EYESIGHT AND MARRIAGE "I heard an old bachelor giving some advice to his pretty niece to day," observed tho society woman, as she JolneJ tho little group ot women wo-men on the hotel piazza. "The girl has half dozen flirtations on her string, and I guess he thought It was time tor him to enlighten her a little on the wa8 of mankind." ' "You mean that girl, with the lovely love-ly dark eyesT" questioned ono of tho women. "She is h peach, Isn't shoT" . "She Is jiot doing any damage," laughed another. , "She la only helping help-ing the young fellows to cut t&felr wisdom tooth." " scarcely, believe her uncle thinks so. He evidontly Judges things aro getting a bit serious, for ho was giving giv-ing her 'quite a talk on marriage, I hoUgbt ono of tho things he said, -Vatbor, good." . "What was It," they chorused. "Ho advised her to" keep Her eyes wide open beforo marrlago and parti ly closed afterward." "It you keep them too wide open bofore marriage, you will never got married," scoffed ono of the women. "My'ndvlco is to keep thorn partly closed both boforo nnik.oftor." "Women nowadays aren't so crazy about inhrrlugo as all that, it's got to -look pretty good to them or thoy wofc't go Into It." "And they ought to soo very plainly plain-ly what thoy are going Into," agreed several mombcrs of the grcA. "A girl Is foolish to shut her eyes to serious se-rious faults or habits. She ought to know exactly what she will be up against, and then It is tor her to decide de-cide whether she cares to shoulder that particular load or not." "But I do not think the bachelor uncle was rather wise in advising her to keep her eyes partially closed after af-ter marrlago," said tho society wo man. 'To some things, yes," admitted the others. "But not to everything," they protested, "Some faults and habits ought to bo seen nnd woeded out. But somo It Is best to Ignore and they'll gradually dlo out. Men aro a bit like children. It Is often, wlso- not to seo things children do. ' And It is often wise to bo unconscious of things that happen in everyday married lite." "A- woman' needs Ue wsdom of Solomon, doosnl she, to pursue the right course?" sighed thesociety wo-, man. . ' "Yes," spoko up' a. thoughtful member mem-ber of tho group; "And how little that light hearted girl realizes what explosives ex-plosives she is playing with. Before the season Is over, undoubtedly she will be engaged, andyprobably, she'll never havo used her eyes at all. She will havo let a passing- motion tulo Jier; whether for good or HI, only after-effects can tell. She will have done, little herself to decide what the consequences shall be," "She needs more strenuous qdylce than what her bachelor uncle Is glv-lngor," glv-lngor," observed one of tho party. "Oh let her alone," again spoke up her first champion. "S.he can take, care of herself. She's only benevolently benevo-lently giving tho young men somo needed training. Trust a girl with eye like hers to see all that is needed to be seen both beforehand after," Barbara Boyd.