The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-02
JEWISH GIRLS WARNED.

Sad Disillusionment Said to Await Those Marrying Christians Standard.
 We are not concerned with the pri- vate aspect of the engagement of a certain Jewish writer down town and a prominent Christian worker In the University Settlement. That they have determined to marry is a matter be- tween themselves, their God and their conscience. Their souls may harmonize or not. They may have met in the course of their pre-natel existence. That is their own business, but attend ant upon this affair are circumstances which call forth comment, and may serve as a warning to Jewish parents, particularly those living on the East Side.
 , The notoriety which the lady in the case has achieved is naueating in the extereme, and likely to turn the heads of Jewish girls anxious to figure in the daily press. The union of the two per sons should be a matter of absolute privacy, concerning only their nearest relatives and friends. The world at large does not care one iota whether their souls blend, or whether he is inn bued with Jewish spirit and she with a Christian spirit. 1t would have been more decent and would have met the need of the situation had there appear ed in the columns of the papers short paragraph announcing the engagement, rather than the illustrated pages at the 1 disposal of the parties concerned.
 We do not believe in intermarriage and Jewiseh young men and women should be warned against matrimonial alliances with those outside of the faith. This is, not written in spirit of religious prejudice or narrowminded- ness We recognize that not only are there very many bad Jews, but that here are thousands of good Christians who have made the world better by Iiv- ing in it, but the Jew must remain a i Jew. EfE
 1 As a rule intermarriage between Jews and Christians have h turned out un- happily. Here and there are solitary examples whose welded lives are so | beautiful as to excite envy. The ex- ception, however proves the rule, in almost every instance the Jewish man and woman have become lost to Juda- ism and the chilren educated as Chris tians. This of course, does not refer to | those who have remained Jews and have persuaded the other part to em- brace our faith. Our Jewish sages have always protested against prosse- lytism, as they place proselytes in. the same category as 'Iepers." Jews
 were not created as a nation for the purpose of assimilating with other
 people. The Jewish race was to be preserved separate and distinct, and
 only when the Jew was a Jew in the
 real sense of the word was he in a
 position to fulfill the divine beflest
 ''Be thou blessing
 Let Jewish girls beware and not per
 init themselves to bedazzled by that
 will-o-the-wisp, universal brotherhood
 and the ignis fatuus of an immature
 philosophy. It is but an empty dream Naturally, there is the plea of love
 Call it love if you like. But the dis. illusionment comes very soon and the differences of temperament, of train ing and surroundings are more power. full than the arrows with which Cupid has pierced the hearts of men an6 women. At some time or other, earlier or later in the drama of life, there
 comes the awakening, and with it, g
 realization of spiritual void.-HebreW Standard.