The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-02-02

54A0 naSQC mas a thousand eyes,
And the day burt one,
Yet the light OF the whole world dies
When love is dome .
Women who are lotus eaters-t1lat Is,
those who have time to indulge in day
dreams, building air castles on stills
of romance-are the ones who bank
upon love as the alhpa and omega. of
human happiness. Reason, strangely
enough. does not enter into their cali
culations. They believe in love at first
sight; "a fancy which hath not its
seat in good Judgment" Nor is it ju-
dfcious. Such women meet a plausible
man. His eyes look admiration into
theirs. He has the a11uring gift Of a
fascinating personality, a smooth, fiat-
tering way which takes this class OF
women They do not stop to investf-
gate what ties he may have, but pros
coed straightway to fail in love with
him
There are many men who are honor
able enough to discourage such infat-
uations others daily with the hearts
! thrust upon them without the asking.
Even the most hardened trifIer is
frank enough to tell such woman
that he enjoys the Irritation, but when
1t comes to marrying-ah, we'll that's
q different story. There's wife at
home.
When those words fall from a mans
I a
ger signal She is not SO blind but
/ that She can see where she stands.
She realizes that her hopes of becom-
Ing this mans wife can never be full
filled. If she has half the sense she
should possess. she knows that to com
tinue receiving the man as her lover
puts her beyond the pale Of even a
Iprodigate's respect. She is conscious
that if she continues to receive his at
tenuons It can end in but one way
her downfall
/ She has connfved at taking one who
peiongs to another in Gods sight as
wen as mans. She would hesitate at
putting her hand In Nthe wifess pocket
Tor the purpose OF robbery. But, BY
If1human strategy, she has done her
best TO take from the wife the greatest
treasure the welded husband pos
sesses-tf1e love of her husband.
Nothing in this world can palIiate
such an act OF injustice The would
be possessor may call herself the mans
afini ty-his love wife in the sight OF
/ 600. But the angels from above. who
record her sins, call it by far Differ
eFat name. Though they pity her fol-
/ ", the word they write against her
/ name is sinner. The AInaagfty has
caused in that same book to be Re
/ corded opposite the name of the true
/ VIE those beautiful mystical words;
fIeart-mate, souI-nate, the being Civ
/ en- unto him by the sanction OF a right
i eous God. : = =
What good, noble, loyal wife can
doubt that she as the true affinity and
love wafesof the man who wooed and
won her in the purity of her gIrlhood
leading her to the altar as the sane
4 ton of the love bond? There was NO
i Evil IN the kisses he laid upon her pure
lips. Sin and q pure wife are as wide
separated as heaven above and
Il hades below. When all is said and
done. the wife represents love; the
otner woman, heeting passion, which
Is bound to become iriSsernea il, The lon
run. It should be understood thai
Love IL not its name. Love is bean.
tifu and inspiring. spotIess as a white
dove. Sin and folly are the black "a.
Vens OF prey, who deliberately 4eed
upon the hearts OF those who oper