The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-06
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer

The Girl and the Married Man,.
Don't you think, girls, that a wo-
man is craZy-absoiutely out of her
mind-who would give her golden
dream of love Tor such a pinchbeck,
imitation romance as that?
And look at the abject, utter sell
fishness of the married man who de-
liberately sets himself to win a young
girls heart. He knows that when he
makes her love him he is deliberately
blighting her life. He is rubbing the
bloom from the rose. He is taking all
of the freshness. the sweetness, the
idealism, the faith of a girls young
heart, that once rome. are gone for
ever.
She will never love any other man
like that again. Perhaps she will new
er love any man again, for there are
no other women so cold, and hard
and disillusioned as those who have
given their hearts to married men, and
had them returned. broken in little
bits.
The married man knows this. He
knows that he is destroying the girls
ability to love some good man who
would make her happy. He knows
that he is probably keeping her from
marrying at all, because nothing
blights girls chance of matrimony
as much as having had her name
linked with some married man. He
evitably be spattered with the slime
OF scandal of such an affair He
knows all the jealousy, and anxiety,
and despair of hopeless waiting that
the girl must endure, and he does not
hesitate about plunging her into this
earthly purgatory for the sake of graf
Trying himself.
Don't you think that a girl is insane
enough to be locked up in a cell when
sne loses her mental balance so COM
pletely that she mistakes this kind of
seirishness for real love? Don't you
tninK she is victim of Authorizations
when she believes that she can get
any happiness oVt of loving such a
cad, or figuring in such a sordid. drag
gletailed romance?
AND believe me, girls, something is
wrong with the mind of any woman
~no .nihks tnat she can build an en-
curing mouse of happiness on the
wreck of another woman's home. 1t
can't be done. You may think that
you can do it. and that you are too
modern and up-to-date to believe in
the old superstitions about the sane
lily OF the tie between husbands and
wives, and all that until-death-do-
them-part stuff, but you will find that
they are true, and that the home and
the husband you have taken from an
other woman are never really yours
They are eternally hers
IheIe Is something In the Bible
about the house that is built on shift
ing sands. That's what the love of a
married man is. Shifting sands. Dis
loyal. Untrustworthy. Faithless to
one woman bound to him by the
strongest tie of God and man. Why
not faithless to the woman bound to
him by no tie save his tickle fancy.
1t seems to you an amusing adven-
ture to have love affair with a mar
ried man. 1t tickles your vanity to
think how fat. and homely, and COM
monplace his wife looks compared
with your fresh, radiant, slim young
beauty. You smile when you think
of the torments of jealousy she is en-
during as she sits waiting at home for
him while he orders a wonderful lit
tie dinner for you.
Do you never think of the future
when you, too, will be fat. grizzled and
middle aged, and ask yourself how you
will feel when some young girl is flirt-
Ing with your husband. and having
him spend on her the money that you
need for the children's shoes?
Think 1t over;-girls, and see II you
don't think there is something wrong
with the mind of young woman who
INDUCES in love affairs with married
men. Isn't her head solid ivory, and
her heart solid icee Really now?
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