The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-15

Perhaps it will all come right at last;
 It may be, when all is done,
 We shall be together in some good
 world
 . Where to wish and to have are one."
 It is the easiest thing in the world for married couple to fall into un- happiness. That goblin, disagreement, easily catches them if they don't watch out. Constant, close compan- ionship wears the gilt edge off cour- tesy and by degrees they may lose the pleasure each was wont to find in earlier days in the others beguiling comradeship.
 It is often a very slight drift apart. After marriage many a wife settles peacefully down into homebody, the bright, genial husband still keeping pace with the merry outer world. Such husband will tell his friends: Mar tha has changed completely since we married. Before that we went to ev- cry dance, picnic and young folks af- fair going. Now she has lost all relish for those pleasures. When she goes out of the house at all it's to church or prayer meeting or something of that kind. The money that I allow her for clothes-that she may look as stylish and well goMned as her neigh bors-she Sends to the heather Chi nese or the South Sea islanders or the Hottentots. She does not try to look even fairly well in the home. I am al- ways ashamed to bring friend unex- pectedly home for dinner. She's sure Ito, be working away at something or !other in an old, torn gingham apron, with shoes run off at the, heel and hair disheveled. You cannot realize my feelings over it. I wish she would get herself up like the pretty little widow across the way-as sweet and fresh as though she had just come out of a bandbox. She is so jolly and compan- ionable it is actually refreshing to be in her society. She can swim like a mermaid and dance like a Pavlowa. always beg for the waltzes when I meet her at a dance And as for courage-she's a regular pal. She can go as swiftly as you want to send your automobile along and laugh with glee like a child at the sport. I see the difference : between Martha and her"
 Whenever you hear a man go on like that about woman you may know his wife has need of pity and sympathy. Her hold upon his affec- tions has slipped down many notches. The other woman" is gaining foot hold through her downfall In the end, it means a divorce because of in. compatibility of temper the records state, when they should have read, fAnother woman has stolen his heart from her."
 But there is no law to reach such despicable thieves The still loving old wife is dethroned, sent adrift on the world to live or perish, as God sees fit; and the other one is installed In her place. But such unions arc never wholly happy ones. There is gall at the bottom of the cup, and af- ter they have drained its pleasures they reach, sooner or later, the bitter drops at the bottom.
 Pleasure vampires are never the wo- men to cling to a man through sick ness and poverty. The man who has divorced noble wife for a fairer. younger woman might get along we'll enough if it. were not for his con- scienca More than one man has re- gretted divorcing true wife, but pride has kept him from diyuleins that he has suffered from a hell o1
 conscience ever after. The mills o1
 the gods grind slowly, but they grind
 exceeding fine"
 T know that each sinful action, a, | surely as night bring shade,
 Is some time, somewhere punished | tho the hour be long delayed"