Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-03-30
THEY ALSO PAY.

When We hear Of middle-aged woman
beng cast aside by her husband for some
pretty little happer. young enough 70 be
his daughter, our sympathy al goes 10
the deserted wife
We shed tears of pity as We think of the
poor woman with her house Of life IN
rIins about her We think with compass
SION Of the long wears Of service she has
given - q man who rewards her labor
with black IngratitlIde, OF the love that
she lavishes on HIM. and that he Scorned;
Of all her dreams that are broken through.
We think very often about how poor and
homeless she will be. because the man who
has no sense Of his moral obligations 70
the womaa 10 whom he Is married, gen
erallv has no sense OF financial obligations
TO her either, and We have all seen old
wives turned out Ike old horses 70 starve
while men indulge their new wives ID all
sort Of luxIrles
We have pictured the husbands Of these
forlorA old women rs happy, and gay, and
carefree We have thought OF them As re-
veling In the beauty Of their young wIyes,
and dancing and frohckng around with
them, and baskIng IN 5 second sprngtlme
OF youth and romance, with never s
backward thought toward the old life,
and the old wife, except to be glad that
they were left behind.
II has not seemed fair that the woman
who had given the best of her lie TO 8 man.
and whose only fault Vas that Sne nad
grown old and homelv. should have 10
suffer 81 while he went scot tree. IL shocks
our faith In the eternal justice that rules
the world. and that, n the end, makes
/ the dancer pay the piper
II appears however. that trading old
wives for new Is as disastrous i bargain
fer the man aS It IS for the woman, and Is
a general thing brings him - little happpi-
ness \ man who has done this thing said
10 me the other day
I have never known = man VINO de
! serted a faithful old wife for young
woman. who ever got any happiness out
/ Of it. | have never known one who did
not regret It, and who would not have
given everything he had on earth 10 blot
out his wrong-doing, and be back once
more In his old home, and with his old
! wife. and his old associations. know OF
what | speak. because | committed this
/ crime. and am punished for It every day
Of nv life. and want YOU 10 tell my
story because perhaps II may pe a warn
! INK 70 another man.
when | WAS Young chap. | married
the girl wanted, and she proved to be 5
splendid wife, good, helpful companion
IN every way We worked together ant
prospered. and the fact that | am a ricf
man today Is largely owing to her. w
raised family of which we were entitled
to he proud, and were respected and like
In our community
.Of course the years, and hard worl
aud care told on my wife just as it does
ON other women. She got 10 be middle
aged and faded, and grey-haired and g
little stout; but no more 81 than Just thu
average woman She had probably 60
no more unattractIve physically than
had. but never thought of that.
My position placed me where | came
IN contact with many Young women
They fascilated me with their good looks
their freshness, their high spirits. The,
flattered me they vamped me-for
was the boss, and had money to spen,
on them, and was fool enough not to b