El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-16
The Diary Of A Bachelor
His Affair With sally Spencer Grows
Serious and He Takes the
Nurse Fer an Outing.
by Max

7 T IS over week since I received
that letter from Sally Spencer,
= throwing the responsibility of our
future conduct on our shoulders, and
1 have not answered it.
My heart cries for a decision beg
ging her to come home; my head coun-
sells against it. and when one is past
40 the head puts forward arguments
that are more convincing than those
urged by the heart. Then, moreove-.
1 realize, as never before, the rights
of the next generation
ManeUte bears my name She Will
some day be my heiress; 1 can't leave
her the heritage of a scandal. can't
expect her to develop into young
woman with high ideals and a sense
Of personal honor if there are dishon-
orable relations existing between the
two on earth whom she loves the
On the other hand. answers my heart
70 my head You have been longing
for years for that which is now Of
fered to you, and surely a man who
has protected and cared for others all
his life, as you have done, has a eight
TO little happiness of his own.
But answers my head, the endOw-
menJ Of an amusement fund for the
children of the poor, or country
home for tired mothers and sick ba-
Dles, never purchases the right to do
wrong No expenditure of thought and
money for the unfortunate gives one
immunity from punishment for sin.
Ban! replies my heart to my head.
You talk as if you will placard your
mlsdotnss on the outer walls Why
SnouId any one know what you dO2
\ on are not an irresponsible young
1901, one who goes about doing wrong
boaStfully and with a loud noise.
The world always knows. replies my
mead somewhat weary with the wran-
Sle,/ and then, moreover, there is your
conscience
Not Fashionable.
10 which my heart replies, numbed
TO al other sentiment by its yearning
Tor Sally, that conscience is a thing
that has gone out of fashion. Only a
rev women possess one these days, and
If a man ever had any no one ever
credited him with it.
Sally asked if she had fallen from
the pedestal on which 1 had placed
ner when she made the most human
for me I think, somehow. that her
letter has made me value her a little
higher I am not shocked, as I should
be shocked, On the contrary, being a
man with blood in his veins and not
at all like the heroes made of paper
and through whose veins there drib-
bles little printers ink, I expert I
Human Being.
she IS woman, a human being. ]
and not an autOmatOn. It is enrolling ]
and inspiring to picture the woman /
a bOve our reach. a part of the divine I
plan; but it is more human to hold I
out our arms and love them all the /
more for falling into them.
And that too, is an argument Of :
the devil, with whom I seem to be
holding many arguments these days
while trying to decide the measure of I
my strength.
You seem very thoughtful these !
days said the pretty nurse to me /
this morning in q worried tone.
7 have too much for any man to (
think about alone" replied, and /
remain wholesome. Let US, you and
l. forget our relations of employer and I
employee, and spend the day in doing
Just what we would do If we were
two girls, or two boys, together with
very little money to spend and A
great many things we wanted to buy
with it. Give me a chance to forget
what's troubling me-"
So we said goodbye to Richards,
after seeing Manette off to school, [
and then took a street car down town. 1
had two dollars with me, and the
pretty nurse had 5 cents. We took