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Show JOYS AND SORROWS OF MATRIMONY As was anticipated, hastily contracted marriages entered into under the stress and excitement ex-citement of war, are breaking up at a frightening rate. Miss Norris points out that it is partly part-ly the responsibility of parents, who have failed to impress upon their children the seriousness seri-ousness of matrimony, and the necessity for various adjustments adjust-ments by both partners. The misery and heart-break of these divorces can hardly be calculated, Miss Norris says. Young lives are often permanently perma-nently wrecked, because those who have once failed to find happiness in the married state the first time are frequently unable to make a success of a second marriage. The early scars remain, and doubt and distrust arise easily. Our parents and grandparents grandpar-ents understood the problem of marriage better, in many ways, than we do. They entered en-tered it determined to make a go of it, come what would. |