El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-20
Everything Has Its Price
But the Market Price of WOmen's
Hearts Is Not Quoted in Dollars;
Bachelors Mistake.
By Beatrice Fairfax.
BY Beatrice Fairfax.
: vEKYTHING has its price.

TVERITHING has its price.
The price of the dollar is the
- mercenary look on life that goes
with it.
man has a few dollars, and his
horizon is deep and broad. He gets a
few more, and thereafter looks on life
through the bars OF the dollar sign, as
prisoner looks through the bars Of
his cell.
He weighs every man bv the dollar:
ne measures every man by the dollar
ne approves or condemns every man
according to his ability to make q
dollar. He looks at no mans heart,
but at every mans purse.
With the dollar mark forming the
bars Of the cell window before his
eyes, IL is stamped on all he sees, Civ
ing to every one and every thing it's
purchase price
He thinks there is nothing the dollar
will not purchase, and in this whole
sale category ne places love and WOm-
an The latter he may buy but the
quality of morals and brain makes his
purchase penalty Of riches instead OF
a reward. The former. thank a Just
heaven, is never for sale.
Dollar Letter.
The writer of the following letter is
squirting through the dollar sign.
Il am an old bachelor" he writes
and have the pleasure Of knowing a
young woman p years of age of whom
I think very highly. I am in business
and can support her and give here a
comfortable home and every luxury
life holds
There is a young man about her
age with whom she is in love, but ne
is not able to support her at present,
and probably will not be for a few
years.
gain her love from him."
It is a satire on the power of riches
tha5 the most priceless possession life
holds IS without price. A man may
Duy land Injuries, power, influence
and other mems brains, but he cannot
buy love.
Hearts of Women Not For sale.
The heart Of no woman was ever
s What course, he asks. should he pur-
sue TO win this girl from the man she
The question of a selfish man. The
girl loves her bOyish lover, and in the
transfiguring light Of their devotion
Sne sees no hardship IN poverty with
him. He IS happy, she is happy, each
content to wait till the good time
comes when they can afford to marry.
Then, along comes the rich old man.
like the villain in a play, or the ghost
at the banquet, and asks what course
ne should pursue to bring lasting mis-
cry to both
The question Of a selfish mani There
was day before he set Up the dollar
sign in the window of his soul, and
began TO look at life through il, when
his nSSAEl Was warmed Dy the SlSnL OF
a pair OF lovers, and he IOnged, as we
all DC, for the power to make their
course OF love easy
He read because Of the love story in
the book. He went to the theaterN be-
cause of the love theme in the play,
and no song had an appealing inflU-
enee on him unless it was a song Of
love
His Narrow Vision
He thought that some day. when he
could afford it, he would tell ! love
story all his own. not knowing in his
narrOW-mi vision that no man IS
ever so poor he can't afford to be the
hero in his own love story. It is this
first being a hero to a woman that
makes a man a hero to the world.
It is this sublime indifference to the
cost of potatoes that makes love the
theme. When the world puts
off love It'll it can afford it." the
world will come TO an end.