The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02
GYPSY LOVE IS LAW UNTO ITSELF, SAYS
 CAMEO.LIkE GIRL

'''@'' '''N' No'sO' h' "'iiitiAi who has sinned and is branded with the scarlet letter. or wno has defied convention. as have done. is as responsible for her degradation as IS the man. and she should pay the price to the uttermost farthing."
 With her gypsy beauty set out by the carmine glow of deep-red neglige. with black eyes a-glint. and flashing smile. Mrs Lucy House sat in the gloaming in her dingy little home at talked with cool deliberation of her three months life with R. C. Trout. arrested Monday under the white slave law. and now lodged in the county jail in default of bond.
 "It is ridiculous for the girl who has gone wrong. who has sinned in the face of God and man. to hide behind the flimsy excuse that she was lured unknowingly into sin hy the man; that she was the innocent victim of a mans depravity, because it is as much the girl or the woman who lures. and no man, unless total ly degenerate, proposes the path of sin. unless encouraged by the wo. man"
 This dark-eyed. sylph-like Southern beauty who dared to defy man-made laws and live with the man she loves outside the pale of church and state. has been hardened to steel, like cynicism by the baneful touch of sin. "The marriage ceremony. with it's ring and preachers bless ing. is nothing in the face of a great love. It is often made but to be torn asunder. while love like mine is free and above the laws of man.
 Three months ago I met this man on the train. I was coming West with my little boy, 9 years old. I am 26 years old know the world and it's sin, and went into the whole affair with my eyes open loved him and he loved me That is all Why shouldn't we live together? The worlds opinion is nothing to me. and my only regret is for my him, and now the police have taken him away to the Detention home and I am all alone"
 This woman. with blunted moral sense and the face of an exquisite cameo, will stand by the man she loves through everything. Through bitter experience she has learned that the wages of sin is death, if not in body in mind, and declares that when Trout is free of the pris- on walls it shall be marriage or nothing
 There is glamor of romance the lure of uncertainty-the joy of freedom in defying man-made GUS tom," confessed Mrs. House. with a toss of her dark, braid-coiled head. ''It is perhaps the gypsy blood in me the wild and untamed blood of the wanderer that led me to taste the waters of sin. I knew it was wrong but I just didn't care
 Girls are just as much to blame as men in illegal love- They dress like eels. wear suggestive gowns appeal to the lowest in man, and then with smile lead them on, sometimes unconsciously until it is too late. When I met Trout on the train he looked good to me; wanted to know him, and spoke to him. I won his admiration, awak ened his passion, and that was the beginning of the end. I never eX pected to get into trouble like this, but you can't do wrong without be- ing caught" and the woman's white teeth flashed in a smile, as she slow W bit into a luscious peach and threw the skin carelessly across the floor
 But once you do wrong, stand by it. Don't shirk responsibility share blame with your partner in sin, and be a pal I have the ut most contempt for the girl who goes back on a fellow who has wronged her He would never have done it had she not consented-and that's my code of morals in a nutshell. "It is lie that Trout brought me here as a white slave He made no inducements to me to come. and has never even mentioned the low life of the streets to me, and I trust him. I came here of my own accord. with my eyes open. and have no inten- | ton, nor ever did have of bartering my self for money. Trout is entirely innocent of this charge"
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