The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-18
IF /AIATCHMAKERS
BRING THEM TOGETHER

IF /MATCHMAKERS
BRING THEM TOGETHER
yes, we were strangers an hour De
fore,
AS, I entered. unheeding, your friends
DOR;
All. love! blithe love, like the wings OF
a dove.
One touch of thy hand awakened
love"
One-half of the single women In the
world are facing life alone from the
fact that they have not had the OPP
portunity to be brought in contact
with desirable manageable men. The
welded women they know seem to
take malicious delight in seeing them
go on in single loneliness from year
to year. They are acquainted with
many men who would make good hus-
bands and who also remain unmar-
ried simply because they are not
brought in contact with just the kind
of girl who appeals to them. They
are backward in taking the initiative
in forming new acquaintances Mar
ried couples knowing young men and
women could take it upon themselves
to bring their friends together.
It goes a, long way with man II a
couple he thinks highly of
sings the praises and virtues of some
single woman they are DESTROYS that
he should meet. It goes long way.
too, with a woman if a woman friend
and her Husbands are earnest in telling
her the good qualities Of a particular
young man whom they want her to
know and be friends with. 1t is the
easiest thing in the world for the
women to get up some kind
of an affair at her home to bring to-
gether' the man and the woman who
will be congenial to each other, with
a possible view Of match being made
between them. Nothing pleases
lonely young man SO much as to have
the wife of q good friend of his take
D. sufficient interest in him to provide
a pleasant girl companion for him. It
Is the many good words put in on
both sides that quicken hearts from
liking to admiring one another. A
man takes another mans word and
his judgment that the girl he has just
to him would make a fine
wife for him.. He puts the idea fairly
and squarely in the young mans head.
The wife tells the girl how lonely the
been introduced, adding that the wo-
man who won him for a husband
would he lucky indeed The married
couple can do much to help the affair
along by bringing them constantly in
contact with each other. Opportunity
1oes the rest.
Many a man is too backward to
bush forward an acquaintance with
he girl even though he has been
pleased with the introduction. Of
course everything depends upon what
of man he is. There are men
Who no matter how bashful they may
appear need only a start In the right
Erection to manage their own heart
lffairs. The match makers they con-
ider to be useful persons. Half of the
Quples now happily mated would not
ave known of each others existence
lad it not been for these good and
oval friends and the interest they
ook in seeing their attachment pro-
'ress. Two lone girls have gone off
ummering together and have had a
time of it because there
vas no mutual friend to Introduce
hem to the single men there whom
hey came back without knowing.
darried relatives can throw cold wa
ween a man and woman or they can
nurture it. It is thees same match
makers who come to the fore smooth
ng difficulties when lovers fall out as
he best of lovers may
Women have AN idea that it is q
mans own fault If he is lonely and
Inows no one. That is where they
Judge him wrongfully. It is only a.
avored few who have homes under
he parental roof who know many
'oung- women. The great majority of
Jingle men have no other home than
ented rooms. They have no oppor-
unity to come in contact with just
he Kind of girl that would warm
heir hearts. Men never worry about
marriage or being single all their lives
Until they meet the one who strikes
heir fancy. 1t has been aptly said,
hat love is of mans life thing
part, even though it may be "a wo-
mans whole existence She has
enty of time to day dream over the
,ssfbilities of the future. A mans
lays are taken UP by pursuing his
for all it's worth Years
night go by and he would not have
fme to think of women and matri-
nony if some kind friend had not
aiken an interest in him. changing
he current of his lonely life by in
reducing him to the girl, to whose
charms he was susceptible Yet some
>e ople will believe blindly in what
hey call Fate, as the only match
maker. Tho poet says-and wisely
IN this subject:
If by free will. in our paths we move
How are we bound by DEGREES above?
Whether we, move, or whether we are
driven,