If a man will sin against common decency, morality and social codes, he will sin against his wife.
There is another aspect of the case to be considered.

The American girl of to-day seldom takes the possibility of offspring into her matrimonial plans.

They are not only a possibility, but a probability, and it behooves every woman to cast aside false modesty, and with a pure heart and honest soul seriously consider if she is not doing irreparable wrong to unborn children in giving them an unprincipled father.

Is she willing to see her children's blood tainted by his vices, their lives wrecked by evil temptations inherited from him?
She must, indeed, be a reckless woman and a soulless, who, with this thought uppermost can still say, "I will marry this man--let the consequences be what they may!" That a man has some redeeming qualities does not make him a life-companion to be desired above all others.

Said a poor Irish woman: "Pat is always a good husband, savin' the toimes he's in liquor!" "When is he sober ?" asked a bystander.
"Sure an' his money gin'rally gives out by Friday mornin', and from that on to Saturday night, he can't git a dhrop.