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Show NO MORE MARRIAGE RISKS Reformers of Today Certainly Are Throwing All Kinds of Safeguards Around the Ceremony. Undor tho microscope of modern criticism marriage seoms to bo honeycombed honey-combed with falso Idoas and tyrannous customs. So wrong Is It that wo almost al-most doubt If any of our grandparents could havo been happy, and we elgh with relief whon wo consider that nt last modern Intellect Is about to do-mollsh do-mollsh tho old-fashioned methods nnd build In their place a schumo of com-mon-Honso mnrrlngo In which no sorrow sor-row nnd regrot can, cloud tho domestic hearth. What a primitive, careless thing marrlago has boen hitherto Just bo-caueo bo-caueo a man and n woman havo been attracted to ono another thoy havo rushed blindly Into n lifelong partnership partner-ship without nny careful forethought or Inquiry. But wo seo tho end of nil that nonsense. non-sense. Already tho now mnrrlngo tho careful, well-conBldered mating has arrived. Tho first medically ex-nmlnod ex-nmlnod wedding has been celebrated In this country. Surely thU will gve a lend to tho world. In future tho first consideration will bo tho medical certificate, and nftor that tho certificate of tempernment. No man und woman will enter the stato of matrimony without tho con Bent of learned psychologist to tostlfj to tholr suitability to ono another. And then tho financial corticate tho considered Judgment of ectmomlo specialists as to wnya and ma-ins However physically Bound nnd temper amontnlly suitable tho man and worn an may bo, tho now mnrrlngo will In Blst that tholr Incomo bo oufllclont tc tisuro n life of comfort eccordlng to tholr normal standards. Our marriage reformers are going to allow ub to tako uo rlska.-Now York Telegram |