The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-11

Arthur T. Vance, editor of the Pictor- ia1 Review, says that the cost of court | ing has gone up outrageously. He thinks the girls are responsible for it | and that they are making it continu- | ally harder for the men who seek l them in marriage, though man is not wholly without blame
 You see, the trouble" he said, lis | it's game of bluff on both sides. The young man wants to pretend he has a bigger salary than is really coming E to him. The girl desires to convey the impression that she IS used to all 1 .',e luXuries of life. On the one hand, | it's the bluff of business position, on i the other, that of social position. And between the two bluffs the pocketbook 1 fails
 "Only I think the great responsi- bility rests on the girl. The bete noir | of the average decent young chap is l stfnginess. He will do anything to en if he doesn't tell the girl the size of his salary, she is apt to know about what it is if she knows him long.
 'Then let her say to him, tactfullv but frankly Tom, I enjoy your com pany just as much in trolley car as I do in taxi. And I don't care for supper after the show; I'd rather go home and get my beauty sleep The boys feelings won't be hurt; he'll sim ply dub her mentally, if not audibly,
  can't help but be insensibly f1attered that she likes to go with him for him self and not for his tribute money" There is many 8 young man who nev- CT gets as far as a consideration of the cost of matrimony. He is stag gered by the mere prelude to the show, the cost of courtship.
 Much interest is being excited in q novel experiment inaugurated this yanl hxY @ D aty mi who has started a model farm for wo- men on her handsome estate, Brook holt" at Hampstead, just outside the city. Most of the 40 women who have applied for places on the farm are endowed with more than the or dinary intelligence and have held pla ces in the linen rooms of the big ho- tels and in big department stores where they seldom see the sunlight. They are to be taught truck garden es, and Mrs. Belmont expects will find their new employme more prof itable and healthful than their for mer occupations. If the experiment turns out as she hopes, the idea will be extended and several similar farms will be started by other society wo- men of the city in connection with their out-of-town estates. The plan is a new departure in the social and political uplift movement in which a
 
 wealthy women have been engaged for several years. By making the women under her chaperonage self supporting and providing them with congenial work. Mrs. Belmont-it is snspectsd-hopes to oon impress upon eon women and make militant suffragettes out of them.
 Caro- Cezuka, Attorney-Generai of " comparative study of the Japanese and American courts and judicial sys- tems, spent ten days recently visiting municipal courts.
 Just before he left last night for Chicago and San Francisco on his way about the justice of the East and or the West.
 "It was your Night Court that struck me as most typically Ameri- can." he observed. Why" Because it is a money-saving machine. You have here the saying, Time is mon- ey,' To save time you will not even wait over night to try your malefac- tors; you will not let your Justice go to bed. Apparently, the time of your offenders against society is still too precious to be wasted by a benevo- lent State.''
 Resenting the suggestion made by a woman suffragette at Albany last week at a hearing before the Legis- lature on the "woman's rights bill that women were not safe at night on the streets of New York, Alice Smith, probation officer of the Wo- mans Night Court, yesterday passed the ugly word to her sister critic.
 'I think women are safer on New York streets at night than in any oth- CT city. In the first place, the streets are so wide and we'll lighted. Then there are so many policemen, who are a protection, not a menace. And, finally there are so many of the respecta ble women themselves. A man does not assume in New York