The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-11
MEN WANT A CLEAN SLATE.

'The golden opportunity is never of
 fered twice;
 Seize the hour, when fortune smiles
 and duty points the way -Nor shrink aside, to 'ecape the spectre
 fear
 Ir1or pause, though pleasure beckon from her bower
 But bravely bear thee onward to the
 goa1.''
 When it comes to making up his mind about choosing a wife and set ting down, a. man exercises more credit for. Of the many he is on friendly terms with, there's usually but one or two who appeal to him. He may be the favored suitor Of the beauty who has a dozen strings to her bow. While, man-like, he is fattered by her presence, he is sensible enough to face the situation from more than one angle. He has heard her remarks concerning this admirer, and that one, how they vied with each other to pro- vide pleasure for her. Instead of urg- ing him on, these tales have opened his eyes to how hard the girl was to please and her ingratitude foFN the time and money which they lavished upon Ter, only to UC A1SCe1IoCo 1o1 O. new flame.
 A coquette may do very well to beau about, but the man of good sense doesn't want to be tied to such a per son for life. He considers a girl who is once a flirt, always a firt. As a wife would she have any regrets over the lost opportunity of having no more hearts to conquer? When he begins to contrast her with some other woman he is brought in contact with a plain, unassuming person whom all the men seem to pass by without mo- ticing, for some unexplainable reason it is the fascinating beauty who suf- fers by comparison.
 Because why? as the School+bOy would ask. Well, in turning the mat ter over in his own mind, the sensible man comes to the conclusion that, in the most serious undertaking in his life, he wants a clean slate to. write his declaration of love upon; not one covered with -worked-out love problems. He argues that if a girl has had no former lover, she will be more plastic in conforming to his ways; have like ideas and bring a fresh heart to him. Men believe that every lover a girl has is sure to- leave his influence ibehintd him; even though they are parted, having gone their separate ways. The young woman who has had a. beaG who was close even to stinginess with his money, is awry when another would-be Suitor hurries her past an ice cream parlor, attempting to divert her attention in another direction, on warm spring evening. She is resentful if he harps on the influences his mother and fam lily have over him, if she has split on just such a rock with some young man whom she would have been pleased to have won as a husband. And so on down whole list of the men who escaped marrying her.
 The lover who wetls the girl who has had many beaux, has his own tor ments. If he anId his wife unfortu- nately have spats, with signs and tears, she filings in his face her regret that she married a brute, when she could have wed such and such a man.
 'fNo, siri'' concludes the sensible man. IA. clean slate in Loves school for me, or none."
 Widows often wonder with all their Vaccinations that they could not win such a man. The reason is plain. They don't want on their slate another mans name;, which, try to erase it, as they may, still shows up dimly That's why the girl whom no one seems to have wanted gets her pick of the best husbands at last.