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Show Newlyweds Had Better Take a Grain Of Salt With Elders' Advice ' ITe, the Women Br MTH MIIXETT It'i high tlm married people quit fooling the young. Those about to get married get only two points of view end neither la the truth. The cynica warn them that marriage mar-riage .will dull their love that after a year or two they'll be bored to death with each other and with marriage. The hopeful romantics tell them that If they do Just the right thing if he biingi her rosea once a week and tells her' she's beautiful beau-tiful once a day and she repeats "You're wonderful" with the persistence per-sistence of a stuck vlctrola needle the eager romance of courting days will be theirs forever. Why don't the married tell the soon-to-be the truth and give them a break T The truth, of course, Is that peo- pie old enough to marry should neither want nor exjfcct a lifetime life-time honeymoon. There is no reason In the world why a girl should be disappointed In marriage because her husband occasionally gets too entrosaed la his own thoughts to really bear her chatter or to Jump to his feet to light her cigarette or help her put on her galoshes. And he shouldn't feel Justified In looking elsewhere for romance and adoration and mystery Just because be-cause his wife treats him like a human being Instead of. Cod's greatest gift to woman. Young people ought to be taught that it Is an achievement and not a let down for a man and a woman to learn to be good enough friends to take each other a little bit for granted. Enough to let them enjoy en-joy the happiness and companion-' ship of marriage without feeling they should put on an act every minute they are together. If young people were made to understand that it Is only the emotionally emo-tionally Immature who expect to live In a romantic dream world all their lives they wouldn't feel that marriage had let them down the minute It lets them touch their feet to solid eault, |