The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-07
ANOTHER IN HER PLACE.

They say if our beloved dead Should seek the old familiar place, Some stranger would be there instead And they would find no welcoming face.
 Believe them not. An, those who say Our best beloved would find no place Have never hungered every day Through years and years for one .dear face.''
 They laugh at war who never felt a sword thrust They sheer at the fool ishness of being jealous who never felt it's bangs. In the case of lovers who have disagreed, or, perhaps, have had a downright quarrel and parted, the girl, at least, wonders, anxiously, if he makes no attempt to be reinstated in her favor, whether or not he has put another in her place.
 It is one of the hardest ordea1s a girl can face to find her surmise is true. She worries secretly over the thought whether she should go among the friends they were wont to visit to- gether or remain away, escaping the embarrassment of meeting him with a. new sweetheart. Her friends counsel her to encourage new admirer. Nine girls out of ten are too honest to re- sort to, this, believing it to be dishon- orable to encourage a mans suit when neither her heart nor her wishes re- spond.
 While a lover is true to her. hope Bridges the dark current of fear, but the knowledge beyond all doubting I that another has filled her place is a woe that strikes deep into the heart. The girl is, indeed a heroine in real i life who can school herself to meet a former lover face to face, hold out her hand in greeting and smile that he may think she does not care. When it comes down to cold, hard facts she 1 should not care, realizing g that a heart that could be shifted from one woman to another, as easily is not worth grieving over, not worth a tear | No man of principle would subject a former sweetheart to such embarrass- ment If it were possible to avoid it. The girl who has supplanted her should not feel r-triufnphant She snooId m realize there is world of truth | Tn the old saw, that He who can break troth with one girl without even "a heart throb of regret can always break with another and yet another" | There is another class of men-and noble are they-who love once and for ever. They wed the sweetheart to whom they have given all the affec- i tfon of their hearts and if she is taken from them they will never put another in the place made sacred by her. They revere Womankind for her sake but their haIlowed memories of the bliss
 
 than any living presence could be. They no not even notice the pretty feminine wiles that lure other men into loving. They are immune from them.
 Whether or not a lonely future is 1 wisest and best is for them to deter mine. There are hearts which blos- som but once and once only. The fear of many good and loving wife is tnat were She to pass away another would in time fill her place in her hus- bands heart and home, aye in the af- factions of her children
 Such a fear should never be allowed to darken the sunshine of a happily Wedded woman's hfe- That which we dread most never happens One bride to whom this thought was a terrifving 2 ougaboo wearied of her unloving spouse with the waning of the honev-
 moon, later divorcing him. A year later' She had put another in his 1 place. ~