The Perils of a Double Life
A trusted cashier in one of the large companies doing business in San Francisco, but with its headquarters in New York, has just confessed to defalcations amounting to some $30,000. He had a salary of $200 a month; but this did not suffice. In his confession, he said he had been leading a "double life." At home he was devoted to his wife, and bestowed upon her every affection and tenderness. She had perfect confidence in him. But when he was out, he "went with the boys," and his life then was the exact opposite of what his home life made it appear to be. This "double life" is coming to be more and more common, and the worst feature of it is that there is a constantly growing section of society that is winking at it, as if to say, after all, it is not so bad "if you don't go too far."