| Show liTHE THE ITHE GIRL WHO LOVES A MARRIED MAN NIKOLA NIXOLA SMITH GREELEY TELLS STORY OF FLORENCE FLORENCE SCHENCK'S TRAG TRAGEDY DY Death to the Soul of f Her Womanhood Is the Price She Pays r I I B By NIXOLA NEV W YORK Sept 29 Frederick son of oC a hi high official of the San Francisco railway is is' waiting trial I at White Plains N. N Y for shooting at Charles 41 II Wilson trainer of Alfred G. G I Van s horses as he ho was exhibiting exhibit of VanderbIlt's thoroughbreds ing ins oue I iu in n the rin ring of oC the W tc count county horse borse show how I Fickinger's defense nse is that he lie had hadI brooded a long Jong time over o the death of I Florence daughter of or Dr Powhattan Powhattan Pow Pow- ha hattan t n Schenck of Norfolk Va Vat lt with whom Wilson eloped while m married d to another woman and whom hom he abandoned after n R. fe few stormy m months In Jn l affidavit it ho he makes tho the thoI I almost incredible e ible charge that the Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Van Van- trainer had hired bire him to do away with tho the beautiful Virginian and I had paid him ii on a account count of 1000 which he was to receive er declares de tic- e. e clares dares that he found the thc unfortunate I girl irl in a R lo io low dive dhe but that sh she was vas so sosweet tweet sweet and gentle jentle and still so beautiful that ho he fen fell in love lo with her and devoted de do- voted the money Wilson had paid him hini to making her last days dan comfortable till tiJI her broken hearted father came came to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and took her back to her home in Norfolk l where whore she died The story of Florence Schenck is one which cannot be told too to often after It shows the harrow harrowing n results which almost inevitably ine come to the young oun girl who thinks she IR is stron strong enough nou h to del defy I Ithe the laws Jaws of society ch and accept the l love ve of a a married man nian No one familiar with life lite can cau accept accept accept ac ac- ac- ac the dictum that the wages of sin Bin is death IN ITS LITERAL SENSE For many women are rich richand richand richand and famous today who have much more on their consciences than the tho sins which poor little Florence Schenck took with her into an un- un honored grave But an anyone one who knows such women must realize that the tho wages of ot sin is death NOT TO THE B BODY JUT t-JUT BUT TO THE SOUL OF WOMANHOOD Man Many technically good women are not worthy of respect perhaps Many women who ho are held heldt to have Dave the respect respect re re- re of the world are genuinely goo good and fine But Dut a good many women are aro always failures as anything else but good worn wom en 1 I believe that it is only the utterly selfish cold e calculating exploiter exploit r of r emotions emotions' she ho does not feel wl who o can hol hold her own on with men teen in the outlaws outlaw's world of unconsecrated lore mi-c. So long as a woman womans woman's 8 heart holds generosity pity compaS compassion on love itself so 80 long is she she- unfit for tor what the primrose path So ion long longwill will she he be flouted and betrayed i 11 she attempts to pursue it The successful sue suc siren must draw a circle of steel about her heart beart She must Ho and cheat and play one man against the Ie other exploiting the mean in in- I I t 1 I I 1 S SI I 5 Y t c I I I f 5 SS' SS I I ii iii f i f S Ssi s-i s i 4 tr r ia X i I Lc L I vw f o A s. s l J P f. 4 Beautiful Florence Schenck whose dea th Frederick Fickinger tried to avenge upon Charles E. E Wilson trainer of Al fred Vanderbilt's blue ribbon horses meta st-meta of or each and all of or them i if she hopes to win Women are often led into error b by their noblest impulses But not one of those noble impulses can survive C the life tiCe which Florence lorence Schenck was forced forcel to lead as the result of her elopement with a married man To any girl who hesitates on the threshold of such a life a woman who knows the world must sa say Put aside all nIl goodness put ut aside all Jl feeling if you would survive in in the shriveling world of unlicensed love c I know that all aU young oun and intelligent persons resent moral preachments On Only the feeble female automaton likes to be lie hit bit over the head with a commandment II every time she tur turns turns' around I have tho the greatest sympathy with the revolt re ing h heart art of youths youth I r I had just such a heart m myself At At 20 20 I thou thought that the eternal verities were were mostly infernal lies But Rut I dont don't think so t tda Y dl No Now I 1 believe that tak taking ng human morals maraIs at their lowest possible value alue thc they are arc simply the ox expansion a and application ca cation lon of the law Jaw of sel self preservation I that in any other game than honest love I and marriage man has five aces up his sleeve that the tho victory is always to the in such games and that to win in them a woman has to sacrifice or to live WITHOUT everything that makes life ur aird womanhood worth while |
