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Show FEWER GOLDEN WEDDINGS Late Marriages and the Divorce Courts Reduce the Number of These Anniversaries. More and more Infrequently with the succeeding years do we read of the observance ob-servance of the golden wedding anniversary. anni-versary. Memory recalls the time when such celebrations were of frequent occurrence oc-currence ; when the sons and -daughters, grandchildren and often greatgrandchildren great-grandchildren gathered to honor and felicitate those who had shared tin a joys , and sorrows of two-score-ten years and Invoke heaven's blesslnp upon them as they continued hand In hand the Journey toward life's sunset. This infrequency may be due In n measure to the present custom of mar rylug at a later age than was the rule ' several generations ago and to the fact that we of the present seem to fall earlier under the hand of the grim reaper than did our sturdier ancestors But to the divorce evil may be accred Ited the greater part of the blame. The present-day marriage Is too often has tlly contracted, the parties thereto fall to weigh carefully the responsl blllties of married life, and the mosi trivial differences sometimes lead to separation. The number of couples who live to round out fifty years of matrimonial companionship become: ever smaller and smaller. |