The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-12
NEW TRIANGLE
 IN WAR BRIDES

OContinued From Page One.) net from her station point at the port of New York.
 Lieutenant Deppe's father became quickly concerned about me. Ills letters are brimming over with ex-- pressioIfs of sympathy and affection.
 'tHe has determined that his sons hasty romance with me should not be a permanent blot upon my life nor a blur upon his own family name"
 So papa proposes marriage to the fair Nady of France in order that the romance which wrecked her own marriage, and what has, no doubt. cast a shadow over the home of Lieutenant Deppe, will not cast blot upon her life, and that the name of Deppe may be connected always and ever with honor and it's ways. The case has been compared with the Anglo-American affair of the SpikerS. Yet here the whole motive of Mrs Perley Spiker's magnanimity ture of a child.
 Guy Spiker married the girl whom his brother had loved, who was the mother of his brother Perley's child. father of two grown-up daughters will save the good name of his fam | fly-so he says-by wedding a French matron beloved by his son, and whose home his son disrupted.
 | How will this insure the honor Of | the Deppes?
 Mime. Vennet does not demand-to Etio her justice-that her former lover give up his wife and family to follow l her footsteps whither she goeth- Is Mile. Babin, whose internatlona1 TO- nance with Lee Shippey, '4" work | CT, also begun in France as flde issue of war, was also an adept m l the art of correspondence. This art. | although the literary ones tell us It is languishing in America, still seems to flourish across the sea. i Mile. Bablin had a child. So did Mrs Shippey. That was the reason, so the wronged wife said, that she didn't want to divorce Lee so he could t'save the honor of the name by marrying Mile. Madeline. What is the honor of ones name: 1: Does it mean that all family snail
 band together to cover up the mis- | takes of each other and present a | false front of virtue for the world | to admire?
 | The underlying idea in. most of | these international romances is that | a marriage certificate and the pla1n | gold band cover a multitude of sins Emily Knowles married Gus Spiker. | She is supposed to be happy. Near
 her home lives Perley Spiker, her | chi1d'S father, and his wife and child
 Think of the, strings of memory | that hold all these together. The | memories that a chance word or hap pening play uponi
 But the "honor' of the family is | Sa1e, reSdTOleSS.
 Mrs. Shippey, we hear, will give up her husband to Mile. Babin. Thus | will the honor of the Shippey name | be safe.
 The Spiker case aroused sympathy because everyone felt sorry for pretty l young Emily Knowles and her help
 less burden, the war baby without g | name. Emily asked nothing. She had received communications from l Perley Spiker's forgiving wife, who | asked her to come to America and
 make her home with the Spikers | Then Brother Guy offered marriage | Emily accepted. Another kind ot
 woman might have refused an imme- diate marriage when she had so re. | gently and so disastrously loved an other, but that type of woman is rare | However that may be, has all thi: restored Per1ey Spiker's honor? Vii
 the world forget that during the wal , he forgot his family and his respon.
 sibility?
 | Why is honor so unimportant be.
 fore lapse from it, and so much tt be considered after the fall?
 Will marriage between Mime Ven 1 net and the father of the man who
 lured her from her husband mak,
 everyone concerned highly honora
 b1e?
 The marriage of convenience" ha. taken on a new meaning.