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The Washington times., 1920-09-18
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81 came down, but you had fled
With II. Better, but he didn't ap-
pear until nearly five. 1t was a
strenuous interview"
She lifted her eyes to his. full of
interested inquiry.
IN LOVE WITH WIFE.
yes" he nodded; hes found out
he's an ass. and he's in love with
his wife. II she can stand for him
now, after these three years /
think he'll make a better husband
than the average"
She's a dear" murmured Ste
phanie. What q painful situa-
tion!-but wasn't she dignified and
sweet? oh. 1 do hope she cares
enough for Harry to give him an
other chance. Are they
amiable together over there?
don't want to turn around"
He cautiously surveyed the scene
out of corner of his eye:
"She's seated beside the piano.
It's evident she hasn't asked him to
be seated. They are horribly seri-
GUS. He looks ten years older"
"wc must let them alone. Tea Is
ready, but / shan't say so until they
move What was IT you
asked me, Jimr-whether am
awake? Do you know that
I believe I'm stirring in my slum-
bers because--because. now and
thcn-just for an instant-a stab OF
contrition goes through and through
me. Do you know why? I have n
glimmering of guilty misGiving
concerning this painful throb OF
conscience-" She looked about
her, searching among the parapher-
MALTA of the tea tray. "Oh, the
deuce! remember, now, that were
out OF lemons! You have some,
haven't your
"Yes. I'll run up and"
"I know where they are In your
ice box. I'll fnd them"
what nonsense! walt
She had started already; but
swiftly as her light feet sped he
overlook her on stairs, gathered her
into his arms, all pink and bresth-
ing rapidly:
"Steve--my darling!-"
"I thought you might do this.
wanted to see-
what"
whether Il could happen 10 me
again-what experienced with
you"
There was a silence: her young
lips melted against his: fingered:
her arms tlGhtened around h'si
neck. And tho next instant she hsd
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Brutal HONESTY. LOVE,
AND FAITHFULNEss NEEDED.

must confess at the very start
that | am one of those human men
talities having a true and faithful
conception of life; and !. therefore,
believe with q heart and soul born
of live and Christian influences,
that marriage is q success. and can
be made one OF the very foundations
of happiness and contentmcnt.
Those who foster an absolutely
opposite viewpoint are Influenced
by anomalus conditions. No one
with a proportionate mind can feel
antagonistic towards marriage on
account of a failure which they
have suffered, or a viewpoint which
they adhere to as a result OF a mass
OF theories read in philosophical
treatises on racial antagonisms, pa
ganism and the works-of such phil
osophers as Nietzschc, Kant, and
others too numerous to mention.
To make marriage n success we
need not delve into the fine points
Of an exact science or into the realm
of metaphysics; II requires nothing
but brutal honesty, faithfulness, and
love. The man and woman starting
out together will find many new
burdens added to their household,
and will undoubtedly be tested by
new trials and tribulstions never
thought OF before.
The mans place is in the home;
IL is his place to provide such a
home, II Is his place to exercise the
tcnderest OF treatment toward his
wife, and through thoughtfulncss
and appreciation he will unconsci-
ously keep their love steady burn
inS. And indeed the man who has
the moral courgge and religious
..rriun tu use discretion AMI ,o'f
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The Restless Sex
A Romantic Film Drama With
MARION DA VIES
Ev Robert w ChamhArs
By Robert w. Chambers.

freed herself, hot-cheeked, discon-
certed.
"Oh, il was-auite true she
stammered, resting against the
banisters with one hand pressed
tightly over her heart. MY curi-
osity is satisfied. Please!
Jim. dear-we ought to behave
rationally--oughtn we?'
But she did not resist when he
framed her face between his hands:
and she suffered his lips again. and
again her slight response and the
gray eyes vaguely regarding HIM
shook his self-control.
"will you try to love me. Stever'
"I seem to be doing it,
as it really love, steve? Do you
truly care for me?'
"Oh, dear, yes" she said, with .
auick-drawn breath which ended in
quiet sigh, scarcely - audible.
Then family humorous smile
dawned in her eyes: You're chang
ing. Jim. You always were very
wonderful to me, but you also were
mortal. Now, you're changing; you
are putting on a glorious. iridescent
immortality before my eyes. Tn
quite bewildered-quito dazzlcd-
and my mind isn't very clear-csps-
cially when you kiss me"
"Are you making fun OF me-
mo, I'm not That's the way
with the gods when they start q
love AFFAIR with a mortal Some
times she runs, but they always
catch her or turn her into = tree
or waterfall or something they
can a.. .uire and fence in, and visit
like a plot in a cemetery. And II
she doesn't run away. then she just
falls into silly trance with her
Olympian lover. and somebody
comes along and raises tho dickens
with them both. And now
I'd like to know what's going to
happen to me?"
You're going to try TO fan IN
love with me frst."
ooh. And thenT"
Marry me-"
"Oh. And what will old lazy
Civilization say? I told you some
body would raise tho dickensv'
"Who carcs7'
81 suppose I wouldn't care X
loved you enough
"will you try7"
"Oh, dear" She freed
Eorself gracefully. stepped back a
stair lower and leaned on the rail,
considering.
tTo ne Ceotinuod MorssyD
copyright. 1917, 1918, ~ the rn,errst,e.al
Nsgssins CompanyD
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Alice has happy showing Jmmie
Is Marriage a Success?

restraint in his married life will
find that after all married life can
be made successful to the very goal
OF ultimate happiness.
The woman's place is to be ten
der companion. and as l believe an
equal partner to the marriage VOW.
She must. in her capacity, keep a
pure and loveable home in order
that 1t will attract rather than re-
pei the one person she loves.
II both parties strive to make the
other happy; to assimilate the wills
rather than to allow them to be-
come antagonistic and separated: !:
and to live up to a moral and spirit
ual code, there can be no question
that such a marriage would be a
success.
True as know that we are hu-
man and cannot be perfect, ] believe
in a perfection OF marriage not at
tainable unless guided and protected
with the utmost of care. 1t rs the
Joining of an active and passive na-
ture, and God has so built woman,
and so built man that they should
form one in a spiritual sense, and
live the only happiness that hu
man being can realize.
ola VERNE DUNEVANT.~
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HOME PARTNERSHIP
NOT BUSINESS AFFAIR

Marriage is success when IT ts
a sacrament, as Christ by Whom 1t
was instituted, made no failures.
Marriage unites man and woman,
not alone in a business partnership
but in home partnership. This
is a no one-man or one-woman JOB.
Each must do his or her share.
Man-Make the home and provide
to the best of his ability.
Woman-Keep the home and lend
every effort to make 1t a haven.
"a house divided must fall"
Be comrades and never cease to
he lovers. The man must ever be
the attentive lover. with his sweet
bits and amusements. as in the days
OF courtship. The woman always
be the all alluring and attractive
sweetheart trying most to please.
The elimination of love and az
fection, which makes marriage
what God intended. is in the "the
little flowers sent us to rear" Not
two paychecks. two codes of NOR
ais. two sets of friends. Marriage
made two people, man and woman,
ONE. X. w. 4.
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HAPPY HUSBAND TELLS
OF HIS SUCCESS.

NV marriage life has covered a
period of only two years, and
have not yet regretted OF being
married because my wife has faith
in me. To tell more of my married
life will give some of the reasons
why married life is a success.
To make marriage a success
there must be "love. faith. kindness,
and happy thought OF the future,
such as what all married couples
should work and long for, "a
home and children" and TO have
these things there must be love,
faith and kindness to both man and
wife"
While during the period of my
courting before l got married, l
was what you may call "bum."
as / would always pass my time
either at a theater, dance hall or
at some other place of amusement.
I would never think Of working
steady. but only long enough to get
some spending money. Ny people
would call me a spendthrift and
bum and when I got married 1 soon
changed to be a man. Why? Be-
cause / knew my wife had faith in
me and / made up my mind to be
man, ana 30 4 dll uOlns anu
| feel much better than ! did, be-
fore I was married, and SO l find
that the old saying. "a woman can
make or break man." Ia true.
Before VIC were married l went
with my wife for three years. We,
OF course, had what you may call
lovers quarrels, the same as we
all do while counting, and ] dare
anyone TO say that they never had
a quarrel with their best girl or
beau while courting.
agree with tho writer that said
that n law should be passed so
that no marriage licenses be is
sued to applicants without haying
submitted sufficient proof of ac-
uuaintance with each other for a
considerable length OF time, and /
move that we all vote on that sug-
Eestion.
Ninety per cent of the failures
are for the reason that their
pre-marriage acquaintance is not
long enough for them TO tell II
they love each other, and to tell ~
one loves each other. they must 90
with each other for at least one
year. SO that is why. ] say that
TO make marriage success there
must be love. faith, kindness and
happy thoughts OF the future. As
for me. my dreams have como true.
\ UNrpN husband.
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II people that contemplate mar
riage would try to understand
each others little idiosyncrssies be-
fore. and after marriage would come
to the full realization that they are
united through the laws OF matri-
mony and devote their surplus en-
ergy and lives to the raising OF
their children. plus respect for and
confidence in each other. the great
problem OF a successful marriage
would be solved.
1t doesn't require much energy to
keep the old fire burning by adding
n little fuel now and then. It's
much easier to pay n compliment,
and you feel much better within
yourself for it, instead of that po-
lite sarcasm which is so irritating
TO the finer sensibilities of an in
telligent person.
Some men and women look upon
matrimony as a necessity, which 1t Is,
or civilization would deteriorate;
others as a luxury. which usually
ends unsuccessful.
When civilization grows 10000
years older there may be success
in marriage. J. r.
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book or some neighbor's gossip,
that he does not get a chance to
view his ideas before us, so gets
discouraged gradually drawing him.
self within a smell.
Later we ask him why he does
not take more interest in his home?
Why he begins to wander out in
the evenings? He really does not
know just why. All he knows we
are not the same simply because we
have lost our charm. And usually
here is where a sanity, sympa-
thetic one will step in, of course,
using her charm.
Sometimes the divorce courts, but
If the wife will only think, she VIII
dress neat and begin displaying her
charms and she will get him back.
The most serious MISUNDERSTANDING
will smooth out under charm, at
least I have found this to be fact
after ten years of married life.
II. w. A.
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dicste. Ine.)
kSDY lingo! I've a cracker
n jack OF an idea" cried
Tom Mason. with boyish
easerness, which I'd never known
he possessed.
Are you going to tell us7" asked
Irma Warren. with the pleased in
terest she SCENE ed to have for every
one.
We were dining at the most lux
urious roof garden in town. Tom
brought us there with the gesture
OF lavish generosity that marks all
he does. And he reaped his reward
in Miss Warren's amazed admira-
tion for the tricks which produce
roof-garden atmosphere and which
don't elicit much notice from rcgu-
lar "dfners-out," such as Tom and !.
so you want to know my big
idea?" he asked, beaming at the
girl; and then, striving to do the
polite, he included me I'm his glance
and tone. Think my inspiration
would mean anything to you"
"Fire ahead" 1 said.
FOR A WEEKEND.
Here tits: You say Jimmie's stay
ing out of town over Sunday. Well
Mrs. H., why shouldn't you have a
restful country weekend? My new
place---the one you helped inspect,
Miss Warren-is about ready for
occupancy. And we're all good
sports enough to put up with few
hardships and rough it. If need be.
Are you beginning to get hep to
the idea?"
Irma Warren was leaning for
ward with unfeigned rapture. Poor
child. she had never known so much
excitement. With quick putting of
myself in her place, / exclaimed:
.Yes-yes. Go on, Tom. Wen
dispense with the rhetoric and the
suspensive element and take tho
meat OF your story"
"Its this" said Tom. ''why can't
you two girls. with Miss Warren's
uncle, and Phoebe and Neal. come
up to Hidden Brook for a weekend
holiday"
shyly. turning rapturous eyes TO
me.
How, on the one hand. hated to
couldn't say "Yes"'
out Jim wasn't thing I'd consider.
Proper as IL might be called. it had
an unchaperoned look I couldn't
tolerate. And there was another
consideration. 1t hadn't a right to
weigh with me for a minute-it
was the thought of Daisy Condor
speaking out of the shadowy corner
of another restaurant the night be-
fore: Daisy speaking to Tom with
an unexplained air OF understand
ing-despite her loneliness and lack
of society and young companions:
Irma Warren. sweet, dignified niece
of Graham Haldane. would get her
chance in life. But Daisy Condor
worried me, haunted me, somehow.
She was. you might say, the last
straw. And that last straw weighed
down the balance overwhelmingly
against any thought Of Toms
house-party.
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THE COUNSEL OF THE UNGODIr. BY
Charles Bracket. New York: ID. APP
pieton & Co.
Here's a book that seems to au-
tomatically classify itself as light
summer fiction" for it relates
story which, while entertatningiy
!. written, could scarcely be charged
with overtaxing the mental facul-
ties Of the reader with the intrica-
cies OF its plot.
Peter Van Hocven, sixty years old
and scion of an old and aristocratlc
New York family. finds himselt
suddenly confronted with problem
he had never faced before-the ne
cessity of supporting himself. lie
recalls that he had once flippanty
remarked that the Van Hoevon fam
ily portraits looked like row OF
, buffers in line at an employment
,uencies and naturally concludes
that that Is the profession to winch
he Is best adapted.
He Is employed in that capacity by
. woman whose fortunate wartime IN
yestments have raised her to weaith
but who is well aware that she has
much to learn before she may be
. admitted to the ranks of those SO
o cislly elect. She and her daughter
buy a mansion in a fashionable sec
ton of Long Island. prior to COM
mcncing their onslaught upon the
sristocracy. with Peter in the dual
role of butler-mentor.
And so the story proceeds-de-
lightfully humorous at times and
. never dull--and entirely acceptable
rs means of willing away an hour
or so OF nothing to do"
HIDDEN CREEK. BY katherine New
lin Burt. Boston: Houghton, Mifnin
Company
! In Hidden Creek" Mrs. Burt has
fulfilled the expectations aroused
, by her first novel, "The Branding
Iron" producing a story that in Its
q union of absorbing interest, vivid
, word painting, and literary distinc-
: tion will make an instant appeal to
the discriminating reader.
Sheila Arundel, the daughter OF
an artiet who has died in poverty,
Is taken in charge by a Westerner
who brings her back to his little
hotel In the wlds, whore she be-
comes a sort Of good angel to the
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ReUielus of Recent Books

rough and lawless characters who
frequent the barroom, and par
ticularly to her patrons drunken
son, whose reformation she under
takes. Her life there is rudely
shattered by the burning OF the
hotel followed by brutal decla-
ration Of love by her patron and
by the departure of his son for
New York. She flees to the noun
tains, followed by a cowboy who
has attempted to forget in the life
Of the wilderness the scandal that
drove him from his luxurious home
in the East. From then on events
move rapidly from thrill to thrill
to a dramatic climax.
Hidden Creek" is one Of the type
OF novels well calculated to become
a best seller. To people real as life,
adventures rapid and thrilling as
can be found in any Western ro-
nance, to a style OF vigor and brill
liancy, is added a literary art that
molds from these qualities a novel
that will be closed with a sense OF
actual participation in the drama OF
love and redemption.
GREAT HEARTED WOMEN. BY Mabel
Ansley Murphy. Philadelphia: Ameri-
can Sunday School Union.
Twelve OF the women whose life
stories are sketched are American
and four are British. They include
Lucretia Mott, Mary Lyon, Julia
Ward Howe. Harriet Beecher stowe,
Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott,
Jenny Lind, Florence Nightingale,
and many others whose names sug-
gest equal interest.
AMERICAN LEADERS. by Mabel Ans.
ley Murphy Philadelphia: American
sunday School Union.
The carefully selected list OF
names ranges from William Penn
to Theodore Roosevelt, and includes
such names as Benjamin Franklin,
George Washington, Patrick Henry,
Alexander Hamilton, John Jacob
Astor, william Lloyd Garrison.
Abraham Lincoln, and Booker 7.
Washington. Not only boys and
girls, but parents and teachers will
find here in attractive and readable
form just what one would like TO
know about each Of these great
men who have helped to make our
country vi hat T. D.. '.dHN.
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MARRIAGE NOT SACRAMENT,
SAYS q. NJ. kINCAID.

Marriage, like any other proposi-
tion is a success or a failure ac--
cording to conditions and circum-
stances. Because one man makes
q brilliant success of a certain busi-
ness, and another man makes
wretched failure at the same busi-
ness, we cannot, therefore, declare
the business itself to be either
success or a failure.
Marriage is contract, man
made institution. intended to pre-
serve the integrity of the family
and to secure the inheritance by the
children Of their parents name and
property. Divorce is the legal rem
edy provided for unhappy mar
riages. Marriage is very neces-
sary institution in the present state
Of humanity; we cannot safely
abolish it until we become like
unto the angels which are in
heaven"
On the other hand, to abolish di-
vorce would be as sensible as abol-
ishing the fire department, hoping
thereby to save our buildings from
destruction.
To render marriage more difficult
and divorce almost impossible, as
encourage and spread immortality.
just as prohibition has tremen-
dously fostered the Illicit manufac-
ture and sale Of liquor. Since our
country has gone dry, there are
probably ten thousand moonshiners
and bootleggcrs where there was
only one in the days before prohibi-
ton.
We cannot regard marriage as
Sacrament of God" We have no
Scriptural warrant for so doing.
The "Thirty-nine Articles" define II
as "a state of life allowed In the
Scriptures" Our Lord did not say:
what have bound together, let
no man put asunder;" what He said
was: what. therefore, God hath
Joined together, let not man put
asunder." But can we truthfully
say OF every married couple that
they are those whom God hath
Joined? A man who Is perfect
rake, a loathsome, pestilential So
cial and moral leper, in fact, be-
cause of his sins, an actual physical
leper. may lead a pure, chaste young
girl to the altar and there receive
the benediction OF the priest, but
Is such a union a sacrament? To
say that God hath Joined those two
together is the worst of blasphcmy,
and to force them to live together
is the worst of immortality.
We have come across many in
stances OF married couples whose
life was nothing but torture and
misery as long as they lived to-
gcther, but who have been divorced,
married to other partners, and
"lived happily ever after"
SO the conclusion of the whole
matter Is that marriage is a sue
cess or failure just as the married
ones make IL. q. NJ. KINCAID.
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SHOULD NOT MARRY
BEFORE TWENTY-FIVE.

The divorce courts prove that the
greater percentage OF the present.
day marriages are an absolute fall
ure. WHY
My theories are that people marry
too young, they get infatuated with
each other before they are mentally
developed, and after the gilt edge
OF the honeymoon wears of they no
longer have the respect for each
other that man and woman should
have to make marriage n success.
\ II men and women would wait
until they reach the age of twenty
Ave or over. and then use 90 per
cent double-distilled hard-boiled
sense and 10 per cent love. marriage
would he moro success tut
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WIFE MUST KEEP CHARM
TO RETAIN HUSBAND.

SO often men meet pretty face
and later thank their stars they did
not "pop' 'hp question. There was
no charm a the pretty one.
During our courtship we bring
our charms out to the best advan-
tage. The man admires us, tells
us about his business, his failures.
ambitions, in fact all about him
self. He wants us to be with him
always to encourage him.
After marriage we have the man,
why keep our charm and neat APP
pearance at homer The man will
come home some evening and ask
our .advicc about n matter OF bust
nose hut wC arc 60 Interested in
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WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Write frankly briefly and huthfully your views The
problem "I Marriage Success?" you think not al
together success do fail suggest what think is
the remedy WHAT the trouble and what could be done.
Write in your opinions experiences and suggestions Write
frankly and fearlessy-yow confidence will be respected
No names of writers published except with the writer's
consent
Address your contributions to
MARRIAGE EDITOR,
The Washington Times,
Washington, D. c.