Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-09
by BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

'Hee who mine heart would kecpe for
Shall bee a gentill man and strong"
Quotes the heroine of a well known
novel. How wisely she chooses her
motto!
However love wanders for time, how
eVer the heart Of woman goes a-gypsying
at the call of fascinating freebooters. in
the end love comes home. And the
home of a woman's love can be only
In the harbor Of loyal mans heart.
The man who understands women"
is all too often nothing more than a thief
of love, a bandit and pirate. He studies
woman after woman--to their cost. Each
one he leaves. having learned about
women from her"-and then on 70 the
next he goes. to give her a little brief
fevered happiness and then to leave her
sadder and wiser and either miserable in
her establishment or clinging to a mem
DRY that is not worthy Of a thought
The man who understands women"
understands their emotions because he
plays upon them. The most sacred feel
ings he examines and classifies. His
game is scientifically conducted-but since
1t is game Il ought never be dangerous
to the woman who will stop and think.
Women ought never to cease to remem-
Der that in marriage their Happiness is
made for them by the love they accept
Any woman who lets a weak. selfish. un-
stable man gain power over her through
his pirate gift to steal hearts, is prepar-
ing for herself an aftermath of misery
TO follow a harvest OF weeds instead of
grain The weeds may be bright-coIored
and alluring to the eye-but they can
bring nothing OF permanent value into
her life
Too often a woman's love transforms a
man until she does not see him as he is
but as she longs to have him be. To her
self-deceived eyes. dross becomes clear
gold The pirate of love cleverly helps
her keep up her illusions at first while
the game is new and stimulating enough
to make him feel the urge to play well
But after a time laziness or WEAKNESS
makes him too selfish and indifferent to
struggle TO preserve a woman's happiness
The woman goes on believing and bellev-
ing-believing I'm the face of the evidence
OF her burning eyes and the testimony
of her aching heart. But at last one
day her heart comes into the heritage
she prepared for herself when she ac-
cepted the unworthy love of a moral
weakling-and her bread is sorrow," and
her drink is tears"
Think of the women you see about YOU
ell too often-women with dull. cried-out
looking eyes and an air Of detected hope
lessness-women who are old before their
time-women whose health is gone be-
cause they do not feel the urge OF spirit
and the uplift OF faith that keep youth
and health. A wickedly large proportion
Of them are suffering from the cynicism,
the loneliness, the eorroding longing that
follow on giving a heart when with Il
cannot so respect and admiration and
faith.
In the love OF true man a woman
finds a haven and a home. II holds
stimulation to be her best self and do
her best work. II gives her kindness and
understanding and faith tho perhaps no
fevered love-maiing and no wild stimu-
lation and no promise OF ecstatic TO
nance.
But the love OF true man holds simple
Joy and contentment and trust and
tenderness. II may not key her so high
as does the lovs-making OF a praetioed
Lothario-but IL will not drop her so low
In despair and unrequited longings when
once she has. with simple good faith,
given faith 10 requisite its imitation.
Women might save themselves heart
burning and sorrow and misery ana