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Show mrmmmm mt n , 013 , i liiiiiii.t i niw ffMM.My- - Blames Broken Marriages on Easy Divorce t disagree with the authors of your recent article about divorce and . remarriage (Second Marriage- Is No Cure-Al- l, Nov. 14). They claim that most divorces are the result of a personality defect in one of the partners. If this were true, how does one account for thealarming increase in the divorce rate in recent years? Certainly our personality traits good haven't changed, or bad that much. I think that the divorce rate can be laid to the fact that people -are more divorce-consciotoday. They know that they Wean get a divorce easily in I jr - : embarrassing. It is not unusual for him to forget which day of the week it is, but onto he sent his mother a birthday present when her birthday was months away! Maybe there's some truth to all those stories about the' "absent-minde- d professor. ' Mrs. J.W., Tewksb'unjy Mass. baa 1 r Against Wheeling the Baby . I - o di-rec- the Ito r There's one domestic problem that causes a minor fuss in our house whenever it comes up. It's the business tly of taking our son for a ride six-month-- old us some states, top easily. Some- times they're thinking about' divorce even before they get married. Recently, for example, a Hollywood actress ... whoYou're you are, he said. "Now writes those the one I re- -- who member. sad columns." .. It was like a cold shower. I almost winced. But now that I've had time to consider, I don't think he was far wrong. I don't imagine I'd ever be labeled the poor man's Robert Benchley. I've tried to add up my literary ledger and I've found my honest friend saw more clearly than he knew. I'm sorry. The gift of laughter is a wonderful thing. Some of the greatest photographs ever made have been of a child breaking into the delight of mirth or an old man toothlessly cackling. Tears are commonplace. More moving, perhaps, but less inspiring. Sometimes I write in sadness without meaning to do so. I find myself stirred to my roots by the ghost of twilight or the bruised-to- es of a small boy. And I feel a SI 179 North Michigan Avt., Chicago - Walter "Leonard C. S. Dreyfus, Ben Kartman, Publisher Editorial Director Food Editor Williarn'A. Feticr, Art Director De . FAMILY Hal Levinson- WEEKLY MAGAZINE Is It Smart to Be Absent-Mlnde- his baby 'carriage. My wife thinks I shouldn't mind taking. the baby for an airing. She always uses the argument that if I'm proud of the boy, I should be happy to perform this little chore. Well, I am proud of my son,, naturally, and I don't mind helping with the domestic chores even changing the baby's diapers occasionally. But pushing the baby buggy down the street just seems kind of unmasculine to me. d? f wonder if alh highly intelligent people are absent-minded- ? My husband, who is considered quite a brilliant man in his field, is very forgetful. He is always forgetting where he leaves things and forgetting little errands 1 ask him to do. If I write him a list of things to help hirh remember, he'll lose the list or forget where he put it. Sometimes he calls close friends by the wrong narne, and this can be very ' RADIOS-HARDv I Y 6 PERENNIAL: GRAND OLE QPRY HERBS AND SPICE MAKE EVERYTHING NICE HOW DO YOU SCORE AS JUNIOR TREASURE CHEST is I mi Jerry Klein 23, 1955 A. 'f SPACE-MAKER- S 7 (Recipes).. A PARENT? by Charles a.nd Jean" Komailto Rgina Grusi JANUARY then said her wedding vows. When people. enter marriage with such an. attitude, how can they expect it to last? M.H.R., Moorhead, Minn. ' . WHAT MADE YOU LOVE HIM CAN MAKE YOU LEAVE HIM by Eleanorg' Redwin and Gudrun Atcock 4 1 Associate Editors Robert Fitzgibbon . w' in And apparently otner lathers agree with me because I seldom see anyone else do- - . t T Hlg 1 11. -- Ji i n't l 1 l , 7 Sill n IO.tOllU JHUH uuniy- mont.Colo. We Pay $10 for Your Letters We welcome your views on any subject of general interest. If tve print your letter, you will receive $10. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request. We reserve the right to edit contributions Address Letters Editor, Family Weekly, 119 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 1, II. Contents: I, III. Proft, Molanie compulsion to set down those emotions. And then I am startled to learn a reader was reduced to silent tears. I suppose there is some virtue in being able to make someone cry. In choosing a combination" of words which looses tears along with memory. Artists far greater than I can hope to be have won immortality by their ability to. play or speak or act on the heartstrings and make them sob in response. But the nature of us all is more prone to sorrow than to joy. And sometimes even in, joy there is an exquisite anguish. So, though I ask forgiveness of my candid friend and of those who find the thread of sadness strongest in the fabric of myself, there is a sadness, too, for me. For I could ask no greater gift than that my crown should shine with something far more precious than the stars of sorrow, The tears of laughter. Davidow, Publisher Aiociae igehOaUniony'-:vo- Rebels edid 1 by Marjorie Barrows 1 12 . Summer fishing, FOR TODAY'S SMALLER HOMES ..." by Ruth W.;Lee SPRING WOOLS COME EARLY AND STAY LATE '. by .Allyn Rice t .'. . . CROSSWORD PUZZLE ..13 . r :' . .14 ": . .. rAMItT WttRLT rAMtRMJ,. . . the northern part When Winter tabs a firm grip-o- n of the strangest of the country, ice, fishing, one forms of angling, comes irito its own. Out over' frozen lakes and rivers tramp the hardy devotees of this ruqqed sport. Some bring with them elaborate gear and portable 'shacks and stoves; others, nothing, but on ice chisel, hook, line, and bait. . The Sport doesn't have the comforts of 15 good to eat. but the fish are just as (Photo by J. JuIhjs Fanta.'- - Address all communications concerning 'editorial features to Family Weekly, 179 N. Michigan Ave,, Chicaqo I, HI. Send alt advertising conmgnications to Family Weekly, 9 E. 40th St.--t "(1955, Ave., New York 16, N. Y. Contents Copyrighted, N. Michigan bvF a mHy Weekly Magazine. Inc., 179 Chicago I, III. All rights reserved.' |