August, 1&21 



01. EANINGS tN BEE CULTURE 



513 



If you are on sentimental relations with a mar- 

 ried man, you are asking for trouble, and you will 

 get al Ithat is coming to you — without fail. 



Moreover, you are not only harming your own 

 self, your own freshness, your own reputation, all 

 of which should be so precious to you, but you may 

 bring lifelong misery into the other woman's heart. 



It is a great thing for any girl to be able to 

 look back on her life and say: "I never poached on 

 any other woman's preserves, and I never had a 

 love-affair with any one I couldn't take home to 

 mother and father." 



Besides, there will come a time, dear girl, when 

 you will fall in love — sanely, cleanly, and really and 

 truly. 



And there will also come a time when you will 

 want to tell your lover everything; you will want 

 to dig up all that part of your life which passed 

 before you knew him. 



And the part about the married man whom you 

 will then regard with contempt and loathing will be 

 the hardest and most miserable to tell, and you'll 

 feel you'd give anything on earth to have had that 

 episode erased from your life's slate. 



There is something about an afifair with a mar- 

 ried man which is unspeakably degrading and 

 cheapening. You wiU never feel the same girl after 

 it. 



When a man tries to play on your sympathies by 

 telling you about his cold-blooded, unsympathetic 

 and non-understanding wife, and that only your 

 sweet little heart was destined to beat in unison 

 with his, hit out straight from the shoulder and 

 tell him he has proved himself worthless of either 

 love or understanding. 



Married men sometimes get tired of their wives. 



But don't let them console themselves with you. 



.TANE DOE. 



(Copyright, 1921, by the McClure Newspaper 

 Syndicate.) 



If you think I am exaggerating the im- 

 portance of the above, let me call your at- 

 tention to the number of divorces reported 

 in every daily paper. Heretofore many di- 

 vorces have come about because of strong 

 drink; and we hope and pray that we may 

 now find the number of homes broken up 

 in this way greatly lessened. It would fill 

 this journal if I were to tell you even briefly 

 of the homes I have known to be broken 

 up; and many times the whole trouble start- 

 ed by some trifling piece of folly. 



Just shortly after I saw the above in the 

 Plain Dealer there was an account of a 

 murder. A young girl on the witness stand 

 admitted that the defendant did "playfully 

 hug" her once; and in trying to make it 

 appear that there was nothing particularly 

 ivrong about it she said they were just ' ' cut- 

 ting up; " and this cutting up as it is called 

 resulted in jealousy and murder. We are 

 told that Satan goes about as a roaring lion 

 seeking whom he may devour, and also that 

 he goes about as an angel of light. The 

 great wide world does not seem to know, 

 that Satan traps a man in this way exactly 

 as he traps him with strong drinks, cigar- 

 ettes, or things of that sort, until the poor 

 wretch actually thinks he can never be 

 happy nor even live unless he can have some 

 other woman or girl than the good wife who 

 legally and before God belongs to him. I 

 shall have to confess that I never noticed 

 until I started this Home paper that what 

 the dear Savior said about plucking out an 

 eye follows riyht after what he says about 

 adultery. And, my good fiiend, if you are 

 a married man vou had /(//■ better lose an 



eye or your right hand, than to get into 

 Satan 's toils in this way. 



I think I once advised in these Home 

 papers that every man, when he is of the 

 right age, should be married — that is, un- 

 less there is some serious obstacle in the 

 waj^; and in the same way every woman of 

 the proper age should be a married woman, 

 and, if God permits, become a mother — a 

 lawful mother before God and man. Here 

 is a statement which I found this morning 

 in the same Plain Dealer I am quoting 

 from : 



This statement was made today by William B. 

 Joyce, president of the National Surety Co., whose 

 busine.s.s it is to insure men's honesty : 



"Married men, because of the responsibility of 

 their families, are more honest than bachelors in 

 the ratio of about 6 to 1." 



I never thouglit of that before; but since 

 it has been brought to my mind, I believe 

 that, even if the above is somewhat of an 

 exaggeration, there is a lot of truth in it. 

 When I get acquainted with a beekeeper or 

 a scientist or any one else who has done a 

 good work for humanity I want to know 

 right away whether he is a married man, 

 and, next, I want to know, if not too im- 

 l^ertinent, if he stands before the world a 

 professing Christian. Our girl preacher in- 

 timates that there may be one chance in a 

 hundred for a silly girl, trifling with some 

 married man, to succeed in making him her 

 husband. The only way in which such a 

 thing can happen legally would be as the 

 result of the death (or divorce) of his wife. 

 The Savior says iu one of his texts, that 

 ' ' whosoever looketh on a woman to lust 

 after her hath committed adultery with her 

 already in his heart, ' ' altho he may not be 

 exactly a criminal. But, my good friends, 

 just consider seriously of even looking for- 

 ward to the possibility that your neigh- 

 bor's wife may die; and, again, think of a 

 married man who may even let the possibil- 

 ity of his wife 's death come into his mind 

 in order that he may legally marry the silly 

 girl who permits his advances. Would not that 

 be almost akin to committing murder in 

 your own heart? Let me give you a brief 

 sketch. 



A certain doctor was getting to be pretty 

 well acquainted with a widow 's daughter. 

 When he went out to visit a patient he 

 sometimes took this daughter along. His 

 own wife was a most beautiful Christian 

 woman; but in spite of all the doctor's skill 

 she sickened and died. (May it not have been 

 of a broken lieart?) In due time this doctor 

 married the widow's daughter; and altho it 

 was not very long after the death of his 

 wife, he could not, or at least he did not, 

 conceal the exuberance of his joy that he 

 could iioiv have this beautiful girl for his 

 legal wife. Did they "live together hap- 

 pily ever after," as the story-books have it? 

 Not much. They were soon quarreling. 

 They were not at all suited to each other. 



In the same neighborhood was a railroad 



