El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-16
Dog In the Manager of Love
Man who MOnOpOIfzes Girls Atten-
ton For Two Years Without
Proposing Is RObber.
By Beatrice FaIrfaz --
= By beatrice FaIrfa1
ST AM a young girl of o." Is We

66T AM a young girl of o." d very
distressed young woman writes
me, and have been keeping
company with a man Of Is for two
years steady, and as yet he has never
declared himself, or, in other words,
has never asked me to marry him He
is always talking as though he had no
intentions whatever; still he calls so
steady and keeps telling me what a
good, sensible girl I am and hopes !
will marry some one worthy of me.
How can I know where 1 am, as
now feel I ought to drop him All our
friends think we are engaged
There are courts for those who Of
fend against the statutes and courts
for the protection Of juveniles, but no
court in which punishment is provided
for the man who sins against girl
and violates no law in the SHINING.
There is no law providing punishment
for the man who plays the dog in the
manger with girl He can linger
around her for years, giving her every
reason for hoping that he will some
day marry her. leading every friend to
think they are engaged and keeping
away SuitOrs who are more honorable
and then drop her and escape all pun
Robs Her Youth.
He rObs her Of the freshness OF her
youth; he takes up her time; he eS-
FRANCES her from her friends; by his
groWls and barks he frightens other
men away, and then, like the dog that
he is, he runs away when he finds
those who might learn to care for her
have passed on and forgotten her.
Even now, after two years, this man
is a little more attentive. if he scents
a rival 7 do not want you for
wife" his attitude declares. but
don't intend to let any other man have
An Agreeable Place.
He enjoys her society without pay
ing the price for it in rent and gro
loaf without any of the obligations
that ownership attaches. He enjoys the
sympathieS and cOmpanionShip of
woman, yet retains his freedom. He
likes her. His two years attention
proves it, but he loves himself.
The girl who loves is the most help
less and defenceleSS of all Gods creas-
lures, and the more she loves the
has ever come forward with the sug-
gestion Of laws and courts for her re-
lief
It isn't fair to the girls. and nv
heart cries out against the injustice
done them. Loving and trusting and
hopeful and weak, they are thrown on
the. mercies of the man who comes
WOOing. and no one stands ready with
WOO like a man and not like a dog OF
a cad.
No Authority.
There is no authority to compel this
man to marry this girl and she would
he most unhappy if there were for he
is the most selfish of his sex But
somehow, somewhere he should be
made to realize that he has sinned
against a woman and must pay a pen
atty.
I want her to refuse to see him again.
Love is the greatest gift life has to
offer. It is worth more than life itself
and is the beginning. the end and the
sum and substance of all happiness;
but this man doen't carry it in his
hands
She has mistaken him for the mes
Senger of Love Such a messenger is
on his way to her; such a messenger is
on his way to every girl. But he will
pass on without delivering his message
If he finds another man seemingly in
possession