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Show FEWER GOLDEN WEDDINGS Late Marriages and the Divorce Courts Reduce the Number of These Anniversaries. More nnd more Infrequently with the. siieeeedln years do wo read of the ol-servanre ol-servanre 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, daugh-ters, grandchildren and often greatgrandchildren great-grandchildren gathered to honor utid felicitate thoso who had shared the Jnjs nnd sorrows of two-srore-tcn Jears nnd Invoke lien ven's blessing upon I hem ns they continued hand In hand the Journey toward life's sunset. This Infrequency may he due In a measure to the present custom of marrying mar-rying at a loter age than was the rule M-veral generations ngo and lo the fact that we of the present seem to fall earlier under the, hnnd of the grim rrper than did snr sturdier ancestors. Hut to the divorce evil may be accredited accred-ited the greater part of the blame. The pri-M-nt-day marriage Is too often tins-Illy tins-Illy contracted, the parties thereto fall to weigh carefully the responsl-hllltles responsl-hllltles of married life, and the most trivial differences sometimes lead to K'paratlon. The number of couples who live to round out fifty venrs of matrimonii companionship becomes ever smaller and smaller. |