El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-03
The Ethics ofthe Love Game
Nobody Should SIT in Il Who Is Not
q Good SpOrt-Banish Breach
of Promise Suits.
~ nnrnfhN Dix.
BY Dorothy Dix.

II OAIANTIc pe1p1e-what the old
X fashioned novels called men and
women of sentiment-cannOt but
be shocked and Mortified at the num-
Der Of breach of promise suits that
occupy the attention Of the courts.
In all of these cases the aggrieved
party has not hesltaIed to repeat every
the most sacred condolences, to make
public the messages that were in
tended to 90 just from heart TO heart
and that should have been as lnvlolate
as anything told in the confessional.
and to hold up the party of the other
part-the once beloved and adered he
or she-for the jeers and fleers OF
HideOus Exhibition.
exhibition of lack Of taste, of lack OF
delicacy. of lack of every fine feeling
of dissertation OF the holy of holies
of the human soul
The breach OF promise case should be
thrown out of court, and the one who
brings it should have Ine taboo placed
the Jurisdiction of the law, for, one
thing. and for another it IS impossible
to tell whether any one IS really dam
aged in sentiment and injured IN emo
That there are bound to be risks in
cOurtShip goes without saying Indeed.
while, what gives Zest 10 the pursuit
spice to the game If a man knew UhaI
any woman ne fancied was ready 10
jump down his throat TO say yes, ana
thank you. too" the minute he popped
the question, the chances are that he
would never pop II at all
The Lure.
1t is the thrill of danger, the fear
that another may win her, or that ne
may fail to please her, or IRE heT
fancy. that stimulates the man and
makes him break his. neck running
Precisely the same thing may be
eof Of no
in love with a man exerts all OF her
skill to catch him. She also has taken
her chances, and If in the end, lust as
she thinks she is about to land him, ne
breaks away and swims off, she shouIa
be enough of a sport TO accept her luck
with a good grace.
not find the game worth the candle
and who, having danced, begrudged
does get Tilted by his sweetheart
he not had his dream of love2 Has ne
not known the bliss OF days, ana
weeks and sometimes even years OF
cOurJship2 Has he not known the
rapture Of reading and re-readlng let
tiers that breathed words Of endear-
and stolen kiSsesZ w nat more odeS
the greedy beggar WANT
Pays As He Goes.
Or suppose a man does love and ride
away sad undoubtedly Tor poor mari
anna in her MOated Grange, out u IS
better to have loved and lost than
never to have loved at all. The only
abiectly miserable woman IS the WOm-
an who has never had a. romance
Inasmuch as love cannot be manu-
featured TO order il is one OF the IN
written laws Of the love game from
which there should be no appeal. and
for which there should be no come
back that when either party tires, ne
or she has a right TO lay down ms or
her hand on the table and quit. with
no more ade about it It is loath-,
some thing to think that man would
be willing to make a woman marry
him who did not want to, OF a woman
would accept husband who baked at
the thought of her, or IN view OF not
getting husband or wife WOULD take
money. consideration
Nobody should sit in the love game
who isn't good sport and a game
loser. and who does not play Ior the
"a Ile of the game instead of the stakes.
For a true lover feels that however
the game ends, the fun he mas hao out
of it makes him break even