The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-28
TF WYE ONCE KNEW
 WHAT WE KNOW NOW

'"The thoughts that are truest and | bravest
 l Are the ones that are never ex- | pressed,
 And the tender love thou cravest | Somehow is never confessed
 The rose that is sweetest and fairest i Is the bud that is killed by the frost
 And the love that is dearest and rarest Is the true love we have lost" l Experience is wonderful teacher.
 Those who get their fingers in the
 flame once take 1are that it shall not
 happen again. A girl may have had half a dozen beaux she collects sense enough to fill the bill of what a.
 marrying man is looking for when he
 weds.
 l If she has been jealous of her first suitor she is careful to hide any trace
 of it. from the second young man. If
 she loses him by a. display of extrava-
 gance, which he takes pains to com
 ment on, she is sure to tell her ad-
 Inirer she makes all of her own
 clothes, knows how to cook and bake and she thinks waste is such sin. 1 If she loses him by flirting she is
 pretty sure not to err in that direction
 when another lover comes on the
 scene.
 l Had she possessed as much know1-
 edge at the outset as she did when all l of her beaux wearied of her and rode
 away, she would have been wise
 enough to have held the heart of her ] first lover, who is often the best of the
 lot. A mother, thinks she can impress upon her daughter the Knowledge of
 the world from her experiences. But no two admirers are alike. l What one man may consider a girls
 playful moods another will regard as faults If we knew in the beginning g what we find out to our loss later on, l how different our lives might turn out! Youth in the happy stage of in experience. How can it be expected 1 that old heads should sit on young 1 shoulders? Each one must learn her l own lessons. 1 Knowledge comes with years There
 are men who do not relish the idea of 1 playing teacher to a youthful wife
 They had rather have one who had ac- 1 quired all of her lessons and was ready
 to profit by them. 1 A happy home depends much on a
 wife's tact, her ability to keep her husband interested in her. The trou-
 ble of most households that have do-
 mestfc feuds is that the wives in such homes have little or no knowledge of the moods of the general run of men ] Had they this intuition, they could rule their husbands without their knowing it..
 There are big, brave men who like to be petted and codd1ed. There's the borish husband, who puts his wife's
 nerves on edge, who should be dealt 1 with kindly, but firmly. The woman who has learned her lessons from ex-
 periences knows men are never so old, so learned, so great that they do not enjoy being fiattered a. wee bit on the right occasions. It means to them l appreciation. Men who know it all
 themselves are, on the contrary, better pleased with wives who have had no schooling in the worlds ways They
 do not attempt to teach them, but per slst in their remaining in happy ignor-
 ance, which means contentment ali around. They believe Where ignor-
 ancer is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.''
 They wouldn't have thought that i1,
 their earlier years. That was because they didn't know then as much of life
 and what constitutes hanniness os
 they know now.