The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-04
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friends hSiT2ijcss just as cerUauIy and absolutely as If his own dear
 mother were listening to the story and
 eager Tor every word of detail.
 If the hand of sorrow pressed heav- fly on his soul, and the night of doubt and fear settled down on his life, and
 the ship of his great hope had sunk
 when 1t was almost in port, and he faced failure and defeat, he knew one who would be unchanged, whom he
 could count on to the very end. And when some problem affecting the well fare of either had to be solved It was the problem of both and they would stay up half the night to settle 1t Ike a jury locked out until they came to verdict and they put together their wisdom just as they had often pooled their meager funds when the exIgen- cies or need of the one became the privilege and glad opportunity of the other.
 When this instructive impulse to confidence Is carried into married life and the heart and the lips and the out stretched arms turn to the wife as naturally as the magnetic needle finds Its north. with the truest comradeship made greater and finer by love, then married life has no real problems that the two, united and ln unison, cannot solve.
 Comradeship holds the specter of monotony at bay. With two ever bringing their best sweetly to each Oth- CT, as a little child carries to Its mOth- CT a wayslde flower 1t has plucked just because 1t is most natural to bring 1t to her, there is little fear that their days will be long or that they will hun ger for change from each other when they are finding this change in each other and with each other. Whatever tends to lessen their comradeshIp and to decrease their dependence on each other Is a menace to their happiness.
 One Of the early temptations of mar ried life Is to live with the old folks. It all sounds so alluring when 1t is proposed that "they can take the entire third floor which Is not really needed" by the home company who are willing to donate 1t or sublet 1t to the young firm. The advantages are obvious, the disadvantages are more subtle, but 1t Is a hazardous experiment.
 The opening words of the worlds greatest book are 'Tn the beginning" and they are the most important words of married life; they open its chapters of greatest joy and keenest sorrows. All It's problems are most easily mas tered fin the beginning" wrongs and injustice that may throw the dark shadow of despair over the life of one and perhaps even finally separate for ever the two who have loved may, in a spirit of calmness, courage and wis- dom, be silenced forever "in the be- ginning" If there have been mis- takes and blind blundering and folly, 1 if the two determine to start afresh, to begin all over again ana wipe out Iue | past, letting love, comradeshlp and | trust be their watchwords they can have a new--beglnnlng.
 And what was true of that first mar riage in the dim dawn of history, in | that garden of Eden, Is true of all mar l riages and will be till time shall end | that their paradise Is committed to the l absolute keeping of the two, and that they shall watch 1t and guard 1t and | care for it and that only by their own wrong shall this paradise with all its Joys, and its peace and its sunshine ever pass from them.
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