The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-28


 ''Of course you are going away for the summer?'' When the relatives of a young wife make this query, she would give much to answer, 1T shall stay at home because my husband cannot leave his business, but she knows the torrents of protests such an answer would evoke, and, last, but by no means least, it would be so deso- late to keep her house open when ev- cry other home in the block was boarded up as tight as a. drum
 If she does make a. con1Gant of woman friend, acknow1edging she'd dearly love to go for g. change of air, but admits she is fearful of poor hub- by suffering, he'd never know how to get along without her The other wo- man promptly pooh-poohs her out of such a notion. t<What do other wo- mems husbands do2s' she demands. 'sThey all seem to -et along swim ming1y and they are sure to appre- ciate a wife who has caused them to realize how lonely existence is without hers'
 her a bit of sage advice, leaving her to follow it or not as she chooses, sat1s- fled with pointing out to her that the summer wanderlust habit of the mOd- ern wife has kbeen the means Of break ing up many a happy home. In her
 
 were by no means the easy undertak- ings that they are today. It meant over a. weeks ride by stage coach over almost impossible roads to get from one hamlet to another. For wife to take such a trip, unaccompanied by of staying at a strange hosteIry, and among strangers. was almost unheard of.
 Then, too, men are very much like roguish children, almost sure to get into mischief when they find them drawn. There's wisdom in the trite, and true, couplet:
 When the cats away, the mice will play.,'
 He's a bung1ing housekeeper and dust rises. He will fry himself an egg for his breakfast, but forgets to clean the pan. As for making up his bed, he's in too much of a hurry to get of to business in the morning, and so tired at night that he just tunb1es in as it is. He takes his dinner at the restaurant eating what he pIeases, everything his wife has refused him because of his weak digestion Last but by no means least, the lone hubby who is probably taken for a single man, is the target of attraction for the detached young women secretly sigh ing for husbands.
 
 have fallen from grace because of their Wfstfu1 eagerness to forget their loneliness by taking their first draught of wine at the suggestion of a. group of men friends who were like suffer CTS The lone husband who does not know what to do to pass away his evenings after the work of the day Is g. shining mark for the majority of the tenptationss that are aimed his way. Of course he has wife's letters to read but that is not like hearing tender words from her warm sweet lips, or holding her soft cIinginer hands ip his strong clasp, or feeling the mag netis1n of her gentle, woman1y pres ence. There is such thing as wean- ing husband away from even the wife he a,dores.
 Leaving him to his own resources a long summer through is usually the wedge which is first brought into use to separate the links which bind their hearts in so close and sweet a bond Many husbands cannot take a. vaca- ton which would take them away the wives who cheerfully share tE7e husbands lot, cheering him through the long uncomfortable hot evenings by their companionship. There are cool walks in the moonlight, street car rides. going to the open-afr movies, etc.
 When the sensible wife sits down to think over calmly all grandma has told her, she concludes that she could have a happier summer by hubby's side than away from him. There is no use throwing good man into danger, is there?