The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-03-17
MARRIED WASHER
! By Dorothy Dix.

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ether girls who attempt to engage In
fiirtntioris With married men. + III
This artt:le has brought me many
le:,ers. Among them ID one from 1
young woman, who says:
5HYou are too hard ON the aris WHO
fllrt with married men. The men are
more to blame than the girls. We don't
drag them away from their, wives and
firesldes. They not only come of their,
n.nr accord, but they pursue us with
tales Of matrimonial infelicity and u JIM
eongeninlty. a man who Il old
enough to be married Is a free agent,
an6 what he does he does because he
wants to do 1t, and 80. u You are going
to blame anybody, blame the men"
4 It Doesn't wash woman's bedrsa.
5led sklttr write for her to claim that
4 man pushed her into the mire. She
should have enough backbone to stand
firmly on the clean path and decline.
invitations ito wade through the mud
with him. 4
!. Nevertheless, what MY correspond
ent says is true, and In any fl..-tationi
between \ married man and girl, the
man Is the more bIameworthy because
he lis older ard Is more fully aware.
of .ther isks she runs and the dIsas-
treus consequences that are almost
certain to ensue for her. The young
girl who engages in a filtration with i.
married man Is often silly, but he is
always criminal.
Like RobbinD a Blind Bengar.
No married man, who is not at heart
a coward and a cad, ever makes any
detrimental advances toward a young
GIL. " he has any remnants Of homer
and deeency left and still wants to
make love to some other woman than
his wife, he picks out a woman who Is
In his own cIass-a woman who is
fully grown, who knows the world anl
is capable Of Judging Of what she Is
doing.
To h1vsiole . little. ignorant, un.
sophisticated girl child into a degrad-
Ing love affalr-and that Is what all
fIirtatlons are-is on a par with rob-
bling blind hegsar, or taking candy
money from baby: a thing that. even
a seIf-respeeting burglar would scorn
to do. -,5
From every point Of view the mar
RED male fIrt plays low and con.
temptible game, in which the dice arc
loaded and the cards marked and the
Girl hasn't chance to do anything
but lose. An unmarried man who
compromises sirI may be made TO
marry her II she has a husky and de-
tcrmlned father or brother. The mar
ried man cannot be forced to make
that reparation. A bachelor who
trifles with a girls affections can be
sued for breach Of promise and have
10 pay out HIS good money for his
false vows. The married mans bank
account Is safe.
4. This knowledge Of immunity from
the consequences Of his act is what
irakes the married masher so aggr-s.
sivc ana It Is what BRANDS him as a
bla=kauard of the deepest dye.
For, knowing the So fety Of his po-
sition, he Is mereiIess. He can bring
rothiha to any girl but misery, but
misfortune and shame. and yet no pity
for his Victim makes him stay his
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Deadliest Wrong Man Can Commit.
| He fixes his baleful eyes on the
prettiest and most attractive young
woman in the radious of his vision, and
then he proceeds to do her the deadIi.
est wrong that maIi1nsy can invent.
He showers attentions upon her, each
one of which Is blight. He goes to
see her and takes her about until the
.sossips get busy with her name. He
keeps, her away from the unmarried
men who might become her suitors,
a nd then, after he is tired of her
after her beauty is !. gone and her
charm faded-he passes on to fresher
t:eIds and pastures greener, leaving
her one Of I hose unIoveIy OLD maids
with fly.specked regulations that have
neither the strength to be good or
bad. ,.,..,... !.l Z n;
Sometimes the married man who Is
a fIirt deliberately sets himself to win
a young girls heart In order that the
sport may. have "a Y kener zest. The
NEUROLOGICAL osrea of old were not SO
cruel, for death Itself Is a kinder fate
than 70 be. doomed to live loveless.
lis Incredible, that any human be-
ing could have SO little compassion
uron another, and yet there is not one
Of US who does not know sor,e young
Girl who has poured out the r!-hes Of
her fresh affection upon sore married