The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-18
WHO'LL FOOT THE BILLS.

tI wonder did you ever count value or
 human fate,
 Or sum tn infinite amount or one
 hearts treasure and the Weisn. Of life's one venture, rne "hole ,,
 centrative purpose of soul.
 It is those who have no sons WHO think it an easy matter to rear one' Boys are not like girls. They won :, be shut up in a parlor to please tne best mother that ever lived. by 'he time they are really out of their teens they have decided opinons Of thelr own as to how a youth shall spend his evenings. All youths are not Iasn- toned in the same mould. Where one has an inclination to spend ms spare time calling on girls, a score or others cannot be dragged into the sOclely VI young women, preferring to pass ther leisure hours with companions who are of the same turn of mind as them selves. Many mother who has a son whom she dotes on, anld who IS oat- terly opposed to his falling m love, and paying court to any particular yonug girl has a thing or to 10 Iearh' A young man may do worse. w W4eh he is in the company of a desirable young girl his family need have no worry concerning him. 5NoW-aloays there are very few young y.wonen who are not sensible. If ysang man IS a clerk and has to count his pennies a girl is not going to cause him un- necessary expense for treating her 10 dinner and taking her to places or amusement every week. If a man spends more than the woman he spends it on knows he can afford 1t | is her nature to worry over 1t. Young men companions have no such qualms I of conscience. If one of them is gen. erous and will stand treat for the crowd they don't trouble themselves as to whether they can afford 1t or not It is no concern of theirs if he is decidedly short of cash at the end 1 of the month, or if he has a spring suit at the tailor's that he hash, | money to pay for. The mother isn' worrieid; it's the father who has to foot the bills for the pleasure of the sons men chums. v
 1 An extravagant wife is on the same footing. She scrapes together all the money she can wheedle out of her husband by hook or crook, then runs l in debt to give entertainments fol friends who don't care a rap for hel and who neither know nor care about pay day. Somebody will have to foot the bills. She lets it go at that.
 It wouFd be a surprise if the world knew how many families live. iNoi one wife in fifty knows exactly what her income should be-, Most of these wives get an evasive answer, if not g downright refusal, if they asked theil husbands to be frank and tell then just how much they earned and could really afford to give them.
 'sAs long as you have some one te foot the bills, that's all you need te know" say the husbands. That's why some women unintentionally make ibankrupts of their husbands. Why As it that the average man does not real, ize that his wife is his business part ner quite as much as the man whose name is with his own over his office door?- He could not keep his partnel in the dark regarding the finances o1 their business. Why then should ht tell his wife fairy, stories? Why shoult he tell her that he is getting along well when he is harassed on every side for money to foot his bills?