El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-17
Any Work Is Honorable
Man Who SHES at Job Because Il
Is not Pleasant, is not North
of WOman's Love
- Nv no-ofh-
by Dorothy Dix =
WORKING girl is engaged to be

A WORKING girl is engaged to be
~ married to a young man who
held position as a salesman.
The young man lost his Job several
months ago, and since then has not
been able to get another position in
store or office that would enable
MIN 70. wear good clothes and keep
his hands nice and white and his nails
manicured- He has been offered a
place as street car conductor, but
he considers that beneath his dignity.
So is any kind of manual labor, which
he declines haughtily to do
In the meantime he is living on
money that is borrowed from his
sweetheart The girl is troubled BY
the situation She feels that she
should not be asked to support a
husky young man, and yet what can
she dOZ She cannot see him starTe,
she writes TO me in a miserable little
letter that has sob in every line.
Ny advice is emphatic: Shut up
your pOcketbOOk, little sister, and put
y ale lock on It. The man who IS
too proud to do any sort Of honest
labor, but not too proud to sponge on
a woman, is nothing on earth but a
dead beat and a lOafer, and the sooner
YOU are rid of him, the better for you.
infallible Proof OF Mans Love.
The one 1nfallible test of a mans
love for woman is not whether he
will die for her, but whether he viii
work for her. Nobody is called on to
die for anybody else in these days, and
il is easy for man TO profess that
he would do a thing that he never has
10 make good on But a mans will
ingness TO get9 up at o'clock in the
morning and tackle a hard job because
his doing it saves a woman from toll
and WEAKNESS is proof Of devotion
strong enough to draw money on at
the bank
little sister. ten this man that his
protestations Of affection are all lies.
because love doesn't seek to hold up
and rob its beloved Tell him that you
know that he is taking you for an
easy mark. and that he is playing upon
your affection for him to get money
out of you. and that he is cabling and
flattering you by telling you that ne
loves you, simply to Work you
Tell him that if he really loved you
he would starve before he would take
a penny from you, and that instead OF
hanging around and begging from
woman. and. especially the woman that
he says he WOrships, he would sweep
the streets. or break rock, OF drive
garbage wagon. or do any other Work
under the sun that left a man his SELF
respect and independence
Only SOuIless Man Takes WOman'8
Money.
The man who would take from her
thiss money, so hardly earned so Dit
1erIv needed. is as sOulless. as con-
scienceless. as heartless, as judas, VINO
sold his Lord for 80 pieces OF silver
Have nothing to do with such man,
little sister All that he wants with
YOU is to make Of you slave VINO
will toll TO support him
As for the man who won't WoEk pc
cause he can't get the kind OF a JOB ne
prefers. recognize him for the no-ac-
count. spineless lOafer that he Is Ihac
is the excuse that every lazy man OF
fers The only occupation that Wouid
really interest him would be chipping
coupons. and as there is ne Crying
need for substitutes for that. past1n1e
he prefers to sit down and foid his
hands in fdleness while some woman
bustIes out and makes the money 70
feed and clOthe him
ANY Work Is Respectable.
A real man rolls up his sleeves ana
sails into the work that Is closest TO
him. and no matter how humble rhs
labor NAV be. he honOrs il by the way
ne does it He knows that all Work y
respectable, and that the only snaIle-
fuI thing is for a man TO be parasite
and especially to be one OF the para
site men who live on working women
There are thousands OF WORKING
girls who are being bled OF their every
cent BY IOafing sWeetheartS, thousands
of wives and mothers who are Ioi1nS
night and day to support aoleoodle6
Ioafers who are their husbands ana
sons -.,
than the question Of what IS the rlghr
thing for these women to do because
the men who are too lazy to Work ap-
peal to the pity and the tenderness OF
the women they depend on