Show D Do Women Prefer Charm Charging in Rogues 1 By MRS GEORGE NORMAN i 1 F we wc w were re content to take our opinions IF I of ot the Eternal Feminine from the paper that soothes our shattered nerves at breakfast time we might too rashly conclude that woman has hns an Inherent labor cn eat ent t liking If It not on nn actual preference for tor the conventional oon scoundrel But Dut before arguing thus thu from the particular par ocular to the general and allowing the sum of at our out knowledge of ot tho the heart of ot woman to be circumscribed by exciting id he-id lines bead lines many runny things should bo ho taken Into consideration Uon In the first place there Is In 10 this country coun coun- country try a moat moot singular dearth of or men In society so so- clety and the opportunities n Illes that t the average average average aver aver- age respectable woman has bas of ot meeting n a prospective husband arc are In many cases extraordinarily limited Hence the otherwise absolutely Incomprehensible su success eS of the matrimonial ad od ut Our social life lite Is so o constructed constructed con con- that tint hundreds s of ot young rouno men and ond women nc never meet others of or their ns age and tho tiro se severest crest crest monastic monistic regulations could not more effectively debar one sex from frolD association with n-Ith the thc other than does the dreary monotony of ot the tho dally round as lived In many m quiet places Then It has been said that no than man D isso t. t Is Isso so mIserable but that ho con can discover cr some woman who will be bo more miserable still for his sake And on this principle the tho n worst t of ot criminals must find a a. wife n nut But tho the notorious bigamists with whoso O deeds we have havo of or late become familiar bull hardly I as a a matter watter of fact throw much tight light on the tho question whether or no women prefer scoundrels They have In almost every case cue m as 48 honest st men and hive have therefore merely deceived the tho women they married And though b bIt It Is easy to be after tho the event what lu io a class and anel cOlin country try where antecedents antecedents ante ant cannot be sought In Burke Durke or ot the Landed Gentry was w s to enlighten eD their victims as to the villainy of ot the smooth- smooth tongued and pleasant young men who wb come a wooing Their demands for tor money It Is b true might have bave awakened suspicion but suspicion Is not the sentiment which conies comes uppermost In any but Lut ungenerous natures nature Dull and la in the classes In which bigamy cases most frequently occur It Isby la Is laby b by no means unusual for tor the woman to auco ad part of or her savings towards tho rho expenses expense of ot the home And when all Is sale said and done the tho chartered chartered char char- scoundrel scoundrel the bigamist the tho forger torger- may be scarcely moro more objectionable ll may n 1 I 0 r 1 1 1 r ti In mon many ca cases es s be fir far less leS so so than the smugly hl cd tJ thing thin i of or petty Aces rices that so eo often orten a woman most mast call husband We are arc of ot course nowadays many of ot us us men and women alike far tar too tally Inclined tO toward 3rd the scoundrel There la Is a 1 point of ot diseased mellowness and cf- cf fe In tn tho history of ot Society at which Society takes tho the part of ot him who Injures I It it the part of or the criminal and does docs so so ID to fact seriously and honestly honE and a section of or the af- af community seem already al- al ready to have reached that point But while fully rully believing In a sano sae o and firm Justice the necessity of ot punishment and its It usefulness It may be conceded that not Infrequently the scoundrel whoso whose sins sin bring blur within reach of the 13 law lair w for we ba have 8 In n the midst of ot us sweaters caters managers with girls chorus-girls at ata a weekly salary calary of ot and others who pass pasa for tor upright bt men the scoundrel I say sa has sometimes a way with him that appeals to our sex The same sarno Imagination which run riot 11 has started the tho bigamist on his career ot of sd adventure gives him perhaps a 1 Insight ht In 10 dealing with women th the th same breadth of ot view that misapplied has given R a stamp of devil may to his ill deeds deeds Is Is at any rate rato less O B thin than tho rho self regarding prudence prudenco of or ortho tho the hypocrite In politics and aed In 10 trade Emerson that law abiding citizen remarked remark remark- ed bruisers null and pirates s are nrc of ot better promise pro pro- mise than thon talkers and clerks Everything E Is s relative even eveD so 30 to fleece a ayoung ayoung ayoung young man of meAns weans of ot a considerable P por portion lr tion of his bis belongings 9 of ot even e to entrap a n young woman Into a bo bogus s marriage gc Is it hardly worse In Its essence than mach that passes as 3 mere mera wordy wisdom wisdom the going back oo on a friend In n trouble or dealing deal desi In lug ing meanly with dependents How often In the countries of ot l women omen are aro not tho the vor very wives of quit rich men more stinted and In that t sense sens poorer than the labory's f's wife with the difference that tho latter laer c can n at 1 least Jt go 0 out and do odd Jobs Tho women of ot the upper tipper Basses of ot society so clety are arc likewise credited with a tenderness tender tender- n ness s for knaves and IDd rogues And end t though It may bo ho 0 true truo that there Is lj something th that t appeals to a rom women's ns n's deepest Instincts of pIty and and compassion companion lon In lu the downward tending career of the tho do yet the tho mystery of ot her er apparent weakness for tor Ui We the triumphant villain remains unsolved y I r f |