The Washington times., 1937-04-12
ice Fairfax Hears From Victim of Family Interference
Ruins Lives
Of Youn6
Lovers
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
Famous Authority on Problems
of LoUe and Marriage

of Love and Marriage
It seems sometimes as if the
Fates were in league to put
barriers across the course Of
true love, which Shakespeare
says never did run smooth"
This story of obstacles which
kept apart two ill-starred young
lovers should make parents stop
and think.
Girl met Boy, in my case, and
everything went wrong from the
beginning. We were eleven when
we first met at a child's party.
81 was a shy little thing and
afraid to plav with the other kids.
He was shy, too, 50 we drifted to,
gether, and he brought me my ice
cream and little cakes. We had q
good time watching the others
rOmp.
eve went to dancing school and
always danced together. 1t was a
lovely, innocent, happy child.
friendship, almost love, if that
were possible.
I'm my freshman year at high
school, we found ourselves in the
same class. He was good at mathe.
mates and French, and he used to
help me. 1 was pretty good at
composition and used to help min.
SEPARATED
when our families saw what
they imagined might become seri.
Gus, they started to break us up,
ut wasn't till we were faced by
their blundering interference that
we realized we were actually in
love.
81 was taken from high school
and sent to silly finishing school
five hundred miles away. Each Of
US was threatened with awful
things if We wrote to each other. :
-Four years later we found our.
selves together in the State uni =
verSity, and then, warned by the
previous interference of our fam
lilies, we decided on secrecy. But
Boys family discovered it. They
caught us having dinner at a resort
rs miles from college.
"He was taken from school and
put on a cattle-bOat, going back
and forth to South America.
"Of course we wrote. slipped
away to the port where the cattle
boat dOcked, pretending I was go
ing to visit school friend. The
family found it out and sent me
to convent in Canada. I couldn't
send him any letters from there,
and he was told I had married
someone else.
There was no valid excuse for
Objecting to the Boy, on the part
of my family, nor for his family's
objection to me. They just thought
we were too young.
DISAPPEARS
"He went wild when he heard
I was married-drank, deserted his
ship and married a terrible girl
on a dare.
"When I came home from the
convent and he found they had
lied to him, he met my father and
said things Dad could never for.
give. His wife begged me to
meet her away from our house. :
1 did; she was the kind of woman
I'd never spoken to before in my
life, and that disguised me.
"But when saw him. all my
old love came back, and I wanted
him to get a divorce and marry
me, or if that were not possible, I
would 20 to him..
''He told me it was too late. He
could never be anything to me, be-
cause the drink and dissipation
had wrecked him, and he had q
well-eStabliShed case of tubercu.
lOsis. I told him didn't care:
I'd go to him anyhow. But the
next day he disappeared. and said
he didn't trust himself to stay.
"His wife is here in this city.
She's a dreadful creature. Some.
times I sneak away and talk to her
about him. She doesn't know
where he Is.
81 ask you-why all this deviliSh
interference on the part Of our
families?
1--WE were both decent-Boy and
GirI-and our families ruined our
lives because they thought we were
too young.