The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-17
DUMPING HER HUSBAND

'ewhen hearts and lips have grown
 cold,
 And love is but for an hour; When 1ifess romance has been told,
 And kisses have lost their power, Then shall soft memory fleet,
 No more a dream to enchain; Yet kisses are always sweet
 And love is never in vain.''
 The man who has a wife so trustful that she believes implicitly in him, never questioning the truth of his words or honesty of purpose, has gathered unto himself a jewel that is both rare and precious. He should be most careful of his treatment of her.
 The general run of wives are built on an exactly opposite plan They harbor 9, lurking doubt regarding hub by's statements even while he is tell ing the truth. Most wives are tborn lawyers leaning toward one branch only-cross- examining. Once the sus- picion that he is f1ckle dawns across her mind, the average married wo- man, instead of giving herself up to weeping in secret sets about to as certain, by adroit1y qutzzing her hus- band, whether her lurking suspicious are -groundless or he can be drawn into an admission of the transgres- sions.
 Many husband has been drawn into snares he little dreamed of by the wife to whom the quizzing habit had become a mania to find out his do- ings.
 If he is half an hour late for din ner, explaining that business detained l him, instead of letting it go at that he is sure to undergo a, severe quiz zing. later on when he has wellnigh i forgotten the matter, where he was l on a certain evening"; if he walked or rode straight home: if he encoun- tered any one he knew, and what a two dollar bill missing from his pay envelope on that particular evening went for
 1 The average husband forgets his ex- cuses as he utters them. It is, there fore, difficult for him to think up the same story twice.
 Not one husband out of fifty deceives his wife with deliberate evil intentions He thinks it wisest and best some \ times not to mention matters which might raise a dom nestic row. For in lstance his married sister might have sent for him to come to her on that Iparticular evening, stating in her note that she was i'll and needed him, but not to mention it to his wife, who had never liked her. Brotherly love pre- vailing he had called on his sister 1 finding her i'll and as she had written needy. The two dollar bill had been | a
 No matter how earnestly admon- I ished to keep silent the husband soon CT or later under carefully prepared Quizzing discloses the fact that his sister is ill and he had been to see heI and where the missing bill went to There's no use in talking, the quizzine wife finds her good natured husband no match for her cleverness in un- earthing anything and everything he had made up his mind to conceal from her that she might not be wor- ried.
 She keeps her better half constantly in hot water. His every word, act, o1 glance is apt to be misconstrued He spends the greater part of his life at tempting to explain matters to her sat- lisfaction-
 He who wants a, quizzing sweetheart who wants to know where he was OF the evenings he was not by her side whom he saw and all about it should beware-take care. He has long rough weary road to travel after he weds her. It is habit that is seldom or never vanquished by even the mos1 patient of husbands. It is but a shori step from qJ1fzzing to nagging. Wher that sets in, happiness is in imminent danger of being overthrown- No mar loves wife the better for it. indeed fl more often means love's total eclipse The woman who starts in to quiz he, good husband builds a wall which may eventually part them.