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Show I Dorothy Dix Talks j I OUR JUST DESSERTS I . .H. gS R.OTJJ.I, SLSlSS ' Hi?h"st "w oman Writer Not long ngo I met. 0n the other side of the world, n woman who U no longer ouiiK nnd who suffered from an Injur'. fSl ff r? nU,d CVery 8t,'p n patn "Good heavens!" I exclaimed on day When I .vivv he, face white and drnwn With agony nftcr a long climb of snipe temple Steps, hat ever induced v ou to undertake a trip like this in vour sla le ? . Be -ause ' she replied Brn Krovvlng old and old people are necessarily left much lone. and I wan. Romelhlng io think about In the long vnings when I have to sit by the fire and knit I'll never lnk for good com pan . now be -ause 1 II always have with nie the ,,,,,) ones' of the .ntei lalrimg things i lUve seen a over tin- vvrirld." Then she added: I hove spent a lot of money In my life, but the onlv money i have spent that I still have is i he money I have spent on travel. I en Joyed gvilng to places when 1 went, and I have enjoyed them ever since In retro sped." Right o!" I responded "Talleyrand advised everyone tealearn how to piav a good game of whist In their youth, so that th. y might noi spend a miserable old age. H- might better have advised them to ttavei, for the consolation prize of age is a railroad or steamship ticket. Nothing else makes old people so endurable endur-able to themselves, or to others, as getting get-ting away from home and getting nn-ie thing dlffeVent to think atout and talk about Indeed, you might almost sav that travel Is a panacea for ha'f the ill, bodtly nnd mental, and spiritual, that afflict tni nianlty and that the best remedy lor Whatever all,' us IS to lake a trip "somewhere "some-where ' Especially Is this remedy effective wlih women, and more especially with . middle-aged women. About the time a woman s children get married, or settled in their careers, she is apt to take n in-1 ol slump and giow fat and dull and uninteresting, and peevish, and dlscon tented. She Isn t satisfied with her home, she finds fault with her husband, and cither becomes a morbid recluse, or lakes up with faddy religions., or liter ry ra i- The reason Is because she is bored I She h:is been busy all her life, and BUd-, BUd-, den!) her occupation is taken from her. ri . i joo i niiifii'i. .-ill- io llinmn oi . on herself for amusement and ompsnlon ihlp and she is dull company for hei :.. If. "The remedy for her case Is a railroad ticket Let her kt outapj her treadmill into fresh fields and greerl pastures. Let 1 her go and fill her mlid full of new . thoughts, nrw impressions, new Ideas. new experiences, and she w ill come hack home happy, and contented, and with S . i ne viewpoint on life. "Why ven a month a way from horn" Is equal to refurnishing the house from 'op to bottom, and marrying anew hus-i hus-i band, to any woman. And there is nothing like, travel as a promoter of Christian chailty Most o' the gossiping and scandal mongenni H most of ih.- blackening of characters V fH done by women who think thai ail liy ffH World must h Judged by their little inch H , high standards, and that evervone. who I doesn't do exactly as they think right LH I Is goln: lo Ihe eternal how. wows They will tell . on that Sally Sue Jones H la no better than she should lie. becSUM , they think her frock is an Inch too law H thi- neck, and too Short In the sklr'. , They will call Jennie Smith a hiir.zy H cause she paints her cheeks They- loak H askance at the man who Is supposed to U he flirting with two girls at the sann H time. But when they go to far countries H where a woman Is considered modest'' LH I clothed If only her eyes are hidden, do L'a'aH ! matter how mm h of the remainder oi H her person It nakdl. where even bare ; faces are paintel to show they have good . mothers, and where the more wives s j man has the hettei cltlsen ho Is thovghi H i to he they find out that morality Is H merely a matter of geography, and th) H 1 are not .o quick to sit In Judgment on H others H "For the only way to he sure that you live in the only place whose standard- are absolutely correct, and that vour way of doing things la the only piod-i way, and your point of view Is the only point of vie, is never to go any-when I else The only peoplo to whom Squer dunk nnd Kabhlt Track are the centOTJ H I Of the universe, are those who never gi LH outside the limit of Squeekdunk ami Rab bit Track. H "Travel Is also the only real cure for H the divorce evil, and for domestic Intel. H city generally Most married couple. H really are more fond of each other than H they think they are. They quarrel h cause thev are so fed up on each other H society that they have gotten on each H 1 other's nerves Years upon years ago H I they said everything to each other th' j they had to say . They heard each other' e pet stoi ies and reminlscenes over end over again, until each. feels like scream- H ing when the other hits the old familiar H liall of the hoary joke, or the chcAlnutr- H recollection, which wasn't Intercjtinc n the first place, and has acquired ld H charms through are. H When things reach this pass in tb I family If one or the other would on f H buy a ticket around the world instead t H to Reno, how- much misery and hcai '.- ".Absence would work. its perfect cure, 'and the traveled one would not onlv H I come hack with n fascinating line of H conversation, but after having seen the H i men and women many counlrie. H would not find his or" her choice so bad B I "But the main advantage of travel is H that it gives you Imperishable memoile H ; that arc n Joy to you ns long as you live. It broadens 'our horirrn it makes you a millionaire m experience, and you H ; can never, be dull or lonely, because you H i always have thousands of stianee pen pies to hear you company in yWBi I thoughts." H |