The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-23
MAN now Pays
PRICE WITH
WOMAN
Writer Cites Prominent Fig
ures Who Didn't Get Away
With Anything
Nv MARGERY REX,

ny NAfANuEkS1 ASEAs
written for Cosmopolitan News Service,
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-"Yes--but
the man always gets away with
it," people say after the explosion
of q scandal, or when a tragedy
of gay life touches great names.
Did John Kearsley Mitchell, Wal
ter Lewisohn, James A. Stillman
Gerhard M. Dahl and Joseph Bowr
Elwell get away with anything
Not much of anything!
/ Mans vaunted imperYiousness to
being defiled by pitch, and his
alleged protective celebration against
scandals shafts, has disappeared
like a straw In a cyclone.
Now On Level Plane.
Man now shares with woman the
fatal fault Of susceptibility to scan
dal and SANDER. A good name IL
just as much Of an asset to the
male Of the species as to his more
deadly partner. The man who came
back will, In future, have no better
right to return than any prodiga
/ daughter.
Popular thought of yesteryear pic
tured woman footing folly's bills
/ Woman still pays-and pays exorbi
! tantly-her own way in this respect
but man also ''gives up" for his
share in forbidden feasts.
People have always said that W.
man could never be mans equal
because of the moral restrictlon
| placed upon her sex. The more
radical Of her defenders want wo
man to be able to sin with i'm
punity. The more conservative are
satisfied when they see that man
pays for his follies and gets nc
discount for cash., in case of mil
| lionaires.
Woman's fall from grace is Otter
| a slow process.
Mans seems to be a swift skid
judging from recent scandals.
He who gazes too long upon wine
and lips when they are red, who
looks too much at too bright lights
wears out as surely as the frailest
woman.
Price They Pay.
Loss of position-business and
social-loss of family ties, the res
pect of ones children, of club mem
bership and mental breakdown
these deprivations are the price
| men pay.
Elwell, dead.
Stillman, Mitchell, Dahl - dis
graced.
Lewisohn, insane.
Joe ElYell, sport and spender
was found dead from a shot through
the forehead. Elwell, the man, was
just as dead as Dot King, the wo'
man, or Louise Lawson. Righteous
persons hold up these butterfly
girls as horrible examples Of how
| a gay life can come to- q gray
end. But were their deaths any
less dreadful than Elwell's?
Flo Leeds. whose romance with
Banker Stillman came TO an end
through publicity and the processes
of time, cannot be said to have
gained the best social standing
through the affair. But is Still
man smiled upon by the most ex'
elusive hostesses? Hardly.
Viola. Kraus. after disclosures at
tendant upon the Elwell murder
left this country. She lives now in
Paris.
Dahl SympathiZes.
]. Kearsley Mitchell, Of Phila
delphia, wishes he had never heard
of poor dead Dot King. To live on
and try to live down the scandal his
acquaintance with her provoked
seems worse than death. Gerhard
M. Dahl, Of New York, can sympa'
thize with Mitchell. Both trod the
secret paths and pay the public
price. The friends of foolish Dot
and Lou know that a past does not
sit prettily on a prominent name.
The painted lips of Dot King, set
in the straight line of death. her
beaded lashes cast down forever
she Is now past caring, just as in
! life she was past caring what PEG.
pie would say" But Mitchell.
alive, must care. So must Dahl.
Man, accused, Is accustomed to
saving his face; woman, to hide
hers.
Both on MOurner's Bench.
Now the man Joins his woman
friend on the mourner's bench,
where sinners meet.
The man who runs too fast may
stub his toe on deaths scythe, Just
as many feminine toe has tripped
Woman pays too high a price
for her pearls. but man pays even
higher for his parties.
Lewisohn, Stillman. Elwell, Mitch
ell and Dahl.