Show I Y Yet Yel ct The They Sti Stick k I IONE ONE O NE E startling feature of life in America today is the of divorce and frequency nobody denies that it is an evil evil evil-evil evil in itself by cheapening cheap cheap- c cuing ening ng a relationship ship that should be held a as sacred and evil in many ways through its con con- sequences e Perhaps apsit it is something t to be ashamed of But Dut there is another side to the story It is no small thing to give relief to a man or woman who vho is is' s tied to a a degrading mate and it took courage for a state to face the facts of life and break away from an ancient tradition enough to say that the law should be made for man man not manfor man manfor manfor for the law That is to the credit of the ne ne yer yer order And another er thing to its credit is the number of people who vho never dream of divorce I though they might have it almost for the asking II Once there was no career for a woman outside outside outside out out- side of marriage and in the rhe old days on the farm th there re was vas everything to hold a family together They all shared in the same work of keeping u up P the farm They had much the same amusements and rode behind the same horses to church and tea meet meeting ng or garden party And in the evening evening evening even even- ing they sat ar around und the same fire glad of rest and companionship after a day of hard physical work alone in the fi field ld or the barn or the kitchen In the city ity today all tHat is changed Th The Theman Theman man works works' somewhere away away- from home perhaps perhaps per haps has in the comp company any of I women women at a job his wife may know n nothing thing about And she may work somewhere somewhere- else perhaps with other men men The children go o away to school and perhaps to to the movies For entertainment en there are streetcars to toc c carry rry e each h one separately where he pleases and andin andIn andin in In a furnace heated home there may be no fire to sit around but each one has his own warm room and after a day of city life h he may be too irritable or too absorbed in his own affairs to sit and chat with the rest There is very little littlemore littlemore littlemore more than love and loyalty to hold the family together and divorce is almost respectable And yet et in spite of everything the great majority of married people c continue to live happily ever after I Isn't nt that better than sticking because you I have hav to 1 |