The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-12

A lonely heart-1t isn't much, ! But, oh, it makes life sweet When a poor young man proposes marriage to a young woman employed and earning a good salary, the first serious problem they discuss is wheth- CT the girl should continue in her po- sition or drop money making after she has assumed the business of wife hood.
 | It is usually a great temptation to the girl to help fill the family cofersl and she coaxeS so hard she wins her ter. She tells him she would not know how to content herself during the long hours of his absence. It would take so little of her time keep ing their tiny rooms Spick and span and, really, she would grow weary of having so little to do and with so many idle hours on her hands. Still retaining her position though a bride seems actually to have a tinge of romance connected with her ambi- tion- She quite believes that hubby and she lead ideal lives. Of course bakers ro1ls, coffee. Then both hurry on their wraps, with an eye on the clock, turn the key in the door and hurry off, chattering and laughing to- getherFSto catch their different cars. They generally arrive home at the
 
 1 to buy the meats and such articles, i while she buys the lighter articles from the corner grocery
 The rooms do smell 2 trifFe musty after being closed all day, but they don't mind that. He reads the even ing paper to her while she hustles around to get the supper. If she has had a hard day at her place of bus mess this added toll seems a bit irk- some, but she is careful not to let I17T1T past seven when they sit down to the table and fully eight ere they are fin ished- Hubby proposes that they shall go to a -How, but, dearly as she would like to accept, duty forbids.
 1 You can take an hours walk. I have something to do which prevents
 me from accompanying you'' she says It is relief to her to see him out of the way for a little while. He never realizes the herculean tasks she ac- complisheS in that hort hour. Those four rooms are swept and dusted. The 1 bed which they were obliged to leave just as it was in the morning through want of time) is made. Her white waist, colors and cuffs are washed and ironed, the rent in her dress is mended, the hole in his vest pocket is darned, to say nothing of the wash ing of dishes, pots and pans and tidy 1 ing the range.
 | One cannot work all day and all night too. Housework soon becomes drag. In reckless desperation, she choos between two courses-board- ing or patronizing the deItcatessen store. It makes a difference in her pay envelope when it's contents are counted up if she pays for the Iaun- dering of her waists and clothes mend ing and a, girl to come in every week to tidy up the rooms and send her bed and table linen to a laundry just to save that hour or so in the evening to go about pleasuring with her husband as they were wont to do while single.
 Hubby does not thrive well on deI- 1catessen dinners of cold sliced ham, pork and beans and bakers cake. He loses ambition. As his health dwin- dles, he is obliged to visit a doctor. and physicians are expensive for the man working hard for his living and striving with might and main to get ahead They give up hoIsekeeping and try boarding with results far from satisfying.
 During the months vacation with out pay which the young wife is obliged to take, she tries the experi- ment Of again starting housekeeping and using her days in having the housework all done and a srnokine hot, tempting homemade meal ready or him to sit down to when he enters the house; in short, attending strictly to a wife's business, building up her husbands strength and health to meet the exacting daily 1abors he must go through. She has plenty of time to do the marketing and she is surprised how far she can make a dollar go. They both conclude wife's best place is in the home. The amount she could earn outside of it does not com, pensate her hap-hazard living extra night work and loss of health and strength for both husband and wife.