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and on, forever. It looks so plain, so
simple.
Then one or the other slumps, just
from common human laziness.
Maybe it is, an economical slump,
or -maybe it is emotional. Either way,
the cargo of the ship of matrimony
is from that moment unequally
trimmed. And shipwreck menaces
poor love.
Sentimentally, some persons have
a capacity for love and some have
none. Some are born selfish and you
never can tell, until you live with
them, whether they are givers or
takers.
Fortunately, it is as much a joy to
love as to be loved. Therefore true
love sometimes wastes itself and
goes blundering, but happy, through
life.
Then again, love is not always
blind. And justice, even with ban
daged eyes, can tell when the ballast
shifts in the ship of matrimony.
"The average woman," says Have
lock Ellis, "is about as competent as
the average man." This is recent
science, proved by the war which has
brought out women in many new
ways, which has shown how well she
can adapt herself to almost any
kind of work.
And so canman. And so they do,
individually, each for hiniself or her
self. '
But, somehow, when two persons
are joined together in holy wedlock,
one of them, sometimes the man,
sometimes the woman, feels perfect
ly at liberty to lean on the other, and
to lean hard.
It begins, perhaps, with "who will
'get the early breakfast;" or "why the
'bills are high," or "who will take care
of the baby" while the other takes a
walk. One of them shirks a fair
share.
These are the petty shirkers who
stir up some of the most unanswera
ble problems of marriage. They are
too lazy to learn the right answers,
'though often they seem like very
nice people with an exceedingly fine
'sense of duty some other person's
duty to them.
Marital reciprocity means justice
between the sexes. There are too
many details in marriage for one
partner to carry alone., -
Marriage- is a fifty-fifty proposi
tion. If conducted on any other ba
sis jt will never pay' dividends, and
society will 6e plagued eternally with
this unsettled twentieth century rid
dle: "What's the matter with mar
riage?" o o
SOCIETY GIRL TO GO ON STAGE
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ELIZABETH LAW-ERENCE
Miss Lawrence, Columbus, 0., so
ciety girl and college graduate, has
chosen the stage for her career, de
spite objections of her parents. She
will appear in "Our Mrs. McChes
ney." o o
Cook Colored, all around, wants
steady job.- Cleveland News.
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