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Show Dorothy Dix Talks j COMMON-SENSE CURES V 13y DOROTHY DIX, the World's Highest Paid Woman Writer Any doctor will tell you that one of the strangest peculiarities of human) nature is that he can never Induce j I his patients to try a common-sense ' remedy for trje ills "that afflict them, j ; People will take nauseous drugs without even making a face at thorn. They will undergo dangerous and expensive ex-pensive operations. They will leave t their comfortable homes, and their families, and go off to stay in hotels' and miserable boarding houses among strangers in distant places, but when a physician tries to get them to live on plain and simplo foods, and take plenty of exercise, and stay out in the open air, they simply refuse to follow the prescription. Yet ninety times out of a hundred tho common-sense j remedy would work a more effectual .cure than the drugs, or the operations, or the sanitarium. This contempt for the common-sense common-sense euro Is peculiarly characteristic of women, who have a constitutional dislike to ever looking a fact In the face, and finding n practical remedy for anything that Is wrong with them, bodily or spiritually. Tho revel in mystery, and require to be believed of their troubles by some strange and occult means, or to pass through some danger about which they can throw a veil of romance. No Miracle Worker Needed. Hence tho difficulty of ever helping help-ing a woman, because there is nothing mysterious the matter with most wo men's lives that requires a miracle worker to heal it. They have just little lit-tle common-place problems that need little homemade remedies .that you simply can't force down the ladies' throats. Take sonic of the complaints from which women eternally suffer, and about which they put up a never ceasing moan. There is the woman who has worn herself to skin and bones over her housework. She Is haggard and thin, and nervous, and she tells you in one breath that her work is killing her, and in the next breath of the elaborate dishes she cooks, and how her house is run on a schedule that never varies, and that she serves every meal as elaborately as If she kept a retinue of servants Instead of being her own maid of all work. Club Women Nervouc Wrecks. And there are the club woman who are nervous wrecks, hysterical and j emotional, with razor-edged tempers and sharp tongues, who live with their hats on and rash madly from club meeting to club meeting, and committee commit-tee room to committee room until1 they pull-up In a padded cell or coffin." The remedy for these women's ills' health and nerves is simply to slow! down to second speed. But thjey woirV do it. There's no use. -telling" the over-1 wrought housekeeper to cut out the frills and get down to the simple life. She would rather die than omit one doily or fall to sweep, and bake, and scrub on their appointed days. Nor is there any use in reminding the club woman that charity begins at home and takes in oneself, and that the one person on earth whose ways and habits hab-its needs the most reforming are her own. , Eaten Up With Envy. There's the young woman who is eaten up with envy of the things that other peoplo have. She sits with folded fold-ed hands and lets herself get bitter and morbid dwelling upon what a cruel blow fate dealt her, when she was not born with enough money to get her the pretty clothes that rich girls have. The remedy for her trouble is as plain as tbc nose on her face. All that she has to do is to go to work and put In as much concentrated energy and thought in making money as she has in wishing for it to come to her on wings. Poverty is the most easily easi-ly cured disease In tho world and the one for wHich there is the most unfailing un-failing specific. It is work. But far too many women would rather be sick with yearnings for luxuries than to take the remedy that cures it. Starts Out on Wrong Foot. Sometimes a woman wakes up in the morning with the blues, and gets out of bed on the wrdng foot. For no reason at all she stars a quarrel with her husband at breakfast, and spanks the baby and shakes the children, and makes things generally unpleasant toj. IH everybody in the household. jH Generally she is in for a two oi jH three days' orgy of melancholy, yet IH there is a perfectly reliable remedy for it that would relieve her in a . couple of hours. All she needs to dp I is to put on her hat, and go do some- l thing that amuses her, and that will I give her spirits a jolt back to normal. going to a matinee, or just to a res- taurant and having luncheon will do , IH it But she scorns the plain common- sense remedy and goes on being mor ; bid, and wretched, and making every-body every-body else so. v 1 Every now and then a woman gets to the place where she loathes the do-mestic do-mestic life, and considers matrimony a failure, and wonder what 'made her pick out the miserable specimen of hu- jH inanity .she did for her husband, and lyrhen even her children figure in her j j thoughts as tiresome brats instead o 1 blessed angels, and she dallies with. :the thought of becoming a home de-jserter, de-jserter, or a suicide. H The remedy for this is a little visit, - H or a trip somewhere. Family life has IH ; gotten on her nerves and all she needs iis a change. Three days' absence ' (would turn her homo into a palace ' jher uhsband into a romantic hero IH her children into chcrubins, and hang ijl ! the sun in her sky once more. But has she sense enough to buy a railroad '1 ticket as a sure cure? Never. She stays at home and grouches and jrrura- iH Ibles and complains and takes out hei- own misery in making her family more 'IH miserable still. il The queer part of it all is, that vro- SH men are perfectly aware that these, common-sense remedies would cure them but they won't take them. Thg only thing they will swallow whole i JH 'some remedy that is expensive, or J weird and mysterious. j Dorothy Dix's articles appear hi this paper -every Monday, Wednesday ' ujH and Friday. I oo |