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Show ' Dorothy Dix Talks j PAYING THE PRICE j.. By DOROTHY DIX, ilie World's, Highest Paid Woman Writer ; One of the greatcso obstacles to hu- man happiness coneists in our unwill-ingness unwill-ingness to recognize the fact that everything in this' world has a price tag on it and that we must raj' cash ever the counter for everything we Something for something. Nothing HH lor nothing, Pinchback cheap. Fine UB . .-r- ( gold. 'high. It is" the i'mmu table law of nature that never changes. Can Not Esc?.pj Common Fate. j mm We admit the truth of this fo far; IB as other people are concerned, hut i I when it comes to ourselves we chci' IK ish the fallacious hope lhat ye shall. IB escape the common iate. We think that,, somehow, we aro going to be able to graft our way through life, that some .mira.de will happen 10 us so that wo will get the sweet w.Uicut the bitter, .and gather wnere we have not' k sown, and reap" where we have noti ; P It is a fool's dream. It nover hap pened. Tor value received wo pay, pav I pay, And thi.3 is true rqually of spir it itual and material things. I s Do you want love'.' Van must pay i for it with your heart's blcod. o must pay for it with a miM on sac.i- & flees, with a mil'ion anxieties, wlih a million fears. And after you have bought' love you must keep in paying I for it by cher.shipg it, .nd pr.tect'ng ! it, and nursing and fosieri-g It, and preferring it before yoursell, n, pi. Pay Your Lone Debt, t The .people who never h-ve lov? are P those who are too s::n:.y and selfish I to buy it. They are too self cen- tcred and ego'.ist cai to pay the prica , that love demands. Thjse wh lose ( love are those ho gr.w tned uf coir ' tinuaJIy paying in' litiie atte. tions, and b little considerations, in lite kisses E I And caresses, cn a debt that Is never I ) paid in full this side of the gr.ve. n I And those who refuse to buy love tvu i because it lays upon on 2 brens ind m : calls for self-sr.ciii.ice, ih.y a so pay " j& for what they gjL They escape the agony taht tears at one s heai I str.ngi fb when a beloved one stands in the E shadow cf death. They escapa the & slavery of toiling for a family whose t-i' needs, suck up a man's income as a '' ') spong'p does water. Uj Old Age Desolate Withoul Love, 'vj' liut they pay in loneliness, in the silence of rooms in which no woman's ; 'y laugh is ever heard, or where there bji comes the palter of little feet. They pay in a desolate old rg?, barren of interest and lacking al; human tier. ! 2a Do you wish health? You must pay! H for!-it with abstinence, with self-csn- W, troj, with intelligent care of the body R . V nd by doing a thousand things you H " don't want to do, and doing wtiheut a H thoGsaud things you great y desire to 5 f, do. "Sometimes nature runs a Jng v health credit account with a 'man' or i woinan, but in the end she submits' I hen accounts, and for every broken a law of hygiene the offender must pay) 5? willi compound interest. J s ' f; Young Men Plust Pay. m The young man who dr nks too ffi much, the young man who burns the ( candle at both ends, the ycung man ' who is a roue, thinks that he can hae his fling and sow his wild oats jand get off scott.free. But he doesn't. ,He pays the price in shattered nerves; in premature senility and insanity. There is no hospital, no insane asylum in which they will not tell you that , three-fourths of the men patients brought their fate upon themselves. ' The woman who lives on candy and sweets, ,who takes no exercise, who wears clothes that aro first aid to pneumonia, who lives on her nerves and in a perpetual strain of gadding from party to party thinks that she can likewise sin against nature and escape the penalty, but the price she pays enriches sanhnrninis, and puts nerve and lung specialties in the millionaire mil-lionaire class. Success Means Give All. Do you wish success? The price of that is all lhat you have got. To buy success you must give every ounce of strength in you and then some -more. You must g've every thought of vcur head, and eveiy asplr atlon of your soul. You must count neither sickness, nor weariness, nori discouragement in pay.ng yo.ir Dili. You must work while others play. : You must save while others spend. You must take the hard road when the easy one lies invitingly before you. think only of your object, not your-iself. your-iself. You must stand the gaff, take 'criticism gratefully; endure insolence patiently; deny yourself the pleasures of both love and hatred. Perpetual Sacrifice Necessary. Perpetual sacrifice on the altar of one's desire. Self-immolation to one purpose. Ceaseless striving. Unending Unend-ing labor. Dauntless courage and endurance. en-durance. Theso are the coins with i which one buys success, and it be-1 be-1 cause so few are willing to pay the price that there are so many failures m life. ! Men and wemen believe that there is some royal road to fame and fortune for-tune in which they can joy ride in a limousine, or that there is some magic carpet that will waft them to success without an effort on their own pnrL I It never happens. There is no easy (way to the heighths. Every step of it must be taken with blood and tears, and faint hearts are not strong enough to pay so great a price. So many get weary and lay down their tools. They get fagged and drop out of the !race. They do not like the company !thoy are forced to keep on part of tho journey and they turn asido to where Ihe society is more elegant and j agreeable, or they argue with themselves them-selves that after nil success isn't vvorth what lifo asks for it, and they content themselves .with .some, cheap-, cr' bargain. Every day of your lifo you see lone-people, lone-people, failures, who rail at the injustice injus-tice of fate, but the fault is their own, not fate's. They could have hao the thing they desired if they' would have paid the pnee, but they would uot. |