Evening star., 1941-07-06
EIGHTY PER CENT HAPPY
How to apply common to love and marriage
by Charming Pollock

asked Grace: Does your fathers business pay 100
his investment
''Of course not" she answered
Does he call it failure" inquired, land does he
walk it? Or he satisfied with reasonable profit?
The young Whites the point laughed and agreed to
try again Last March they called in Los Angeles,
and brought their and his That liquidation that
didn't off proposed twenty -four years ago.
I'VE had heck of time for while, Tom confessed
Used fight like cats and dogs Then Junior was born,
and Grace spent two months in hospital Gosh how we
missed each oher We concluded we'd been mighty happy
between fights happy that worth while to cut out
the fighting Moreover think Grace began to understand
that doing best and while taking care OF the flat
when she the hospital began understand why she
got Financially in deep hole when
Grace back but pulled out together and now we
know that building character and unity and reser
of precious memories We've decided that marriage
the greatest coeducational institution earth
o ME it seems just that, and when say I'm sub
scribing the hoary cyncsm that marriage instu
ton, but SOS the penenary In his delightful volume of
essays, "On Chinese Screen w. Somerset Vaughan de-
cares that mistake asking of people than
they give 1t is greater mistake to ask that of life or
any of its relationships At hotel desks all the country
have everyday calling for their
mail and being made happy otherwise because they either
received letter from home didn't That doesn't
that they never quaeed with their wives that line
of each letter agreeable 1t only that the balance
is to the good
Recently sent flowers friend who is eighty years old,
and ILL., His said to Father has been miserable
Mother died The mother died years ago. she and
the father had been together nearly fifty years. yet don't
suppose even their marriage quite perfect But was
enough to make the greatest thing in their lives
That couple in front of the church holding hands after
half an hour of marriage but after third of
century Before this printed they will have had their first
quarrel perhaps their second and third That BRIDE we'll
the other June Brides will have discovered that her
mate isn't entirely perfect and that groom and the other
grooms will know that angels fly off the handle
times. Both will have learned that love celestial
invaded rather frequently by such mundane things bills
butchers and irritating naws They will be singular people
it, this year next they don't begin wondering whether their
marriage isn't failure and thinking of out They will
be almost unusual if ten twenty fifty from
they aren't laughing the recollection little bit tendery
Perhaps like labor disputes, marriage requires cooling
off period eegence from the superheated atmosphere
of the first fine frenzy into the realities of giving and for
giving based the realization that nothing entirely perfect
The fairy stories end with And they married. and
lived happily after But they fairy stories The
and most dependable histories would say They lived
80 per cent happily after"
In marriage of it, that achievement If
your hopes at 80, and learn to live that income you'll
get good many unexpected dividends, and you'll avoid
bankruptcy when you hit that occasional slump in the
market which seasoned investors know bound occur