The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-17

As loves young dream
 To be the parents of a housefu1 of blooming daughters is continuous joy, but it carries with it harassing re- responsibilities. To say that they never give a thought as to when or whom the girls will wed is hardly natural, for such day dreams do come to them quite as they observe the necessity of letting the tucks out of the girls dresses. They are growing taller and older. Beau time is close at hand.
 To have a clever mother is half of the battle. She knows the value of letting them see and be seen. She may have been a woman who c1ung close to her own fireside, with a decidedudislike for all forms of amusement outside. Nor did she care for the friendship of other women. the frivolity of exchang- ing calls as she termed it, parties, so- cials or dances.
 The, girls are verging on young wo- manhood. She realizes if she would have them make suitable matrimonial matches she must revo1utionize her ways and habits of a lifetime. She throws off her stiff mannerism, and calls on her neighbors, joins church society women, or those rich in fine, stalwart, narriageab1e sons.
 She gets up little home affairs put ting a keen eye on t e list of young men to be invited. Many a name she crosses off, ignoring. the daughters s pleadings or their tears. If she hears that a certain young man is of a. con- vivial nature, uses wine to excess, has been seen in bad company, gambles, does not hold to a position, long she studies him. He may have caught the daughters fancy, but there is a stern sentinel standing between him and the maiden'S heart, ready to give him roy al battle, defeating any matrimonial design he may entertain. An honor able man or none is the mothers mot to. A wise mother has her own trou- bIeN in guiding a flock of romantic girls who are helplessly unaware as to whether they are really in love with the right man or whether Cupid, that most satirical of all jokers, is playing a lively prank with them, to teach them one of the most important of DONT'S in loves lesson. A mother s young man of whom she approves asks for her daughters heart and hand, and an early date is set for the wedding. Even then her watch care must not relax. A lovers quarrel at the eleventh hour may upset her fond est hopes. ''The best laid plans of mice and man
 Aft gang aglee.''
 If Daughter No. is far more at tractive than her eldest offspring, the far-seeing mother keeps the younger | girl closely at her studies, that she may not interfere with her elder sis ter's chance of marriage. The mother has listened to all that has been said regarding soul mates and lovers in- 1 tended for each other and so forth but she knows the heart Of man, realizing that pretty, winsones young girl l with bright eyes, smiling lips and dim pies in cheek and chin, has been known to release a lover from his aI- legiance on his way to the altar She would take no chance. She entertains one hope that far outreaches all otf1- CTS in r~breast-that she may see her girls fairly launched on the sea of matrimony, while she is able to be in l charge of the helm and steer their I bark safely past the first shoals and shadows. Marrying her girls off to worthy husbands is a solemn duty I in of