Evening star., 1927-03-30
SPEAKING OF DIVORCE
With MICHAEL CRUISE city Clerk Nor
Bureau, city Of Neac York
ZOE BECKLEY
BY ZOE BECKLEY

hard it is on the children when par
entS separate and homes are broken
up; they look back, and in the light of
calmness and retrospect view their
quarrels as insignificant things, to be
forgiven, forgotten and protited by.
Nov if they'd thought all this out
beforehand there wouldn't have been
any divorce. That's what is the mat
ter with so many of us--we do our
thinking backward. And we don't
watch the little spats that grow into
pitched battles if we don't snap out of
the spat habit
Clerk Cruise had just got back to
his office from performing marriage
in the little municipal chapel upstairs
where he himself personally ties an
average of seven or eight hundred
marriages a year. his deputy now TAX
ing care of the bulk of the applicants
just as Mr.. Cruise used to when Clerk
Scully was at the head.
"These I've just hitched," he grin
ned, 'are going to get along fine.''
How can you tell?"
Because they're both young, and
as different from each other as day
from night"
'Is that a guarantee that they won't
be in the divorce courts inside of seven
years?"
"Well-yes-general If a young
couple keep company year or two
and then get married, they usually
grow up together, and learn to be
lenient to each others faults. This is
easier to do If each one has a different
set Of faults from the other. It's
natural to admire in another what you
lack yourself. It's give and take in
marriage. One must supply what the
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Now here are Clerks Cruises
famous don'ts:
DoN'Ts FOR WIVES.
1. Don't nag. It gives men ear
ache.
2. Don't let your house or yourself
get untidy. A wife is judged by the
condition of her home.
8. Don't gossip about the neighbors'
troubles.
4. Don't trump hubby's ace in a
bridge game.
5. Don't make catty remarks If he
snores. Be sympathetic.
6. Don't get millinery mania or a
clothes complex.
Z. Don't get sore IL he shows he
likes a pretty face in your presence
8. Don't cabaret unless he is with
you.
8. Don't encourage relatives to park
at your house.
10. Don't crouch if he's late for
dinner Smile a bit.
DON'TS FOR HUSBANDS.
l. Don't be a tightwad. Treat her
like a sweetheart.
2. Don't be a killjoy. Make every
day honeymoon.
3. Don't wait till she's dead to send
her flowers.
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female.
6. Don't sneer at her dog if she has
one.
6. Don't think she's a dumbbell.
Treat her human.
Z. Don't forget she works as hard
as you do-and gets less.
8. Don't make n fuss over other
women unless she's present
8. Don't treat her rough. She may
fool you.
10. Don't love her less or yourself
more.
They'll keep couples together if
anything will" promises City Clerk
Cruise. waggling his head and point
ing with pride. "You know what I
think? That hundreds of divorced
couples would like to get back together
again. Yes-even though they have
taken other mates If there is any
love at all in the first place, it some
how lasts.
That's why divorce is foolish. You
generally only exchange one set of
troubles for another set. why not
keep the original set--and make the
best Of them? Loneliness and regret
are bad company for old age. The
greatest thing in the world is com.
panionship that has been reached
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That's how feel about it,"
Copyright 1927