The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-30
PUBLIC FORUM.
WHY MARRIAGES ARE
OFTEN FAILURES.
CONTINUED from issue of April 81

When people are uneuually yokeG, |
each becomes dissatisfied with the |
choice they have made. and loose !
sight of former virtues they saw in
each other. Very often they become
disgusted with their lot and strive
in vain to fill the aching void in
their lives.
They become hungry for bread
they have not, and their nectar cup
of love and contentment they long
to sip-soon they find thtGr way IN
forbidden paths, which drag men
and women down to terrible depths.
where they loose their sense Of honor
for home. truth and virtue, and
all that's sacred. Men and women
who marry should have the same
ideas, about all things in common,
to the extent, that they can reason
sanely and reach an agreement upon
the finer points of their contentious.
If evenly yoked, they will always
find a way to agree; if not they can
never agree, because of their off
erent ideas and virtue. Oil and water
can not mix, even if they are in
the same container, they are separate
and apart from each other. So it is
with people of different nature and
ideas For instance: ] have friend
who lives a miserable life, | found
him once in his home, with red
and swollen eyes, with tears cours-
ing down his bronze cheeks, He has
beautiful home, a fine library,
musical instruments, pets and flowers,
| lt 10 ma In
one happy. But he was not happy.
He had more than reached the fifty
year mark. He had never been to
school or college. He was not cul-
tured or refund. His finer beings had
not been developed. He is only
plain man with a great soul,
But somewhere in the world, he
has a Young and beautiful wife, who
did not understand. She was edu-
Gated. and her finer tendencies had
been developed. She loves society,
he does not. She likes all the social
games of this age he does not. She
likes to go and mingle with her
friends: he does not. But she was
captured because of his. wealth and
beautiful surroundings. She saw only
his ability to spend for her and fill
her fond desires for that which
could be bought with money.
After they were married short
while, she awoke and saw the man
as he was, then it was that she as
filled with awe. Their ideas were
all different. He could not under
stand her young heart, mind and de-
sires. She could not understand his
set and selfish avs. The time came
when they could no longer agree.
The result was, that somewhere in
this old world, she roams without
the protection of a husband of the
comforts of a well equipped home
called her own. And somewhere to-
day in that lonely home my friend
sits gazing through the windows OF
his sad soul, with a hope that she
will some day return, and, that they
both will understand
One day l was talking to my friend
and he brought from his coat pocket
which was close ito his heart, al
envelope; from it, he folded some
thing gently, and with tear blurred
eyes he looked upon a faded picture
of the once fair bride, and he handed
, me a note which she left upon tn,
p table when she went away from tn
r splendid home. AS | read 1t | sighet
and breathed a prayer. that, som'
r day she would return to him, ant
they both would understand. AS
read the note, it closed with thes
words "Dear--yOu have beef
) good, true and brave-but, | am 81
unhappy l must go-I hear a vote
J you can not hear, which bids M
/ not to stay I see a hand you cal
I not see, which becons me away.
know you cant understand
D This is only one picture OF man
/, which portrays the great throng of tn
= unequally yoked and the multiple
S thousands of tragedies there ar
being played upon the canvass O
human hearts.
Sweet, affectionate, thoughtful, sym
pathetic, refund and cultured persons
can not, and will never he happ
;. nor content with a cold hearted
marrow minded uncultured crouch.
?. People ought to seek to know eac
other better. Learn their ideas {
living, at home and abroad Try
!. understand each others nature. an
should never marry unless you kno'
81 whether or not your lives will fl
Z before its too late.
If people will follow this course
o divorce will not be so prevalent an
: people will be happier, and the worl
n will be made better, and God will b
Il glorifed through the home.
A. w. WILSON,
- 2601 Cochran ST., Dallas. Texas.