Show i Dorothy Dix Talks I I THE THE WOMAN WHO WOULD NOT STEAL ANOTHER WOMANS WOMAN'S HANDKERCHIEF DOES NOT CONSIDER IT A CRIME TO ROD ROB HER OF HER DEAREST POSSESSION HER POSSESSION HER HUS HUSBAND BAND SAND OR SWEETHEART YET SWEETHEART YET HER HANDS ARE STAINED CRIMSON WITH A Aa J a SISTER WOMANS LIFE LIFEBLOOD BLOOD Do D T 0 WOMEN OEN regard other women's sweethearts 5 and antl husbands as f fair fah booty It fC i they can get them Do they feel foci that they have an inalienable right to steal any heart on which bleh they c can cin n lay IdY their hands no matter what other woman has hils al a l prior claim upon It Sometimes it seems as if never nevera r a law of God or man rules north of t I the heart line with with- with them nd that they have very little honor in the wo-r wo matter for every day we see the woo we- wooman weman o man who wouldn't filch hairpins hairpin from r her sister woman woman stealing tealing from her herthe herf the love that ts Is s the very jewel of her herI a existence S 1 I And half the time the thc lar Is s simply a for the mere excitement of the 1 thing and doesn't 1 even want the man mar whom she the has purloined t ru IT T IS a common thing for a beautiful gay DOROTHY DIX alluring girl who who- line has all the technique of ot the tho vamp amp at her fingers finger's end to go Into a vii vii- vII vil village lage hage or a country community for or a few lew months In the summer and turn all the rural II swains s heads and break up half halt a dozen en- en en engagements It Is a still sUll commoner affair for tor a clever woman of ot the world orld skilled in all the subtleties and cajoleries to take away from some plain dull dulI woman whose whose only talent Is 18 a Q talent for loving the flance 0 oa which her heart is set Nor Nor Nor- does the woman who thus tortures another woman suffer agonies of remorse and for her evil iI deeds K NOr r does her co keep her awake aake at night whispering In a still small oIce that she has done a fellow woman a deadly wrong On the contrary the very woman who would weep we-ep wc p at atthe atthe the tho sight of a cat eat in plain and who shudders with horror atthe at atthe atthe the thought of vivisection is if highly entertained and amused at atthe atthe atthe the spectacle of the other womans woman's anguish at losing the dear dear- dearest est et thing in in life to her and she watches with a smile mlle her frantic and futile efforts to hold on to a love Jove that is slip slipping ping from her feeble fee le Yet compared to stealing her sweetheart from some hap hap- hapless hap hapless less young girl robbing a ba bank k I if Is a virtuous employment and a bull fight a humane sport BUT B OUT UT we see the thing continually done by young women who believe be- be belleve lIe lieve themselves to ba bo b leading the higher life me and who are char char- charter chartel tel ter members of ot a society for the prevention pre of cruelty to dumb ani ani- ani ani mats Worse still Is the case of a woman oman who deliberately robs another woman ot or her husband As long as a man Is unmarried he Is to a certain extent wild wild game at which any woman woman may aim a gun without doing too m ch damage to the law Jaw that governs mine and thine His His wife has bought and paid for fer him with everything she owns owns He belongs to her exclusively Under no possible cir I Is any other woman justified In breaking Into her house and trying to cither either steal or lure him out THERE T THERE HERE is not a debutante In the world orld orld so young oung and headed fluffy that she does docs not know what it means to a wife to lose her bus bus- hus husband's bands band's love 10 It does not require any power of ot imagination for her herto herto herto to visualize every throb of ot anguish that tears a wife's heart as she sees aces herself neglected for a younger and fairer woman when she realizes that her husband Is wearying of o her when she sits lonely during long evenings while the man who Is la all the world to her Is paying court to some other woman perhaps lavishing on that other woman I in lowers flowers and jewels and ald amusements the money that Is needed Deeded to buy common comforts tor for his own home and shoes and antl clothes for his little children Every woman who beckons a married man to her side or r wh who lets him stay there there even if he comes conies comes of his own voli you volition tion knows that she is inflicting upon his wife a it torture as terrible as was ever devised by the Inquisition Yet we are arc always hearing Innocent looking little girls and faced angel angel ladies boasting of their fascination for married men They commit the most horrible of all crimes with an air all of perfect virtue that sp speaks aks of utter peace within their own souls IF IP YOU XOU should tell one of these women that when she engages in a aI I with a I married man that that breaks his wife's heart that Wrecks his home and sends little children out into the world father tather fatherless less Jess that she has done a worse thing than If it she had hall murdered the she wH stabbed stabbed the children and set fire lo to o her house she would l Lo c righteously Indignant But Dut it Is the truth r Every woman who flirts with married men has h her r hands crimson with a sister womans woman's life blood There is no more inexplicable illustration of how curi- curi curiously curiously curi curiously to the feminine conscience works its wonders to perform than the fact that the woman who would not steal another womans woman's pocket handkerchief will rob her of her husband and and the woman who is so tender hearted she could not swat a fly will enjoy enjoy contemplating the agonies of jealousy that she is causing some poor unattractive wife to suffer DOROTHY DIX Cop Copyright right by Public Ledger |