The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-18
SEATTLE. SUNDAY. rEn n. -
THE EoBnKKY OF PARENTS.


There il q class Of villains everywhere
who for lack of better name ought TO be
called the robbers of parents. They are
fellows without energy or pride enough 10
get living in anything but some precari-
Gus, Iawless or meniai calling; without
particle OF principle, they use the iilegiti-
mats social opportunity OF proplnquity to
win the affections of q young woman.
Their victims are generally young. inex-
persenced. romantic, impuislye girls;
sometimes they are Older women who have
temporarily lost their normal equilibrium
Of mental and bodily health. and the cum
ming adventurer succeeds In fascinating
them BY his very intellectual insipidity
and ianguid manners; he has purring, cat
like, sympathetic ways sometimes he can
sing a fairly good tenor of ''the tears in
the voice" register; he can be deferential.
tenderly respectful and finally ventures to
be romantic.
The woman who in full health would
only laugh at him as an impudent. aspir-
ing fool, learns to listen to his wooing and
finally ideaIizes him as absolutely as
Queen Titania did Bottom the Weaver.
The world could see that Bottom was
nothing but q clown with an ass head.
lasted. loved the fellow. jackass head and
ell. Unfortunately In this world nobody
cares at the right time to break the en-
chantment, as Puck finally did for Titania,
and In absence of the good fairy of COM
mon sense. the deluded girl or woman
marries the anpriacipled clown before her
eyes are opened by experience to see his
fsckass head. and her ears TO the fact cha
his tenor voice is nothing but dismal
bray after all.
Then, II the woman In young, after a
bitter experience OF life with vulgar
scoundrel, she sometimes drifts back to
the arms of her family. broken, wilted
woman; sometimes she goes to the devil
In her raging, ultimate contempt for her
own folly; sometimes. when she finds out
that she has cast her lot with designing,
polished adventurer or cunning clown, in
her morbid conscientiousness aud stiff
necked pride. she carries her cross for life
without complaint. makes the best of her
bad bargain and clubs herself for her error
until she steps down and out of her ILL
assorted union into the welcome rest and
oblivion of an early grave.
But these fellows. who abuse their ule-
climate opportunity of propinquity 10
creep into the sick study OF a woman's
imagination. are not the most common
class of social sbeep-thievss. who rob pa
rents and families OF their eve lambs:
they are the lowest aud most sneaklng
sort. but they are not rs common and as
dangerous as another and higher class
of adventurers. who have no more prin-
eiple, no more money, no more honor, no
more energy or industry, but have more
education and nominally Mt least pretend
80 have respectable employment. They
manage by dins OF superficial good
looks aud good clothes illegitimate-
some woman who IL known To have
considerable money in her own right,
either in hand or in prospect They man
age hv eiandestine acquaintance to win
the woman's heart; they have nothing
they are ayerse to earning anything; the
woman has something more or less; no
they marry her. in spite of all the prudent
eoansels of parents or friends: they live
peacefully with her as long as they can
live on her: then when her monev is ex.
hausted or she closes her wallet aealns;
further importantly, then this lazy adven-
tursr. saeAer aud sponge grows frss in.
different. then aggressive. then inhuman,
and finally, when love in a cottage is re-
duesd 60 the lean lander OF church.
mouse. this social sheep thief deserts the
eve lamb hs has stolen and in some dis.
tant state seeks 10 climb into the sheep
fold Of some other happy family by the
hack way. The deserted eve lamb either
dies OF grief or exposure or bleats its way
back TO It's sorrowful parents or friends.
and if repuised takes the anal leap into
the dark from the moral bridge o!
Signs"
OF course there is no law that can reach
worthless aGventuFer who rohs paren,
or family Of thsu girl. wrecks the girl's
life. sstin gaishes what was tho blessed
skEAt 81 tue HttOkN C8fGAe OF an affection ase
and loving home. bat il any man every De.
served 10 Re daeksd In horse pend and
subsequently groomed with horse wnin.
i: is a fellow who forms womans ac.
aaaintanes iaegitimateIy aud. without
consulting the wishes Of her parents and
al her natural friends ana guardians. pee.
sasaes her 10 marry him when he has no
home 10 offer her worthy Of the name. no
money, 40 income, 40 business. present or
prospective, except some precArsons. un-
lawful or contemplate calling that no
man Of * ase. pride. ambition. energy or
seif-sespees would follow for moment.
TIE love and happiness Of an exesllsn,
home. With to'ing parents, brothers. SIS.
tiers and friends. Who are her peers In
character. intellect. taste. virtue sad in.
telligsaee are iost Tor me sake Of list
less, saeaking loSs<r. act bold enough 20
ssss4 Ia violation o. tie law, nes sasrsss!e