Omaha daily bee., 1916-05-18
Blame and
the Lone Thief
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

4 have read several OF your article
In which find that In every instanc,
where a girl accepts the attention OF Z
married man you blame her. Why ism
the man equally 10 blame for encouras 9,
Ing tho girl? He knows wrong from
right as well as she. to say the least. a
man who would act 80 is to my mind
nothing more than a cur and D love thief
combined" writes An Interested
Reader"
do not blame the woman more than
the man In a guilty love affair-but
society does.
II ig the woman who pays the great
penalty Of suffering and social ostracism
In a love affair In which the party u
the second part is married and so it Is
the woman who must be more strenu-
ously blamed-by anyone who has a sym
pathetic attitude for cases OF this sort
1 Women suffer tortures Of self reproach
/
Women have to be warned In no uncer-
tain terms against the weakness In their
own natures which betrays them to the
man who would tempt them No man
ever quito stole q girls heart. He
may have attracted II dishonorably, nc
may have cheated In tho whole game Of
loye-but he never fully won unless his
victim" gave him the victory.
There are two perfectly practical rea-
sons--spart from all scntiment8llty-~w
women should not indulge IN love affairs
With married men.
First from the point Of view Of their
own selves, there iB nothing In q love
affair with married man--that IN. moth
ing advantageous or desirable It's net
results are generally broken heart and
ruined reputation even II II stops short
Of actual disgrace and shame.
with nothing TO gain and everything 70
lose, Of course. plead with and threaten
and scold any girl who IA contemplating |
llalson with a married man
In tho second place, the woman who
steals another woman's husband In, With
out benefitlng herself impoyershinB |
some ope else Even II she does not |
break up home aud render little chill
dren fatherless, she 10 destroying an
other woman's peace Of mind and happi-
ness.
Sex loyalty In badly needed for women.
Women ought to learn to stand together.
Any girl who can be reused 10 u sonGc Of |
fairness and 10 feeling II loyalty 10 the [
wife Of the man for whom she cares
would scornfully refuse TO become love
thief a...
Tho selfish brute of man against
whom my Interested Reader" so bitterly
inveighs cannot work his VIII against
unhappy and foollshly trusting girls it
they refuse TO let him do 80. There arc
very few cases where girls are abducted
IN high powered automobiles or given
drugged wircl
There arc very few cases where inno-
cent and trusting little creatures enter
INTO love affairs to find only too late
that the man TO whom a young heart Is
given has already~H heart in his keep
ngl And so I blame women very
strongly for making each others TRACE
lies possible.
II naen arc brutes why Yield 20 them
II they are weak. why make them |
weaker? II they have no great kAth IN
yomanhood, why justify them ln thar
.ynicism?
Whatever the faults OF a double stand /.
I'd Of morals. certainly lowering the deal !,
# womanhood isn't going TO better mat =.
ers. The only way girls can make the
world better is by being themselves so
rood that the men who come In contact ,
With them will not think ever more and |.
more lightly OF women and love.
The morals of the race seem to be a +,
acred trust In the hands OF the women
u tho race. And when they shirk their >
esposlblllty they become "slaekers" of
he most contemplate sort, and bring
own on their heads q storm Of reproaeh.
Not that / think men better-but that !,
hate TO see women worse-is the reason :
or my attack on the girls who steal love
rom another woman. II doesn't matter i
Tho Is TO blame-the point is TO get at :,
be most likely person to effect a cure
and that is womanl :.