The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-31

most severe puts economic pre-. 80,
OF the question as the primary q, .., ~,
prostitution. 1t Is a major ..r,.r
: merely in determining which -, mo-,
shall be prostitutes.
Two classes chiefly resort IT.
streets where love is sold: IN. ,n.
and minated and those in whom mar.
riage has failed to satisfy a dcm1l. a.,
to be rational There are also am.
preternaturally vicious who ST. Inv,
left where they belong, with the ..
ogist.
The difficulty of the young ,,
honest one, arising as 1t does 60,
circumstance that the mating r.....
slty develops some years in ad,a,. ,,
the time when It is thought wise ., a..
sirable to assume the complex r,-...Y, =.
bilities of marriage. 1t is an s....,,
problem this, appearing as a ma..- If
| tribal consideration as early .. ,t,
period OF Clipped flint. But for r. u.r1
sistence We have largely to than. ro
extraordinary lumpiness and in,...ro.
ness OF modern education,
over in the red light district lr.., 10
the hunter the mover Of the ...n,
There he RENTERS the hereditary ...,,
releases his crampcd and un,>, ed
| nj
for long time he has fondlv b.H,roI
that the price he pays guarantc,. tr,t
nothing shall come out Of 1t To truiibIc
his soberer occupations. NotbIrs .,
disconcerts him as the light of nudotn
research thrown on the thinrs 49,
in spite OF him do come out of II ami
spread foul traces round his home.
III is not what society is going to n,J
out about his favorite pastimc that
renders publicity Objectionable, bur whit
he isn't going to be able to avoid nnd.,..
out about himself. 1t is for us an la
race and force into the social consciuf,..
ness the recognition of the spirit of "a,
chase as a prime factor in much that
menaces the love life of the community
Within the last quarter century We
have come clearly to recognize and de-
fine type of Industrial parasite who
taps the veins OF profit without az
counting or return. as the money
grafter. More vicious and insidiuus
even is the as yet untabulated love
pirate. the CRATER in the precious stun
OF personality. There is a tendenry
always in the more sophisticated states.
to make OF the finer phases of human
intercourse an achievement and an end,
and this Is the beginning of desuetude.
But when they go further and make
of love mere enhancement Of the pas.
ing time there ensues a condition com
pared to which the paid traffic OF the
street is an obvious and remediable evil
For this sort of love goes masquerad.
ing In the most endearng OF the lighter
phrases, the chiffons, me might say Of
grand passion.
This kind OF grating is beyond the
jurisdiction of the police, but it marks
the quality of the practitioner as de-
scriptively as a rating in BrddstrcctS
For, when not actually the evidence ~
arrested development, this refined sort Of
promiscuity Is the result of poverty Of
the imagination and spiritual indolenc,
Such as these love love so long as II
Is easy; in short they are of the stripe
OF the lovers of easy money"
Never since man emerged from the
tribal state has the whole work ~
feeding and comforting and rearing the
children been done by the house mother
in the better conditioned families. What
we mean in fact by better conditioned
and best families is just those families
in which all the work has not to be done
| by the chatelane. The struggle of
every man in democracy to obtain
these conditions for his own wife and
children has resulted in the work which
was formerly done by dependents
within the household being now done by
specialists outside 1t. During the last
three centuries the modal history of
marriage has been the history of the
gradual emergence Of the serving class
into the class of householders. Yet here
in America, come up from varied paren-
tage with clashing traditions. by sys-
TENS Of education waveringly aimed AZ
lf,,.x II
| sin stupidity trying to pour all this IN
likely material into a mould which met
Its determining circumstance long be-
fore the rise of democracy. Everywhere
we see married pairs attempting To- or
ganize a home about some tattercd rem
nant of the old ideal and rending one
another because they fail at IL.
very little observation of matings
as they take place in society simpler
| than ours convinces that there il a
mating instinct, a subconscious SURE
ness by which nature flashes from
young breast to young breast the
| knowledge of what types she would
weld for the increasing of the nations.
Probably If the obscuring mysteries
were laid by facts made commoup,arc
instinct would wake again along 'D-
unfathomed outer border of the mating
consciousness. In the absence Of liz
stinct We need knowledge and more
| knowledge.
| AS matter of fact the average u ne
Is one of the worst possible places for
young people to court in-whch Is per-
haps why so much counting Is done IN
the street, in the college. at the dance
hall. The average home with its one
living room. its weary and sef-absorhri
adults, its clamorous younger children,
the immanence OF the parental view
point, the self-consciousnes of youth
finding itself-this is the least prop.
tious environment for the solf-cNpllcat 'l
which must come then II ever to the
mating pair.
What really believe is that a man -
entitled to father his child by amy
woman who bears 1t. This sore epo,.sm
of woman, fevered by centuries Of .'-
preston and made fierce by sex starF8-
ton, which leads her to brandsh her
creative function in the face Of al me
powers and to sink man to a mcr" n."-
logical necessity, serves no doubt 10