Evening star., 1935-05-04
and Conment>on Subjects Interesting Washington Women
Dorothy Dix Says
Is There Any Way to Curb the
Love Thief?

~ EAR MISS DIX: Cannot some
appeal be made to the hearts
and consciences Of girls who
- break up homes just for the
sport of the thing and to
show their power over men? I know
q young woman who has already
wrecked three families and Is now
starting her devilish work on a
fourth. I am interested in this case,
in which there is a really nice young
husband, who would go straight II
he were let alone; a sweet, pretty lit
tie wife, utterly unable to cope with
vamp, and three lovely children, who
will be wrecked in the smash-up. And
the girl who is making all this trouble
doesn't care for the man and will
throw him over as soon as she has
messed up his life. There should be
some way to lock up love thieves, as
there Is to jail those who rob us Of our
money. TROUBLED ONLOOKER.
| A NSWER-There isn't drop of the
milk of human kindness or sex
loyalty or any other good quality in
the girls who wreck homes for the
mere pleasure of breaking a sister
woman's heart. orphaning little chill
dren and wrecking a man. And so
there is no way of appealing to them
or OF stopping their nefarious work.
They don't belong in this humani-
tartan day. They belong in the Dark
Ages, when torturing ones fellow
creatures was a favorite indoor pas
time.
A lot Of girls specialize in firtations
with married men. You will often
hear young woman say complacently
that married men always fall for her.
She seems TO think that this is proof
OF her superior power of fascination
and rates her as an irresistible siren.
But she deceives herself. Getting an
eligible bachelor who will have to
say it with a wedding ring is real
proof of girls attractions, but taking
a married man away from his wife
requires about as much skill and PROV
ess as taking candy away from sick
baby. Nothing on earth is easier.
THE girl is young, pretty, gay, care
free, out for a good time. She
doesn't have to think about what
things cost and running up bills. She
is better dressed than the man can
afford to dress his wife, and she has
the allure of novelty.
Domesticity has begun to pail on the
man. He is hungry for little ro-
nance. He is f1attered by a pretty
girls preferring him to the boys of
her own age. He is pining for adven-
ture. and so, when a girl begins call
ing him on the telephone and making
dates with him and meeting him for
stolen lunches and dinners and rides
and night clubs, she lands the poor
fish without his ever making a squirm
to get of the hook.
WHY do certain girls devote them
selves to ensnaring married men
instead of single ones? Sometimes,
perhaps generally, because they are
gold-diggers, and the married men,
or at least the kind of married men
they go in for, have more money.
More diamond bracelets and chiffon
lingerie and fur coats are to be gotten
out of them.
Sometimes the girl is animated by
a spirit of adventure. Having an af-
fair with a married man is dangerous.
1t is risking her good name. for peo-
pie invariably believe the worst Of it.
And so the difference between pursu-
ing and capturing a married man and
getting single man is the difference