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Show PERILS OT MARRIAGE li takes nerve to marry these dajs. says an Omaha minister. He confide? ) thai whenever he unites a couple in jt he holy bonds of matrimony he looks a" the groom and thinks to hhnseli. "Sir you are a sponsman. trieJ ani 'true." ' bitch generation in the past ha- ... the same Idea about their particular titpe So will all future generations , As ? matter of fact, it requires less I io shoulder fattlil; responjdblH-j lies today than ever before I Civilization is a featherbed k&COnomlc problem.- ate Olftiai meet now than in t lie past We oiJy j Imagine they are harder Travel back, in Imagination, L'c - ur ' ancestor, the caveman To begin with, he hail io win his tuirj,. by ik'unnr: .. rival. ' . , I The lover with the stronger uius 'ties, sharpest teeth or longest-handled .war club emerged alive and claimed ,the bride After marriage, lather lml to 'to tect nis family against raiding, m t derous outlaws and monster b a that modern man encounters onl la nightmares and delirium tremens Oh, s, it look less neie io marrj I in t hose days Go back even as short a period as 50 years, to the terrible panic i hat 'followed the Civil wai It look real nerve lo marry in those davs with the country disorganized, infested with outlaws, and the average person about $10 from the breadline. In fiction and 1n history, you can Still read of the. hardships endured by 'the pioneers who settled the mountain districts and crossed Ihe plains in prairie schooners. A young couple in those days ibought nothing of venturing into the uncharted wilderness with only an axe, a rifle, a bundle of bedding, cop per cooking utensils, an iron kettle and maybe a luxury' like a clock or horso or cow. They got along all right, too conquered con-quered the barren wilderness and handed it down to their children in the form of fertile fields and wooded clear ings. Real folks, those. Get the old fam ily album out of the attic and look at their tin types. Compared with the past generations, even the poorest of modern brides and grooms have an easy time. The trouble is, young folks today "want to start whore tho old folks left off." When thoy set up house for themselves, they want a house full of furniture and a 1922 model car. Civilisation, the featherbed, has accustomed ac-customed us to soft ways of living. That la why moat of us Imagine that it takes Spartan nerve to brave the economic problems of married life in modern times. |