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Show SECOND MARRIAGES By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Emeritus Dean of Men, University of Illinois. Far be it from me to say anything derogatory to the second marriage. I r iff! have known scores of most successful ones. Often a man seems by his first experience to have learned wisdom and so makes a much better selection the second time than the first. An acquaintance of mine, who seems to have formed the habit of marriage, did Colton replied, "it belonged to one of Mr. Colton's wives." Now what can one say in such a situation excepting to reaffirm the fact that the article in question certainly cer-tainly is a knock-out. "What are you going to write to Carrie and Frank?" Peters asked me a few nights ago. He had evidently just received, as I had, the announcement announce-ment of the marriage of two of our rather Intimate acquaintances, each of whom had previously been married and whose partners we had known well. That was exactly what I had been considering in my mind, and not being able to think of anything sufficiently suffi-ciently felicitous, I had written nothing. noth-ing. Well, what should one say in such a situation? Should he let the past take care of itself and make no reference to it, or what? I am still uncertain, and that is why second marriages are sometimes an embarrassment to me. (, 1932, Western Newspaper Union.) better and better as time went on, and when he led his fourth partner to the altar, showed a really discriminating discrimi-nating judgment, and seems in this last relation even happier than in any of the others. It Is not the marriage itself which concerns me, for that is a matter which every widow or widower must personally decide; it is the conditions and sometimes the embarrassments which arise among those who are chronically getting married which give me subject for thought. What attitude should one take to those who have departed this life, and who have gone on to other worlds? Nancy was visiting the Coltons not long ago, and was admiring a piece of bric-a-brac which stood on the mantel. She had forgotten that Mrs. Colton was not a first edition, and thoughtlessly exclaimed : "Where did you get this beautiful little statue?" "I don't just know," the latest Mrs. |