WHY SOME GIRLS ARE JILTED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 181, 4 September 1909, Page 3

WHY SOME GIRLS ARE JILTED.

The reader of breach-of-promise cases I must often wonder how it U that a man goes so far as to become engaged, write the most passionate love-letters, spend every night in the week with his girl, arrange for the wedding, order the fir."liture. and then suddenly turn round and tell the girl he doesn't think he will marry her after all. As 'a rule, it is generally put down to the inconstancy of anan, but reading between the lines there is evidence in many -cases that the girl is jilted simply because she shows iher real self befort! marriage. £l5O DAMAGES.

Here is a case in point. The writer recently met a, young fellow who had been mulcted to the extent of £l5O damages for breaking 'his engagement to a girl who had worn his ring for twehe months.

"A nice mess you've made of things,' I remarked.

"Should have made a bigger mess if I had married .her," Ee grimly replied. "My word, ehe would have been a handful. I got out of it cheap at £l5O, although it -will take me about ten years to pay H. WOULDN'T HAVE HER AT ANY PRICE. "One day I met a ohum I had not seon \ for eii years. We had a convivial time together, and, unfortunately, I forgot I had an appointment with my young lady. However, I hurried away and reacßed her house about an hour and a-half fete. I was just about to ring the bell when I heard her voice through the open window threatening me with all sorts of pains and penalties for daring to miss the appointment-^this, mark you, before she had heard a word of explanation from me;' and because her . mother ventured to remonstrate with her, she turned round on the deaY old lady and told her she did not know what she was talking about. That was good enough for me, and I cleared off. 1 wouldn't have married the girl if she had £IOOO a year of her own." There is not the least donbt. too, that many girls are jilted for the simple reason that they get an exaggerated notion of what may be termed courtship rights and privileges. There is a type of girl who, the moment she consents to becomo a man's wife, thinks that consent entitles her to an entire subservience to her wishes on the part of the man. Bhe expects him to he at her beck and call at all times, to sacrifice his pleasure for her own, and to cater for her amusement in every possible way. If he fails in any one of these respects she proceeds to take him to task, and the lesult is that the man decides that she is not the girl for him.

VAULTS OF PARENTS. It will often be found, too, that parents are mixed up in brrach-of-pro-mise cases rather prominently. A man naturally resents being told that he should not do this and that by the parents of his prospective bride. As one magistrate remarked a short time ago while listening to a brcach-of-promist case, in which it was shown that one of the reasons of the broken engagement was the dictatorial attitude on the part of the girl's parents, "What a lot 01 trouble and bother would be saved if there were not so many foolish busybodiss in the world!"—TH-Bits.