Show WHAT 11 CHANCE HAS A t OIA WOMAN Chicago Journal Apparently the F defense In tho the Thaw murder case caso Is ic going to bo ho that thal Mrs Thaw was a 1 faithful wife whom Stanford Whit pursued and would not leave I In 1 peace and that therefore her husband husban t was Justified in killing White r This raises rises an Interesting and Important im important Im- Im question namely what wha i. i chance Is Ig there for a woman who wants to reform and redeem herself anc i. i Men Ien may sin inimitably illimitably it I seems and then when ago age or disease or 01 disgust dis- dis 1 gust makes them want to return to toi i the society of decent people society r welcomes them with wih open nuns arms No obstacle Is placed In their thel way Jo Joy shall be he in heaven n over one aie sinner that more than over ninety and nine nIno just persons penns that thal need no repentance and thIA true o of earth also who the repenting sinner Is a man But when It Is a woman that thal wants want want to get et awa away her past and lead a pure and honest life le everything everything every err thing seems to be against her het Not only do virtuous women give her the cold shoulder but bul tho the men- men who shared her shamo In the old 01 ta lays days pursue her even beyond the marriage altar alar an and she is considered fair al' al game by ever every man thereafter who learns that once onee sho was sho-was was a loose woman Up to the present time of course there Is no public proof that this was the tho state of affairs with wih Evelyn Nesbit Nesbit Nes- Nes bit Thaw But Dul there Is reason reabon to believe believe be be- lieve Thaws Thaw's lawyers will wi attempt to prove that Mrs Thaw Tha though she once had Illicit relations relations' with wih Stanford Stanford Stan Stan- St ford Cord White had had no relations no-relations with lh 1 r p him ar after her marriage s th that l she was trying to t Tendon ul- ul 1 Co in f fidelity el I to her husband hUband and anti that White harassed harassed har bar assed her with attempts to pull pul her herback back Into the mire which she 1 had escaped Even though this could all al be he proved proved proved ed to a certainty the question queston would still remain to be decided whether in a civilized I community the Persecuted persecuted perse Perse- womans woman's husband husban was In taking the law Into his own hands for the protection of ot his wife That ThatIs Is a a. question which need not be discussed dis dis- cussed hero here or now But It I may bo be pointed out In passing pass pas pas- pasIng p. p ing log that on the statute book bool there is no law making It I a crime to empt tempt empt a av v S woman woman to destruction or to impede her reformation with a advances and 5 that If I It Il be a crime In morals t to do those things It must he be punished if i it Il Is punished at all al outside the tho written written writ writ- I ten law la I It I Is i often ofen said sid that when whon woman falls she fal falls much lower than any t 4 4 man does In lii the le beginning This Is probably not true but hut If I It Il were true might not nol the reason he be that thal he the fallen falt falon fall fall- fal- fal t f. f en or woman knows how lio nearly Impossible impossible sible It would be bo for COI her ever to reform re- re form orm however earnestly she might do so so Whatever the reason whether it Il Is Isto to bo be found foun In lit nature which discrimInates discriminates mates against the tho woman by visiting upon her hel material and visible consequences conse conse- fluence of sin or whether It Is 1 to lo bo ho found fourni Coun- Coun In the fact th that t the laws ant and the the society organized under under thorn them thor were made by man without allowing woman to lo have a voice In them tho the truth remains that woman has almO almost l no chance chanco at all al to recover herself hersel after er she has taken talen tho the first false step It I Is unjust but It Il Is h a fact I Therefore the tho theory that Evelyn husband committed murder becu because e Stanford White was doln doing all ho could to lesson leson that chance to drag her hel down own again to tho the depths and to bring misery to hor her and to her husband will l wi make mako mis murder trial one of the most intensely Interesting und and Important ever held |