El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-26
When Love Breaks Faith
The Girl Who Makes a Misstep
Should Keep Her Own Faith
and Forget the Man
Dorothy Din
Hy DOrothT Dh
YOUNG girl who has loved not

4 YOUNG girl who has loved not
n wisely but too well, and who
L has been cast aside like a broken
plaything by the man who has done
her so terrible wrong, asks me what
she should do under the tragical cir
cumstances.
Ny answer is. forget it all Put
your past behind you and refuse even
to let your thoughts enter the door
that you have locked upon your dark
secret Never Let a word concernlnS
what has happened pass your lips 10
anybody. Above all, have notnlng 10
do with the unprincipled scoundrel who
has taken such a shameful advantage
Of your youth and innocence and ig-
nOrance Do not humiliate yourself
by beseeching him to come back TO
you OF entreat him to marry you
One Fatal Error.
It is a terrible thing, a thing so pit
eous that it must make the very an
gels weep, for a girl to have wrecked
her life when she Is only Il years ola,
but the only thing that she can do that
really helps is to gather up the rag
ments in silence and as secretly as
possible
Under such circumstances there are
parents who sometimes force a man TO
marry a girl, to do what they cali
right the wrong he has done her"
This is a fatal mistake. 1t only makes
a bad matter worse and dooms the
girl to certain misery, as it puts her
completely in the power of a bastard
who has already shown how little re-
gard he has for her happiness and
honor.
Sometimes the girl wreaks a bloody
reprisaI on the man who betrayed hel,
but what a price she pays for that one
minute of satisfied vengeance The
horrors of murder trial, even when q
sentimental jury acquits woman. are
not to be told.
Sometimes the woman takes her
wrongs into the court and seeks to
soothe the hurt her honor feels with
money. It takes a woman of coarse
fiber to do this and to blazon her
shame to the public for the sake of a
few dollars. There are many times
when money comes too dearly, and this
is one
OF course. no punishment that hu-
man ingenuity can devise is adequate
for the man who wins a young girls
heart and then takes advantage of her
trusting affection to lead her into
wrong doing. To strip him of his
money is nothing Killing is too good
for him He deserves 4 dogs death,
but the trouble is that you cannot pun
ism him without furnishing the girl a
thousand times more
1t is the practical side of the trag-
edy that We are now considering, what
the girl under such circumstances had
best to do. To make any fuss about it
is to cry out aloud her misfortune to
the world, whereas if she says nothing
and goes her way as if nothing had
happened, there may be a few whispers,
few surmises. a little gossip that no
one can substantiate, and that dies
down and is forgotten in a short time.
Possibilities.
After all, the only things that are
absolutely known about our private af-
fairs is what we tell ourselves. Prob
ably there is never a scandal about
anyone that the person didn't tell him
self or herself It's the thing that we
confide to our dearest friend that
comes back to haunt us. and hence any
secret that we shut our teeth upon is
reasonably safe.
To this girl who so far has kept the
secret of her one false step, I say keep
1t until it is locked in the silence OF
the grave. Confession is a weakness
and temptation in cases where it can
do do no possible good, and no repara-
ton to another is to be made Let the
dead past bury its dead and do you
go forward and live life so pure and
white and so fragrant with good deeds
that the recording angel Will drop a
tear upon YOUR one poor little sin and
| blot it out