The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-31
ONE WOMAN TO ANOTHER
biunderers Should Dodge the Age Question-Real Unhappiness
 May be Created.

1ne humorous paragrapher will al- ways find material in womans wish 10 conceal her age. and her absolute lack of conscience when she deliber- ately lies about it on the witness stand, or when questioned by some old time friend, whose memory is em- barrassingly freshl
 You may say it is absurd for a woman to be ashamed of her age And so it is, if that is ali there is tc it.. But why need a woman's years be paraded before her eyes, and that of the community in which she dwels if she looks young, feels young, and doesn't act too young?
 know of case where the over Jealous desire to show how well he remembered events of her childhood made one woman absolutely hate a man. It so embittered her that a future from which she had anticipated the greatest pleasure became instead a dread and a disappointment.
 The way of 1t was this: She mar ried for her second husband a man fifteen years younger than herself She told him that the disparagement in their ages was only, ten years. congeniaI and he adored her. openly telling every one that she had been the making of him and that every thing good in his life was due to her.
 After they had been married ten years and had a small son of six, it was deemed advisable for the health country
 She thoughtlessly selected the town in which she was born, and then the trouble began.
 She never went to the village but she met some old friend of her father %l UyI> NI over with reminiscences of her child hood,. with accompaniment of dates.
 One man-the lawyer of the county who was the same age as her father would have been, had he lived, took particular delight in harping on the question of age, generally when her husband was present. The incidents were of such a. character that there was no gainsaying the epoch in which they occurred.
 So nervous did she finally grow in her efforts to turn the conversation and keep her husband in ignorance of her true age. that she gave up go- ease when callers came to her home that they thought she was a little queer, and little by little ceased to come.
 Of course you will say she did wrong in the first place in deceiving her hus- DanQ. Granteo,1 DuL Why ShOuiQ those people have tried to tear down her happy relations with her young hus- band by dwelling. on a fact that. after all was most inconsequentfai as a topic of conversation?
 A man, if he is vigorous and hearty rather revels in stating his age. With a woman it is different After thirty it is as natural a desire to get credit for year or two as it is for her to breathe
 Tn the case just cited, the busy bod ies of elastic memories were the ones who committed the worse offence Yet they perhaps were innocent Of do ling anything but to show off in their old ages how we'll their memory stood by them. s4gss Se
 On the question of age or any other feature of a strictly personal nature it IS much better to keep still. Sure ly 1t is in better taste, and you are not apt to hurt any ones feelings or create the real unhappiness that was the result of the garrulous revelations on this. subject in the case I have just related
 COUSIN PTEBE.