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Show Happiness in Married Life. & . . J out boldly and ssy they wa-ted to mar-1 mar-1 ry, their parents could fix things nicely nice-ly for them. As It is. they say they don't wish to marry and form clubs to assure the world that nothing could Induce them to take such a fatal step. With what result? They marry the first girl who will take the trouble to convince them of the stupidity of their ideas. Then, of course, any chance of being-able being-able to mount the stool of superiority Is gone. The wife occupies the stool, and she la scarcely going to come down after she is married. If a woman can be made tq look at a man from his mother's point of view she is bound always to adore him." If any happiness is to be attained In married life, girls must be taught to look up and boys to climb up. Caroline Caro-line Los Angeles Examiner. When Mrsi BS. Bernard of Colorado Springs was divorced from her husband hus-band recently she thought she was doing do-ing quite well Jwhen. she received an alimony of $100,000. But alas and alack! she had made a mistake. Mr. Bernard paid the alimony In the stock of a mining company. At that time the stock was selling at 2Z&, having boomed from 90 to the high point. Since Mrs. Bernard secured her stock It has been slumping steadily, until It Is now at 15. Mrs. Bernard and her friends say that Bernard has beared it ever alnce he paid the alimony, and predict even lower prices for lt - 1 . A $61,000 revenge Is a large revenge-to revenge-to take on a woman for getting a divorce. di-vorce. A matrimonial difficulty used to be a more or less simple affair, and those who considered themselves respectable could settle It without any interference from outside. But those days are passed, and moat matrim'onial quarrels are settled in the brilliant light of the divorce court, and any one who cares to may learn all the detail. It has become so easy to get a divorce di-vorce that there it no attempt to patch up quarrels. Divorce, not marriage, is looked upon as a panacea for all Ills. This would look as though there was something wrong with the American idea of marriage. Why wouldn't it be a good Idea to adopt some of the Chinese marriage customs? Americans have been successful in many ways, but they seem to have made a signal failure of this most Important Im-portant of all contracts. Perhaps there has been too much time given up to preserving the illusions illu-sions of the marrying members of the community. In China there are no Illusions about marriages being made In heaven, for It is understood that they are exclusively exclu-sively the product of parental Interference. Interfer-ence. Then, too. the woman Is started right. She Is taught from the first that her husband Is a superior being. In fact, one of the first things he does after his wife is brought to the house Is to climb on a. high stool while I she kneels before him. This Is Just to Indicate his lofty superiority. su-periority. Of course, these little ways would have to be introduced gradually, and It would be the men who would have to Introduce them. The women folk would have to be won over. To make things smooth at the start the men might marry the women their mothers picked out for them. (This has never been done). Then the children would have to be brought up with the right Ideas. The girls should be taught that they were Inferior beings, and that the boys were superior creatures, to be looked up to, worshiped and obeyed. The Idea that women are the equals of men seems to have caused much trouble. Of course. It will take time to bring about these changes. But If young men. Instead of forming antl-matrlmonlal clubs, would come |