The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29

e'WedIock's a saucy, sad, familiar
 state,
 Where folks are, very apt to scold and
 hate.
 Love kept at modest distance is di-
 vine,
 o5liging and everything that's hne.''
 That women should look forward to marriage is a low of nature. There is no shadow of doubt in their minds but that it means a future in which no cares or sorrow will assail them.
 No woman of her own voIition is giving up pleasant life for one of unhappiness. She is sure that the man who proposes marriage to her has given her his full undivided heart and means to cherish her fondly while their lives last. It means much to a marriage. There is a great deal which the average woman knows nothing of regarding matrimony.
 Therefore how can she consider the situation as it really is?
 She arrives at a conclusion, from her point of view, and takes the step. After the knot is tied at the altar a woman's life is completely changed. The days of her single blessedness have past. The first book of life has been softly closed. Henceforth her life is what he makes it. The poor girl, as NAAO ~@4O she wedS a dowry of youth, innocence, virtue and a wealth of love. It re- mains for him to- make her life a bless ing to her or a curse.
 All of her hopes are cT6stered about him. By his vows at<the altar he has taken updn himself her support, pro viding not only fer the, present, but for her old age, that she may not know the cruelf sting of want, hunger and suffering. Every year a wife lives with her husband makes her more de- pendent upon his love and considera- ton. If he fails in his promise Ito pro- vide for her through negligence or waning love for her, the great bull wark of married life is broken down. If she has chosen fickleA mate,i and in after years he transfers his affec- lions to another, caring not for her shearta ches or tears, the love that linked welded hearts together breaks like a chain worn too thin to longer hold in safety
 Any disturbing element n married life tells fatally upon the woman who has cast her all upon the die, expect ing a pleasant existence from mar riage. True, she has taken the man for better or for worse. If misfortune comes which is not of his making he having been loving, loyal and all that a faithful mate should be, not one wo- man in ten thousand would turn from l1I1At LIS dAOd4f O1 1OSU GoA9 WOu1Q put her shoulder to the wheel to try to piece together, if she could, their shattered fortunes. SheA would never desert him.
 Thus does the average woman be- lieve in the sanctity of marriage Mar riage means all the joys this world can give to a woman. Strong are the instincts with which God has guarded the sacredness of maria ge'' She w11p is well welded lives in a par adise on earth
 Mating should be considered with the greatest care. The woman who weds dere1ict, hoping to reform him. deliberately blasts her life. What man would take a girl who had gone deliberately wrong with the expecta- ton of reforming her: Not one man in thousands. Never leap into we'd lock. Keep in mind the story of the frogs in Aesop who were extremely wise. They had great desire for wal ter, but would not leap into the well because they nIistrusted they could not get out again. AS a woman makes her marriage bed. so must She lie
 As a last word to jt1oughtIess maid ens-there is more than a boolzfuI of wisdom in them-be not too free in giving forth expression to your, love or of receiving it. A caress too much has often led to a maids undoing 'fIf you would have the nuptia1 union
 last,
 Let virtue be the bond that ties it
 faSt.''