South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-17

I always stand by her regardless
OF circumstances" said most
estimable lady 10 me the other day
and while I admi. that my sym
pathy forever goes 10 the woman
who has made a serious mis-step.
since upon her falls the heavy pen
atty demanded by nature and which
no woman - entirely sure OF escape
but which threatens no man. YET
observation and a sense OF justice
ccmpels a review Of facts 20 deter
mine whether she has or has not
been more sinned against than sin
ming.
The unmarried girl led astray,
robbed OF her honor and all that
makes woman's life worth while.
Invariably needs our sympathy and
understanding for whatever her in
discreatiou or folly. her lack OF
knowledge Of human nature readily
makes her a mans dupe No such
excuse can be offered in behalf or
the married woman for she knows
we'll the fierce and mighty forces
with which she is playing No one
need tell her when admiration
ceases and desire begins and con
| sequences are up 90 her. not him.
for the fate Of every mans desire
must ever be decided IN a woman s
yes or no"
If love OF admiration, Of conquest
tempts her 10 play with the emo
tons OF a man until che herself Is
scorched or burned. It does not
seem to me that she meri.s pro-
found sympathy. Rather my heart
goes to the husband whose name
she has dragged into the mire.
whose honor che has permitted an
other man 10 violate and upon in
rocent children forgotten in their
mothers Illicit cravings.
Not so very long ago. a husband
killed his wife's lover. Triumphantly
he telegraphed home stating that
he had killed the scoundrel and vim
dicated his wife. Reviewing the
past performances Of the wife who
received with pleasure he atten-
tons Of the other man. the tragedy
becomes a farce and the man a
fool for branding himself a muir
derer for a creature who courted
| danger from the very beginning.
Whenever a man pursUes a mar
! ried woman or insists upon making
( love TO her secretly. you may be
/ quite sure she has encouraged him
with her eyes even though her lips
denied him. Perhaps. once in a
great while a married woman un-
! consciously aroUses an unaccount-
able emotion in the heart Of a man
/ If he is a gentleman, he Will Stire
I his feeling or at least keep her in
/ ignorance Of II. If he is a man
Of poorly developed moral nature
with no balance and possessed OF
I violent emotions and she proves
! the type OF woman who - all heart
and no head and in whom the lux
I urious love element has run no.
her will Invariably will succomb 70
/ his desire. There may have been
no battle for supremacy; she may
not have put up a fight even in her
own heart It was agreeable. 10
both g.. now who was TO blame7
To every question there is always
two sides Quite different IS he
? case when a woman into whose very
nature exists the Unsuitable desire
4 OF being deeply loved. and who finds
/ herself shortly after marriage trans
formed into a neglected wife-a
woman taken very much for grant
ed by her husband
The routine OF household ta-sks
. - ina vi q Te 4
ing a house. caring for children doe.
two things TO a woman who po-
] ssesses a husband too busy az work
club or play 10 give her the neces
sary attention 70 keep her q con.
tented and happy wife and mother
I Either she becomes q drudge o.
/ her natural love for a mate -urn.
into an absorbing passion for hei
children or she becomes a restless
being whose morale being Lowered
ia easily aSsailed by any man whC
offers her variation from the mode
Of living which she has come hotly
to resent.
A business man going through q
routine which never becomes Who'll
" a grind. meets 7 people. seei
things differently day by day, may
not realize that his wife needs 80
i claI Intercourse and recreation out
side the home II she is 20 remain 4
human being. Some men become
4 so engrossed IN making money Of
their own diversions that they re-
ioice when their wives do not de-
pend upon them for a certain
amount OF companionship. Then
when the domestic shalop str.kei
the rocks, hey rave like mad ner
when they have only themselves Z
thank for the wreck.
After a period OF heart-hunger
perhaps Il may be years dur.ns
which her cherished Ideals OF the
marriage relation she has seen hel
husband destroy one by one. sac
\ meets quite casually a man who
/ seemingly considerate appears he
embodiment OF what she sought il
/ marriage. Very likely she has be-
1 come careless in her dress-no U.s.
trying 10 look pretty since her hUs-
band didn't notice, though she noted
he noticed others. But now she
] glances into her mirror with pride
and q flush Of pleasure al beca -
some man has said hat her eyes
were Ike midnight skies.
Il Is 50 very easy 20 drift down
\ the stream OF circumstance with
no apparent thought OF evil Even
a man becomes unfaithful drifting
down the tide Of Nleast resistance
when eyes silently invite and tips
prove too provoking. The tragedy
/ OF il Is that no man or woman ever
| transgressed a divine Jaw without
hurting some innocent being. Each
and every one OF US IS bound in
| visfb1v- -ogether but only those who