Show i HOME INFLUENCES I The marriage of Victoria Morriaini to Schilling the coachman has turned out just as people expected it would Only a few years ago the daughter of a wealthy German of Connecticut married a coach man anticipating happiness In a few months she discovered the mistake she had t made and left him going with a hand somer man Ext Ex-t The foregoing is a specimen of the many paragraphssome funny some 1 witty and all decidedly harmful in their effects on the young which are now going go-ing the rounds of the press concerning that illassorted marriage All these paragraphs par-agraphs tend to place the e woman in an unenviable light and as none of them give any facts to sustain their flings at her they are outrages upon the privacy I pri-vacy of an individual and as such i are a disgrace journalism The orig inal story is told in a few words The daughter of a wealthy New Yorker fell in love with and married her fathers coachman and being disowned j j by the father the pair were forced to fall i at once to the husbands level in life and labor for a livelihood He manfully turned to driving a street car while she i took to the stage of lowgrade theatres i t = and sang to mixed audiences her chief popularity being the daily paragraphs of the press In time she tired of her surroundings sur-roundings and now seeks rest in some convent where she can pass from the public gaze and try to live down the brutal publicity heaped on her by careless writers The husband continues con-tinues to drive his car and act his part manfully notwithstanding the efforts of the press to pillory him and is in his own way deserving of kinder treatment by men who claim to mould public opinion The primal error in all such cases is with the parents and particularly par-ticularly so was it the case in this instance in-stance A young imaginative and susceptible sus-ceptible girl just budding into womanhood woman-hood deprived of healthy companionship companion-ship with the opposite sex in company with such restraints as good morals require re-quire was left to take long and lonely drives with a good looking young coachman coach-man as her only companion and having no restraint upon her impulses or will she followed the bent of a giddy girls inclination and married the coachman doubtless to spite her parents who never had a thought for her feelings other than to feed and clothe her and supply her physical wants Whoever Who-ever heard of a young woman who had the blessings of a pure home influence to guide her eloping or in any other manner man-ner disgracing herself It is the lack of this influence in the homes of impressionable impression-able girls which gives room for the growth of such hideous plannings and the parents alone are to blame If Morrisini had been a true father to his daughter the fact that she honorably honora-bly married her admirer proves that she would as a girl of more than ordinary pride have been docile in his hands and both would have escaped the blot which now blights their lives This line of f reasoning could be continued for columns and should serve to awaken parents to a sense of what is due their children in the home circle and particularly particu-larly so in the case of giddy young women who should never be subjected to temptation temp-tation or idle and lonely hours but be the constant care of those who begot them that they do not fall into erring ways |