The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-02
YOUNG MEN WHO
 WOULD WED WEALTH

When the song has died out of your
 life,
 That you thought would last till the end,
 You can sing no other song, Not even a tremulous note. Will falter forth the empty air. It dies away in your throat, ] For the spirit of song is fled; I The nightingale sings no, more to the rose,f
 When the beautiful flower is dead.''
 It is not always an \easy matter for a girl to tell whether a man is in love 1 with her for, herself For has an eye to l the possibility that she may be a good
 matrimonial prize, having every pros
 pect of inheriting money. It is not so much of problem as is
 generally supposed. Give a would-be
 wooer sufficient opportunities and the
 drift of his hopes will soon become l manifest. The man who is really in l of his affection hasn't a second dress l to her back. He doesn't waste 3 l thought concerning her genealogical
 tree. Whether her great grandfather was 8 belted earl or a bod carrier. All he is thinking of is the girl her self.
 The theme he loves but to talk-about
 when with her is how he can advance in his position, insuring g sufficient 1 amount to provide comfortably for her if she will wed him. His talks of making her happy of his willingness
 to do for her old father and mother,
 her little brothers and sisters, even shouldering the support of her aged aunts, if it will but add to her peace of mind. He works hard night and day to show her that he is advanc-
 ing, straining every nerve to make good love.
 The fortune hunter is built on diff ferent line. He has a hearty disre-
 gard for work He is always out Of tells good story of the great posi- tions offered him, giving glib excuses l as to why he passes them by to take on inferior ones. His real interest in a. girl begins only after he as been
 made aware of the fact that she has rich relatives whose money she must inherit. A family of elderly spinsters beyond the probability of wedIock who will be sure to leave their for tunes to their young brothers daugh- ter or "a grandmother as wealthy as she is penurious who must eventually leave her fortune to her only childs 8 daughter.
 The fortune hunters sole topic of conversation, no matter from what source it starts, will eventually lead
 up to the health and longevity of the grandmother and the aunts. To hear that the grandmother is contemplating adopting her physician agitates him greatly. The rumor that one or all of the aunts contemplate being led to the altar fills him with poignant dismay. He will go to any length to frustrate the prospects of athe doctor and break
 up the love matches of the aunts, if he has to move heaven and earth to ac-
 comp1ish it. 1-
 There's no 'enttcing him into the hy- menia1 yolzC until he sees the girl land
 at least one or more of the fortunes. As he puts the betrothal ring on her finger he is talking up the advisabi1ity of the husband controlling his wife's
 money and drawing from her then and there that it shall be so in their case after they are wed.
 By all these tokens the average girl should recognize the fact that the man was by no means in love with her-but with her prospective fortune. His declaration of affection does not ring true It is this type of man who
 deserts his wife after he has sue eeeded in squandering the fortune which she has entrusted tp his safe
 guarding.
 The right kind of a lover will in~ troduce his sweetheart's aged aunt of
 means to the lonely aged widower equally endowed with this worlds
 goods in the hope of seeing two lonely
 lives made happier. He asks no odds
 Of the grandmother nor bother about corraling her fortune. All he wants
 Is his dearie for his very own, to work
 for and cherish and make fame and
 fortune for, if it be within Snis power.
 The difference between pure gold
 and tinseI is easily detected if the
 proper tests are applied
 The true lover worships at the shrine of true love. the fortune hunter
 at the shrine of gold; it must be in
 evidence somewhere to induce him to
 marry.
 Mmr~1