The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-26
BRIDAL SECRETS.


 t+Oh. night, did you say
 My love had grown false to me? That her vows like a breath passed
 away,
 As the blossoms fall from tree? Was it the wind said, Thy love is
 gone2'
 False wind, thou vert never true, The whip-poor-wiu plaints for the
 Poor soul. was your love false. too?" If there is ever d time in the mar ried woman,s life when she is apt to be a bit foolish. it's during those days the bridal couple are whiling away their honeymoon at some fashionable summer resort. Of course, the happy bridegroom is all devotion, and is der lighted to spend every moment possi- ble with his bride, but, even the best of men will frame up some sort of an excuse to get off alone now and then for an hour or so to enjoy an uninter- rupted cigar, to chat with an old friend he has unexpectedly encoun- tered, and to whom he does not care to introduce his young wife, or, last but not least, to stretch his legs for a. five mile tramp. He is quite sure his absence is 2. relief to his dearie who is doing her best to get oVer. the shyneSS and newhess of seeing a. man con stantly lounging about her boudoir. He believes she may want to do an hours shopping or spend that much time with the hair dresser, or on the piazza, chatting with newly made wo- men acquaintances, But alack and alas, what mere man can understand the heart of a bride or gauge the depth of folly she may fall into if perchance a. fit of loneliness seizes her2 If hubby remains away a moment longer than $F1la% %fv11a I,o lro f1a1 fcov sefzes her that he might be wearying of her, perhaps
 In her walks or drives with hubby she could not help but notice how many fortune telling places, there were on almost every street, even if he had commenting on it.
 She certainly needs her hair cur1ed and her dainty fingers manicured, but despite that need she hies herself to to learn the secret thoughts of her bridegroom's heart. The willy fortune teller does not need to, be told, she sees at first glance that the young vis- itors before her, with spick and span new toggery from head to foot is a bride. She is quite prepared for the faltering query: "I am greatly in love with a-a-gentlema and want to- know if his love for me is-is-waning. That is. if he does not love me sas much as he thought he did," etc. Of course the clever seeress tells the young visitor a wonder fortune4 that the gentleman she loves has just been welded, and to a. girl he fairly adores; that there was another girl fairly be- side herself with rage because she could ont win hirn-an cid sweetheart of his-but for whom he does not care l a snap of his finger Her tongue runs on glibly until she thinks she has told quite two dollarse worth. The bride re- turns to her hotel fairly radiant with l Joy-her doubts all put to rout.
 Young girls at the seaside may visit the fortune teller in groups just for a Jolly lark, but they attach no impor- tance to her prophecies. what she tells them goes in one ear and out of the other, fading out of their minds as quickly as 8 laugh ends on their lips. They do not take the seeress .seri- ously as the bride does, they have no secret worries that they must have probed. The maid or the widow will 1hagglez over her price; the bride will willingly pay any amount in reason to be assured that hubby is deli lighted l with her, and that his love will all ways be hers, strong, true and un- lchanging.
 It is an actual fact that many. a bride will go the rounds of all the for tune tellers in the place, to make sure I there has been no mistake made as to her hubby's being entirely satisfied with her marital bargain, though they had been self-conscious, and certain Iof their sway over his heart before marriage Their visits to fortune tell CTS is a. secret many a bride viii never divulge in the after years. She real izes her foolishness and is ashamed of it. She always hopes from the depths of her heart that hubby will never find 1t out.
 Thes women who make their living by preying upon tho innocent and sus- ceptihle, are clever enough not to tell anything which may stir up strife, yet they have it in their power to do much harm Brides should keep no secrets from hubby