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Show Married Life in Fiction. (Indianapolis Star.) Once upon a time, and not so very long ago, the word novel was invariably synonymous with love story; fiction was romance the record of the wooing of a maid and the adventures incident thereto. The novel reader expected each work of fiction to contain such, a love story. Whatever experience by land or sea the personages of the tale might have, whatever "purpose" the author might wish to promote, whatever what-ever philosophy to advocate or historical histori-cal episode to celebrate, he must leaven these serious happenings and thoughts with an account of (ho fnrtunoc - pair of lovers. " . If in the final chapter he brought them to the point of wedlock and left them to be happy ever after, he felt that his duty was done, and few were the readers who desired to penetrate beyond that veil. It was the accepted theory that marriage ended all so far as the world's interest in the history of any man and woman was concerned When they had fallen into each other's arms as the final preliminary to .the ceremony that should make them one it was considered that this was a clirnax in their affairs beyond which would occur oc-cur nothing worth relating. Now all this is changed. Courtship is ignored or used merely as an introduction intro-duction to the tale and the novelist plunges at once into a record of married mar-ried life. Invariably, too, it is an unhappy un-happy life, whether because the peaceful peace-ful existence of a wedded pair is too tame to be interesting or whether un-happiness un-happiness Is the common matrimonial fortune no one has made clear. The reader is left to decide that for himself. |