Today is the birthday, in 1861, of Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, widely known by the pen name Dorothy Dix, was an American journalist and columnist. As the forerunner of today’s popular advice columnists, Dix was America’s highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death. Her advice on marriage was syndicated in newspapers around the world. With an estimated audience of 60 million readers, she became a popular and recognized figure. In addition to her journalistic work, she joined in the campaign for women’s suffrage and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Her journalism career began after her neighbor Eliza Nicholson, the owner of the New Orleans newspaper Daily Picayune, saw her writing and offered her a job as a reporter. At the beginning of her career, before writing advice columns, Dix wrote obituaries, recipes and theater reviews. As was customary for many female journalists at the time, who believed that their work had the potential to cause embarrassment or poor social standing, she chose to write under a pseudonym. She first used the pen name Dorothy Dix in 1895 for her column, “Sunday Salad,” in the Picayune; Dorothy, because she liked the name, and Dix in honor of an old family slave named Mr. Dick who had saved the Meriwether family silver during the Civil War. Within months the column was renamed to Dorothy Dix Talks and under that name was to become the world’s longest-running newspaper feature.
One of her most famous single columns was Dictates for a Happy Life, a ten-point plan for happiness, which had to be frequently reprinted due to popular demand. In addition to her newspaper columns, Dix was the author of books such as How to Win and Hold a Husband and Every-Day Help for Every-Day People.
Elizabeth Meriwether-Gilmer (Dorothy Dix) as a young woman in her early 30s
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Him: Taught my kids how socialism works. Let them trick or treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101. Us: The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.
Some people are walking around who are still “it” from recess 50 years ago and don’t even know it.
It’s hard to believe I used to be 6 lbs, 7 oz. I’ve really let myself go!
NYC has shocked the world by electing a normal guy instead of a billionaire backed pervert.
Funny that people think Zohran Mamdani will force you to become a Muslim. Not a single person who’s knocked on my door to convert me was a Muslim.
Karen: I need to speak to the Manager. I want to talk to someone who knows what is going on. Employee: Ok, here is the deal, I can go get one or the other.
Trump is freaking out that his “Truth” Social AI bot went completely rogue by saying Trump lied about the 2020 election, that he was behind January 6, and failed to bring down prices… in other words, the truth.
It’s time to start calling Nationalist Christians “Nat C’s”.
Christian nationalism is just white supremacy in bible drag.
Christian nationalism is just sharia law with bacon and beer.
How do you get away with committing a crime against a deaf person? Break their fingers so they can’t tell anyone.
Have you heard that they stopped making pennies? The Treasury said they just didn’t make sense anymore.
A woman is caught shoplifting a bag of apples. In court the judge says, “I don’t usually do this but to set an example, I’m sentencing you to spend a day in jail, one for each apple. That’s a week in total.” Her husband raises his hand, “Your honor, I have to confess, she also stole a bag of rice the day before.”
New York is the exact opposite of Minnesota. New York is where the Big Apple is and Minnesota is where Minneapolis.
The battlefield quickly turned into an orgy. Cupid: Sorry! These are the only arrows I have.
I am such a loser. I once entered the Worlds Biggest Loser Competition…I came second.
An IRS inspector audits a hospital’s books. He asks the CFO what they do with leftover bandages, and the CFO says they send them back to the company for an occasional free box. The auditor then asks about leftover plaster from casts, and the CFO gives a similar answer, saying they send it back to the manufacturer for an occasional free package. The auditor, trying to trap the CFO, asks what they do with leftover foreskins from circumcisions. The CFO replies that they save them up, send them to the IRS office, and about once a year, the IRS sends them a complete dick.
Today is the birthday, in 1960 of English pop singer Kim Wilde (the eldest child of 1950s rock and roller Marty Wilde), who had the 1981 UK No.2 single ‘Kids In America’ and the 1987 US No.1 single with a reworked version of the Supremes’ song ‘You Keep Me Hanging On’. Between 1981 and 1996, she had 25 singles that charted within the Top 50 of the UK singles chart. She branched into an alternative career as a landscape gardener, which has included presenting gardening shows on the BBC and Channel 4. In 2005, she won a Gold award for her courtyard garden at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_3gLp6k7ZE
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