Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-04-23
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WHEELgR-WHCOx " THE
QUESTION,
Tia! She Always is Stoned While he
5 Frse?-Ths Pos;sss Of Passion Recalls
Instances Of Mans Keen Srfsrings 6r
kns Commiasd-Girls Housed Up
Like Nuns-WOmeR Who Live
Down Serious FOllieS

settled impression OF the world
10 te that erring woman is always
under her own shame and the
mankind. while the erring man
favored by women and al
his own sex.
:. preachers. poets, and ORE
himously express the opinion
an once fallen from Der high
Ste pedestal is never allowed TO
Bile man escapes all punishment
milar sia.
q read many books wherein a
woman figured, aud l never yet
ybne which allowed her any future
death or the convent. IL the male
er OF the same kind receives any
Ishment at the hands OF the novelist,
after a long and successful career
Ieasure and prosperity, aud Is usu-
a sudden death in q railroad as
n this. OF course, so far as the wo-
goes is an excellent warning TO
[ young girls; but is il fair to the
women who have already made
step? and is it moral reading for
Q young person?
tainly is not true TO the Ire OF
Take any community or ten
and inhabitants, look closely into
hes OF those people who form Its
society" and you will find woman
ave erred and lived down their
and men who have suffered for
rs.
2 nv sincere sympathy must ever
the woman in these matters,
nature on her falls the greatest
s, yet observation aud a sense OF
has compelled me TO modify
geeping assertions, which /, like
d at large, have made upon the
OF relative immOralities OF the
st and thinking person can re-
gears in a large city, or move
mong people, and not acknOwl-
B fallacy OF the idea that one
bars a woman forever from as
with respectable society.
. who has any faculty for In
confidence or any ability TO read
nature must learn that men suf-
more for their sins than the
large imagines.
Bog man OF my acquaintance lost
he dearly loved by having his
ISOLATED with an immoral affair,
Ihe was really guiltless OF any
we're intimate friends OF mine;
messed the agony and despair
ian during many months. The
be had associated with the i'm
eople who caused the scandal
at least IN this one case, to dam
? man as greatly as IL would
haged his tdncec. He has since
another woman, and Is a pros
itizen. 1t will be urged by sem
lists that had it been a woman
IputatiOn was thus marred, no
arriage and success could have
sible. But this is true only in
ks or In cases where the wo-
bculiarly sensitive, and whose
hd environment shut her away
traction and possibilities OF q
ears ago, a young girl, dwell
town not many hours from the
is OF America, was wooed-
Y with honorable motives---by
high social position and Of
rsonal attraction; but by and
bung man disappeared, leaving
" shame upon the brow of the
/. She was taken away, and
bitter sorrow, sharp agony,
ling remOre for her and hers
The man, in the meantime,
a young lady to whom he had
b afianced; but when, One day,
brought TO the knowledge Of
2 wife the base action Of her
during their betrothal, she left
ing with her the child he wor-
Deserted and d~isgraeed, this
ely tasted some Of the bitter
sin. Meanwhile the wronged
lied, and is a respected wife to-
woman's century; and in the
ich it casts upon her pathway
that she, as we'll as man, can
up and out of error. II is I'M
= more difficult for her to live
st folly than for her brother
less she is endowed with 2 GER
NIB, which belongs 10 the ad-
5 type o. woman.
sak OF all erring women under
CORY; but they differ as widely
ling stars differ.
are girls who so wrong because
Fe no one to show them how to
girls who are housed up like
I without a nuns occupation or
IS, and who finally break
the false restrictions surround
lives as pent-up rivers break
a dam.
others. whose licensed freedom
i, together with inherited tend
cad TO their downfall--tenden-
ich properly directed might
owed the anchor for a happy
any fall through ignorance and
!; more through moral vicious
xed with vanity and avarice;
5 through starvation prices paid
poles for labor; and a few, q
through misplaced love.
be mercenary and vicious sinner
DmeS most widely known TO the
I'd who most frequently poses as
Of mans peridy. But the wo-
10 really deserves our deepest
les for having been blinded by
and led into sin bears her
nd shame In silence, aud never
to the public sympathy. In
hes such an error was supposed
wOman's career forever; but, l
T we investigate the lives OF
people in any city to-day, we
Ing its ranks women who have
wn serious follieS.
Festern town, famous once upon
BIZ its beautiful girls. two young
We'd with each ~ for the