The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-06-26
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
MERE is one sin for whie

women pay a doubly, ire
i bly,, ten times multiplied
price. Perhaps this isn't fair or
reasonable, perhaps some day
things will be more honestly ad-
justed, but the fact remains that
when a girl makes a misstep in
a certain direction there are
seventy ways in which she can
be punished.
Very often this punishment is
merely secret thing in her own
soul; a little stain of shame and
regret, a constant, sharp sting of
humiliation in the knowledge that
there is a man somewhere alive in
the world, a man other than her
husband, who has an intimate knowl-
edge of her sweetness, her kisses,
her warm young body, her first
young passion. She writhes at the
thought that this man may be tell
ing his wife of the early affair, may
be limiting it to others. It shakes
her pride in herself, her confidence
in her own integrity or sense, it takes
the bloom from her honeymoon and
puts just tinge of suspicion into
any slight or fancied slight she ever
meets from other women.
If she gets off with only this much
discomfort, she is lucky. Other
women have to pay higher. Naomi
is one. This is part of Naomi's
letter:
High School Lovers.
''When I was Is fell in love with
handsome boy whose character
my mother even then analysed as
weak, but who seemed to me the
sweetest, dearest fellow in the
world. We were lovers in last year
High, Denny after graduation taking
a two years course in business
school and I going away to college
in the West. At first I felt very
uneasy as to the wisdom of assum-
ing this relationship, but Denny was
earnestly in love, as was, and we
talked continually of marriage.
when I came home for my first
Christmas holidays we were as pas
sionately devoted as before, but be-
fore midsummer there was a
change. My father went into bank
ruptcy and got job in the library,
and Donny's mother, who disliked
me, managed to send him away to
college. From that moment heard
in his voice and read in his letters
that he was trying to end the af-
fair. He no longer spoke of mar
riage, and even showed some
anxiety TO get back one of the few
letters in which he had first prom
ised it. What / suffered, nobody
but girl who has experienced this
terrible time knows, hate to think
of it even now. Under the circum-
stances I could not hold him, and
for three years we did not see each
other.
Denny Reappears on Scene.
"That was eight years ago. Last
year ! became engaged to one of the
finest men-in fact, the very finest
man I ever have known. He has
great political future before him and
fine legal practice and we have
already selected a home of our
own. Our wedding day was set,
when Denny turned up last month.
Immediately he renewed his atten-
tions to me, protesting that he has
always loved me and always
planned for our marriage. His
mother is dead now and he has
small income and small salary
so that he really is in a position to
marry. His attitude was so unrea-
sonable and Clark was so puzzled by
it that had finally to explain every
thing. Clark took it very nicely,
said that of course it made no diff
ference as far as he was concerned,
but that I must be the one to choose
between them, and make my own
decision.
'This has thrown me into such
state of agitation and despair that
! have been close to an actual nerv-