The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-16
WOMAN PAYS WHEN SHE ERRS,
WHILE HER MATE IS LIONIZED
Ada Lynn Draws Conclusions From the Case Of Jere Knode Cooke,
the Eloping Rector, Who Is Weakening. and Floretta Whaley.
BY ADA LYNN.

~ 70 person, man or woman, can break the hde-bound rules which
ia govern the world and society and not suffer.
d y This truth has beer proven nee more by Jee Knode Cooke
the former Hampstead, L 1, pastor, and Floretta whaley, the young and
cations and his wife, Who rather strange to say, sat back and took no ac-
ton Wise above the average woman, she knew that retibuhon would fol-
low at their heels; that sooner OF later the read they chose would end In
the deepest of pits, from which therew ould be little chance of crawling out
For a time things went smoothly. They generally do in the beginning We
heardo of the couple living in this paceand that and alwsys was the ar fnn
of rmors of their content $N
Lately reports have beer adverse. Cooke and his companion have felt
the grip of poverty, and though the little woman is as tndomitable IS ever.
and would willingly bear her disgrace % the enc of the chapter If the la
for whom she gave all stood by her, Cooke is weakening Already he has
stated that he repented the day he fled, and it is reported that before long he
she and Ter child. E
when I first came west with Foretta." he is said to have stated. 81
felt certain that 1 could fight my own and the girls way against the world.
Well it wasn't true. 1 find 1 can't I've been a failure-just made a mess
of everything"
And now, having found that it was impossible to mould the worlds
opinion to his liking, he is making ready to get away and forget, I wonder
forgefuness will come. WIN it be possible for him to rid his mental
vision of the picture of the mother of his iuegfdmate child, battling alone
against the society which always bames the woman, and lets the mar go
scot free?
Its always the woman who suffers and pays. There might be pardon in
the hearts of those who know her, but there is no forgiveness in their man
ner They would deem it a sign of weakness and deterioration if once again
they should receive her as n of themselves.
She has sfnned and she must suffer. This is their relentless code.
But let a man, no matter how black his character has been, or how man
and the world. particularly the women, will rise to do him honor. Dear old
ladies and sweet young things alike will aid in the work Of making him a
better man, and because he has expressed a desire to do better he will be
cajoed and nattered and wept ver until the faes urn away their heads and
And it Is the woman who pays
One of these days Cooke probably will announce that he sees the error
of his ways and viii plead with his parshioners to forgive. And they will
run to meet him, killing the fatted calf his honor.
But the little woman and her nameless child JUS ufer and fight. Even
if she is forgiven she will be n o longer trusted. Mothers will never anow
their daughters 10 associate with her, W though they might set their caps
for the nan who made her what she was.
1t is the way and the law of society. The woman must suffer and pay.