Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1911 — Sad Case of Misplaced Love Comes to Light at Valparaiso. [ARTICLE]

Sad Case of Misplaced Love Comes to Light at Valparaiso.

-The Valparaiso Messenger relates a sad story of a young mother with a 5-months-old baby who is struggling to support herself and child by her labors. The Messenger has procured the story of" the girl-mother’s life. She refuses to tell her maiden name or where her parents reside. The paper states that she is a woman of culture and has evidently been accustomed to a good home. She resided in a small town some place and a traveling man made love to her and she listened to his sweet nothings and fell tL victim to bis falsehoods. Then she was taken away and kept for a time in another town and finally to Valparaiso, rfhe traveling man married her shortly before she became a mother. He remained with her but two days after the babe was born and then lpft. Three weeks later he was at Valparaiso for a day. Since then his wife has not heard from. him. Although she almost died following the birth of her child, she firmly refused to divulge the names or the residence of her parents, saying she preferred" to die rather than face the disgrace she had been brought to before her parents or at her old home. The Messenger . concludes the sad story by saying, “Now she is fighting life’s battles alone, while the old vagabond is basking in the pleasures of greener fields.” It is an old story of fleeting happiness, of simple trustfulness, of late discovered pride. The old rooster that was responsible for her condition was about 45 years of *age and he had doubtless been guilty before of similar conquests of virtue by reason of good looks, a smooth tongue and a blinded conscience.- But there is some one else responsible to a great the fall. It is her mothej and her father. Girls are granted too much freedom and are not given the training they should have in the home. There % would be less enduring misery if girls were told by their mothers of the pitfalls of life, and pa should get himself a gaff and watch his daughter just as Closely when She is 18 or 20 as he should when she is 8 or 10, while during the intervening years she needs the guidance of a loving mother all the time.