The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-04
JEWISH GIRLS WARNED"
Sad Disillusionment Said to Await
 Those Marrying Christians.

Sad Disillusionment Said to Await Those Marrying Christians.
 We are not concerned with the pri- lvate aspect of the engagement of a certain Jewish writer down-town and prominent Christian worker in the
 University Settlement. That they
 have determined to marry is a matter between themselves, their God and
 their conscience. Their souls may
 harmonize or not. They may have met lin the course of their prenatal exis- ltence. That is their own business, but
 attendant upon this affairs are circum- stances 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 nauseating in the extreme, anl likely to turn the heads of Jewish girls anxious to figure in the daily press. The union of the two persons should be matter of abso- llute privacy, concerning only their nearest relatives and friends. The world at large does not care one iota whether their souls blend, or whether 1 he is irnbued with d Jewish spirit and she with a Christian spirit. It would have been more decent and would have met the need of the situation had there appeared in the columns of the papers a short paragraph announcing the en- lgagement, rather than the illustrated pages which have been so lavishly placed at the disposal of the parties concerned
 We do not believe in intermarriage land Jewish young men and women should be warned against matrimonial alliances wish those outside the faith.
 This is not written in a spirit of re- !ligious prejudice or narrow-minded- ness. We recognize that not only are there very many bad Jews, but that there are thousands of good Christians who have made the world beeter by living in it, but the Jew must remain a Jew. s#25
 As rule intermarriages between Jews and Christians have turned out sunhappily, Here and there are solitary examples whose welded lives are so
 beautiful as to excite envy. The excep- Ition, however, proves the rule. In al most every instance the Jewish man and woman have become lost to Juda- ism and the children educated as Christians. This, of course, does not re- fer to those who have remained Jews land have persuaded the other party to embrace our faith. Our Jewish sages i have always protested against prose- ilytism, as they place proselytes in the same category as 'lepers." Jews were mot created as a nation for the purpose of assimilating with other people. The Jewish race was to be presereved se- lparate and distinct, and only when the Jew was a Jew in the real sense of the word was he in position to fulfil the divine behest: "Be thou a blessing" 1 :. Let Jewish girls beware and not per- init themselves to be dazzled by that lwill-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 disilu- sionment comes very soon and the diff lferences of temperament, of training and of surroundings are more powerful than the arrows with which Cupid has 1 pierced the hearts of men and wouaen. At some time or other, earlier or l4ser 1 in the drama of life, there comes the awakening, and with it a realization of