The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-13
May Again

You were very kind to print my
article in your paper, signed
May" / am glad you approved
and understood it. 1t encourages
me to come again.
That was one reason girls fall.
Now for the women. They are
these same little fallen girls, or of
another kind of mems making,
where married women are nagged
to help out the home funds after
marriage and she has no other
time or means to raise these FUNDS.
You say that is no excuse. Yes,
say 1t Is. Now one woman
know we'll, know it's true, she
married a man of 20. She was not
yet 16. He did not love her, but
married to show another he could
marry, and she, poor little thing,
had a drunken woman-chaser for
a father, which does not mean
kindness or plenty of this life's
needs in the home, and she mar
ried to be her own boss and have
a home of her own. But, God
pity her, the man she married was
worse than her father. Well, she
struggled on, a pure girl. for IL
years, with the birth of baby and
a death in her home each year
because the babes were weaklings
and could not live.
Then an awful thing happened
in her life, too awful to tell, and
she left the man she called hus-
band.
Trouble after trouble came, for
there was then one child to raise
and the father shirked his half so
mother love came to the rescue.
Father and husband was drink
ing and spending and eating with
girls men had ruined, while baby
was crying I'm hungry, mamma,
I'm SO hungry"
But decent work she could not
get. for the man was so low, OF
course the woman must be the
same, they said.
So when the doctor said baby
was nearly starved, can you blame
the mother? She fell.
Yes, a woman grown, and
mother, fell, because man had
betrayed her, only differently, but
1t was a man that made her fall,
and love again got her heart. but
this time it was mother love, and
she fell to earn money for baby's
sake.
This woman has two boys living,
but no girls. Death claimed all
her girls, and she Is glad.
Men expect love as we'll as all a
woman's strength in work to help
him financially, and then lie ex-
poets her to be mother uncom-
planning.
But through 1t all, she must be
pure and a lady, while he still
the low, degrading work
he has begun, of running some 9TH
err girl, while his babies suffer for
food.
A wife might bear much and
still be good, but don't ask moth
er to bear so much and see her
babies starve. It's more than hui
man mother ever could suffer.
She can suffer to carry them, to
bear them. to raise them, but not
to starve them.
This is the married kind of
fallen woman" as the world calls
them, God bless them, they are
better than any man that ever
walked in shoes.
When men become really men,
and are without sin themselves,
let them throw stones, SO to speak,
at our Magdalenes Of today; but
until then let them keep quiet, at
least after their dirty work is
done; and when men become as
pure as they wish their wives, we
will have no more impure girls or
and our goodly men and
boys will be able to find the good
girls for wives; but as long as men
ruin girls with lies and women
with abuse, just SO long we will
have fallen women, because she
has no other resources, she must
go down and stay down in the
worlds opinion to save little life.
Mother love is great, but love
for a good man is all untold, they
are so few. There are hundred
men that are fallen to one woman
that has fallen, and his falling is
his own making for his selfish de-
sires.
Now I only see one way, and
that is for mothers to come to the
rescue of their girls. and IL her son
ruins a girl, disown him until he
makes restitution to the girl and
marries her. and not only that but
take her sons wrongs up and pro-
tect the girl by taking her in and
caring for her as her own.
II will cost no more for tbs