Show Marriage Z Wrecked Mg X on Rock of Discourtesy X There Is nothing on earth that so grinds one as to be met with discourtesy discourtesy dis dis- dis courtesy and rudeness in daily dally life Ufe I have haye watched for tor fifty years and I have found that the nasty little cancer that eats the deepest and hurts the worst in married life lICe Is lack luck of courtesy Just common everyday politeness In the way you address each other and In the attention you pay each other In the way you eat your our food In the way you OU conduct yourself In the privacy of your our bedchamber bed bed- chamber s Be gracious I r More men and women have lost themselves to each other by being rough and careless and sickening sickening sicken sicken- ing each euch other concerning the little niceties of life Ilfe when merely to keep up things Ic in the way the they begun began would I have saved the whole situation At this minute If It I should be aSked to name the biggest rock on which matrimony stands I would put my fingers on the thing that starts discontent discontent dis dig content and unhappiness as lack of courtesy between men and wives which very cry shortly culminates in disgust disgust disgust dis dis- dis- dis gust and disrespect Gene Gene Stratton Stratton- Porter in a posthumous article In McCalls McCalls McCall's Mc Me- Calls Call's Magazine |