The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-30
WOMEN WHO
 ARE ALL SHOW.

"A winning wave. deserving note,
 In the tempestuous petticoat,
 A careless shOestTing, in whose tic see a, mild cfvi1ity,
 Do more betwitch me than when art
 Is too precise in every part
 Men who find married life disap- pointing nearly always throw the blame on the wife Such men arc wont to say: Had but known the kind Of wife she would make, would have held aloof and let some other fe1- low marry her, repenting later-''
 It's a mans own fault if he cannot judge fairly we'll what sort of a. Wo- man the sweetheart whom he has been counting for upward of year will develop into. The quiet, thrdfty young man who is very chary or spending his hard-eaTned money for clothes content to look plain and neat, certainly realizes that he has an ex- travagant sweetheart If the girl shows up a new hat gown almost every time he takes her out. Knowing her circumstances, that her folks are poor and have their own troubles in sk1Tnp- ing to make both ends meet, he should moi need outside advice to warn him that the pretty girl who puts every cent she can scrape up into f1neTy Tor her personal adornment, while the family has scarcely enough unbroken
  show.
 When she weds she will employ the same tactics. She will have gilt chairs for the parlor, risking the limb and life of the unwaTy who thoughttessly sit down upon them, simply because gold furniture makes such an excel lent show. She'll have a chicken for dinner nights until every member of the family is ashamed to look a hen In the face, because, while doing her l .I.-- .-1.z k<.7 oTV I1eaTS neighbors: it makes show before them to order fowl while they are eco nomically purchasing chuck steak, #
 There are no heights to which the ambition of the extravagant wife may I not soar in her determination to make a show, unless curbed gently. but de- cisively If regard for lovers opin- ion cannot be inculcated in a girl be fore marriage, he is foolish to hope for it afteGyward. Show will always come first; peace. comfort and happ1- ness are after considerations. If they can be wedged in, well and good; if not. she gets along without them. Show ibecoEnest so much, of c habit with social climbers that it sweeps aside Judgment, love, kindness and synpa- thy for even those who need her aid in saving
 The children of such mother can not be blamed for ge- ting the 1mpres- sion that all things are shaTns-wo- mans beauty, love and fidelity; that honor and truth are only names, bulb bles a. breath may blow away.
 l A man may well flee in terror from the vain girl who is not what she pre- tends to the world to be. Young girls do not need costly radment, changing with every wlair1 of fashions wheel, to enhance their charms The plainer the maiden the more attractive she is to the majority of young, nnarrfageable men. They show their wisdom in se- lecting such a one for a wife.
 He who goes through loves garden i blindfofd should not complain of the wound of a briar if he has pat1cked T rose that would better have been left on the bush. A straw shows which way the wind b4ows- Gigls who arc all show blazon the placard to the world which reads: Beware, take care!'' A man who welded a girl who had the -Nnalze-show'' habdt4to the ex- tent that it was faily a craze with her, had an experience which illustrates the folly to which it may lead. His wages were modest. but by denying himself everything that he could alb. solute1y do without he managed to save enough to buy the housekeeping outfit for a small fiat to which he had planned to take his bride To his dis may, he discovered in going over the items, that a tajblecIoth for the pretty dining table had been overlooked. I will furnish that, promised the moth | CT, remembering a handsome hand embroidered cloth she had worked with her own hands for her own we'd ding and which was her choicest 1 treasure. . l Accordingly the handsome linen ta- ble spread was duly berfb boned, boxed and dispatched to the bride-toIbe
 Less than a week later the girl, who was all show, urer her future mother in-law on the street The elder wo- man beheld her gowned in a suraptl1- ous creation of fine linen and hand
 wrought embroidery and lace. Yes | it is the tab1ecloth,'' laughed the efrl anticipating the others question. stIt
 was really a shame to use it as a. ta-