The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-06

"Tomorrow's tongues that name her Will hardly dare to blame her. A lily still is white
 Through all the dark of night There is no way in which a young
 man may make himself more respect ed than by refusing to listen to sneer- ing remarks concerning girls upon the lips of his male companions. He may have his own faults-no man being perfect-but if he is known as the champion of virtuous womanhood that one virtue will blot out a half score of failings.
 About the meanest example of a
 man is he who throws over good
 sweetheart for no other reason than
 that he is weary of her and tells of their livemaking-all that was said and done-for the amusement of a
 crowd of male companions. While a
 goodly number of men will laugh with
 him, there ar2 others who will quickly resent an innocent girls name being
 dragged over the coals of gossip. These are the kind of men who re- spect their mother and sisters at home.
 The way a boy has been brought up at home has much to do with this un-
 fortunate development - slandering
 girls.
 If the family has been used to pick ing young women to pieces, as it were, giving voice to this suspicion or that
 one, whether without foundation in
 fact or not. the son is sure to grad
 ually imbibe the spirit of gossip and
 disrespect f4r women in general The
 lad who hears nothing save what is <~f IT,, kI1 a reverence for the good and silent innocence. A good name sits as light ly upon girl as down on thistle-a | breath may blow it away.
 | All heroes in every age and every cline have been known to be defend | CTS of women. Men who have held | the fame of women lightly, scorned them, trampling down their virtue and breaking their hearts, get full measure of censure from their angered, indig- nant fellow men, who blush for very
 shame for them.
 Bringing up an old sweetheart S | name with sheer or a wink shows a
 man up in a most contemplate light.
 When two who have supposedly loved come to, the end of their romance and
 go their separate ways their love
 story should be a sealed book. Each should not speak of the other save in words of respect. No matter how base a lover may have been a woman will hide his faults, battle valiantly with
 those who would traduce him in her ! presence and secretly hope and pray for him to outgrow his follies and even be inclined to take him once more to her heart if he will assure her he has | turned over a new leaf Speak slight
 ingly of him, she would not
 The man who causes a former sweet
 heart tears of woe through hearing
 some false report concerning her which | is laid at his door is not worthy of honest mems notice.
 | The girl who trusts a man who speaks ill of another girl can only have herself to blame when her turn comes to be spoken lightly of. Noble l is she who instantly refuses such cruel gossip on a mans lips, refusing indig- | nantly to listen or believe.
 | Men who applaud an unlkind tale
 about girl are quite as evil as he who utters it. How would any one of them feel if it were his sister whose
 name was being banded about with | ribald remark and laughter? How grateful one would be to the man who
 nobly constituted himself her de- fender./
 1 Young men should remember at such a time to do as they would have their
 own women folks done by. They
 should under all circumstances defend
 the fair name of a woman.