Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-08
/ ~ SHE NOW HAS REACHED ~
/ Il THE ACE OF SUSPICION Il
BY WINNIE LEE

| Just as | started to write about the
fourth of the seven-ages- woman-
| in-loye there came to me the letter
which follows. Could there be albeit
| ter illustration of the skepticism
which aflicts twenty seyen-when she
loves a man?
Am 81 and am engaged to be mar
ried next fall. My fianee is now ord
cred to another city with his firm, but
| am backward about letting him go,
fearing that he will forget me. 80 10
prove his sincere intention to marry
me and no other, he has given me
written agreement to marry me when
he comes back at the date fixed. lie
has signed his full name. Is this
paper any good to me in case he
should not keep his promise, and
should marry some other girr2 He Is.
a very nice man. but do you think
he loves me? How much we hear oil
how easily man Is lured away!
Even married men by single women!
An Anxious Girl.
Other letters to me prove that when
Twenty seven has returned diamonds
of several sizes, and n gallery or
handsome photographs, and some tons
of carefully selected stationery Gov
cred with the vocabulary invented ny
Cifpid; when she has wept nights in
fear that she may not get all of her
own scented epistles back again;
when she has seen her first love en-
gagged to a string of girls; and has
gone to the wedding of her second love
and her best girl friend-weil. OF
course, she knows with just what
fervor, with what tender information
each man can say, 81 love you! dar-
lingi"
So she does get a bit scornful of
mans emotions. She just naturally
doubts his constancy; and she Graves
some more binding guarantee of his
wish TO settle down than the ever
changing, tickle hearted diamond. Z.
But the letter quoted is the first
case have discovered where the man
had been obliged to put his name to
paper to satisfy maiden's doubt.
Unhappily, love is the one condition
which does not bring wisdom with
experience. The more times one
| loves. the less one knows of love. so
how can twenty-seven be expected to
distinguish the truest love ever Of
fered woman from the common affin-
ity brand?
All men know that when once
woman starts a doubling, there is
nothing in the wide kingdom of love
which she will not end in doubling.
Thus explaining himself" gets to
be habit of mind with some men.
They acquire marvellous facility at it,
even if they do not acquire fecility
y It.
BY nature woman trusts her lover.
BY nature. II is said, man betrays
that trust. Therefore woman endures
| two kinds of doubt, first the doubt of
| ignorance then the doubt Of llnowl-
edge. The former may be cured. but
! just see the fight which Englishmen
are compelled to put up against the
| latter.
The moral seems plain. Ii Is
moral for men, It is-but II is quite
too obvious to quote.
And men who are hypocrites are
sure to betray themselves. And nice
honest men are awkward and clumsy
and usually quite dumb-and bound
to get into trouble anyway.
| Therefore would twenty-seven bet
! ter REMINDER that love and marriage
mean unity. But doubt and marriage
mean both the dual and the duel.
And Cupid's eyes are always BAN
| daged And justice also is blind,