Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1917 — ONCE AGAIN THE WAGES OF SIN [ARTICLE]

ONCE AGAIN THE WAGES OF SIN

Mazie Roberts Qf the cult who believe in a short life and a merry one, who quaff the winecup in the lobster palaces with a lilting “eat, drink and be merry today for tomorrow we may die,” has quaffed the lees of it. She faces Him, after receiving the wages of sin, which we are taught is death. It was a terrible death. In the midst of surroundings of . luxury—and the very pinnacie of luxury, where her worshippers, the votaries of passion, had paid court, Mazie Roberts was beaten to death. She was known as the “girl with a form divine.’’ The adulation of the millionaire and the athletic hero alike ■w’ere hers, but when her hour came they were as the chaff of the Wheatfield and less. The features of her face were beaten to a pulp, one of her own silken stockings was knotted around her white throat, her beautiful body was scratched and mutilated. There the Thing lay in silken pajamas, a corpse that had begun to rot—repulsive, battered, pitiable, God’s temple defiled and defamed. Before the Thing was returned to the from whence it came, the hunted scion of a millionaire, in all the vigor of young manhood, escaping for a moment from the officers of the law, dashed into a room, locked the door and, blowing out his brains with a guri, he met the* Paymaster who demanded the wages of the sin of death.

Since The world began there have been innumerable Mazie Robertses and Bernard Lewises, They tread the primrose path. These artists* models and their courtiers are but figures in a story that is as old as the hills. As long as the world shall roll on will there be Mazies and Bernards. They know that some day they wilj pay the price, and yet it deters them not. Preachers in a hundred pulpits Sunday Thundered and moralized , edit or s bl a c ken ed'•co hi inns of white paper with screeds on the crimson folly and the pay envelope that goes . with. Budding Mazies will gasp and sigh and mayhap they will drop a tear. Other ads venturing Bernards will sos the nonce be more, careful how they poach on forbidden preserves, but while the beauty and passion of life are left as estates to human, •beings so long will there be Mazies and Bernards, who 101 l in dalliance, who find the lap of luxury and love, their loot.—Lake Coiihty Times.