The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-27
ANOTHER
 GIRL OUT

''Ah, dream too bright to last!
 An, starry hopes that didst arise But to be overcast!
 A voice from out the future cries, fOnt- On!' But OCT the past
 Din gu1f!) My spirit lowering lies Mute, motion1ess, aghastH'
 Oh, yes, it happens every day the whole world overcome girl laying g. cruel snare to deliberately win an other girls lover from her if she can.
 These would-be love robbers are not really wicked at heart, dangerously mischievous though they are. They simply have no conception of the depth or the seriousness of the wound they inf1ict upon the other girls heart.
 rIf he is fickle, she should be glad to be rid of him. they will tell you, and there is more than grain of truth in such reasoning. Still, that
 does not make their offense the less unwomanly unkind:
 More often than not, it is girls trusted bosom friend who is guilty of trespassing on loves domain. The girl in love has confded to her all her sweet little courtship secrets-what he told her, what first attracted him to- ward her, the moods he liked best, his ideas as to his ideal sweetheart, the kind of girl his folks would select for him to wed, the refusal to grant him a good night kiss-which has charmed him even as he argued against the nor of sweet, maidenly modesty-hiS tastes-his likes and dislikes.
 Armed with all this fund of know1- edge and with the opportunity of be- ing thrown much in his society. where she could lay the foundation of strong friendship, nay, admiration, it was an easy matter to let him drift into the knowledge gradually that she, too, found him more interesting than other men and sighed ofttimes that she had not found such a lover as had come to her girl friend. Then, again, she would happen into the homes of other gagged couple were ca1lingl, unescort- ed, knowing they would feel in duty
 bound to see her safely home
 It soon dawns upon the man that two girls are in love with him instead of one. The wise, honorable man has Ia heart-to-heart talk with the sweet heart whose engagement ring bespeaks their betrothal, asking her to drop the, Iacquaintance of her friend or cease being so intimate for 8 while, and to devote herself more to him The sen sen sible,, clever man can expect this promise without his innocent sweet heart having the least suspicion of the condition of affairs, and all will be well.
 The vain man, hattered by the sub | LID p1OO1 Ll1O OLnGI S1Tl IS dT1A4OuS CO be made love to, in utter defiance and disregard of the feelings of her chum or her rights, falls a willing victim into the net the eoquette spreads for him. No man can carry on successful love affairs between two women at
 one and the same time Soon or late one is bound to hear about the other. 1 It is rare that he is called upon to choose between the two and abide by
 his decision. He is more often indig-
 nantly dismissed by the girl who felt that she had been <wronged by her Hover in whom she had had the utmost
 faith, and her girl friend, whom she I had believed bound to her by every tie
 of girlish, perfect love-
 It is strange truth, put nevertheless
 a fact, that a man is never happy long
 with the girl who has cut a sweetheart out in his affections. He has no con- fidence in her, knowing full well that l she would have hesitation what ever in throwing him over, if a more desirable party appeared on the field
 This ssurTnise usually proves correct The girl who is without honor or con-
 science regarding another's love af- l fairs is the acme of treachery. The i girl who deliberately wins a man away from another girl always finds that i she, in turn, will be cast aside by him for a newer fancy. Changing love
 soon grows into a habit with him. 1 The girl who cuts another out is play i ing a two-edged sword. Do as you
 would be done by