One might think that everything conceivably to: be said or written about happiness in marriage had been said or written already. Yet here is a Marriage Guidance Council meeting solemnly in London and expending Ningaras of talk on this well-worn theme. The main idea seemed to be to say the reverse of what used to be said. Thus there was a strong vote for marrying nearer the age of 20 than 30. Only a small section were dubious about boy and girl marriages and advised young men never to marry their first loves. One speaker was em-photic on the dangers of adoration by one party in marriage or the other: "The adorer loses his or her identity and then all is lost. Adoring wives die young." Another speaker, however, was so old-fashioned as to believe that there was still much in the "they married and lived happy ever afterwards" idea. Yet another. turning a searchlight on the excess sive numbers of women compared with men, advocated a. mixture of polygamy and the abolition of social taboos on unexplained babies, which the -late Grant Allen preached decades ago in "The Woman Who Did." But he used such long scientific words that few people understood him, Only one speaker recommended unselfishness and that a husband should treat his wife with the rame courtesy as when she was his sweetheart. $0 fusty a principle found few supporters, Once accept that as the key to happy marriage and what more is there to talk about?
While the Marriage Guidance Council were talking, a man in a Kidderminster police court was defending himself on the charge of picking up and not returning a purse. His principal defence was that he had had 31 children. The magistrates were incredulous, but his wife sur ported him—'24 by his first wife and already seven by me," she said. It may have been that word "alread: which touched the magistrates' hea He was let off with a caution, and Jed away by his triumphant wife and offspring. "God is on the side of the big battalions." Here is another recipe for success in, marriage, Beauty in Daily Life The Arts and pan h 4 Exhibition Society open their jubilee show al Burlington House next Thursday. The Society, founded in 1888, was defy due to Willem Morris's needed, far heavier then is normally suitable for the face, and one made for the removal of theatrical grease paint serves the purpose well It is inexpensive, and this is a consideration when the amount must not be stinted. The cream should be worked beneath the cuticles with an orange stick and into the sides and fingertips of the nails. A few exercises reminiscent of five-finger exercises on the piano should follow. Make every joint work separately and together until they protest by aching. Then work the cream well in by smoothing down the fingers with firm, strong movements as if a tight glove were being fitted.
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