The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-09
TRANSFERRED AFFECTIONS

Give me the heart that knows no
 change,
 That absence, time, can ne'er estrange' That rarely loves but then so well No word it's fervent strength can tell. If ever such g. heart were mine,
 At no misfortune I'd repine;
 Content to live and die unknown,
 Asking for love-and love alone"
 The rornances of young girls are always supposed to be rosy and as cloudless as summer sky Even telling the world, There's noth1ns half so sweet in life as loves young dream" Some girls dream on all through their allotted span of existence. -Othef girls are awakened rudely from thelr love dream Courtship for some run smoothly, for others there are set backs, heartaches, with hope forever balancing like a teeter board, now up' then down, until we are ready to agree more readily with the philosophlzlng rhyrnster who has summed up court ship in this wise: The course of true love never runs smooth.
 Sometimes it is the fault of the girl; 1 again, the lover may be at fault. Where both hearts are faithful and true, misunderstandings between l sweethearts are few and far between Where one is 1ck1e- especially the man-love suffers trying ordea1s on the l young woman's part
 l There is nothing more cruel than for 1 a man to gain the love of trusting, inexperienced young heart and then ltrifie with it by flirting, or, worse fstill transferring his directions to am other.
 That is one of the tragedies that is hard to live down A man courts a 1 fair, sweet maid for year or more,
 fighting shy of the subject or mar riage. A fairer,t newer face crosses r his path and he is off in a flash pur- suing the fresher fancy without a thought or care. that he is leaving 'a
 breaking heart behind him.
 The greatest trial forsaken sweet heart can face is meeting her one 1 time lover in company with the girl l to whom he has transferred his affec- 1 tions. To be utterly ignored by him, Ito see him dance, talk. clasp lovingly 1 the hand of another, hang over her chair paying that other one the de- votion she had held so dear, is bit terness pitiful to live through and smile as though his oblivion to her
 presence was al matter of equal indif-
 ference to her.
 l That a man who has once been her Hover can forget her so completely is 4 appalling to most girls. Her hopes ot winning him back are shattered when | she sees for herself that he does not
 care whom she came with, whether or no she has had a dance, or sits out the ieyening a forlorn wall flower or how she gets home.
 The foolish girl sits down lament ling, weeping bitterly over her unhappy Hove dream The wise girl looks al her face long and earnestly in hel
 mirror. She sees that she is quite as
 fair as the maiden who has supplanteo t her in her lovers affections. This :. gives her courage. She closes the booE of the past with a bang, saying to her Ise1f: What care hos 1sir he be i
 he be not fair to me- xond moreover
 There's as good fish in ttses sea as ever came out of it.'' He's not the righ' one. I'll not dim my eyes with a teal ) on his account A fel1Ie lover would
 prove a most despicable, hckle bus
 band. A good man for me, one whe
 loves me and whom could not drive from me if I would, or none. He whc lean transfer his affections as easily e.s
 he can change his hats is not wortf
 grieving over.''