who needed help ihe nio.jt : and o woman can have far worse faults than to be i movie fan. and spend hef evenings fsi less profitably than in getting a Ittth alp' oi romance, a llttkS Laughter and fun, and a deal of solid information at the movies. For one lliinir your woman who i? n film fan Is never a back numb, r s.e -. always strictly up to date, find knows , .ust exactly nil alvout the last big thing I that happened in the Vot Id Tor ;,ho ha.-, j seen it with her own eyes. |