The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-20
A WOMAN
BE
TO LYING
Is it Womanly For a Wife
to Look Over Her Own
Part in a Mans Career if
He Fails Affairs Vows?
. SORROW
(By Ella Wheeler wilcox.)

NNOpgIikht, l'AVS w NtW ioIh bNch
ing Journal Publishing Company
1t Is of course nobody's business
when u wife stands by an unfaithful
aud lying husband who has Inundated
her in the eyes of the whole world
by his infidelities.
We read in the daily paper incidents
of that nature and some of us say,
- How beautiful is such devotion, - and
some of us say otherwise.
There is in the nature of most women,
"a strong tendency to act the part of re.
forming angel in the life of man.
That is why so many fallen men find
it an easy matter to win paragons of
virtue of wives. The wife of such a
man always believes she is to guide him
into the straight and narrow path of
good behavio Tor aud sometimes sac does
1t depends upon how much character
the man has developed and how much
tact, love and patience the woman pos.
sesses.
There are women who knO how TO
keep a man so Entertained aud occu.
pied with happines that be finds no
time or inclination to return to the
paths Of the prodigal.
1t is wise and womanly for a wife TO
pause and look over her W part in a
man s career, IL he fails to keep the
vows he made at the altar before she
consigns him to the divorce court.
Many a good woman can trace u hus.
band s neglect and failure to be loyal to
her own door IL she is honest with her.
self.
A ~momentary weakness on the part of
an otherwise good and loving husband
may well be condoned aud a new trial
given him without a loss Of womanhood
or womanly self-respect.
When, however, a man deliberately
plans the wooing and marrying of an.
other woman under another name, when
he decends to forgery and Vulnerable
lies and receptions to bring about such
a result, a result which means ruin TO
the girl and humiliation and disgrace
for the wife-and when he is finally
exposed and punished, ii is hard to con.
ceive the type of woman who feels that
she is doing a noble act to "stand by
her husband and live for him.
A passing fever of the senses some
women are able TO understand and for
give in a man exposed to peculiar tenn.
tations.
Fine, noble, true, strong men have
fallen temporary victims TO such ex.
periences, and expiated them in sorrow
after the fever passed, but when a man
lies, decieves and plots an infdelity
for months, there would seem TO be some
thing wrong with his mind or his whole
character. Only by regarding him as
insane and taking the responsibility OF
his ease as a nurse can a wife stand BY
him and retain her self.respect.
Possibly such n woman finds greater
happiness in thinking she will save the
man from further fall from decency and
by leading him through her self. sacri
flee and devotion TO repentance, thar
she could find in anyother walk of life
having been once his wife.
In the latter fact lies her collossa
sorrow, and however seemingly hopeless
work she takes upon herself with tn,
author of her misery, all women mus.
feel sympathy for her and wish he.
godspeed in her efforts TO make {
man ont Of a manikin, even II they d,
not respect her for choice o: employ
ment.
But IL would be more moral than sen
sible were she TO say she intended I,
"give him another chance" than TO sa,
she intended to "stand by" him. Their,
is no credit in "standing by" and de
Tending crime.