The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-14
Posing as
Unmarried
Is Tragic
BY MARTHA LEE

or al the wolves in sheep cloth
ing that are proving about the
world, there is none so deep-dyed
and inexcusable as the married man
Who poses as fancy free and heart
whole to every and any pretty
young girl he meets.
You think it can't be done? You
think that a mans home ties and
welded life are too knitted into the
fiber OF his sould to let him play
The single" gas, even if he wanted
to? or, granting that his moral
scruples have been overcome, that
the chances Of getting found out
are too much against him?
Wrong. my dears. wrong. A slick
fellow, with an eye for romance
outside the ancestral home estab-
lishcd in the bonds Of holy matri-
mOny and with the consent Of the
law, can and does find it.
Wives Sit at Home
There are plenty Of girls who
have a distinct aversion to dating
married men. They won't do it, be-
cause they realize it isn't cricket.
And besides there is too much
against it.
The single girls who 90 out with
married men are cutting of their
own noses to spite their faces. IN
married men aren't particularly
keen about taking out a girl who is
seen out with men who have wives
sitting at home while their hus-
bands are attending a conference. p
And the single girls have ideas Of
their own concerning their futures
which includes homes and husbands
and families. And so the smart
single girls, the ones vino are most
desirable. are not available to mar
ried men.
The solution lies in playing single.
Men who have wives have learned
a great deal about how to charm
women. They are past masters at
being irresistible. The wives do not
alWas reap the benefit Of this fund
Of knowledge. But their apprentice
ship at home often stands them in
good stead with their friends pretty
stenographers.
Secrecy Unfair
And so it all works around to this:
The husband who has found,
through past experience, that being
a husband stands in his way when
1t comes to dating, starts forgetting
10 mention that he is married, some
times to the sorrow and tragedy Of
the girl he has perperated this little
deceit upon.
A philandering husband IS bad
enough at best. But when he is
honest about things, and lets the
girl in on the fact that he is al
ready signed on the dotted line, he
is at least giving her a fair chance.
It's up to her, then, to decide
whether she wants to chance her
own reputation and still the voice
within her that says she is being
unfair to a member Of her own sex
by carrying on with q man who al
ready IS bound legally to another
woman.
BetrayS Own Sex
But a man who will whisper sweet
nothings into the susceptible ear
Of a single girl. under the guise of
being a single man himself, is an
arch criminal. He not only is de-
ceiving the woman who is his wife,
but women as a group.
The girl who plays around with
married men. knowing they are mar
ried, is a betrayer Of her own sex.
She is tearing down one more stone
in the barrier OF protection women
have been building up through CEN
turtles. But the girl who is a vic
tim Of the deceit Of a married man
Is to be pitied profoundly. She is,
in the eyes Of the world. no better
than the girl who goes into such
an affair with her eyes open.