The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-26
QUIZZING AN INTENDED
 -l. SON-IN-LAW
have a reason for all I do, L


 A reason that is old net new. Please turn your eyes another way: lis easier so when what one has to
 say
 Is half pretence yet somehow makes
 ones heart Stir in ones side as tho pierced by a
 dart" @
 It is not half the joy people imagine being the father of a beautiful, win some daughter scarcely midway in her teens. Keep her dresses up to her knees for the next ten years,'' insists her father desperately, adding: "A mans troubles just begin when these young fellows begin to come around with the intention of eeurting his gir1''
 fsIt is but natural a, young girl as at and, for my part, I would rather see her settled in g. home of her own, with 8 loving husband to care for and pro tect her, than to leave her single, alone in the world, when we are taken from her. retorts the mother earnest ly, continuing: By choosing some one of the young men whom we have known all their lives and know to be the soul of homer where is the risk if she loves the man we select ?''
 *Risk!'' groans the father. f"The whole business is full of it. The shFewdest guess as t@ the lives half the fellows going about today are leading goes wide of the mark. The young men who think you know are just the ones,< more often than not, who are clever at befooling their friends. I have just finished quizzing the sixth applicant who aspired to daughters hand. The first, young man in 2, bank, seemed to me very de- s1rable for a. son-in-Iaw until I put him through the quizzing process. He 14.o a stood every chance of working his way up and was receiving substan- tia1 salary for his position. He had not put by a dollar. By beating per- siStent1y about the bush, T learned he had a hckle heart. He had been en- and was unable to withstand the att, traction of a new and pretty face, That's the chap whose mother told you proudly had never had heart af- fair.
 NO. was a college graduate, son of prosperous merchant. Quizzing brought out the fact that he was a Veritable hend for stock gambling, had run through two fortunes and was looking about for a wife with money to gratify his taste in that direction. Men of that stamp cannot love any woman; he'd make a beggar of a ulil- lion dollar heiress.
 No. 3. that good looking chap who never misses prayer meeting, praytng the loudest and longest, calling him.. self an artist, couldn't buy his salt with money earned from his brush He is clothed and fed by his poor old aund1e, woman working hard to make her living. He promised to cara for her the rest of her life if he suc-s ceeded in turing rich girl into the matrimonial net
 No 4, the young doctor, Quizzed me in return about the state CT my health. He thought needed some one in the business to look after me, urging me incidentally to make a. will in favor of my daughter at once, declaring delays were dangerous. | was anxious to get away from him.
 q The young lawyer the next to ap- pear, liked money all right but was not disposed to work for it. He meant to give up practice after marriage. He was of the opinion a wife's estate was all he could reasonably be expected to look after.
 ssThe young aviator professor was away up in the air with his notions He wanted a promoter for his schemes Ieoncluding a rich father-ila-Iaw would be the safest kind of packer. If such a man outlived his fancy for a wife he could take her up among the clouds and-weI, if she were tipped out any old place it would simply Inean-the risks of the business
 stOf course all these applicants to be my son-in-Iaw mentioned love in a casual sort of way. This did not inn press me any too favorabIy I would not care how poor a young man might be if he came of honest parents, was willing tx work and had proved that ihe|realIy loved our daughter1Efor her self alone, I would give her to that man if she loved him readily Girls don't know the pitfalls their daddies save them from by cautious and expert Aquizzing of the fellows who get the notion ofs marrying them, When the right young man comes Ealong he will stand the fest