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Show Woman's Viewpoint, as One of Sex Sees It It is woman's common failing now to take love too seriously and marriage mar-riage too casually. She would be far better off if she reversed the procedure. The American girl is the victim of her pretty and well-nursed delusions. She believes that when romance fades out of marriage the marriage itself should be dissolved, because she fools herself into thinking that romance and love are one. Nothing could be more fatal for her personal security, for her happiness, for a contented old age or for society. It was necessary, perhaps, that we go through a period of matrimonial experimentation. The rather abrupt departure from the Idea of marriage as an eternally fixed institution causes ns to fling onrselves to the other extreme. Hence we have survived sur-vived an ugly time when fidelity, common sense and even ordinary decency de-cency have sunk to a low ebb. We are emerging from it more unhappy than before. The home is the root from which all pur other institutions spring, and permanent marriage, regarded re-garded seriously by both men and women, is the soil that nurtures that r00tMrs. Walter Ferguson, Woman's Wom-an's Editor, in the New York World-Telegram. |