The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-11-24
Girls Who Flirt
With Married Men
BY DOROTHY DIX.


turn pea green with jealousy.
"You should just see the
wives she gurgled with delight;
'fat frumps or skinny skeletons,
with grizzled hair, and no com
could have bitten a tenpenny nail
in two when 1 walked off with
their husbands 10 look at the
moon or sit in a palm sheltered
corner, or something Ny, but I
wouldu I be one of those men
when his wife gets him home, and
have to hear the things he's got
10 listen to. for house and lot.
But that g the fun of airting with
married men. Outwitting his wife
puts ginger into il. and. anyway,
/ always fascinate married men,
so / IN not to blame
Not to blame for doing her best
to entice married man away
from his home and family Girls
do plenty OF wrong and silly
things that can be eXcused by
their youth and inexperieuce, but
nothing on earth condones the
crime of the woman who en-
courages q man in being faithless
even IN thought to his marriage
vows.
AS for a young girl finding
amusement in watching the help,
less suffering of d wife who sees
her husband being enticed away
from her, the women OF old who
diverted themselves by watching
wild beasts tear people to death
in the arena were no crueler than
she.
1t does not take any magma
tion to paint the agony of the
middle-aged wife who sees her
husband being fascinated by
younger woman, who compares
her dull eyes with the girls
bright ones; her heavy figure
with tho girls light grace; her
faded cheeks with the girls fresh
roses; her dead hair with the
girl s glossy locks; her weary and
jaded spirit with the girls effer-
voscence Of youth. and who real
izos, above all, that the girl has
the allure Of the new and un-
known while she has grown as
tedious to her husband as a twice
told tale.
Very likely the woman has
burned her beauty out over the
kitchen stove cooking for her hus-
band. Very likely her hands have
grown knotted and coarse work
ing to make him comfortable, and
to help him get a start in the
world. Very likely her eyes have
grown dim nursing his children.
Very likely she is frowsily
dressed because she is trying to
save his money; but women know
with pitiless certainty that men
seldom remember what woman
has done for them. They know
only how she looks at the present
moment, and So no wife puts any
faith IN her husband S gratitude
TO her keeping him faithful to her.
That is why it is so easy for
any young girl TO make middle
aged wife Jealous.
OF course the husband who is
waiting around for some pretty
girl to make eyes at him, and who
Jumps up and follows the first one
who looks over her shoulder at
him, isD t really worth his wife's
worrying over.
However, such as he is, he is all
that she has. He is the father
of her children. He is the man
she gave her young heart to and
that she III see through rosy mist
OF illusions as long as he lives,
She bears his name, and his dis
grace will be hers and her chill
dren g. His presence and his
earnings keep the roof over her
head and her babies, aud there
fore she grows desperate at the
thought Of his being enticed away
from her.
Don't you have a hand in
breaking up this home, little sis
ter. Let the woman keep her
poor make-shift Of q husband
Don't have another woman's
tears. nor the black sin of having
had any part in rendering little
children fatherless, on your soul
Don't forget that retribution
never fails. Some day you. too
will marry. Some day you. too
will grow middle aged, and home
", and see younger and falrer
women lowering about your hus
band, and then you. too, viii suf-
fer pang FOR pang the misery that
YOU inflicted on another woman.
Also bear this in mind, that the
girl who firts with married man
PLAYS with fire. Sometimes she
hurts her own heart worse than
she does the wife's. for the man
who is married to one woman and
makes love to another deals dis
honorably by all women. In
worldly sense he is fsafe,o as he
ing married he does not have to
marry the girl. nor can he be sued
for breach of promise. Further
more, the girl herself has broken
down the wall that man s chivulry
has erected about the innocent
and modest young girl, and so
what started as Irritation is very
apt to pass into something which
spells disaster for the girl
And don t forget this, either,
You girls who think it fun to hirt
with married men. The girl who
engages in that pastime cuts her
own throat. socially and matTi-
monially. You may laugh at the
Jealous wives, but it is the wives
who issue the invitations to balls
and parties and who give the
house parties. aud once let girl
get the reputation Of being fond
of married men and her name rs
dropped from every invitation Ist-
Wives no more encourage q MIR
tatious girl around their homes
than shepberd does a wolf
around his sheepfold.
Nor do young men, the right
sort of Young men, want TO marry
the Girl who has affairs with mar
ricd mep. She is q little too Wise.
She is too sophisticated.
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