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Show ilALHAWIBRA THEATRE CAPITAL PRIZE ; Will STORV Seven Other Winning Stories Will Be Announced Tomorrow i 1 MARR1ACM3 A'S. DIVOJl'cR. Marriage! the culmination of cver man's every woman's desire; the blending of two lives to form the perfect per-fect harmony of a home. But how often are theso happy homes wrecked, and the occupants left desolate to :aiu up alone the broken thread of life. Men only too quickly forget the little lit-tle courtesies, the numerous devoilor.fi of courtship days They merely consider con-sider their wives mattor-of-factlv. treating her kindly, leniently; out carelessly forgetting the little favuin which make her contented and happy. Many, women seem to losolnterou in their personal appearance after marriage, neglecting to look their bi-st as they did before matrimony., Is It possible for a man to overlook the faults of a frumpy and carelessly dressed wife; and care as much for her as the man whose wife Is attractively attrac-tively and well garbed? This doe3 not mean she should spend money extravagantly, ex-travagantly, for .x. woman may drcsj exquisitely on an economical basis. ""AH-tooi.qommonly, the husband and wife settle down Into the rut of mc--ried life. Instead of having addc.l zest, tho husband loses nil ambition, merely plodding, along and finding no enjoyment In life. It is not the man who dreams dreams, but th one -vho has foree and power to put them into action, to lift himself above his follow workmen, who really finds the road to happiness and married bliss. And so, when theso grievances ;uk1 many other trivial ones, have reached a climax, and become seemingly unbearable, un-bearable, the Injured parties fj.'o.c separation In tho divorce court. Th-.ro they wish to retract the vows of GodV sacred marriage, and thereby blatantly -publishing to the world's each other's faults and' foibles. , ? j How different from the dayx of our grandparents, when divorces were un-' heard of. and home was all a-ho'ino should be. They together, as truo comrades, sharing hardships, overlooking over-looking the faults of' one another, steered the wavering craft of rnatri-mony rnatri-mony through the stormy rapid into tho QUlefcoVq of peace. Until in the afternoon of life, with1 their children about them, they still j were sweethearts; h retaining not the! wliite-heat flame of youth's love, ':ui tho temporal mellow glow of ever-laHtlng ever-laHtlng comradeship. Keeping ever before us that ldenl. why cannot you and I help to banish the Irrevocable evil of divorce? Livp1 your life for tho other, trying to rind' your share of happiness in helping: that one. j MISS TIIELMA . BROWN, 2317 Jefferson Avenue. I 00 . I |