The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-23
Auoid Attractiue Married M an; You'll Be Unhappy

rier between two hearts that are really mated.
 Sometimes the man is a villain, a wolf in sheep's clothing, who preys on the unsophisticated little lambs in his fold. Oftener he is just as much the victim of circumstances as the girl is.
 De did not intend to fall in love with her. or to win her love, but his marriage was failure; he was bit terly miserable, starved for compan- ionship and affection, and when he found this in some girl employe, or some woman fellow worker, the in- evitable happened. They fell in love with each other.
 If she cherfshes the unlawful love that she has for another woman's husband. she must feed her heart on dead sea fruit that turns to ashes on her lips. She may have her mo- ments of stolen joy, but they are only moments, between long, bleak hours of hopeless longing, and desire for what can never be hers.
 She wastes the springtime of her youth and beauty on a man who can give her nothing in return. She lets the marrying time of her life go by, and in the end drifts into a sour. dis gruntled, disappointed old maiden hood, for she has given so much of love to the man who could not marry her that she has nothing else to give to the man who would marry her.
 The girl who falls in love with married man pays still further pen- alty in a smirched reputation. Her relations must, perfoce, be more or less clandestine, and scandal makes the most of the love-making that is done under the rose. 5.
 WOrSa still fho irI xybo ic in, J0ua with a married man is eaten up by the fircest jealousy that ever tears at a human breast. The man may swear until he is black in the face that he loves her a million times more than he does his wife. The fact remains that the other woman is his wife, that he goes home to her, that she stands at his side in society, that she bears his name. and that she is the mother of his children and the mistress of his house. And as the girl in her lonely room thinks of these things and pie lures the man she loves in his own home, she knows the torments of the damned.
 Hopeless love. Weary waiting. No Nothing in life but job. Torments of jealousy. Giving all for man who either goes back to his wife or falls in love with younger face. That is the reward of the girl who falls in love with a married man, and who does not try to separate him from his wife.
 But suppose she does take her own at any cost to others. Suppose she induces the man to divorce his wife and marry her What then?
 No lasting happiness is built on the ruins of another's happiness. No woman can break up a home, and widow a sister woman, and make lit- tie children fatherless, without know ing in her soul that she has done the most cruel and dastardly deed on a price is worth it. or has any bless ing on it, or any serenity in 1t.
 She may try to silence her con- science by saving that the mans wife was not worthy of him. that the wife did not love him as she does, and that he had already ceased to care for her, but all of that does not justify her crime against little, innocent, helpless children. Nothing can alter their fathers duty to them. and no sophis- try can wash clean the hands of the woman who has deprived them of fathers love and guidance.
 Why married men are more fas- cinating to girls than single men no one knows. but they are. Probably it is because they are forbidden fruit. But the fate of Mother Eve. who was expelled from paradise for eating the apple. follows every woman who falls in love with one.
 Beware of this fate, girls, and if you find yourself getting sentimental over your married boss. buy ticket to the farthest place your money will take you to, and go while the going is good. It Is your only chance of escaping untold sorrow.
 DOROTHY DIX. Copyright, 1923. by Public Ledger
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