Omaha daily bee., 1912-08-19

forgive him2 Please answer, w. 8,
No, my friend, ! don't agree with YOU
Good looking women cannot 'bresk up a
dozen homes" or one homo either, not
il the homes are real homes, and not Just
places where people live and pretend to
be happy.
Good looks never held mans love In
the world, and they never "hroke up a
home worthy of the name either. A bad
heart breaks up homes, and a silly head,
and both OF them belong TO the person
who lives In the home,
/ Should a woman forgive a man who
, has betrayed her trust in him7 That
| depends on the woman and on the man
and on the way that confidence was be.
trayed,
The best husband I ever saw had a
foolish affair with a woman once when
his wife was away He and the wife
IquarrGled, and the wife had gone visit
ling to N'her folks"
The man was desperately miserable
and 50 lonely and wretohed that he
was half crazy. Along came the poor
goose of a woman who thought she
saw her chance for good home and
decent man at last .,,,,"
She made love to the man, cunnlngly,
carefully yelled love, She pretended.
to be sorry for him, OH so sorry, and
she cried with him. and she sang ta
him In what she was pleased to call
the "gloamlng and, she flattered him
and che coaxsd him, and she made q
great, big, stupid, credulous fool of
him until one day the man got a
letter from his wife, and the letter
Esaid- I'm sorry, are your
|, And the man packed his trunk and
was gone. without one syllable to the
f'Consoler,n
/ And whom he got home again with
the woman, he really loved, at home
In the dear little house they had built
together, at home with the, memories
and the hopes and the sweet conf
dences, the man never even rernem.
bered the other woman at all.
But the other woman remembered
the man. and she pursued him day
and night and when he would not
come hank to her, or pay any atten-
ton to her, she went to the mans wife
and told her all about the wretched
affair 4
The wife smiled and said, Yes, didn't
you know he told me ali about t?" which
was really not true at all, and when the
other woman had gone the wife cried and
was broken hearted,
But she thought II all over, and when
| her husband came home shu said. ',John.
was a fool to leave you and you acted
like fool while 4 was gone Let's both
be sensible after this" and Johns white
face relaxed, and his strained eyes grew
natural for the first time in months, and
he put his head down on his wlfe's lap
and cried like q great big, sorry baby.
And he thinks that his wife is made
OF gold, with diamonds for eyes and
rubes for lips. and he wouldn't look at
the prettlest woman alive IL she should
come right down out of venusburg and
and make love to him. He has had his
! lesson-and he'll never need another.
Did his wife do right? l think she did
. She saved good man and she mended
ia broken life, and she had the good
sense to see that the other woman wasn't
anything real at all, she was Just an
| opate, like a dose of morphine.
| Yes. she's iiappy-not ar happy as she
would be II her husband had not had the
affair at>all, but whole lot happier than
she would be today II she had taken her
rights before the law and divorced the
| husband and wrecked two lives.
Forgive, why not?
Forget? That is not quite SO easy, but
| 1t can be done when It's worth while.
Are you worth while, my good eorre-
spondent, for Of course you yourself are
! tho man In the case?
Do you really love this wife you de-
eeived? Are you sorry and ashamed and
really contfite? Or would you go and do
the very same thing all over again on
the very first excuse?
There's difference in men, you know
very great difference. Some are worth
forsiving, and some are not even worth