The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-10
BY IDAH McoLoNE GIBSON.


Note, Here is human document
that is more tragic than any you can
read In fiction or see upon the stage.
II came to me this morning among
many other letters on the subject of
girls receiving attentions from their
employers. l think 1t shows conolu-
sively that sex in business cannot be
ignored.
What shall-or rather what can q
girl In these circumstances dor
Toledo, o., Dec. Z, 1914.
Dear Miss Gibson: / have read
with interest your article In last even
ing's Detroit Times and the appeal Of
that little girl who wrote you for adj
vice touched my heart, she has my
deepest sympathy. Tell her to leave
that mans employ at once, and do
anything rather than keep on working
for him under existing conditions. She
will have the heartachs for awhile.
but time will cure that, whereas, II
she stays on there every day will be
torture. He must have known she
was learning to love hIm-but what
did he care? She was nice little
thing to amuse him in his spare hours
and now he announces his engage
ment to a society girl-poor little
stenographer. poor little plaything.
Maybe-who knows-he will have q
daughter some day who some other
man will treat as he has treated this
girl and his own deed will come home
TO him.
will tell you part of my story
1t may help someone else. 4 am past
% (old enough TO have sense), but,
here Is bit OF advice to mothers
no girl unmarried gets too old for
chaperon.
A few years ago ] secured q posi-
ton as stenographer In one of the
incest Offices here in town. everything
went smoothly for two years, then
well, then my employer began to get
interested in me and returned that
interest. 10 crept into my heart and
was there almost before I knew IT, &
believe was fattered at frst), then
love took Its place; and the pity OF
IT Is he is married and has family
and know It.
But ! have learned TO love this
man devotedly, Observation-Disclosures
everything else In the world My
people would scorn such thing as
they were very puritanical, but they
do not know, no one does, and that
Ia my skeleton In the closet"
He Ia we'll known In business
circles, well thought of, and, of course.
Is big and handsome, and good-that
may sound odd, but he Is. How true
that saying Ia from the Confessions
OF Wife. "A man viii protect a
woman from every man but himself,
and there is always the one man from
whom every woman must protect her
self. %
l am lonely for him always. want
him to come home to me nights;
want him for breakfast, dinner and
supper; I want him Sundays and holi-
days; I want him always. know
should leave his employ, but am
not strong enough TO, just could not
live without seeing him every day,
even though II IL torture to stay.
Sometimes I think I shall lose my
mind-to think that the man I would
choose from all others sits within
reach of my outstretched hand every
day and / dare not touch him. Has
time Is well taken up with business
affairs, and know he does not miss
and want me like do him-a woman
always gives SO absolutely. He has
never shown me any attention out
side Of the Office, never taken me to
the theater, lunch, etc.-that much is
TO his credit; hes has never cheapened
me by letting me be seen In his COM
pany. Sometimes I cannot understand
why love him--why Will love. like a
flower, thrive on desertf Perhaps
you can tell me.
never enjoy a pleasure unless II
is connected In some way with him
perhaps II is Just the remote POSSIBLE
ity of seeing him by chance. have
no men callers, do not care for them
Il cry many OF my evenings away.
Why should such an Illicit love
come to any woman? Why?
have asked that so many times
what directed my footsteps to that
office and kept me there?
feel and think all OF these things
but would not have him give up his
family for me for anything In the
world, even though he we're that kind
Of a man.