Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-04-23

past. married a noble and wealthy man,
removed to a distant city, where she Is
beloved and respected at the present
time.
1t may be urged thst the recital OF
such cases will have a perniclous enecs
upon young girls; that they VIII ais
courage good women and encourage the
~yiciously inclined. / do not believe
there is a girl in the land who would
consciously or willingly face the career
OF either of these | believe any
good woman, however lonely and IN
loved, would shrink from exchanging
lives with them.
Out Of the palace Of love and peace
they must often be led into the inquisi-
ton chamber Of memory. When a Wo-
man once loves, the recollection OF past
fa~miliarities, however slight, with otner
lovers becomes a source of regret to her;
how much keener must this regret be
When memory brings past shame 10
view; for 10 woman love ever brings d
desire Of self-immolation n soui-sur-
render impossible to q masculine ma
ture. Alas for the woman
whom and this sacrament Of surrender
stands memory with a lifted sword!
Is the eternal punishment which
must suffer, however lenient and Tor
giving the world may be.
Woman has ever been mans teacher.
For centuries she has taught him to De-
lieve that he must plunge into all SORTS
of excuses and immoralities TO De az
tractive to her, and as reward he should
take a spOtless~ creature to wife, ana II
he reformed after marriage he should
be ~canonized. But dursng the last cen
fury she has begun 10 teach him that
self-restraint is quite as possible for him
as for her; and slowly but surely is man
coming TO realize that he must not de-
mand so much and give so little In the
way Of morals. Whatever the cynic
may say TO the contrary, a higher ana
broader idea Of morality and justice Is
taking hold of the minds OF men.
When we say that ''the world counte-
nances mans im~moralities," we seem to
forget that the world is composed OF
women as we'll as men. Women have
never before educated the conscience OF
men in the matter Of the social evil, ana
conscience in these affairs is almost en-
tirely a thing of education. Therefore,
while only the exceptionally refined
nan suffers in any degree from the
u of conscience, he certainly sut-
fers In many other ways for his immor-
alities. l have known a man to lose his
position in the business world, his Soc
ial standing, and to be expelled from
his club as the result OF a fall from
virtue. His wife obtained a divorce,
and took her children 10 his mothers
home. He married the girl who had
been the cause of his fall, and the two
lived a life Of absolute social oStracism
In their native city. He died in the
prime Of life, a victim OF remorse; and
even his own family refused to attend
his funeral.
1t is a strange fact that a woman who
has retired from the lists of folly into
the shelter of a respectable home is sell
dom molested by her former male COM
rades in sin; while the man who at
temps TO reform and become a loyal
husband is almost invariably prosecuted
or tempted by the women who have par
ticipated In his past.
l never heard OF but n man who
vas base enough to attempt to destroy
the marital happiness OF a reformed
woman She shot him dead, and the
verdict was, ''Served him righttn But
the cases are innumerable where wo-
wen attempt to lure married men back
TO their old follies and to destroy the
wlfe's peace. Certainly, in this respect,
the reformed woman has the easier time
OF II. OF course we must make the al
lowance for the woman having been
wronged in the beginning; yet the girl
who falls through blind love is not the
one who revenges herself upon an inno-
cent wife afterward. 1t is rather the
act of the baked adventures, cheated
of her golden prize.
There are scores Of men to-day all
about Us who are being slowly tortured
by the demand for hush money to bide
some old sin-men who never open the
morning paper without a chill OF appre-
hension, and who never hear the door
bell ring without aquiver Of the nerves.
Men who seek political laurels a tes-
tlfy To nv words. Yet those who know
OF the stain upon the honor OF these
men say: behold the injustice OF the
world, which metes out no punishment
to erring mani"
There are hundreds OF men VINO SUI
fer year after year the tortures OF dis
ease, conscious that they are reaping
what they have God is not so
great a respector of sex as the world at
large supposes; and men are punished
more frequently and thoroughly for
their sins than is imagined By those who
see only the surface of life.
There is q spiritual wave sweeping
over the world which will compel men
TO suffer more and more for their sins,
lust as there is a growing liberalism of
thought which compels the public to
give woman a chance TO live down her
mistakes. Slowly but surely the world
is coming to the knowledge that there
Is no sex in sin, and that a universal
standard Of morality must DO adopted
for men and woman, and that the mantle
OF charity must be stretched out wide
enough to cover the fallen woman as
we'll as the fallen man
ELLA WHEELER-WMCoX.