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Show THE CAUSE OF MANY UNHAPPY MARRIAGES. Charlea BL Jeffereon writes an interesting in-teresting article entitled. "In Their ev. Home." It Is a sort of friendly talk to young married people. In the following extract taken from the ar-tide ar-tide he explains why some marriages turn out badly: "It takes two hearts to build n home No woman can build a home M herself. Husband and Wife must , ll , borate in this difficult piece of WOT Many men do not realize this. They assume thai all B woman wants iR a house. U thv pay the bills, noth. Ins more, thej think, ought to he expected ex-pected They wrap themselves up In their business, take their recreations with their male companions, and then wonder why eyea which were once radiam a-e now sad. It is because the? think s house can take the place of a home in a woman's heart that many nien are unspealcahh cruel to the women whom the have promised before God and man to cherish until death, if the husband, feelini ,hat by the furnishing and maintenance of the house his duty Is fulfilled, goes off to his business and pleasures, or if the w',ifpi after she Iibs prepared the I meals and made the bed. sinks hack into the solitary life nhe loved before she was married, following her own tastes and pursuits, making no effort, to enter in'o the life and ambitions of her husband, no home will grow up insidp of that house, and two more members will e added to the growing Company of disappointed mortals. "In looking for the causes of unhappy un-happy marriages we are prone to look In the wrong nlrection. It Is our hanit 1 to ascribe controlling importance to the thingB which are seen We lay j the blame on low wages, or on poor housing, or on economic conditione. or I on the industrial order, while all the H time the trouble lies deeper. It lien in H the heart. It is the things which are H not seen which are responsible for H our woes. It is out of the heart that H proceed the destructive forces which wM tear homes to pieces. If marital hap- H plness depends on good wages and ele- H gnnt houses, then why arc the divorce ffi courts crowded with men and women B who wear fine linen and fare Rumptu- E OUfly every day? Husbands and wives EJ drift apart, no matter what kind of a H house they live in, If they do not have Hi home-building hearts." By |
