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 Nisgaras of talk on this well-worn theme. The main idea seemed to be lo say the reverse of what used to be said. Thus there was a. strong vole for marrying hearer the age of 20 than 30. Only 2 small. section were dubious about boy and girl marriages and advised young men never to marry. their first loves. One speaker was em-photic onthe dangers of adoration by one party in marriage or- the ther: "The adorer loses his or her} identity and then all is lest. 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, urning a searchlight on the excess ive numbers of women compared ith_men, advocated a mixture of polygamy and the abolition of social boos on unexplained babies. which he Into Grant Allen preached deades ago in "The Woman Who Did." tut he used such long scientific verds that few people understood im. Only one speaker recommended selfishness and that a husband hould treat his wife with the same courtesy as when she was his sweet-art. So fusty a principle found ow supporters. Once accept that as he key to happy marriage and what note is there to talk about?
While the Marriage Guidance Coun. il were taking, a man in a Kidd minster 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 sup-Sorted him—"24 by his first wife and already seven by' me," she said. I may have been that word "already" which touched the magistrates' hearts, He was let off with a caution, and led away by his telumphant' wife and offspring. "God Is on the side the big battalions." "Here is another recipe for success in marriage,
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