The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-07
SPENDING THE HONEY
 MOON WITH HIS FOLKS
"Go to friends for advice; To woman for pity; To strangers for charity; To relatives for nothing"

Every young man means well, no doubt, when he urges the girl whom he is soon to make his bride to consent to spend their honeymoon with his folks. If he can only spare two weeks from business, and his folks, whom he has not seen for years, live in dis tant city, he is usually extremely anx- ious to kill two birds with one stone, as it were.
 You will be sure of the heartiest of welcomes" he declares enthusiastical- ly, adding, 'They love you, dear, al- ready quite as much from your letters to them as for my sake" The bride to-be, seeing that he has his heart set upon it, is reluctant to say him nay.
 In the faroff boyhood home the old folks are greatly excited over the joy full intelligence that Charlie has really consented that the honeymoon of his bride and himself shall be spent with them. They inspect the spare room carefully. Are the old-fashioned fur niture and the faded carpet good enough? Aunt Hester turns up her nose at the query: ''If she's sensi- ble young woman, she will take things as she finds 'em. If she's an upstart, you couldn't please her if you refur- nished the place from top to bottom. My advice is to keep her In her place from the first minute she crosses the thresholdg If she sees she can be boss and can get the upper hand you'll have trouble with her from the start. !" With this and sundry other warnings ringing in their ears, the old couple await the coming of the suspicious day and the bride and groom with fear and trembling.
 Father goes to the station to meet them Instead of the buxom young woman they had somehow pictured her to be, he beholds a fradl young thing in bridal gray-from gray tulle hat with its pink blush rose to the smart pearl-gray boots and gray gloves. The lovely apparition almost takes his mothers breath away. No wonder such lovely girl had taken her boys heart by storm. She feels a timidity about approaching and offering kiss to the beautiful city girl-even though she had just welded her Charlie.
 Aunt Hester frowned her disapproval of her oh sight. Shell want to sit right down and be waited on like a queen," she whispered sharply in her ear. You'd better let me manage her.p She led the bride up to her room to inspect 1t while mother and son were laughing and crying in the same breath in each oth- CTS fond embrace, Quite as soon as Aunt Hester gets the bride alone, she proceeds to take the starch out of the stuck-up thing" as she mentally phrases it. You won't find this a ho- tel an there's no maids to wait on you. so you'd better be prepared to do for yourself. We eat breakfast at 8 o'clock sharp and you'd better be on hand. If you want any eggs cooked any new-fangled way, you'll have to do the cooking of 'em. If it rains be sure to pull down those windows. Good night."48
 The little bride does her best to keep back her tears as Charlie strides briskly into the room. Didn't you love the old folks on sight, Kid?. he asks blithly continuing: 'I know you would. And isn't Aunt Hester the dearest, kindest soul in the world : We will haves a delightful honeymoon here. Every one will make so pleas ant for sus."
 The bride kept her own counsel
 She wasn't so sure about happiness
 She wished she hadn't consented te spend her honeymoon with husbands
 relatives.