The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-07-06

hnu Try 10 Delleve her again. A
She has always been good woman
before this. She Is not the most Low.
ing. comfortable little wife In the
world. She makes real home life
for the man, and there Is a little boy.
q little laughing, rogaish, eleareyed
boy, who loves his mother and thinks
she Is the most perfect being on earth.
What shall the man do? He wants to-.
know. H.s. e.
That's the worst part OF 1.-THE
wants TO know. lsy
II he only knew himself, now, there
wouldn't be any doubt Of what to do!
II he could not forgive her; then the
thing would be settled right then and
there: u he could forgive her. and feel
all right about II, who Is there to I'M
terfere by one single syllable? .s2
But he doesn't know. he can't de.
eide.
II love her, says the man in his
letter. I love her and believe she real,
ly loves me. She Is a helpless little
thing, and don't see what she can do
without me. and believe It would kill
the boy TO part with his mother. What
is the right thing for me TO do? !
want to, do the right thing, Just the
right thing for the boy?
Bless your heart, man alive, I won.
der what you are? SO big that you are
almost godlike. or so small that you
are beneath contempt. 81
Do you want to forgive the woman
because you love her and are sorry.
for her and anxious TO do the right
thing for the boy? Fl
II that's your idea-why then, hats
OF to q Man, every inch OF him. (.
You are doing the noblest, kindest,
brayest, traest thing man can d..
Or do YOU want to take her back
because you can't be comfortable with.
opt her? Do you care SO little for her
that you don't care what she has done,
SO long as YOU can have her again?
That's different, quite different. !,
!, Do you know where you stand your.
self?
The path of a man who takes wo-l
man back because he doesn't quite
know where he could get as good q
housekeeper is never strewn with ros,
s ss or even 1PQpplss, and # should not
Aoho4alI3 5.zJdtlWf6,Et Il
I've known such men; one think
Of in particular. His, wife ran away
with his, dearest friend and he follow.
ed the pair and begged the woman To-
go hone With him. and The woman
vent and the man never let her have
one moments peace I, ~ Z, 4
d5He twhted Sher, tnrmented her, s,is:
spected .her.suntIllshe ran away again..
land this, time. She stayed away, and
all the maps world despised him and,
avoided him as much as they would
avoid creature with leprosy, and |
have always thought that he did have
moral leprosy.. ~ II E
- know another man Who aid the
same thing but for, quits analferent
reason 80 e Ho!iHis2. ff5
He went away on q long Journey
and while he was gone . man he knew
made fool OF the mans wife. and
she threw her good name to the
winds and followed the false friend.
who brought her pooi silly feet 10 the
Road Of Agony. And when her hus.
band knew he went after his wife,
and he took her home and comforted
her. and stood her friend. and. no one
ever dared TO hint to the man that
everyone but he, himself and the. wife
and the other man knew OF the
wretched theartbreaking story.
And ali who knew the real truth OF
the affair admired and respected the
man. fol, they knew that he did what
he did because he realized that his
wife wasta foolish. lightheaded girl and
that the husband should not have left
her alone so long, And they knew
that he took, her back, not 10 crafty
a whim OF his own, not to minister to
his comfort. not TO have her and keep
her no mater what she was, Just be-
cause she could make him comfor.
table. but because he loved her in
the higher sense: He loved her
enough to protect her from her own
folly and his own carelessness. And
In all his little world no man walked
more In the Hight OF esteem and friend.
ship than that man.
I Another knew once, long ago, in|
the Far West ~
A girl came from an orphan asylum
70 great city. She was In love with
a boy who had been at the same asyli
UNI. and the boy was in love with her!
and they had promised to marry each
other as soon as the boy had home
for the girl. II
The boy went to the wild lands and.
took up a claim, aud in time bnllt all
little house OF logs and wrote the girl
that he was coming to take her home.
(, And when the girl received the let-I
ter she was In hospital very III. and
she held In her arms little child. al
child Of misery and disgrace. |
She was very young and very helm,
less, and the man who had brought
the cruel shame upon her was a man
Of experience and OF cunning and she
had had no more chance aaginst him