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Show Dorothy Dix Talks i Bv DOROTHY DIX, the World's Highest Paid Woman Write j WE MAKE OUR THRILLS j Women are forever complaining about tho monotony of their work. "It's doing tho same thing day af-! j ter day, week after week, year after j year that gets on my nerves, and ! drives mo frantic," wailed the housewife. house-wife. "It's the eternal getting up in tho morning, and getting breakfast, break-fast, and washing Utile faces, and buttoning little shoes, and getting tho , children off to school, and a man off , to work! It Is the never ending I cooking, and cleaning, and sewing. , and mending that makes me feel like committing suicide to get out of It I all." 1 "It is just the dull, deadly grind I of doing tho eanie thing over and over every day of your life that drives me mad," complains the working girl. "Same old boss cornlnj? in. and banging his hat on the same old pee j every day. Same old desk, same old 1 typewriter, same old letters yours of the fifteenth duly received, and contents con-tents noted. In reply to same would say, etc.: etc' Same old corrections. Everything the same, until I am ready rea-dy to shriek at the sameness of it all." . So goes the unhersul feminine cry for change, for excitement, for some- thing to put pep and excitement into 1 their lives. The domestic woman thinks that she would not mind any kind of work that she could do outside of her own home. She thinks that she would be perfectly satisfied at her daily task 1 if she could dresa herself up of a ' morning, and go downtown and work ! In an office or a store where she ; would be brought Into contact with many other people. She thinks it would be fun to jolly along her employer, em-ployer, who. perhaps, would be young and good looking. and to wheedle grouchy customers Into buying, and to have a part, however small, in th-? I making of a big business. ' She thinks that tho reason lhat she finds that her own work palls upon her is because it is carried on in the privacy of her home and has onlv to do with her husband and children Whose every word and thought sbe can anticipate, she knows them so well. The working girl thinks that she would be blissfully happy if only she followed some exciting profession. ; She feels that she would be willing to work herself to death if only she I were a singer, or an actress, or a ur'.ter. or If she were in the movies. ' What she objects to in her own oc-j oc-j cupation is the boredom of performing perform-ing the oft repeated tasks. , r It never seems to occur to the rstHllH woman that all work Is monotonous, IH that the very foundations of sue- 'H oeas are made of repetition. It le onK lJ in doing th smiic thing over and fJH over, and over again, thousands upo ejH thousands of times, that we acquire the ckill that we call craftsmanship IH Tho gn-aleot genius that ever lived iH anno-. It Id his own with a second H rata professional while he is a bun-. H ling amateur. IB1111H I do women understand that all work. In its essence. Is the same. H i doing the same thing on- eH after another. And after novelty wears off It Is just the same H grind Making novels is Just as BBtfOh H a trade as making brad when yon H do 1 ' for a living, and It Is ten tlmWa H harder work. Ulamonda and rubh H Lnd emeralds get to be Just so man little white, and red and green rO - B to the Jewel expert. The hampagn H taster comes to loathe the very smell H Sitting around, daubed up with H paint, wearing furs and velvets in H August, and with a piece of chiffon H for covering in December, waiting to H hours at a stretch for your turn th , H go beforo the camera. Is about the rriOal tiresome Job on earth, as any IH film queen will tell you, and If you H a to know which has the moj ILH I thrill, your own home or the stag.- . ask any successful actress. , LsssssH The truth is that work is work, and 1 earning your dally bread and but'er J 01 u tunniitiinnii loh no mntter ho .V Bl you do it. and whether we keep up a J perpetual Interest In it, or go stale In depends altogether upon ourselves H not tho work. ILLI W e have to manufacture our w r 1 riu-. We have to put In the puncb JH j and inject the pep Into our work our- ! - It dependn upon us. not out. I Jobs, not our environment. !LLL1 The housewife can be bored te ,H death, or kept on her tiptoes by he: ' H work. Just as she pleases. She can KLLfl what s the use of cooking mca'- H that are eaten as soon as cooked, 91 leaning rooms that are mussed ui again, of correcting faults In children ; that they commit again the next m 1 H Ota. of spending my life doing tiling ror people who do not even aee what 1 Or she can think that making a 1 happy home, and raising up a fain llj of fine boys and girls Is the great- ! est work In the world. She can find ant In outwitting the high 1 0 or living and feci a real thrill 3 H h Lavement over a superlative o.'cU' or batch of pics. Whether being H wife .1 ml mother is a martvrdoin o. H a career, is solely the point of view fliaBBfl of the woman. f H Whether the working girl find 1 iH writing letters, or selling good dreary drudgery, or gets from It the ( thrill of playing the game Is up to her. If she has no ambition, no d-j d-j sire to rise: If she Isn't interested i" what she is trying to do. and is onlv marking time until some man aomt along and marries her. then. ind k. her work is monotonous. I But if she sees modern commec as the great romance, and advent m. H then every letter, every sale rou-e i-l Hie sporting blood In her. and malv j her eager to win Business to th it ' kind of girl is never dull iH Whether our work Is monotone . H j or not depends upon ourselves. W take out of our dally life only who: iivH we put in jH |