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Show MAX O'RELL ON MARRIAGE. Matrimony is a very narrow carriage. car-riage. If you want to be comfortable in.it you have to be careful or one will soon be in the way of the other. To put yourself to a little inconvenience now and then is the only way of making mak-ing the other comfortable. To believe that love alone without careful study will resist all the shocks and will be all the more durable in that it is ardent, ar-dent, is the greatest mistake one can make in the world. Violent passion may be compared to Hercules, who might have enough strength to raise a palace on his shoulders, but not enough to stand a cold in his head. It is the thousand and one little drawbacks draw-backs of matrimonial life that undermine under-mine it; love will survive a great misfortune, mis-fortune, but will be killed by the little miseries of conjugal partnership. In matrimony it is the little things that count and which, added up, make a terrible total. The waning love of a wife will not be revived by the present pres-ent of a five-thousand-dollar pair of earrings, but it may be kept up by the daily present of a five-cent bundle of violets, which reminds her that you think of her every day of your life. It is not the great sacrifices that appeal ap-peal to her as do constant little concessions. con-cessions. Many men would sacrifice their lives, who would not give up smoking or their too frequent visits to their clubs for their wives. Many women will be the incarnation of devotion de-votion and self-abnegation, who will not do their hair as their husbands beg them to. o |