Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-06
he question

But, when all is said, why should
not a man forgive an unfaithful
Wife, just as thousands of women
forgive unfaithful husbands every
day Of the week? Men don't, of
course. However much sidestepping
Caesar may have done himself, he
mas seen to it that his wife kept
in the middle of the straight and
narrow path The married woman
has known that there would be no
condoni1g of her offenses. There
fore, she has watched her step, and
1t Is because men have held women
to a stricter code of morals than
women have held men that women,
as a sex, are slore virtuous than
men.
Heaven knows I am no advocate
for loose living among women. l
agree with Mr.. Caesar that Mrs.
Caesar, who not only bears the lit
tie Caesars, but forms their charac-
tiers, should be above reproach, and
[ am strong for any measures, how
ever severe, that will keep her that
way.
But why is it any worse for
woman to break her marriage vows
than it is for man to break his?
Is a man more dishonored who has
an unfaithful wife than a woman
is who has an unfaithful husband?
Is his pride hurt more? Does he en-
dure more pangs of jealousy when
he knows that his wife is out joy
riding with some other man than
tear at the heart of a woman when
she knows that her husband is GALL
TO- H.
an?
No one will pretend that the be-
trayed wife does not suffer just as
cruelty as the betrayed husband
does, yet thousands upon thousands
of women who have seen their faith
made a mockery of, and their mar
riage disholored, have not rushed
into the divorce court to free them
selves from their false and tricky
life partners. They have had the
courage to carry on with their part
of the contract. They have kept the
oath they swore at the altar, and
have performed the duty to which
they set their hands.
These women have had the grit
to endure the torments of jealousy
that every wife must suffer who
knows that other women are pre-.
ferred before her. They have writhed
under the modification of knowing
that their friends and acquaintance
pitied them as unloved wives, yet
they have stood to their posts with
the heroism of martyrs. They have
pretended that they did not know
the things that it broke their hearts
to know. They have wept in secret
and smiled il public.
They have put their own disap-
pointment, and disillusion, to one
side. and kept their homes together
for The sake Of their children. They
know the value of a fathers influ-
ence, and the background that a
good home gives to children. They
did not want their boys and girls
to grow up fatherless, and worse
than fatherless, in knowing they had
an unworthy father, and with the
shadow Of divorce over them. They
knew that they could not earn
enough money to support their chill
dren as their father could, and give
them the advantages that their faith
err could, and so they endured treach-
cry for their children's sake.
Also, often a woman who mas an
untaithful husband "forgives" him,
because his sin is the one blenish
on an otherwise fine character. Out
side of a wandering fancy that veeI
with every WIND or passion and SEN
timent, he is all that is lovable and
fine. His sins are sins of the flesh,
and not Of the spirit.