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Show ply Wm For Wmm to Smk Wmwmo 'M A III" MKT; , ,, . B K-.r.l..: higher lici.i ,.t div ine ins) it utlon, nvarriage. to Mr I'ractl. all.v ludissol uhle Poryak-lm Poryak-lm mi -SP 1 ' ior hlmi so long as v. l,.,th BJsbI B' officiating m: L-i-1 rates. "mTTK i"'1 for worse . tin rCgJ us part," the solemn ob- BB6o " '"' kcn'bv bride and :ssSUl ItI-i. Kiooiii "The mi. i til, .i Imyta ' i.om. -i i , ..iu. 'jiBBVon ' R)2 d'T'-'iids upon its 'flf. nn n. s yTrrt ' U.e MabllMv and su. ie.l'- . p rlage tl bet ween L , "t ar(l on.- woman Goethe P 's ,,!" I the .-nd ..f a 1 , iil-BB iil-BB li'dls- ilnlil. I, i . t the soi rce EP'r" " ' i -"K ' ' o i. t , , i BP. m' '' S ! n-b , M I lii- lm 1 ,r"'" '" '"" "" :J ' v ' 1 "" Til. iVr. V Ihemselves unhappy? Let them i ' ' '"' ' '" '"' ' ---d and t;""'r. R 1 lui k that what has stood a i R"01"- 1 , ground man rind a wise one Into whose mouth ;iRWpeech but the last a nt ... i is too re umo3 when humanity, when self-pre-I L- servatlon, which In all vlhlcs Is accounted the first law of nature, demands that the bond shall be broken by the strong arm of the law, which protects from vvr..n.: and outrage; untied as before It can never be! Humply Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumoty had a great fall. AH the king s horses and all the king's men t an never make Humpty Dumpty whole again." Divorce Is no new thing. "Moses suffered a bill of divorcement" di-vorcement" for good and sufficient reason, and Christ confirming the precept, "for your hardness of heart." commanded that no man. without sin. might marry her that was put aaj . whence the attitude of the Roman Catholic and so many other Christian clergymen with regard to the marriage of divorced persons in point of fact a divorce Is much like an amnutntlon It should be only as a last resort, when other means of healing are hopeless. A broken bone, a serious sprain, ucute rheumatism, however painful, do not Justitv the cutting ufT of a limb In the vast majorlly of cases the si risible, thing Is to endure The union of the sexes upon some basis or other Is natural and Inevitable. Christian marriage Is the only one known whl. h meets all the exl-geni exl-geni les of l lie ease, and Its honor Its safety, and Hx happiness are all founded In Its permanence, and In the sens'1 of Obligation and responsibility which attaches to it. The Institution of the familv, as' It exists n civilized society. Is based upon the foundation of dutv and solf-renum solf-renum latlon the love which holds the Interests of others paramount to selfish gratification of one's own .lesir- - People, whether men or women, who wish to "live their own lives." as the popular phrase of the day goes ought 2it,K?JmS!I?r ir'0"'" C( !,s "v,nh t0 himself, and no man dleth to himself. Katth the Apostle Paul, and none of us can rightfully assert our exclusive right to a Ufa given us without our knowledge r.r consent, whl. h will be taken from us without our permission or choice of time ,. ,,.. or circumstances It cannot be too otten trlt.i u. .1 tint the surest. If not the only, means of finding happiness for XhwmV0 ifek !l ,or "thrrs 11 ls at '"n:t doubtful wnetner either happiness or liberty Is possible for the dUilr, i-'r 1' nfsr.i" . hn womnn- "ho pursues it m selfish distegard of their fellows The grand central tact of life, fitly lived, is dutv To find What Is that duty, and to do it to the extent of one's abi ity-this Is the victory which overcometh the world Which make., heroes, and blesses the doer w lio It Is promised, shall find In the doing thereof "exceeding great reward ' When others come short, tho need is bit the more Imperative that tho faithful should neraevers Be not oven oma of evil, but overcome evil with good each otnhern R'dBer that tW W ronss blac It Is an undeniable fact that there are people who as the saying goes, rub one the wrong way people whose presence and Influem c are to one's natural t. ,, dem ies to evil as Is a red rag to a bull It Is a dire misfortune When one marries Huch a one. nor is It any palliation thereof to know that it is the consequence of oue!s'own ftL'm'f8 ,"r ,l;,atV :inJ "trolled impuiVe. on he Pacific coast, In the days of tho Argonauts tho men most admired were those who never ' squealed ' under Jtoft en ,5!:oss1uc;uw,,0 accepted the consequence of her own d. .ds , Wt 1. -aha philosophy, and ,o their guns till they died In their tracks" It Is told us y Mm idliddl. I that one of the most beautiful of all the beautiful windows win-dows in old world cathedrals Is one which was pieced together from the fragments of another the chef d'oeuvre Of an artist, which was shattered as It was about to be raised to Its placo of honor When a mistake is made it is the law of life that as long as they lat, Its consequences conse-quences must be borne by somo one. The simple code of Justice Is. "Uho breaks pays." It Is only In theory, and" seml-occaslonallv In real life that a man and his wife are truly one In all their lncl notions and tastes ' Two souls with but a single thought Two hearts that beat as one " Harmony does not consist merely In identity and the saying that variety is the spice of life Is as true as It Is old Few people can dwell together in intimate association associa-tion and never disagree Often the disagreements are slight and arise from trivial causes-ns trivial as that chronicled in the old rhjmo. "I loved coffee and Billy leved tea; That was tho reason wo couldn't agree." Yet the solution of that quarrel would have been easy Teapot and coffee pot both upon the tray would never have conflicted with each other Compromise In married life is so much wiser than war. A little thing kept close to the eves mav shut out all things else, a tiny seed mav . nurtured Into a great lr. , , and so trilling causes not Infrequently lead to the separation of husband and wife, tho disruption of the family, when forbearance and common sense at the be-ginning be-ginning of the muter might easily have settled the differ-ence, differ-ence, For. ordinarily, any difficulties which arise b-tween b-tween man and wife are such as mav be more or less readily overcome, and It Is rorely the case that the pleas-ure pleas-ure which comes from companionship and mutual affection does not abundantly compensate for any sacrifice of per-sonal per-sonal preference's, much less for the responsibilities of matrimony, which are usually their own reward The futility of div .rce strikingly proved bv the largo percentage of divorced couples who, after trying separa-tlon separa-tlon for awhile, remarry convinced that, after all. dellv-franco dellv-franco from one another was not wn.it t h. v needed' It is not what one Keeks, nor yet what one has. which brings peace and prosperity: it is rather the use to which 0,10 puts one's possessions, and making the test of what fate allots to us Rurly Is the sorrow and trouble of living together, unagreed, so deplorable as that brought not only upon one's self, but upon others, who are Inno-cent. Inno-cent. But. If this Is tho case If the burdon Is unbciir-able, unbciir-able, and divorce must bo It should take place quietly mid with dignity, so that sec.r, SM , t at rr)il bo saved from the wreok. Nevertheless, the fact remains that, whatever the pro-vocation. pro-vocation. It Is rarely wise for a woman to seek divorce To quote the recent utterance of a supposed divorcee lrl LH the Philistine "No woman should ever seek a divorce Not one time in a million does she better her condition LH The divorcee Is a disgraced woman. In in .t she hoa failed to make her husband happy. The .sen of failure hovers! always over her. If kIu- i..s-t her husband's lov it was, her fault Had she been bigger and better she would have held him. She thought to find freedom In divorce tut all she gets is notoriety." ' |