Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
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sanity and power enough to contro,
your feverish and cruel little heart.
Look at the wife from whom you
are stealing the priceless jewel of love
and trust in the man she married
You are going to tear her home oi
love down about her head. You are
going to wreck her home itself. A
few years ago she was young and
pretty as you are now-or perhaps
she was understanding" and sympa-
thetic and so attracted the man who is
now the greatest factor in her life.
She gave him her youth, her ener-
gy, her love, her life itself And he
tired of her Do you dare take her
whole joy in life away from her? Her
husband has been the center of her
universe for years. Do you dare
throw her whole world off its orbit
and leave it smashed to atoms at her
feet? Do you dare blot out the sun
shine from her life forever? Can
you steal your happiness and make
another woman pay for 1t in agony?
What of the Outcome?
If you dare-if you toss your head
and cynically murmur, EVERY one
for himself and the devil take the
hindmost," aren't you afraid that your
invitation will be accepted? You will
be condemned and Stunned by decent
people. Your friends will pity you,
but despise you too much to be kind
/ to you in your state of social leprosy.
You will be sneered at and subjected
to insult. Your parents and family
will be outcasts, too, because they are
of your blood-and how they will suf-
fer as they join in paying the toll for
your stolen happiness!
Can you bear all that? Can you
bear knowing that you have hurt the
career of the man you love so un-
wisely? Men will not feel that they
can trust him in business when he
have proven so untrustWorthy in the
most sacred relation of life. He will
be dropped by many and have to drop
the rest whose wives will refuse to
recognize you?
Does even this fail to daunt you :?
Then face the cruelest fact of all
the man who turns from the wife who
has given him soul and spirit and love,
will even more surely turn from the
girl who has only the last to give.
Face desertion. For that win be your
portion as surely as YOU forced it on
another woman.
If the wife who is bound to him by
ties of love and honor and decency-
by ties of home and children, per-
hapS-by custom and habit-cannot
hold him, how can you expect to do
so who have broken all of these
bonds?
Some day he will see a face that
is younger and fresher than yours. 1t
will have the mystery of the un
known. Off after 1t will go your
light of love" There will be moth
ing but an outworn passion to hold
him to you. And that is a weak cable
soon broken. He will no longer have
society to fear. He will have no shred
of manhood and honor to bind him.
He sacrificed them all for you.
Off he will go after his newer fancy.
and you will not have the one con-
life you spoiled even as some younger
shameful existence. Society will not
offer you sympathy and help In
stead it will laugh and sneer at the
thief who was not clever enough to
hold her stolen property. And in
your wretchedness and shame you will
be alone.
Don't BE Mislcd
But he is going to marry me-" you
say. His first marriage was all a mis-
take and he realizes that ] am the one
love of his life"
If this is so-and there is about
one chance in hundred that it is
don't let him come into your life until
ne is free to marry you. And even
then, could you ever trust man who