Omaha daily bee., 1914-10-08
Flirting With Married Men

friendship between a married man and
young girl. 1t is not evilmindedness that
prompts this attitude. 1t is experience of
the world and its ways.
Why should a married man turn for
companionship to young grip Why
does he not count on his wife for that?
Why does he continue to remain the hus-
band Of a woman he is willing to discuss
with a girl who is comparative
stranger?
Ask yourself these questions, girls, and
then add one more. IF married man
will talk disparagingly Of his wife and
his relations with her to me. what right
have to suppose that he will not equally
lightly discuss me with her-or with the
next woman to catch his rowing fancy?''
We are all creatures OF habit. and no
matter how our hearts roam for a time,
they generally come home at last. Be
tween a man and his wife there Is the
bond of common interests, home ties and
family communion. II this temporarily
ceases TO hold him, can any young girl
who gives herself unpledged hope for
loyalty?
Each day we read of grim tragedies
based on mistaken love. For an unhappy
wife who is betrayed by husband and
newer sweetheart. the world has SYM
pathy and charity. For the girl there Is
the outer darkness. She is despised by
the world and deserted by the man, who
leaves her at the first breath of diff
Guilty and discomfort with even more in
difference than he deserted his wife, be-
cause no had begun to tire of sober DOM
esticity.
Some men are born faithless. II I'M
true to his wife. to whom he is bound
by solemn obligations, why should any
woman deceive herself into believing that
a man will be true to her after he begins
TO be bored.
Don't start an affair with a married
man. If you have a handsome young en-
ployer, come into his office as a part of
his business machinery-don't think Of
yourself as a girl to be wooed. and don't
encourage the man TO consider you ex-
cept as factor OF his business.
There is probably a social gulf between
you-don't try to bridge 1t. You will prob
ably only create a wider gulf that will
yawn between you and all girls who are
! properly discreet and careful of their
regulations
| If charming young man comes TO
your town and you know nothing OF him,
don't permit yourself to grow interested.
, He may have a wife and babies at home,
and you scarcely want the price for a
few months of happy intimacy to be the
loss of reputation for you, the loss of
| happiness for his wife and the loss of
father for his children.
An affair with a married man does not
spell happiness for any one concerned.
Don't you want to be a happy wife some
day, you little silly girl who throw away
your chances Of Joy so lightly? OF course
you do-and you don't want another girl
to steal your husband. even IL the theft
will leave her poorer than 1t found her.
kdo you?
Well, then. don't set fate bad ex-
ample by stealing another woman's hus-
band. You will serve your term" for
| it, if you do-and this is what you will
pay: Unhappiness, shape, a broken repu-
tation, the guilt of spoiling some one
else's life. the scorn Of women and the
sneers of men. There will be no per-
manent gain-only everlasting loss. Is it
worth CHANGING?
| Don't be a married mans sweetheart
that is one of the surest roads to I'M
happiness and to lasting remorse coupled
with undying disgrace.