The Jilted Woman

Southland Times, Issue 133357, 20 January 1896, Page 3

The Jilted Woman

_ It ii much worse for a womsn to be jilted tban it is for a idjd. He very seldom loses anything in the eyes of the world by such treatment ; but (he f ffect on a woman is far, far different, Io tome iotangib'e manner her reputation suffer*, and nanny marrying men aredptfimd from ap preaching her because of thia fact. 'There mast be somothing in this faot.' ( There mnit be something, ' thinks M r Wonld-b'-Beuedict to himself, 'or elie Jon?a would not have given her np. Temper, parheps,' he adds, and then Bteers olear of the siren. In another way too, a woman suffeie — she loses the 'bloom' of her troet and faith in miD ; unconsciously bercbarccter hardens, and her capacity for loving tenderly hai beeD weakened, if not destroyed altogether. Again, And do email evil in a worldly sense, a jilted woman bts, alas ! often fonnd her girlhood flown forever, when she awakes to find her faithless Lothario no longer eighing at her feet. It may be argued that it is much better for a girl to be jilted before marriage than to discover after the honeymoon thatebe is an unloved wife. Granted. Still it ii beet of all not to fee renounced, bat to become a tenderly cherished wife. Therefore, young maidens, take care and give your affections to some real and trne man, not to a gay and heartless deceiver.