The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-10-05

But was The easy or foolish or
was she merely so ignorant Of evil,
so tenderly trustful, that she believed
her lover Incapable of Inconsistency.
Was she so constant that she could
not comprehend his lckleness?
Men are very inconsistent in this:
they demand that a woman shall have
the innocence of a dove and the wis
dom of q serpent. They do not IN
derstand that it Is the girl with
dreams and ideals WHO does not ques-
ton their protestatins. The woman
who knows much q nen--who has
| had the bloom rubbd Offs the one
who doubts until sic has the proof
Of the final questioi.
To me there is something very pit
| iful in the experience of the girl who
meets in her first bver a man who
looks upon love lightly. There is no
greater tragedy in TIE world than the
awakening of maidefhood to the fact
Of Inconsistency.
I wonder how nIny of you re-
member Quality Steet," the quaint
play of Barries, of which Adams was
the exquisite heroine
1t was really the tory of a kiss
| the soldier lover q the unworthy
child had kissed heron the night Of
| his departure. To hr a kiss was a
|
kissed meant to be bved. She went
home and told with delight that she
was to ba married when her lover
came bacF from the wars. Then as
the days went on andhe did not write
when she found thst the caress had
meant nothing to hiT-the thought of
that kiss became a hrning, shameful
memory. The story trns out happily,
for the lover comes lack and falls in
| love all over again, nd a wedding is
in prospect when the curtain falls.
There were people who scoffed at
! the unsophisticated heroine. CAS- if
any girl would makes such a fuss over
a kiss" I heard a mn exclaim. His
remark showed how little he appre-
ciated the subtletfes of the feminine
conscience. Mascune denseness,
rather than evil intht, must be the
| excuse for much of nan's inhunanfty.
But even such dullars have no right
to excuse themselves on the ground
of a girls weakness IF she let's me
kiss her, she will letsome other man
do it," is their easy Wy of getting out
Of It. Yet often thu statement is a
libel on the characterof the girl. who,
after her first bitter experience. may
go through life a snw maiden un-
touched by the pleadigs of any other
lover.
l the
youth taken out of her. has been
| turned from marriage from wIfehood
and motherhood, by sene youthful hu-
initiating episode whia seemed to the
man in the case "tvial" Having
squandered her first pre- love one one
unworthy of it, she as nothing left
to give a later sutton Moreover she
often becomes self.onscious and
therefore loses the aFaction Of art
make no defense { frivolous girls
who bestow their favrs lightly and
who are barely off wa the old love
before they are on VII the new vet
even with such a CIR a man should
be careful lest he rous in her q dAap-
er feeling than has bee walked nv aT,v
other. Many a hghtharted girl who
has laughed at love hs been syvsved
suddenly from her baluce bv a deem
and devoted attachmer to a man Who
did not value it
l have treated IN Ais article the
least tragic aspect ofthe question
but there is a darker de. The other
day a girl was found srowned IN the
. Hudson. The police tseved that she
killed herself becaussof 11nraoni+ad
love or that the man { the case tried
! to get rid OF her. and Ia1oyy a woman
white halred ana hazard, who for
twenty years-has hared the neigh
borhood Of the Office Oh famous sur
geou. she is crackee the children
say, and the boys hoosat her as she
: passes. But twenty yes ago she was
beauty, ana the tnous surgeon
broke her heart Todk he threatens
to have her locked up a nuisance.