The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-21
HOW FAR CAN MAN BE TRUSTED
'I could not my lost love fpbraid, =
 Altho' my dearest hopes were blight

"I could not my lost love tpbraid. l Altho' my dearest hopes were blight | ed;
 l I, could not say, You're false to mel ] Tho, to another he was plighted." | How far can the male sex be trust1 ed? This is the query put to me in one form or other, in scores of letters, every day. If it's a. single girl, about to be married. who wants to know, l
 am tempted to tell her. ''f you have any doubts that the man who expects to marry you couldn't be trusted to the very end of lais tether, you'd better drop him instantly and wait for man
 to come along whom you feel you can trust" If it's a married woman who | would be enlightened on this subject, while I think she ought to solve that problem as we'll as could, I am will ling to go ahead with my theories con-
 cerning the uluch-mooted subject.
 | It all depends upon the particular i man one is df doubt about. If a wo- man believes she is sufficiently mag netdc to attract her husband to her, he could be sent into a harem, wherein there were the most beautiful of wo-
 men, and come out untenpted either | to admire, or make serious love to them. If a man has @ dear1e all his
 own, who fills his every dream of love, all other women seem inferior by com parison. Let a man once have an ink ling that his wife is jealous of him. and he will begin to lock about to- see who the women are that are adunlr1ng him. Doubting women do not harbor suspicious by halves. They either place implicit confidence in a man, or fpSH- that he mi 0rnts be led
 astray, perhaps, if left unguarded at
 some opportune time. A wife who has
 this fear is always in hot water. She
 has thorn in her heart. Married life with her is one continued warfare, of
 disturbed emotions, suspicious, fright. Instead of filling her mind with pleas ant thought, and beautifying herself so as to be as attractive as any other
 woman he might see, she meets him
 with a glurn face, tear-swollen eyes. She is ready to burst out into tor rent of reproaches If he speaks of any
 other woman who happens to be otherwise good man will delight in
 teasing a wife who has the yellow streak of jealousy in her make up.
 Some women are wiser than others in being able to control their. misgiv- ings. Suppose the wife of a fckle .hl1s-
 band were to say to him: Now Jim, if you ever come across woman you
 like better than you do me, shall ex- pect you to do me the favor of pulling up stakes, and breaking away, with as much ala,crity as possible. I assure you, if I ever come across a man like better than you, shall do the same!'
 She stands a much better chance, with
 a husband of, that kindy of keeping
 him within bonds, for he is not alto
 gether sure whether she really means
 it, or no! It's just as well to have the
 haunting fear equally divided.
 The single man may be chivalrous,
 even a trif1er. with this pretty young
 woman or that one who crosses his
 path, but he has no intention of being
 dis1oya1 to his sweetheart. If the con
 ceited married man has the desire to
 chase around with good-looking wo-
 men and shower attentions upon them,
 instead of this being called gallantry
 on his part, it should be called ras- cality. Such a man cannot be trusted a yard off. Even while at his wife's