Show When Marr Marriage age I Is I Is s an Experiment I IBy By Sophie Irene Loeb Durin During the week the courts chronicled chronIcled chronicled chron chron- the tho case of ot a man who is suing his wife wire for divorce Her Iler answer was that ho he had married her as an experiment Some of ot her comments are as follows He lie taunts me with his superior education and Just as a nature study did he marry me Many people advIsed advised advised ad ad- him to marry a girl sirl with the exact views he has others advised him to marry just the opposite This he ho claims he did and wants to ascertain ascertain ascertain ascer ascer- tain which was right Thus I am classed as an experiment Perhaps I am very foolish and sentimental sen sene but I do so long for tor love and affection All AU my life Ufe It has been denied me ine and I thought when I married married married mar mar- ried Id I'd be happy happ Those who know me smile for Cor am amI I not supposed to be happily married Have I not a beautiful homo home But Dut that is all aU they think If It only they knew It is the old case of what of-what what will people say Thero There are aro many things that you can take as an experiment but not a wed wed- ding It is for betor or or for tor worse There is no experimental stage The Tho time for experiment is before and not after marriage It is the preliminary proof of at the possibilities of or tho the partnership Too many people marry on the advice of ot others An honest instinct is much more sure than all the tho advice in the world world where tho the happiness o of oC two lives Jives is concerned t I Too many people take marriage as asan asan an event rather than an epoch an experiment rather than an existence as a short lease rather than a long lifetime I When the trial is over the they beg for a dissolution of ot the tho firm In divorce proceedings Some go on and are I happy again but for others many others the Ule probation has proved such sucha I a bitter experience e that the thc capacity for later love and more companionship companionship companion companion- ship is impaired if not lost altogether alto alto- get gether her Thus those who in the spring of life lightly turn to thoughts of marriage marriage marriage mar mar- get overturned in their fancy and wako wake up to find that marriage Is Isan Isan an institution and not an invention One cannot try it and throw it away as easily as one imagines Those who think lon long and marry slowly rarely end u up like this couple They are more willing to study each other before the tho vows are arc taken They measure measure mea sure up the values of ot each to the other After all aU the true test is la the endurance en en- durance of love If It it falters before it will certainly fail fan after arter When love is on the Job you can give sive and forgive much and when it is gone gone you OU may as well quit What people sa say will not ease enso I the tho sorrow of ot the heart and keeping up tho the appearance of or love Is a travesty travesty trav tray esty that produces double punishment punish ment To thine own self be bo true Is the best thing wo vo have yet yet where where real happiness Is concerned Therefore learn the UlC faults and frailties before the tho wedding tune Is played Consider Jon long before you marry There are those who will wiH tell us that you ou cant can't know anybody until you OU marry them but If It you know them lon long enough before marriage there will not be much to discover afterward The big mistakes of marriage marriage marriage mar mar- aro are those made In haste Repentance Repentance Repentance Re Re- always comes more lei let surel surely It Is 18 much better to be sure of or your chance chanco for happiness S than to expect happiness on a chance C tu HI m bj by O w tL tens Ca Co cal |