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4 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRILC 2, 1933. o RE the heart problems of today any different from those of 40 years ago? Are the other problems which . beset a maddened world today any , more vexatious than they were back in the nineties? Sitting in her New Orleans home at a desk over which flows ceaselessly year in and year out a stream of letters from.the four corners of the %warth is a little white-headed woman who is mother confessor to all the world. She is Dorothy Dix, who for nearly 40 years has been friend and counselor and guide to hundreds of thousands of pzople. Husbands and wives have come to her with their prob- lems of misfit ; boys and girls tell her the secrets they would not tell their own mothers; criminals confess their crimes to her; aflthewearymdhewy-hdenbflnxth& burdens to her, certain of sympathy and under- _ standing and such help as one human creature can extend to another. Probably no other person in the world has been the recipient of so many confessions. Certainly no other one person has been privi- ledged to lock so deeply into human life. For all of these countless lettets that come to her —and they come by the thousands every day —are just a cross-section of life, every one of them some sorrow, some problem that has been torn out of a bleeding heart. OBODY know: quite as I do in just what light her readers regard her, for it is my dlessed, if somewhat staggering, privilege to see the thousands upon thousands of letters that constantly pour into her mail from all parts of the world. If there is a question she hasn’t been asked, 1 wish some one would hurry and ask it, be- cause then I’'d know there is something new under the sun. _Her correspondents have wanted to know What to call a girls’ ukulele club, how to name a lodging house on the highway, if it’s bad luck to have a baby on Friday, how to start a 10-cent store, where to market old- coins, stories, songs, antique furni- ture, needlework, cakes, paintings and what- have they; how to go to bed on a Pullman, to play volleyball, to eat a stuffed tomato, to master calculus, to fix a leak in a flivver; what to name an Airdale dog, how a Christmas cactus can be made to bloom, and when will the next’ war start? Among her fans are judges of Supreme Courts, authors of international fame, doctors, lawyers, leaders in all professions, great teachers and great psychiatrists. Murderers have con- fessed to her, fallen women have turned to her for hope, able lawyers have ‘sought her opinions! People are always asking how Dorothy Dix began her work and how she elected herself = mentor to the lovelorn. To this query she always replies that she didn’t choose the work —it"chose her. She began her newspaper career as a Very New !. siehiy asEchns it she’ll say she can always get a divorce and she'd rather have him a few years than not have him at all. “But one thing about the modem girl is that she is more honest and a better sport than her old-fashioned sister. In another day, when a girl Joved not wisely but too well, she always represented herself as the victim of man’s perfidy and implored me to tell her some way by which she could make him marry her. Ncw she courageously writes that the man is no more to blame than she was and she wouldn’t marry him if he were the ’ Dorothy Dix, Whose Daily Articles Appear in The Star, Says the Modern Girl Is More Honest and a Better Sport Than Her Old-Fashioned Sister—Hundreds of Thousands of Letters From All ; Parts of the World. ' BY ELLA BENTLY ARTHUR New Blooms for Holidays Possible special storage for forcing. They began out- ting flowers November 8. A big home market awaits daffodil growers, the . This the use of cold storage methods discovered in experiments by the Depart- ment of Agriculture, it is now possible that Christmastime in the future may see a decid- edly different fioral display that has been pos- sible in the past. Iris and coral lilies may now be forced into bloom in green houses for decora- tive purposes in ter and the period of mammodumwmwmu E FORTY YEARS OF HEART THROBS and,:lthcydo.dntleh“be“thflh “finymwflummmmd g ki e BRERERED §§5§§§§§§E 7 ikt ?il 38’ i 5% 1 § i S¥8°RIEEEE BY HHOL $RE L EEES HI 1 g g1 il iRy gi<fs t5el azfg i i UL £ gggi