El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-02-25
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and it is an excuse for the selfish.
! do not believe the best" within
/ woman was ever developed, save
! through doing with all her might tn.
nearest duties first.
Of course. there may be a diversity
Of opinions regarding those duties, but
/ ones own conscience and common senss
should be the guide.
1t is rot duty 10 sacrifice life and
( strength to the service of a brutal
! selfish and vicious husband. who has
! broken every VOW he took at the altar,
1 yet insists that his wife shall live up
i to the letter of hers
IN such a case II is Woman's near
est duty 10 get as far from the man
as possible, and not lay her future upon
the same pyre which has consumed her
past.
Disturbing Society's Harmony.
But the woman who allows her am
bition and her vanity to lead her to
! sacrifice a good husbands happiness,
merely because she feels she can shine
en- the heights of art with more eff
fulgent light alone Cor with another
mar) violates a principle which dis
turbs tie harmony of society. When
she relinquishes her children for ans
aim or ambition. however exalted, no
matter what her attainments may be,
she has but repeated Esau's bargain
Of old
Look what she has achievsd,' I
have heard women say Of one who had
acquired fame and gold ''She had to
fling away all trammels and ties in
order to become just what she is"
But on good mans life, and on the
lives of innocent children, rested
shadow which, in some lights, seemed
to be a stain.
Was her fame and her gold worth.
the price she made others pay?
The Man Who "Succeeds.y
There was a man who succeeded in
an aim petty ambition from our
standpoint, but no smeller than the
founding of an empire or the winning
Of immortal fame must seem in Gods
eyes.
This man wanted the road to the
nearest village. three miles distant, to
run through his property, because 1t
would bring him an amount of money
which seemed like a fortune in mis-
small eyes The mans property was
all hills and valleys.
The seiectmen planned to have the
road go round these hills, over level
meadows. But the man was strong
willed, persistent, >scheming. He sue
ceeded and gloried in his success.
Ihat was years ago. Today thou
sands Of horses become knee sprung
and lame and spawned, scores of We
hicles break down, wheelmen meet
with accidents, and the nerves of sum-
mer residents and tourists become un-
strung because Of these hills and val
leys, which must be traversed to reach
the town, the trolley or the train
Was his success worth to- the man
the price humanity has to pay for It?
Before we lay out any road to the
heights of glory or Of power it would
be well for US to ask ourselves whose
peace, comfort or happiness must be
sacrificed by it
II is our privilege to give I'D per
sonal comfort and personal happiness.
if we choose to do so. in order to ac-
complish a certain purpose.
It is not our privilege or our right
to immediate others upon the altar of
our success.
There is. no success in any line Of art
which can repay a woman for the
knowledge that her child suffers at the
mention Of her name.
Let us be lenient in our judgment of
such women. but let US not put them
upon a pinnacle as beings to be wor-
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