The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-30
WHAT THE JUNE BRIDE FACES.
f@There is an hour, when holy dreams
 Through slumber, fairest glide. And in that mystic hour, it seems,
 Thou shouldst be at my side"

I
 Thou shouldet be at my side"
 VIII the girl he proposed to under the mistletoeLbough, and whose Wed- ding was set for June, postpone 1t pe- cause the laddie, so dear to her heart. comes within the age requirements or the men who are drafted for the army?
 Where one girl will back out, hun dreds will march unf1inching to the altar taking their chances on a happy future Almost every girl has planned to have the June wedding a great event. The church and her home are to be fairly banked wixn June roses. She was to have a trousseau that would astonish the neighbors; with a magnificent spread and bridesmaids galore The present situation of the country, has put quite a different com plexion on affairs.
 Nowadays, no girl can be absolutely sure that the young man to whom sne has plighted her troth, will be able to keep his appointment for the all-im- portant ceremony Everybody but Uncle Sam, seems to favor a lover
 He says his men must leave the best loved sweethearts, aye the brlde-to-pe on her way to the altar, and hasten to the call of the army. One man may hesitate about yoking a fair young
 wife to his own unsettled state While others are eager to secure unto them fselves for all time, the woman they love. Whether this is selfish act on their part or not depends on the view point taken of it. If a girl would rather be particular mans widow, if need be, than to have happy sin gle life, or belong to any other man in the years to come, the man who IS to cast his future lot as soldier need have no worry in leaving her as his libride behind him. It is only the man
 who is in doubt of some particular lwoman's faith, who has qualms about carrying out the program of being a June bridegroom when he must be parted from his bride soon after the
 marriage Even the most carefully laid plans Of the newlyweds, must gang aft -aglee It may have been { their intentions to rent a fine home, furnish it from top to bottom and con- mence, married life luxuriously Now the soldier husbanti informs his bride that the plan for the fine home is up | in the air, and he suggests that she better go home to her father and mother until he comes back to her for : good. Neither of them attempt to lsearcf the future any closer than this. iYeIf his bride has been4 sonet thing of a f1irt before marriage, the young hus- band is now too settled in mind as his
 memory cons over that fact on the nights in his tent, when sleep will not come to him. Love of some woman he has left behind him is the most sat
 isfactory stimulant a soldier can have to keep the blood tingling in his veins, lo nd orf ir, a sr1fs Hf0r her sake
 he has ambition to raise in the ranks. I It puts courage in him The girl who
 refuses to become a brides owing to
 the conditions that have arisen, de-
 serves to be criticised sun1marify. She i has possibly sent broken-hearted man 1 to the army. No man can make a
 valiant hero of himself in any conflict ! if he carries a disappointed, aching heart in his bosom
 1 If misfortune attends the so1dder- i husband, what an untold blessing it is l to have the open arms oS a bride glad to receive him-one who loves him and 1 is all his own to minister to him. There lis no sorrow so great that it cannot Ibe paliated by mutual affection. Some Iwoman's love will be every soldiers guiding star-a spur, to all his achieve I ments.
 I Let the June weddings go merrily on. Do not draw aside the curtain ot I the future, to look beyond. Remem-
 Der, whatever is to be, will be. If it is 1 only for few days, or a few weeks that bride and groom are to be to- lgether, so let them make each day O lthe honeymoon so Joyous, that tht
 mennry will never die from each heart
 The girl who breaks her troth nov
 with her soldier lover deserves to Hvt
 1.-the rest of her days an old maid.