St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-08-07
BELATED REPENTANCE.
Evelyn ThaW Is Now LamsHtIng that she DID
Not Marry A Clerk and Lead 4 Respectable
Life.

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the voice of poor. world-worn EvelYr
Nesbit Thaw, lamenting that she die
not remain at Pittsburg and marry
respectable clerk. Il might have had
beautiful children and have been
peacefully happy" she said the other
day, after testifying in the insanity
proceedings now before the courts
wherein Harry ThaW is endeaYorinQ
to establish his sanity. To our mind.
this is a late day for either Mrs. ThaU
or the newspapers to begin to analyze
the tragedy Of her life. And likewise
it is a late day for her to try to es.
tablish her consistency so far as the
mind of the public is concerned. One
is reminded most ungallantly Of what
Bernard Shaw said regarding the
punishment of a liar being not SC
much that nobody will believe him as
that he cannot believe anybody else.
As for realizing that while it was
men who helped her wreck her life
when some man might have safe
guarded it and might have assisted
her in expressing her womanhood in
a happy way. Evelyn Thaw must re-
member that many people are much
given to singing that airy little mel
ody. I Want What / Want When
Want It." It generally happens,
however, that after we get what we
want when we want it, we find we did
not want it and wish we had some
thing else. If Evelyn Thaw had
known that she wanted the clerk and
the sweet little babies and the peace
Of natural motherhood, the miserable
experiences which have made her life
so bitter could never have come to
her. If we knew what we want be-
fore we got it, We would never want
it. That is a little Irish, perhaps, but
it is something we all pay an ex-
travagant price to learn.
Evelyn Thaw makes a mistake to
analyze Thaw and White too closely
without due appreciation Of her own
responsibility m the case. Men a
be very black at heart and can will
to do many vicious things, but they.
must have a subject for their devil
try, and the subject must face it's
full share of the responsibility in the
events which follow. As Kipling ex-
plains so aptly in one of his books:
s'The sins we've committed two by
two, ye must answer one by one"
White paid alone. Thaw is paying
alone and Evelyn will find that she
must pay alone for herself. Having
bought a great deal, she must pay a
great deal, and there is none to for
give the debt. There never can be
any forgiveness from ourselves or
from any source without a perfectly
clear understanding Of the motives in
our own hearts which permitted
things to come to pass. When we are
sinned against, it is because we our
selves are sinners. Also, Evelyn
Thaw should remember that, in that
first unWise raid of a certain orchard,
the division of that early fruit was
not as fair as it might have been.
We do not blame Adam. To have
done other than he did would have
been ungallant. Any gentleman
would have done the same thing. But
it must be admitted that Eve got the
apple Cor lemon) and gave Adam the
core. He was not as nice about it
as he might have been, because after
wards he told, thus putting himself
on record as the first cad. Still Eve
did get the apple, and when she had
eaten it she permitted Adam to nib
BILE at the core. The poor gentle
man was henpecked. He meekly ate
that core with a show Of relish, as if
he liked it. Thus Eve discovered
that she could make him known and
keep his place, and poor Adam has
been eating the core ever since.
r exceptions. Women like
Thaw make them; but where
ever a woman wishes it and carries
herself in a way to command it, a man
is always willing to work his head off
to bring her the apple, and is tickled
to death at a chance to taste the
core. Adam is always working over
time to give Eve the best Of it when
ever her womanhood is sufficiently
consistent to attract bis devotion.