The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-05
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It is impossible to state the exact proportion of the worlds trouble which is preventabIe, but well within the limit when say that it approNi- mates 75 per cent We shall never De Tn position accurately appraise mankind's earthly life until we have exhausted last experiment. for that lfes betternent
 Most of the trouble is heir to, except old age and death is preventable; vast amount Of it is curable even after it occurs; aho taking life on it's practical sde it could be made much smoother than it is.
 In excepting old age and death troubles which are incurabIe it is not intended adopt hopeless aattude toward them. Old age is not a trouble, rightly speaking. It ought be in many respects happest period of life-its golden sunset. And it would be this if only other conditions were right It old age before its time the result of hard conditions wrong methods of living, when it comes without sunset glow, that it be- burden and a trouble
 for death--in the economy of nature it is of the arrangements that make for progress It lets sweep up on the shores of the world Perhaps it also gives assistance to the human personality in it's own development.
 But inevitable death now is, inevit- able perhaps may remain throughout human history, there is of it's being the trouble the untimely ones that leave scars upon our lives When the young dies with his future unfulfill- ed when the young father dies leaving his wife and brood of children; when the strong men or the world drop off long before their natural time and from that clearly preVentable, then death becomes unnatural-it becomes great trou- ble.
 So that even when are compelled to make exceptions of age death from the list of ventabIe troubles there is sense in which the in
 
 in its time, when death comes as the harvest comes al ripe a fruitful life, it natural, often it is beautiful, and the wounds thus made not the unnatural ones which are made by timely passings and breakdowns.
 Now. these two great experiences can be regulated to lose their terror and hurt what is there which cannot say about the lesser troubles which harass us?
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 Take domestic trouble, example-perhaps of biterest of troubles which afflict mankind today
 is impossible for the man who is wrapped up in his own happiness and who has no means of knowing what the condition among his fel- low men, realize just how much domestic trouble exists in the world Get few thousand men tOgeth- and the bulk of such trouble past present. which they represent is really appalling.
 And yet it is mostly preventable. Perhaps it is fair to that it is all preVentabe. little wis dom exercised beforehand, little forbearance after ties.
 people marry in deuson they marrying Perfection. Of course they are not. But at least they marrying possibility of happiness.
 When two people believe that they think enough of each other marry, they therein possi bIe foundation for future happiness matter how little romance they may have in their lives,
 Domestic happiness is not so much matter of Love o Sense. Many people claim love each other are unhappy together Many peo- pie who smile at the mention of love are very hap together, simply because they have good com
 
 Those who say it is impossible to base domestic happiness good mutual forbearance and mutual respect drawing their conclusions from novels instead of life.
 Many domestic disasters could be prevented by knowledge of the course which domestic life often takes. Two young people marry-as it is right they should, other circumstances being favorable and equal, they hardly marry too young-and they they to each other that they will never change