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Show I STORMS OF MARRIED LIFE A boat adrift in a whirlpool is akin to fate's handling a newly married couple on the sea of matrimony. Wee, insignificant quarrels easily may be likened to the whirling waters which twist and turn the boat sometimes to send it to smoother sailing, or to whirl it so rapidly that the craft sinks before it can right itself. Petty quarrels grow, and false pride, greatest and oldest enemy i)f married happiness, wrecks for all time the one real haven they knew home Gilbert Frankan, 1 h r novelist, believes thp seventh ypar of married mar-ried life is the most dangerous "Then passion," he says, "has cooled, and often there is nothing to lake its place. Marriages founded on a mere whim or infatuation may lose their happiness in a year." Others assort it is a question f age only. "I think the 'danger y6ar' of marriage varies according to the different classes of people," says another writer "Where the wife m her oWn maid, the danger year, for her, iis the year the first child is born Very often the girl-wife, now 1o the many household duties, loud of pleasure and pretty clnthes, grows morbid because of the great care and the necessary extra economy the baby brings. Sympathy Sym-pathy nd love from hei husband tide her over and when the full realization of life grows up6n them complete understanding, essen- tial to married happiness, has come to them." "Eugenics and more honesty relating to life are the most impor-j tant factors to the ideal marriage relation," says a prominent divorce lawyer. Judges, magistrates and lawyers seem to agree that "ignor ance" is to blame for more divorces and separations than all other jauses. |