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Show STUBBORNNESS IN MARRIAGE A judge who had (.-ranted .175 divorces on one week remarked "I ivish there was another word for incompatibility.' " "Men and women who can't Ret along seem to think there is something some-thing unusual and rather fine in their make-up when the word 'in-cninpatihilit.V 'in-cninpatihilit.V is tucked on lo them. believe that incompatibility Is just plain stubbornness in nine cases out of eleven, and cussed stubbornness at that. "It's a great thing for any man or any woman to bo nhle to put him or IicrseJf into the other's place and try to see things from another angle It is foolish for two people to take a stand on opposite sides of a house and shout that it looks thus and so and no other way but thus nnd so. "As foolish." went on the judge "ns the four blind beggars who described de-scribed an elephant. One put out bis hand and said, 'It's a wall!' 'No,' said another touching the tail, It's a rope.' 'Wrong,' cried a third who had explored a leg, "It's a tree'' while the fourth, you mav well guess, declared that an elephant was nothing but n snake, as he had grasped its trunk. "Iireadlh of view is a great thing! And narrowness of view a foolish thing. "There is one case I have in mind where a divorce was averted bv the man's ability and bigness and 'willingness 'will-ingness to concede n point "He had married a girl vonnger i ban himself and then after marriage mar-riage decided to spend his old age in the country. "His wife spent four nnhappv years there. Then she took her child and left. "'The fault Is probably wilh me.' she acknowledged. 'Hut I hale the country. I hale country life, and the constant effort. It brings out every hurt trait that I have! I can't go on.' "The man considered. 'Very well, he said. It isn't fair for nie'io try to make another person over. I am sure my wife cares for me. but love dies under constant Irritation. I do not: dislike the city. I can get nlong quite happily there. I'll go back.' And he did. |
