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Show ARE THE KNOTS REALLY TIED? There is a very grotesquo nftor-mm nftor-mm h for somo of theso Juno weddings. wed-dings. Tho function looks very splendiferous ns reported in tho papers. pa-pers. It has tho approval of church mid state, tho benediction of friends, tho rousing send off of tho colcbrat-oi colcbrat-oi s, and tho cclnt of social glitter Yet In n year or two tho couplo may 1'avo found themBolves, uncongenial, nnd mny bo seeking n sepnranou on moro or less trumped up reasons. A mother called to account recently recent-ly tho friends who we.ro bringing In presents for her daughters nuptials. Thoy had mado tho mistake, as she considered It, of marking tho silver with tho prospective married Initials Initi-als of tho bride-elect. Tho mother had an oyo to windward. Mark It with tho girl's own Initials, she said, and they will bo good no mattor what happens. Thus the dlvorco court casts du shadow even ovor the cero-mony. cero-mony. Thero seem to bo a lot of weddings today that aro practically trial marriages. mar-riages. A husband or. wife Is taken on probation, with tho tacit understanding under-standing that tho thing may or It may not woftt. Even people who favor an easy dlvorco law must admit that It Is rough on tho children. Every boy and girl needs tho development of settled homo llfo, nnd domestic peaco. There aro certain things that tho parents can do for children that no ono else- can do, and theso things can not bo done In an ntmosphuro oltlier of homo turmo'l or neglect. A child will have llttlo respect for otther parent whero ono or both of them becomo mixed up In Illicit love affairs. Hero Is tho primary cause of divorces, not drunkenness or de-scrtou de-scrtou or cruelty or the legal chnrg- 5HKXSjsM22mJBSHBCiS e.t that appear In courts, A woman knows when her husband's heart has gono elsewhere. Some of theso Juno weddings might well b.9 postponed a fbw months until such time as the couplo can know their own minds on a permanent basis. |
