St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-08

they must often be led into the inquisi-
ton chamber of memory. When
woman once loves, the recollection of
past familiarities, however slight. with
other lovers becomes a source of regret
to her; how much keener must this
regret be when memory brings past
shame to view; for to woman love ever
brings desire of self-immolation and
soul surrender impossible to mascu-
line nature. Alas for the woman be-
tween whom and this sacrament of
surrender stands memory with a lifted
sword! This is the eternal punishment
which she must suffer, however lenient
and forgiving the world may be.
Woman has ever been mans teacher.
For centuries she has taught him to be-
lieve that he must plunge into all sorts
OF excuses and imnOralitieS to be at
tractiye to her, and as reward he should
take SpotleSs creature to wife, and, if
he reformed after marriage, he should
be canoniZed. But during the last CEN
fury she has begun to 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
demand so much and give so little in
the way of morals. Whatever the cynic
may say to the contrary, higher and
taking hold of the minds of men.
When we say that ''the world cOnnte-
nances mans immoralities," 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, and
conscience in these matters is almost
entirely thing of education. There
fore, while only the exceptionally re-
fined man suffers in any degree from the
pangS of conscience, be certainly
suffers in many other ways for his i'm
mOralities. have known nan to lose
his position in the business world, his
social standing, and to be expelled from
his club as the result of fall from Yir
tue. His wife obtained a divorce, and
took her children to his mothers home.
He married the girl who had been the
cause of his fall, and the two lived
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 flu
neral.
1t is strange fact that woman who
has retired from the lists Of folly into
the shelter of a respectable home is
seldom moleSted by her former male
comrades in sin; while the man who
attempts to reform and become loyal
husband is almost invariably prosecuted
or tempted by the women who have
participated in his past.
l never heard of but one man who
was base enough to attempt to destroy
the marital happiness Of a reformed
woman. She shot him dead, and the
verdict was, "Served him right" But
the cases are innumerable where women
20 In i'd no IN
their old follies and to destroy the wife's
reformed woman has the easier time OF
it. OF course, we must make the allow
ance 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 lnnO-
cent wife afterWard. 1t is rather the
act of the baked adventures, cheated
OF her golden prize.
There are scores of men today all
about US who are being slowly tortured
by the demand for hush money to hide
some old Sin-meu who never open the
morning paper without chill of appre-
hension, and who never hear the door
bell ring without culver OF the nerves.
Men VINO seek political laurels can
testify TO my 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 punish
ment to erring man !"
There are hundreds of men who suffer
year after year the fortunes of disease,
conscious that they are reaping what
they have sOwn. God is not so great a
respecter of sex as the world at large
suppOses; and men are punished more
frequently and thoroughly for their sins
than is imagined by those VINO see only
the surface of life.
There is a spiritual wave sweeping
over the world, which will compel men
to suffer more and more for their sins,
just as there is a growing liberalism OF
thought which compels the public to
give woman chance to live down her
mistakes. Slowly but surely the world