Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-06-09
Woman'S
Lone EndureS
Mans Fades
AWay #.l
By DoRoTHY DIX.

A girls debating society asks me
10 decide this question for II: Which
i loves the more, man ~ woman
That's easy Woman, heaven help
I be- It's only woman that con love
the unloyable, and be faithful ~ the
ialthless, and kiss the haae that beats
I her
Men haze more intelligence aud
mofe backbone. "A Elan may make
as great a mistake ii loYc as wo.
nan. He may eenel MS affections
on just as unworthy All object, but
when he finds out mat hs idoi has
feet Of clay he doesn't go on idi9tie
ally morshlpping it. On tie contrary
4 ne promptly gets Up on ais knees
and burns never Gnolher Wa'i of IN
censc ~ that shlinc.
But 8oman nay EiV~ Hllt her.
god Is a little tin god that she has
70 keep 81 gliding snd lmbishing
/ up ~ make pre3cntaDle ~ 10 her
own eyes. She may know Just how
! hollow and empty il IS and yet BY
/ yirture Of some divine imbecility Of
/ her own nature she can e. ~ ddJr
/ ing her loof nakeGliit dNhlsy
This d why, lwpen a ahn indrries
/ woman who turns out 10 be a
drunkard, or worse. ne very scnslbly
\ casts her Off His love has been slain
By her weaknesses aud sins, but Uil
lions " women who are married. w
drunkards tand BY them - the end
/ heir love Is great enough - 80
down into the gutter and bear mp lllc
\ poor derc,ict IN their arm.
Mans love Is seldom great enough
! 70 forgive 0 woman Wild even STUN.
bles along the straight and narrow
way, but II all the wives who have
forgiven erring husbands could be as.
sembled II would make a multitude
whose number even q patient adding
machine could not count
| a Wlle's heart, a wfe'6 r)ncf
wife 3 dignity and sen5g OF wiicIio5d
are Just as much hmt by the krotgl
edge that her husband is unfaitliim
TO her as mans heart and dignity
and honor are hurt by the knowledge
that his wife IS untrue 10 him, but Il
Is the woman whose affection IL made
Of such enduring stun that size can
wrap II around the man she loves 30
that Il conceals his moral dfformi
ties from the world, and half hidcs
them even from herself
a mans love is a chiffon cloak
woven Of The fine aud silkcn
threads Of romance and pretty viz
tues, and II blows into a thousand
tatters under the first breath of scag
dal Outside u the walls OF every
prison and feformatory are lines of
patient women waiting 10 take back
the men who have served our their
sentences, but no men wait at the
doors Of reiormatories for women to
take back crring wives and daugh.
tcrs
A curious example OF the difference
between the endurance OF a mans
love and woman's Is furnished by
a murder case now before the pubic
One OF the figures in this case is 4
pretty woman who was admittedly
the companion OF the murderer, and II
has been nine days wonder that
this woman's husband should have
professed his faith in her, and clung
70 her, and declared that he loved
her well enough TO forgive her even
II she had done wrong.
II, however, a woman had been
thus loyal to her husband under sim
liar circumstances, no one would
have remarked H. She would have
done only what we expect a womans
love TO be great enough 10 do.
The commonest proof that womai,'s
love is greater than mans is 10 be
found in the pathetic fact that prac.
itically every middle aged woman u
haunted by the dread specter OF los.
ing her husbands love. As soon as a
woman begins to be fat, and middle
aged, and grizzle headed, she begins .
TO worry for fear her husband will
hnd her less attractive than he did
when she was young, and 1.-THE, and
beautiful
That IS the reason that middle aged
women starve themselves 10 death
trying 70 get thin, and spend fortunes
on masseurs and hair dyes and com.
plexien specialists. Ii isn't vanity
Gracious, no. Their idea of heaven e
getting of their straight fronts, and
washing their faces clean, and eating
a square meal, and being as homely
and comfortable as their time OF life
demands, The only reason they arc
gong through the tortures they en-
dure is to try TO hold their husbands
and affections
Do you ever see a middle AGED
man dieting, or exercising, or beauli.
lying himself in order 10 iaseinate his
middle aged wife! Not much. YET
FAT hay-wiudowed, bald.headed
gentleman is really no more romantic
cooking than IS a stout lady with ron
gray hair, and there Is no more
eason why the stout lady shouldn't
ease 70 love the iat gentleman tban
here Is why he should cease Is care
or her
Only women know that mems love
! short and fragile. aud men knoe
hat women'a love Is long and endur. s
ng Nobody knows why this + an
Z merely Is Women can love Win
tason on without reason And once
hgy acquire the love habit thew cam.
.oi break themselves I'd ID. no ans
az explain this, either lts ust lie
,ay women are built